F.I.T. (Facilitator in Training)

I finished the AVP Training for Facilitators this weekend in Hebron, so now there are 10 new facilitators in Palestine! Most of them are working at community organizations in Hebron or in villages in the Hebron area, although one is working in East Jerusalem. It looks like AVP is going to have a lot of benefits to the community, not just in helping to strengthen Palestinian communities by teaching them the principles of AVP and encouraging them to apply them to their lives/work/resistance to the occupation, but also by bringing together community organizers, activists and leaders and building more team unity among them. i think it could be good for coalition building.

I would like to do another series of workshops in Ramallah, perhaps in January, although I suppose it would be possible to do a basic workshop in December and another in January, and then do the Advanced and Facilitator training. Then perhaps we can get a group up to Jenin and Nablus, since by then we should have all of the materials translated into Arabic AND we will have several trainers who are fluent Arabic speakers (not me!).

It's very exciting!