[Businessmtg] Beginners' Resource

[Adele Steirnagle]

Jerry's idea would be like having our own Forum. I love that little magazine and we have enough people and stories to have an in-house form of our own.
Adele

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> On Mar 26, 2017, at 4:19 AM, Jane Anon <happynjoyousnfree at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I love Jerry's idea and it could be very easily added to the member site,
> in conjunction with the current Newcomers page.
> 
> On Mar 26, 2017 5:21 AM, "Gerald Hunter" <logmark at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Biz-Pals,
> 
> I've long thought that ASP could better serve newcomers. In the past things
> like temporary sponsor lists, beginners' meetings, OT meetings, etc. have
> been discussed or mentioned in Business Meetings and it doesn't hurt to
> broach these topics from time to time; people and times change and one day
> any or all of these ideas may fit the membership's needs.
> 
> The one thing which may help newcomers the most, and which to my
> recollection has never come up, is some version of a First Step "meeting".
> The logistics of running a separate meeting would be much the same as for
> this OT meeting, so to my mind this wouldn't work in a separate meeting
> format either.
> 
> What could easily work would be an additional page, linked to on our member
> page or home page (or both) called something like 'Our First Steps' where a
> collection of our 1st Step stories would be kept for newcomers to read
> through. Heck, it would be good for long timers, too. Any willing member
> could compose their story and submit it for posting. Perhaps some modest
> control would be in order for length, editing permission for grammar and
> language (thinking particularly of profanity), or for other reasons related
> to keeping the stories on our website from shocking folk's too much.
> 
> The greatest advantages I can see from such a volume would be providing
> newcomers with something akin to their very own 1st Step Meeting full of
> our stories and ESH - something all f2f members get, if on our home page a
> resource for interested non-members to gain insight and feel they would be
> at home here in ASP, and a place where every ASP member could go to be
> reminded of the power of this disease, but the greater power of personal
> recovery.
> 
> ...and we could have literally hundreds of stories there if we wished
> without worrying about time like in f2f meetings - so perhaps something we
> can do better than f2f!
> 
> "Hi, my name is Jerry. Welcome to Al-Anon and ASP.
> My wife is an alcoholic. Our life wasn't always miserable. We started out,
> like most couples, with indescribable love for one another and endless
> dreams of the glorious future we would share together. Wonderful stuff...,
> blah, blah, blah..., but there came a day about six years later when it
> became clear that she had a drinking problem, etc., etc......"
> 
> I can't think of any better way to welcome a newcomer than with our stories.
> 
> Jerry
> -
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