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Transcript of 2010 WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE CELEBRATE! EMBRACE THE GROUP CONSCIENCE TO EXPAND OUR CIRCLE OF HOPE.
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2010 WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE
CELEBRATE!EMBRACE THE GROUP
CONSCIENCE TO EXPAND OUR CIRCLE OF HOPE
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CELEBRATE!!
50TH WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE
50 YEARS OF AL-ANON’S
GROUP CONSCIENCE
Let them have cake!
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Board of Trustees’ BIG QUESTION
• What Spiritual growth can the fellowship celebrate as a result of 50 years of its informed group conscience as expressed through the World Service Conference?
• How has it expanded our circle of HOPE?
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NEW Service Manual –Fall 2010
• Reorganization of Digest of Al-Anon and Alateen Policies
• Adding Alateen section that combines all Alateen statements
• Update to language on use of outside literature
• Moving the Finance section• Adjusted the language about group
names
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Diversity
• Without outreach to diverse groups and culture, Al-Anon may not last
• The average Al-Anon member is:
A 58 year old white woman!
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Diversity Leadership Workshop
• How to reach minorities in our area?
• Area project – outreach to a selected group – focusing our energy
• Do you welcome minority members to your group?
• How do we reach out to increase the diversity of our fellowship?
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WSC Restructuring Thought Force
• Area’s Purpose – to server the groups through communication, participation, and representation
• 1- Plot all of the groups on a map to see where they actually are.
• 2- Allow areas with more than 400 groups to divide.
• 3- Allow smaller areas to combine.
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Legacies Workbook
Literature committee requested permission to develop a Legacies Workbook like the Blueprint for Progress based on sharings from the online members blogs. The workbook would include the steps, traditions and the concepts. The conference approved this unanimously.
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FORUM
• Back in the Black – new subscriptions this year have brought it back
• YOU LIKE IT! YOU REALLY LIKIE IT!!!
• California added 700 new subscriptions (+35%) more than any other state. We still only have 1.9 subscriptions per meeting.
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Alateen Chat rooms
• These are now available for areas to start having online Alateen meetings. Two have started but very little attendance so far. They are moderated for the protection of the teens.
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Open Policy Committee Meeting
• Topic discussed – Groups that do not follow the traditions and may affect Al-Anon as a whole.
• Should WSO create a ‘Do Not Refer’ list based on the area’s recommendation. Meeting that an area has delisted would not be used by WSO for phone referrals.
• WSO will not delist any meetings.
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Conflict Resolution Task Force
• Develop tool for the areas to use for Conflict Resolution
1 – Workshop on using the traditions and Paths to Recovery for Conflict Resolution.
2 – Powerpoint presentation
3 – Literature piece to be completed.
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Vancouver 2013
• Al-Anon’s International Convention
• July 2013 in Vancouver, Canada
• Does Northern California want to:
• Take the Train?
• Take a Plane?
• Take a Bus?
• Take a Cruise!!?
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Al-Anon and Technology
• Are you afraid of computers?
• Do you know how to use: Excel? Word?
• How do you learn?
• Ask for help!! Al-Anon’s best and most abundant resource is its membership
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• How can we use technology to server our area and groups?
• Teleconferencing – when to use?• Videoconferencing – When to use and
how to use?• Lone member outreach?• Chat rooms?• Skyppe? Computer to Computer
conferencing
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2011 World Service Conference
• Panel 49 goes to Steping Stones on Sunday, then Virginia Beach.
• Conference in Virginia Beach 4/11-4/15
• 4/16 – Celebration at WSO Al-Anon’s
60th Birthday