In addition to finding a spiritual way of life, recovery is about changing negative aspects of our personalities into positive ones. We came into the program with big egos but little or no self-esteem. We thought we were better than other people yet, at the same time, felt “less than.” We were people who took…
Category: Service Sponsorship
Taking Minutes
How to take minutes at Group Business, Area and Committee Meetings 1. Use a template. 2. Check off attendees as they arrive. Make sure you have a meeting agenda. This is usually prepared by the Chairperson. Choose your recording tool. Will you use a pen and paper or will you use a laptop computer, tablet,…
“Property and Prestige”
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…
The Delegate’s Job is a Spiritual One!
WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE DELEGATE Duties and Responsibilities Conference Delegates are required to have a working knowledge of the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions, the Twelve Concepts of Service and the World Services Conference Charter. Prior to the Conference, the Delegate transmits SR-14 material to his or her Area through Area and District Meetings as well…
Tradition Eight: We’re nonprofessional
Tradition Eight (Short): C.A. as such, should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centres may employ special workers. Tradition Eight (Long): Alcoholics (Cocaine) Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for…
Concept Six: World Service Office Board of Trustees
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…
“Pass It On” Documents
UNITY COMMITTEE – H – E – L – P !!!!! by: Tammy L. Pflugerville, Texas, USA (Newsgram – Q3 2016 p. 22) I decided to come to the Unity Committee because our Area suffers with putting on Unity Events, and struggles with keeping a Unity Chairperson. I believe that the new chairs become overwhelmed…
What is Service Sponsorship?
SERVICE SPONSORSHIP Service Sponsorship is a concept in Cocaine Anonymous that works the same as sponsorship through the 12 step program of action. A service sponsor is a member that has engaged in sufficient amounts of service work and has been taught the material in a workshop like this one, by their service sponsor, that…
The Importance of Service
The universal symbol of recovery is called the Recovery Triangle. It depicts the “Three Legacies” of our parent fellowship that have been adopted by our own fellowship–RECOVERY, UNITY and SERVICE. Unity: Is about cohesion between the different elements of Cocaine Anonymous—unity between Groups, Districts, Areas and the World body. It’s also about our unity with…
Concept Two: The Authority of Our Collective Conscience
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…
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…
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…
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…