Raissa, 2026 RJPT lead facilitator doing Read Aloud for Children
Aki, Bon, Dhea, Ellie, Kins, Raissa, and Shannon from Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines with multi-faith, seven languages, and multi-generational experiences will facilitate the 2026 Regional Justice and Peace Training (RJPT) in Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines on October 13-22, 2026.
These facilitators participated in various international Alternatives to Violence Project -Justice and Peace workshops and are highly experienced facilitators in different settings and contexts. They all believe that peace is possible in different settings.
This is an international training that showcases emerging leadership by having 75% of its facilitators under 35 years old including Raissa, the lead facilitator and host. Tito, from Peace Place Training Center in Indonesia will lead the Indonesian language support. For this training, many facilitators will also interpret occasionally to promote a multi-lingual rich environment.
These facilitators have met for three weeks and look forward to meeting for 11 more weeks for online practices. They will also meet on October 5-11 for an in-person teambuilding to practice the tools together. Embedded in the preparations are reminders to attend to self-care in order to be prepared for their role in leading and fully available to one another and workshop participants.
The local Bantayan Team shows great love for their island as seed savers and food growers, Bantayanon language and literacy advocates using Maya Learning Space as the germinating hub of insights and actions.
Please take the time to get to know the RJPT facilitators!
Aki M. Longcanaya
Dhea Intan Puspita Sari
Dwi Surya Saputra
Ludwig Quirog
Kins Aparece
Raissa Avery Marfa
Shannon Lee
Aki M. Longcanaya
Aki M. Longcanaya is a Power of Goodness Coordinator in Parañaque, Philippines. She is currently a fifth-year student in the Bachelor of Science–Master of Arts in Psychology and Counseling program at the Philippine Normal University–Manila. Aki experienced AVP-JP in 2023 and has actively organized communities and co-facilitated workshops. As she witnessed transformation in her own life, she realized that the same hope and possibility could also be nurtured among the children and families she worked with. She believes that peace begins with the simplest acts—a gentle smile, a shared laugh, and an ordinary conversation. It is through these small moments of genuine connection that friendships grow, and with them, peace.
Dhea Intan Puspita Sari
Dhea Intan Puspita Sari is an early childhood educator from Pati, Indonesia. She works at Joglo Preschool, an inclusive early childhood education center integrating peace and justice cultures into daily learning. She supports children and families from diverse religious, socioeconomic, and developmental backgrounds, including children with special needs. Dhea first attended an Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) workshop in 2023 and later became a facilitator intern at Peace Place Pati. Since then, she has co-facilitated AVP and Power of Goodness (PoG) workshops with children, teachers, adolescents, parents, and diverse community groups. She also supports language interpretation. Her experiences have strengthened her commitment to practicing nonviolence and compassion in everyday life.
Dwi Surya Saputra
Dwi Surya Saputra, known as Tito, is the Coordinator of Power of Goodness Indonesia and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology. Tito was introduced to the Alternative to Violence Project at an early age through his parents and has been serving as an AVP facilitator since 2022. Through Power of Goodness, he works with children and young people in peacebuilding initiatives that foster a culture of peace, active listening, and mutual respect. By integrating psychological perspectives with experiential learning, Tito is committed to empowering individuals and communities to build healthier relationships and create positive social change. He provides Indonesian language support for this workshop.
Ludwig Quirog
Ludwig Quirog is a Quaker from Bohol, Philippines. He is an entrepreneur and an advocate of Earth justice. He runs an organic farm and volunteers with Plastic-Free Bohol, an education movement for sustainable practices. He is also an advocate for peace and social justice, having been an AVP facilitator since 2013, with experience working in communities, schools, and prisons. Ludwig is a newcomer to AVP for Justice and Peace and is enthusiastic about helping to use the method as a tool for peacebuilding in the Philippines and beyond.
Ludwig believes that peace is possible when people learn to take feedback without judgment, through the lens of Transforming Power.
Mellia Irawati
Mellia Irawati is from Pati, Central Java, Indonesia. She is an educator and an AVP facilitator with a strong commitment to education, family support, and the cultivation of a culture of peace within communities, conscious parenting and interfaith initiatives. Over the past two years, Ellie’s two-year AVP journey has drastically changed her outlook in life and the way she is involved in the community. Peace becomes possible when every person is safely heard, respected, and treated with dignity. She believes that peace grows through the courage to build trust, embrace diversity, strengthen solidarity, and embody compassion and justice in everyday life—within families, schools, and society as a whole.
Kins Aparece
Kins Aparece from the Philippines is a people’s lawyer, an educator, a champion for the environment, women, and youth. She has dedicated her life to socio-development work for over three decades and believes that peace is possible. It happens when we enable good people to lead communities with sound and informed decisions and stand by them for truth, justice, and peace. She has facilitated the Alternatives to Violence Project- Justice and Peace workshops since 2014. She holds a gold facilitation certificate from AVP New York-USA and AVP Queensland-Australia. Kins is the Initiative Coordinator for Friends Peace Teams-Asia West Pacific and is coach of the current facilitation team.
Raissa Avery Marfa
Raissa Avery Marfa is a writer, peace and literacy worker from Bantayan Island, Philippines. She teaches and writes in the Bantayanon language, including stories for children. With her community, she organizes Mayâ Learning Space, a community learning space to celebrate the identity and creativity of Bantayanons and the Bantayanon language with Power of Goodness and Peace Libraries activities. She has been an AVP facilitator since 2022.
She believes that peace is possible when each person stays in their core self, treats and respects others as equal and when children and adults in the community support one another in finding creative solutions to take care of and protect the Earth.
Shannon Lee
Shannon Lee is living in Australia on the island at the very bottom known as lutruwita (Tasmania). Here she works as the Program Coordinator for The Alternatives to Violence Project (TAS), and as a Co-Clerk for Friends Peace Teams Asia West Pacific.She also earns a living as a Learning Assistant (LA) with young people. Since adolescence Shannon has been involved with activism involving gender rights, gay rights, children’s rights and the rights of nature. Her first experience with AVP was in 2020, since which she has traveled the globe exploring and learning AVP and AVP for Justice and Peace. Peace is possible when…she is in nature or underwater.