Community-Building to Conflict Transformation: An Experiential Taster

Learn about yourself, from yourself and others, while others learn from you and each other.

A free taster in an experiential workshop that builds community in the group and teaches conflict transformational skills.

Conflict and community are experiences that are felt in our bodies, in relationship with others. So learning in these areas is most effective through the felt sense of experience and relationship.

This taster is based on the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshop series that emerged out of Greenhaven Prison in New York. Older prisoners were seeing an increased rate of recidivism amongst younger prisoners and in collaboration with Quakers and trainers involved with the Civil Rights Movement, developed the AVP workshops.

Shanaz Razeen | AVP Facilitator, Restorative Practitioner & Psychodrama Trainee 

Shanaz is an experienced facilitator with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), facilitating workshops in nonviolent community conflict transformation since 2014. His work spans restorative practice in schools, strengths-based work with young people and adults, community organising, social cohesion and reconciliation initiatives. He is currently training in psychodrama and has been a member of Sydney Playback Theatre for several years. Shanaz brings together conflict transformation, restorative and experiential approaches to explore power, relationships and the possibilities for personal and social change