AVP Facilitators enjoy an immensely satisfying volunteer opportunity. Facilitating a workshop as part of a team, rather than “teaching” is a unique and powerful experience.
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- Becoming an AVP Facilitator has many rewards:
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- A greatly satisfying volunteer opportunity.
- A source of ongoing personal growth. Facilitators say they learn a bit more about themselves with each workshop they help facilitate.
- Learning the power of facilitating (not leading) a class as a part of a team.
- Being a part of a dedicated and stimulating group of people.
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- The first step is to take the Basic and Advanced workshops. Every facilitator experiences the AVP workshops firsthand before becoming a facilitator.
- Becoming an AVP Facilitator has many rewards:
- The Training for Facilitators Workshop (T4F):
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- Usually formatted as a mock Basic Workshop under the tutelage and direction of experienced Facilitators.
- Attendees will experience facilitating all major parts of a workshop including planning agendas, team building, leading an exercise, and team clinics (evaluation).
- Following the T4F, you will help facilitate actual workshops as an apprentice, paired with experienced Facilitators, until you’ve gained confidence and experience as a certified Facilitator.
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- Facilitators are all volunteers and usually unpaid (except for reimbursement for expenses). Some local AVP Programs do pay stipends to Facilitators for non-prison workshops, especially when the Facilitator has limited employment and/or misses essential paid work in order to facilitate a workshop. All prison workshops are strictly unpaid, volunteer.