[Businessmtg] GEA and District Discussions - More news from our new Area officers

[Lynne]

Thanks Anne for this update! It is really great to know the composition 
of the electronic groups. I had no idea the zoom/skype meetings were the 
vast majority of the electronic groups.  Thank you for representing ASP 
as the Area figures out how to make districts with all of these diverse 
groups!

Hugs,
Lynne

On 2022-09-26 15:23, aohara77 at comcast.net wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> 
> 
> 
> I continue to get updates from the Area officers including some of the
> feedback they have gathered from the GR's.  I had shared earlier that I 
> was
> asked to put forth my ideas related to the District design for our
> electronic meetings.  My input in August was that I was not in favor of
> geographic area because as an email meeting, we are one of many 
> electronic
> formats that can support a global membership.  I know that as the GR, I
> ultimately will be the one to weigh in, vote and share my 
> considerations
> with the GEA, however, in order to best support the group, your input 
> is
> invaluable.
> 
> 
> 
> The following was shared with me today, and I was asked to share it 
> with you
> and I am looking forward to hearing from all of you.
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> ________
> Global Electronic Area (GEA) will decide to form Districts.
> 
> DISTRICTS:  (pgs 64 - 65 of our 2022 - 2025 Service Manual).
> 
> The District is the first link from the groups to the Area, the WSO, 
> and the
> World Service Conference.  Districts are comprised of a number of 
> groups
> within a geographical or non-geographical part of an Area that meet as
> needed.  The Group Representatives (GRs) from the groups in the 
> District,
> attend the District meetings to represent their group.  An Overlay 
> District
> is a collection of groups typically aligned by a commonality, such as
> language or non-geographic location.  Groups may belong to either the
> District or Overlay District based on their group conscience.  
> Decisions may
> be made on holding local functions doing local outreach, and news will 
> be
> disseminated to and from the groups.
> 
> Moving forward there is much for our GEA to consider when forming 
> Districts.
> For example, our GEA does not have geographic boundaries.  Our 
> boundaries
> could be considered:  Time, Language, Platform.  We know that one of 
> our
> District Representatives (DRs) responsibilities is to visit each group 
> in
> their respective District; however, Zoom has approximately 524 groups, 
> phone
> meetings 160, etc. Far too many for one DR so our task is to figure out 
> how
> to make this work!  Another thought to consider was brought to us by a
> trusted servant of our email meetings (there are 23 email meetings). 
> Those
> members are not concerned with time but they are concerned with 
> language.
> 
> Here is a breakdown of our Platform meetings:  Skype 30, Bulletin Board 
> 5,
> Phone 160, Google Meet 3, Zoom 524, Discord, 3 Email 23, Al-Anon Family
> Groups Mobile App 36, ChatRoom 4, Free Conference Call 29, Second Life 
> 1,
> WhatsApp 8, Jitsi 4, Voxer 1, Telegram 2, join.me <http://join.me>  1.
> *Approximate figures.
> 
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> Yours in Service,
> 
> 
> 
> Anne O.
> 
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