[Businessmtg] FW: ASP GR response to Lynne's questions

[Anne]

Hi Lynne and all,

**The World Service Conference: from page 143 of the current Service Manual
- Al-Anon's annual business meeting, which is attended by all Delegates from
the World Service Conference Structure, representatives from other
countries, members of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee, voting
members of the World Service Office (WSO) administrative Staff and other WSO
personnel.  The Conference provides guidance to the WSO on service matters
that are brought to its attention.

**The Al-Anon International Convention is an annual event that is open to
all.  It includes speaker meetings as well as workshops that take place
throughout the day and the weekend.  A high level agenda from this year's
convention is still active here
https://al-anon.org/wso-events/2023-al-anon-international-convention/

**Regarding districting, while everyone is anxious to get districts in place
"quickly" we do know that KBDM takes time.  I truly hope this can be
accomplished before the end of the year, that is only my personal hope
(likely shared by others).  Until we do the GR's are acting independently,
and attending the Assemblies without any DR representation.

Please let me know if I can answer any other questions for you.

Anne
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Subject: Re: [Businessmtg] ASP Group Representatives Report - July 2023

Anne,

Thank you so much for sharing this. What is the difference between the World
Service Conference and the Al anon International convention? Is the former
only open the Area reps and the latter open to the public?

Also, I know the GEA is relatively new and that an extraordinary amount of
work has been done to get it running and to start hashing out how Districts
will be defined. Is there any timeline on when you think Districts might be
put in place? Just wondering if you think this is months or years away?

I'm so grateful to you and all the other GRs who have volunteered their time
on a taskforce or as an Area officer.

Hugs,
Lynne

On 2023-07-04 09:02, Anne wrote:
> Hi Friends!
> 
> 
> 
> For those who may not know...
> 
> -I am the ASP Group Representative , my role is to act as liaison 
> between our group and the District and Area that ASP is connected to.
> 
> -Our Area, the GEA, is relatively new and is building out the 
> structure needed to be a fully formed Area - currently, our Area does 
> not have Districts.
> 
> -The Area is unique in that it does not have geographic boundaries 
> that the other Areas, Districts and Groups have.
> 
> 
> 
> The last several reports I have presented to the Bus Meeting, have 
> been focused on the Districting needs of the GEA.  The District 
> Thought Force committee that I was a part of, wrapped up their work 
> and presented their findings to all the Group Rep's in the GEA (Global 
> Electronic Area) in May.
> With feedback from the group reps after those presentations, the GEA 
> officers are now forming a District taskforce with a new set of GR 
> volunteers.  I assume that the GEA officers will be providing the GR's 
> with more information soon.
> 
> 
> 
> +++Other structural tasks that the GEA officers are managing are two
> positions - Area Delegate and Language Coordinator.
> 
> 
> 
> ***The Language Coordinator was recently appointed by the GEA officers. 
>  He
> was one of three volunteers.
> 
> 
> 
> ***The GEA does NOT have an Area Delegate, only an Area Alternate 
> Delegate.
> The GEA is actively seeking a Delegate for the Area and posted the 
> "job"
> description in search of willing participants.  The description is 
> also found in the Service Manual.  Once there are volunteers stepping 
> forward, there will be an opportunity for Q & A with the volunteers 
> and then an election.
> 
> 
> 
> *** Our Alternate Delegate attended the World Service Conference in 
> May and provided her report to the GR's in June.
> 
> 
> 
> ***This weekend was the 2023 AL-ANON INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, 
> Albuquerque, New Mexico June 29 through July 2, 2023 "New Hopes, New 
> Friends, Renewed Recovery!"  In the future, this might be something a 
> GR would attend and the costs would be borne by the group.
> 
> 
> 
> That's it for today, please let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> 
> 
> Yours in Service,
> 
> 
> 
> Anne O.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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