Alternative to Violence

1. Alternative to Violence Hong Kong Family Welfare Society Presented by Stanley Yeung 17th September, 2003

2. What is Alternative to Violence Programme • A new approach for community groups, businesses and social service agencies • The objectives is to promote non-violence culture • Target for anyone who wants to find ways of resolving conflict without resorting to violence • Based on the Belief in an inborn power for peace in everyone

3. History of AVP in Hong Kong • HKFWS committed to promote non-violence culture in Hong Kong, initiated the contact with AVP in Summer 2002 • A group of AVP trainers from New Zealand, South Africa was invited to provided training to around 20 social workers of HKFWS • Later on, some social workers from SWD received AVP training • Altogether there are 50 trained facilitators in Hong Kong • We are the 27th country being introduced AVP

4. The Alternative Approach

5. Workshops for AVP • The Basic Workshop • The Advanced Workshop • The Training for Facilitators Workshop • Trainees must proceed from Basic Workshop • Progression to higher level is voluntary • Alumni of Workshop will be setup for each groups to facilitate ongoing experiential learning

6. AVP Basic Workshop • Affirmation -- self esteem and trust. • Communication -- listening skills and assertive methods of expression. • Cooperation -- Developing cooperative attitudes that avoid competitive conflicts. • Creative Conflict Resolution -- transforming power, win-win approach • Transforming Power - learn new and creative ways to respond to real life conflicts in our lives.

7. AVP Advanced Workshop • Fear • Anger • Power • Communication. • Forgiveness • Stereotyping • Man-woman relationships • And others

8. AVP Training for Trainers Workshop • Team Building & Team Contract • Choosing a Team Leader • Agendas • Exercises • Transforming Power Talk • Light & Livelies • Role Plays briefing and debriefing techniques

9. Spreading the AVP • AVP is a campaign • Once AVP is spread to a country, the programme will be on its own track of development and localization • Facilitators will meet regularly in order to share practice wisdom • Practice wisdom is documented which will be part of the local manual

10. Knowledge Management and AVP Sharing

11. Knowledge Management in AVP • Identifying practice wisdom in facilitator group meetings • Exploring knowledge from experiential learning in alumni groups • Accumulating and disseminating explicit and tacit knowledge • Assessing and transferring knowledge among facilitators

12. KM Needs Identifying practice wisdom in facilitator group meetings Exploring experiential learning in alumni groups Accumulating and disseminating explicit and tacit knowledge Assessing and transferring knowledge among KM Solution Group Sharing Portal for facilitator groups and alumni groups which provides a forum of discussion forum, announcement, sharing of events and schedule, etc. Document Management System which facilitates a central accumulation of practice wisdom/manual, a standard classification of knowledge and a 24 hours dissemination of updated knowledge and information Facilitation of KM in AVP

13. A KM Structure for AVP

14. The Advantages of IT Support in AVP • Portal becomes a means of information exchange between facilitators to help preparation for facilitators meeting • Portal becomes a forum of sharing of ideas and wisdom between alumni regarding their experience of conflict resolution • DMS facilitates the collection and dissemination of practice wisdom among facilitators regarding the handling of group sessions, new games, new handling approaches, etc. • DMS also functions as the central library of AVP which keep the most up-dated manual and administrative procedures for the programme

15. Thank You