Discuss ways of providing AA information to professionals
 | by sponsoring your doctor. |
| by reaching a wider variety of professionals. |
Cooperation With The Professional Community
| Discuss ways of providing AA information to professionals
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Finance
| Discuss Self-Support in your Group, your District, the Area and GSO. |
| How can various communication tools, such as videos and service pieces, be used to educate our membership on the issue of Self-Support? |
| Discuss increasing/decreasing literature prices to adjust the General Service Board's Reserve Fund. |
Grapevine/La Viņa
| Consider the idea of an audio form of the monthly Grapevine magazine. Would members of your Group be interested in such an item? |
| Discuss the idea of purchasing Grapevine and La Viņa subscriptions and back issues for direct placement in treatment facilities and correctional facilities. Is your group doing this? How are they distributed - through Treatment Facility Committees, H & I Committees, or other means? |
| Examine the magazine La Viņa, its spiritual benefits and its benefits as a Twelfth Step tool. What are some of the ways it can it be utilized? |
| What are some ways to improve La Viņa's self support? Should audiotapes, pocket planners, calendars, etc. be developed? |
| Consider reinstating the About Alcoholism section of the AA Grapevine - historically called the "gray pages" - which contained information on various aspects of alcoholism. |
| Consider that a service position of Grapevine Subscription Chairperson be adopted by AA groups in the US and Canada, either as a replacement for the current title of GvR or as an additional position. |
International Conventions/Regional Forums
| What are some ways to encourage interest in Regional Forums throughout our entire membership? (The next Pacific Region Forum is in Burbank, California, August 25-27, 2000.) |
| Discuss ways to improve Regional and Special Forums. |
Literature
| Do we use all of our "special interest" literature such as that based on gender, age, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, profession, etc.? How much has been translated into other languages? What pieces should be translated? |
| Discuss the need for a pamphlet for the nonbeliever or a pamphlet explaining that AA is a spiritual rather than a religious program. |
Public Information
| Consider anonymity at the public level of the Internet. How is it being broken, how is it being respected, what should be done to educate AA members on this issue? | ||||
| What is the effectiveness of the AA Web site as a public information tool in carrying the message and providing opportunities for local Twelfth Step work? | ||||
| What experience have you had with district, Intergroup or Central Office Web sites? How should anonymity breaks at this level be handled? | ||||
| 2001 AA Membership Survey Questionnaire:
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Report and Charter
| Discuss suggestions for changes to the revised edition of The AA Service Manual:
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Participants are invited to focus on how the principles embodied in "Trusting Our Future to AA Principles" are practiced in the categories selected by the 1999 Conference.
"AA's Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole." (Foreword to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
"For the sake of the welfare of our entire society, the Traditions ask that every individual and every group and every area in AA shall lay aside all desires, ambitions, and untoward actions that could bring serious division among us or lose for s the confidence of the world at large." (St. Louis, 1955 - from Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pp. 96-97)
Twelve Steps
| Do I sponsor newcomers? When was the last time I answered a Twelfth Step call? |
| How do I keep my spiritual awakening fresh in my mind? |
| How do I use the Twelve Steps now? |
Twelve Traditions
| Am I responsible in sharing the Traditions? Does my group have an informed group conscience? |
| Why is anonymity the foundation of all our Traditions? |
| Discuss my role in trusting our future to AA principles through the Twelve Traditions. |
Twelve Concepts
| In my home group, do I share my experience with the Twelve Concepts and the Warranties? |
| Discuss the vitality of the Twelve Concepts for World Service and how those principles insure democratic participation throughout our Conference structure. |
| What is the relationship of our conference to General Service Conference structures in others lands? |