Alternative to Violence

Hong Kong Family Welfare Society

Presented by Stanley Yeung

17th September, 2003

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

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

The Alternative Approach

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

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.

AVP Advanced Workshop

Fear Anger Power

Communication. Forgiveness Stereotyping

Man-woman relationships And others

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

Spreading the AVP

AVP is a campaign Once AVP is spread to a country, the progra

mme 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

Knowledge Management and AVP Sharing

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

Facilitation of KM in AVP

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

A KM Structure for AVP

Portal for AVP Alumni Group(s)

Portal for Facilitators of Existing AVP Group

Central AVP KM Coordination via DMS

The Advantages of IT Support in AVP Portal becomes a means of information exchange between facilit

ators 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

Thank You