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Category: Concepts

As the Twelve Steps of Cocaine Anonymous are our recipe for individual recovery, the Twelve Traditions of Cocaine Anonymous are our recipe for group unity and the Twelve Concepts are our recipe for world service.

“Property and Prestige”

Posted on February 18, 2020March 14, 2020 by The Webservant

By Hal K., Houston TX In the spirit of the Traditions and the direction of the Concepts of World Service, it appears that many of us, as trusted servants, may want to examine our adherence to the intent of our founders of being directly responsible to those they serve. In my travels over the past…

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Concept Twelve: General Warranties of the Conference

Posted on January 10, 2020February 4, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Twelve: General Warranties of the Conference: (One) In all its proceedings, the World Service Conference shall observe the spirit of the C.A. Tradition, taking great care that the Conference never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; (Two) that the sufficient operating funds, plus an ample reserve, be its prudent financial principle; (Three)…

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The Twelve Concepts: An Introduction

Posted on January 6, 2020March 1, 2020 by The Webservant

Adapted from the A.A. Service Manual Combined with Twelve Concepts for World Service p. 1-3 The “Twelve Concepts for World Service” to be described in this Manual are an interpretation of C.A.’s world service structure. They reveal the evolution by which it has arrived in its present form, and they detail the experience and reasoning…

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Concept Seven: The Power of the C.A. Purse

Posted on December 27, 2019February 4, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Seven: The Conference recognizes that the Charter and the Bylaws of the World Service Board (W.S.B.) are legal instruments; that the Trustees are thereby fully empowered to manage and conduct all of the world service affairs of Cocaine Anonymous. It is further understood that the Conference Charter itself is not a legal document; that…

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Concept Six: World Service Office Board of Trustees

Posted on December 10, 2019March 2, 2020 by The Webservant

Concept Six: On behalf of C.A. as a whole, our World Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance. But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of…

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Concept Two: The Authority of Our Collective Conscience

Posted on October 30, 2019February 3, 2020 by The Webservant

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

Posted on October 30, 2019November 1, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Ten: Service Responsibility and Authority

Posted on October 30, 2019October 4, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Nine: Good Leadership

Posted on October 30, 2019February 4, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Eight: Capacity of the Trustees of the World Service Board

Posted on October 30, 2019February 4, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Four: The Right of Participation

Posted on October 30, 2019February 3, 2020 by The Webservant

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….

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Concept One: Who is in charge?

Posted on October 30, 2019January 3, 2021 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Five: Voicing the Minority Opinion

Posted on October 16, 2019February 3, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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Concept Three: The Right of Decision

Posted on October 15, 2019March 1, 2020 by The Webservant

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…

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