The Peaceful Pathways project is an initiative aimed at helping those from refugee communities build positive and meaningful bonds in their new home.

Project lead for the Peaceful Pathways project Xavier Lane-Mullins said the project utilises methods first developed by the worldwide Alternatives to Violence Project which aims to teach proactive and passive methods to resolve issues without violence.

"When communities have arrived from conflict zones, they've had people and regimes try to destroy them and obliterate them beyond recognition," he said.

"They arrive to a place like Launceston which is very safe and friendly ... but their communities aren't whole and still in tattered pieces. This process is helping them rebuild community and practice the skills of being together again as a whole people.

"[The] aim of Peaceful Pathways is using the AVP process to pass on these skills to people of a refugee background and run these workshops in Hobart and Launceston."

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AVP was started in 1975 at a New York prison, where inmates wanted to help incarcerated Vietnam veterans rehabilitate into a peaceful way of life.

"They developed this experiential workshops that didn't require literacy," Mr Lane-Mullins said.

"It required people to build affirmation, sense of self and build community and trust. It changed the prison environment and has since expanded to other areas of the community and is now implemented in 60 countries."

The Peaceful Pathways project was made possible through a three-year grant from the Tasmanian Community Fund.

Between August 17 and 18, 14 people from various areas of the community will go through workshops to help them become AVP facilitators, who will then pass on the teachings throughout their respective communities.

People from the Bhutanese community, the Afghan Hazara community, people from the Chin Burmese community as well as Tasmanian-born volunteers are participating in the workshops.

"Ultimately what we want to deliver to the Tasmanian Community Fund is we want to develop enough confident facilitators who can run these workshops," Mr Lane-Mullins said.