community weaving workshop

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From:
"Family Support Network, Int'l" <wecare at familynetwork.org>


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receive these announcements in the future. Due to high volume of 
requests, we are looking for sites to host Community Weaving trainings. 
For more information email: CWT at familynetwork.org We are currently 
recruiting trainers who speak Spanish, Russian and French to meet the 
growing demand to implement Community Weaving practices around the 
world. Send email to trainers at communityweaving.org to receive more 
information.

COMMUNITY WEAVING WORKSHOP

September 20 & 21, 2007
9am - 5pm
2100 Building
Board Room
2100 24th Ave. So.
Seattle, WA
www.communityweaving.org/registration.htm

Presenter
2007 Jefferson Award Recipient

Community Weaving is a community building approach that increases 
community capacity and social capital by engaging people as "Good 
Neighbors" who pool resources, network with one another and co-create 
initiatives for the common good of the community.

As a Community Weaver, you will learn how to grow Family Support 
Networks in schools, churches, neighborhoods, associations and 
corporations within your community to increase productivity and tap 
innovation to solve problems. You will gain insight into transformative 
community building theories that sparks a village effect within 
communities enabling people to make their unique contributions to 
benefit the whole community. All the tools, techniques, and web-based 
technology is provided to implement Community Weaving to empower 
families toward self-sufficiency by giving them access to a treasury of 
resources. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to engage, train and 
mobilize a grass roots social support system that serves as a safety net 
for families, fosters social capital and functions interdependently with 
formal systems to improve the health and welfare of whole communities 
from the inside out.

Register early to guarantee your space and pass the word along to your 
colleagues and friends.

Note: If you'd prefer to start Community Weaving in your community by 
hosting a training, email CWTinquiry at communityweaving.org and we'll send 
you all the details.


Cheryl Honey, Pioneer of Community Weaving and Founder, Family Support 
Network, International
Cheryl Honey is the pioneer of Community Weaving practices and 
contributing author to The Change Handbook (2nd Ed). She founded the 
Family Support Network, International (FSNI), a non-profit organization, 
in 1993 as a welfare mother with the belief that people didn't need 
fixing...they needed to be connected! She has trained and certified over 
400 Community Weavers and Family Advocates who are respected leaders and 
change agents in their communities. Cheryl graduated from Antioch 
University Seattle. She received the Washington State 2007 Jefferson 
Award (nobel prize for public service), the Giraffe Award for sticking 
her neck out in 1996 and was presented with the Ambassador of Peace and 
Excellence in Leadership Awards from the International and 
Interreligious Federation for World Peace. The ABCD Institute and 
Institute for Civil Society have recognized the Family Support Network 
model as an exemplary approach to capacity building. Cheryl is an 
author, speaker and musician and resides with her family in Bothell, 
Washington.
Free & Easy Access to Resources!

Participants learn how to pool and tap an abundance of grassroots 
resources using free web-based technology to create a safetynet for 
families. The new www.familynetwork.org enables people to be good 
neighbors and support one another to build and bridge social capital 
across community sectors.

Free open source technology!

· Pool and map strengths and assets

· Interconnect group members together

· Conduct searches using multiple criteria

· Find volunteers willing to share knowledge and resources

· Build the capacity of your group

· Post activities to calendar

· Organize community initiatives

· Access “How to’s” to replicate great ideas

· Publish Activity Reports

· Publish Resource Directories

FSN volunteer, Max Stalnaker and Cheryl Honey developed the web-based 
technology to enable individuals and groups to share resources, 
establish Group ID's, locate resources, organize activities, spearhead 
initiatives and publish resource directories. This technology is free 
and has flexible applications for connecting members of groups, 
associations, neighborhoods, churches, and schools together.

Registration:
$250
(scholarships available)
(Includes certification & materials)
www.communityweaving.org/registration.htm

Scholarships available
Email scholarships at familynetwork.org with your scholarship request
(No one will be turned away due to financial constraints!)

For more information:
206.240.2241
wecare at familynetwork.org

Family Support Network
www.familynetwork.org

Community Weaving
www.communityweaving.org

"The more resourceful we are among ourselves, the more valuable a 
resource we become to our families, our communities and our world."