[Businessmtg] Welcoming Emails

[Bubbe Turner]

Hi All,

I am pretty much of the same mind as Jerry about the welcoming emails and I
*do* use the delete button quit frequently.   That may be because I have
been in Al-Anon for 40 years and in OL meetings for 20.

When I joined ASP last March, I can't say I was overwhelmed with 'welcoming
emails' but I do think an effective welcome can be given by the Greeting
Committee when a person is definitely signed up.  Other OL email meetings
call it a Welcoming Committee, explicitly for that reason.

The "Newcomer Welcome" is definitely an accepted part of CAL.  (AFG, Inc.
Mar-01 Groupsrv 1111)

If ASP considers a Beginner's Meeting, G2 is the Guidelines page in that
instance.  There is a lot of helpful information contained in those
Guidelines for each of othe 6 meetings.  In the 15+ years I was one of the
long timers hosting a local Beginner's Meeting, we, who led those meetings,
got the most positive response from the CAL specially selected for
newcomers that was handed out to each new person.  If you aren't familiar
with any of those packets, read them.  I would highly suggest using the G2
format if there eventually is an ASP meeting  labeled as an Al-Anon
Beginner's Meeting.  All you can do is suggest new to program members buy
those packets of CAL themselves.

All that said, I do think an underlying reason some drop out is the
excessive wordiness and amount of directions they are exposed to, of the
web site pages one is told to read, etc.  And I still do not understand why
a sender to the ASP meeting does not see his/her own share.  That can be
frustrating.

Thank you all for this discussion.

In Al-Anon,
BJ