Concept Two: The C.A. Groups delegate to the World Service Conference the complete authority for the active maintenance of our world services and thereby make the Conference — excepting for any change in the Twelve Traditions — the actual voice and the effective conscience for our whole Fellowship. CA NewsGram, Fourth Quarter 1998, Vol. 12…
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Concept Eleven: Best Possible Members
Concept Eleven: While the Trustees hold final responsibility for C.A.’s world service administration, they should always have the assistance of the best possible standing committees and service boards, staffs and consultants. Therefore the composition of these underlying committees and service boards, the personal qualifications of their members, the manner of their induction into service, the…
Concept Ten: Service Responsibility and Authority
Concept Ten: Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority — the scope of such authority to be always well defined whether by tradition, by resolution, by specific job description or by appropriate charters and bylaws. CA NewsGram, Fourth Quarter 2004, Vol. 20 No. 4 “Service: Responsibility and Authority“ This is one…
Concept Nine: Good Leadership
Concept Nine: Good service leaders, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them are at all levels indispensable for our future functioning and safety. The Twelve Concepts for World Service Illustrated p. 18 Good leadership cannot function well in a poorly designed structure…Weak leadership can hardly function at all, even in the best of…
Concept Eight: Capacity of the Trustees of the World Service Board
Concept Eight: The Trustees of the World Service Board act in two primary capacities: (a) With respect to the larger matters of overall policy and finance, they are the principal planners and administrators. They and their primary committees directly manage these affairs. (b) But with respect to our separately incorporated and constantly active services, the…
Concept Four: The Right of Participation
Concept Four: Throughout our Conference structure, we ought to maintain at all responsible levels a traditional “Right of Participation”, taking care that each classification or group of our world servants shall be allowed a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge. Suggested Readings: CA NewsGram, July-August, 1988, Vol. II No….
Concept One: Who is in charge?
Concept One: The final responsibility and the ultimate authority for C.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship. Suggested Reading: CA NewsGram, First Quarter 2006, Vol. 23 No. 1 “Who is in charge” C.A., like A.A., is run from the bottom up. Simply stated the final responsibility and ultimate…
C.A. Statement of Policy
Who may use the name “COCAINE ANONYMOUS,” the block letters “CA,” the official COCAINE ANONYMOUS LOGO* (hereinafter “logo”), future variations of the logo, the book titles: “A QUIET PEACE”, “HOPE, FAITH & COURAGE II,” “HOPE, FAITH & COURAGE: STORIES FROM THE FELLOWSHIP OF COCAINE ANONYMOUS,” and the motto “WE’RE HERE AND WE’RE FREE:” A Cocaine…
Tradition Four: What does it mean C.A. Groups are autonomous?
Tradition Four (Short): Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or C.A. as a whole. Tradition Four (Long): With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience. But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, those groups…
Tradition Three: Who can be a member of C.A.?
Tradition Three (Short): The only requirement for C.A. membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. Tradition Three (Long): Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism (addiction). Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any…
Tradition Two and the Principle of Consistent Rotation…
2019 World Service Manual p. 11 The principal of consistent rotation of responsibility is followed by all C.A. service positions. The spirit of rotation is a vital principle within our service structure which allows for non successive terms on all service positions. This enables more members to experience the true nature of service. Positions in…
Tradition One: Personal recovery depends upon C.A. unity.
Tradition One (Short): Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon C.A. unity. Tradition One (Long Version): Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows…
C.A. Service Structure
Whether you are already involved in service, looking for opportunities to serve your Fellowship, or just interested in knowing how your fellowship accomplishes its mission, this section of the website provides a resource that C.A. members may find helpful and informative. If you have any questions regarding our service structure please review the information outlined…
Definition of Cocaine Anonymous “GROUP”
From the World Service Manual 2022 pp. 15-19 A meeting is when two or more people gather together to share their experience, strength and hope with each other. A meeting may call itself a C.A. Group when: The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. It…
Concept Five: The Right of Appeal – Voicing the Minority Opinion
Concept Five: Throughout our World Service structure, a traditional “Right of Appeal” ought to prevail, thus assuring us that minority opinion will be heard and that petitions for the redress of personal grievances will be carefully considered. Suggested Reading: CA NewsGram, Second Quarter 2004, Vol. 20 No. 2 “Minority Opinion” This concept expresses the principle…
Concept Three: The Right of Decision
Concept Three: As a traditional means of creating and maintaining a clearly defined working relation between the Groups, the Conference, the World Service Board of Trustees and its service corporation, staffs, and committees, and of thus insuring their effective leadership, it is here suggested that we endow each of these elements of World Service with…
C.A. Group Servants
World Service Manual 2020 pp. 18 – 20 “For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.” OUR SECOND TRADITION C.A. groups may create such service positions, as they deem necessary…
A suggested format for resolving conflicts within the Group
This format can be used at the Group’s Business Meeting and facilitated by either the GSR or Meeting Chair. Suggested Group Business Meeting Format for resolving conflicts, schisms, cliques and strivings for power, prestige and money within the Group. Open with a prayer (“WE” version of the Serenity Prayer). Read the 12 Traditions, followed by:…
Trusted Servants, Our Leaders
CA NewsGram, 3rd Quarter 2011, Vol. 28 No.3 “Trusted Servants, Our Leaders” In Tradition Two we rely on God to be present in our group conscious decisions. As we carry out these decisions at all levels of the fellowship we rely on our trusted servants who have been given this responsibility. These trusted servants who…
Bleeding Deacon versus Elder Statesperson
A.A. Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, P. 135 Does AA have any real leadership?” Most emphatically the answer is “Yes, notwithstanding the apparent lack of it.” Let’s turn again to the deposed founder and his friends. What becomes of them? As their grief and anxiety wear away, a subtle change begins. Ultimately they divide into…