Friends,
Lucas Cioffi just passed on this very tragic news (which came from the
NCDD list).
A fair number of us knew Cheryl Honey and the approach she had
brought into the world, Community Weaving.
Cheryl, you will remain in my heart.
warmly,
raffi
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Sandy Heierbacher <sa...@ncdd.org
<mailto:sa...@ncdd.org>> wrote:
I am so sorry to have to share this news with all of you, and I'm
still a little in shock at this news myself. I found out earlier
today that one of our members and colleagues, Cheryl Honey, was
killed on Wednesday. Cheryl was recently engaged to a man named
Robert Hedgers, and they were living together in Vancouver.
Cheryl and Robert were both found dead in their home on
Wednesday, and yesterday police reported that it was a
murder-suicide. Cheryl was shot in the arm and the chest, and
Robert turned the gun on himself.
There is not a lot of information on this tragedy online, but here
are two articles that provide the basics:
Couple found dead were recently engaged -
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/apr/25/police-investigating-death-man-woman-found-vancouv/
Medical Examiner: Couple died in murder-suicide -
http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/apr/26/medical-examiner-couple-died-murder-suicide/
As some of you know, Cheryl was the founder of the Family Support
Network International and Community Weaving. She often wrote to
the listserv about community weaving, and many of you met her at
the Seattle conference. She also attended our 2010 regional event
in Portland (she was living in Seattle until recently), and came
down to Austin for our 2008 conference.
Cheryl was a very kind person, and she was dedicated to
encouraging neighbors to connect with one another to share
resources and build local networks of support. I'll paste a
description of Community Weaving below. Cheryl wrote this
description, and we posted it on the NCDD site last year.
I am so sorry to upset any of you with this horrific news, but I
knew many of you would want to know this has happened to Cheryl.
I do not have information at this point about her memorial, or
where cards or donations can be sent. I will let the list know
when I do.
Sandy Heierbacher
Director, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
sa...@ncdd.org <mailto:sa...@ncdd.org> • www.ncdd.org
<http://www.ncdd.org/> • @ncdd & @heierbacher
Community Weaving <http://www.communityweaving.org/> (CW) is a
social architecture that syncs existing programs and initiatives
to create an interdependent functioning whole community system.
Learn more at www.communityweaving.org
<http://www.communityweaving.org/>.
In Seattle, volunteers contributed approximately 175,000 hours,
valued at $2.6 million in community service on a budget of less
than $12,000. Community Weaving leverages real change to deal with
the challenges impacting relationships, neighborhoods, communities
and the nation. A description of Community Weaving is in the
Change Handbook (2nd Ed.) and referred to as a structural change
methodology. The approach creates a reciprocal feedback loop that
generates data that informs governing systems where to allocate
funds and upgrade responsiveness to empower the people, as well as
creates a voice of “we the people” on public policy issues using
action research, dialogue and Community Forums. Community Weaving
is a useful strategy to increase engagement levels and ignite the
community spirit to create a more caring, just and civil society.
Also, here is her NCDD bio:
Cheryl Honey,pioneered Community Weaving and received the
prestigious Jefferson Award, the mini-Nobel Prize for Public
Service. Community Weaving is an innovative change method featured
in the Change Handbook (2nd Ed.) that shifts hierarchical
community silos into interdependent functioning whole community
systems.Communities tap her expertise to develop innovative
solutions to challenges affecting lives and the community. Cheryl
is an Ambassador for Peace, recipient of the Excellence in
Leadership Award and received the Giraffe Award, for sticking her
neck out for peace and justice for all.
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