Greetings, groups of Area 72!
As you meet to contribute to the informed group conscience of Alcoholics Anonymous, I would like to call your attention to some resources you may find helpful.
First off: you can find the agenda items, background material, and summary information on the Area 72 website “Delegate’s Corner” https://area72aa.org/delegates-corner/
By the time you read this, Delegate Courtney will have already told you all about that via email, newsletter article, pre-conference, District Committee Member, and carrier pigeon.
Here are some additional resources that might help, or at least be interesting, in your conversations about the 2025 Conference agenda items:
- Advisory Actions of the General Service Conference (https://www.aa.org/m-39-advisory-actions) – a short-form record of all the decisions the General Service Conference has made, beginning in 1951. If a member of your group asks, “When the heck did we decide THAT?!”; this is your go-to resource. It is organized first by committee or category, and then by year within each category.
- 2024 and 2023 General Service Conference Final Reports (https://www.aa.org/2024-general-service-conference-final-report and https://www.aa.org/2023-general-service-conference-final-report) – several of the agenda items are continued from previous conferences.
- All of our literature, for free, in PDF form (https://www.aa.org/resources/literature) – want to look at the current Cooperation with the Professional Community Workbook, Twelve Steps Illustrated Pamphlet, or Living Sober, all of which will be reviewed at this year’s Conference? Go to the literature page, enter the title in the search box, and you’re there.
I get that not every member wants this level of information… but I think it’s important to know that it is available. There is no “they” making decisions that affect “us” – there is only the “We, of Alcoholics Anonymous…” and the basic question: am I willing to exercise my right of participation, to fulfill the responsibility I have to current and future AA members?
Plus I know there’s at least one GSR or DCM out there who will clap their hands with glee upon learning of the Advisory Actions pamphlet (ask me how I know…)
Okay! I look forward to hearing what shakes out at this year’s Conference! Thank you for contributing to AA’s informed group conscience. Please reach out if you have questions or ideas for how the Tech and Web Committee can be helpful to your group. techwebchair@area72aa.org
Patrick M
