PROGRAM

Friday, May 28

7:30PM - 9:30PM (EDT)

Opening and Community Building

This session was one of the most highly rated VIRTUAL session from last year's Annual Gathering. Join us to reconnect with old AVP friends and meet new ones. Learn how Concentric Circles (or some variation thereof) and Light and Livelies can be done online. Learn a few skills on ZOOM, making it easier to participate in subsequent sessions.

Saturday, May 29

10:00AM - 11:00AM (EDT)

Social Breakfast Time

Join us before the day's activities start while you have breakfast/brunch.

12:00PM - 2:00PM (EDT)

World Cafe

• Structural changes in the manuals

• Best Practices in the AVP Approach

• Facilitation Before a workshop

• Facilitation During a workshop

• Facilitation After a workshop

• Weaving Trauma awareness into our manuals

• Keeping Facilitators Involved

• Feedback on data collection form for workshop evaluation

• The Committee for Local and Regional Groups - (CLARG)

• Adaptations: AVPing Your Passion

• AVP-USA Finance

• AVP-USA Leadership Fellows

• Recruiting Young Facilitators with Social Media

Please see the detailed descriptions of the World Cafe HERE

3:00PM - 5:00PM (EDT)

Plenary: Peace, Justice, and Community Statement

Please join members of the AVP-USA Sub-Committee which crafted a living document on Peace, Justice, and Community within AVP. Be present as we dialogue with the document and hear from AVP facilitators about experiences of prejudice within AVP.

7:30PM - 9:30PM (EDT)

Breakout Session

• Zoom and Google Drive (repeats on Sunday)

• Grassroots Fundraising

• Starting and Coordinating AVP in a New Location

• LGBTQ in AVP

• Restorative Witnessing

Join us for a traditional Breakout Session. You can join the breakout of your choice. You will receive specific Zoom links to participate once you have registered. Please see the detailed descriptions HERE

10:00PM - Midnight (EDT)

Song and Dance Party

Join for a non-traditional dance party on Zoom.

• 10 - 11: Music and Dance

• 11 - 12: Open Mic

Sunday, May 30

10:00AM - 11:00AM (EDT)

Social Breakfast Time

Join us before the day's activities start while you have breakfast/brunch.

12:00PM - 2:00PM (EDT)

Open Space

The concept of Open Space allows for non-predetermined groups to form and discuss in depth topics. Are you interested in gathering with other youth in AVP? Do you want to meet with everyone that identifies as a person of color? Have you recently read a book or article that you'd like to discuss? This time will be blocked off for facilitators to self-organize into topics of discussion. Reach out to conferencechair@avpusa.org for information on how to utilize AVP-USA's zoom during this time.

3:00PM - 4:00PM (EDT)

Memorial

Join us to remember Facilitators who have died this past year.

4:00PM - 6:00PM (EDT)

AVP-USA Visioning

Join with facilitators around the country to review AVP-USA's vision for the future.

7:30PM - 9:30PM (EDT)

Breakout Session

• Zoom and Google Drive (repeats on Saturday)

• Adaptasting

• AVP Lives Inside

• Outreach and Recruitment

• Creative Cooperative Brainstorming

Join us for a traditional Breakout Session. You can join the breakout of your choice. You will receive specific Zoom links to participate once you have registered. Please see the detailed descriptions HERE

Monday, May 31

12:00 – 2:00 PM (EDT)

Annual Business Meeting

We will hear from various members of the AVP Board on the upcoming Budget, AVP Board Nominated Slate, and announcements from the AVP-USA Board. Please join your fellow facilitators for these important matters. We will have the official closing of the Virtual Annual AVP Gathering at the end of the Business Meeting.

3:00 – 6:00 PM (EDT)

Extended Breakout Session

• AVP and PRISE

• To Keep Showing Up: Continuing Our Anti-Racism Work

Join us for a traditional Breakout Session. You can join the breakout of your choice. You will receive specific Zoom links to participate once you have registered. Please see the detailed descriptions TBA.

6:00 – 7:00 PM (EDT)

Closing Ceremony

• TBA