Conference Questions 2022 Online Feedback Form

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Conference Questions 2022 Online Feedback Form

Use this form to submit your group’s responses directly to the CER Delegates to Conference. If you experience any issues with this form, please send your feedback to the delegates via email at confdel.cer@aamail.org

Important notes:

This feedback form is only intended for English-speaking Groups within the Continental European Region of AA GB. If your group is in the UK, or outside of Europe, then your responses ought to be submitted to your local Region Delegates, usually via your local Intergroup. More details on intergroups and regions in CER and the UK can be found in our Structure Handbook (Folder Handbooks in our AA GB Members Library).
Conference 2022 runs from 8th – 10th April 2022. To give the Delegates time to review your answers please submit them before the end of March 2022.
All feedback is appreciated – even just one answer to a single question!
Consider the contribution to the carrying of the message, financial and practical implications when deliberating each question.
Please read the full questions with background information and supporting documentation at the links below:

Literature Items for presentation are available for review at the links below:

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Are these responses from an Intergroup, Group, or an individual member?

Group Intergroup Individual Member

If from an Intergroup or Group, which one?

Have these responses also been passed on to your Region Rep?

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Committee 1

1. What more can be done to raise awareness that as AA members, especially in a sponsorship capacity, we do not give unqualified medical advice on the treatment of another member, especially concerning the use of prescribed medication for a mental illness?

2. Review proposed amendments and addition to Chapter Nine: “Probation/Criminal Justice Service” of the AA Service Handbook for Great Britain 2019 (page 62).

3. Review addition to the GSR maximum term of service language for Structure Handbook, p.81 (Conference 2021 – C4, Q1, f)

4. Review addition to current Structure Handbook chapter, The Group, section 1, ‘Group Meetings’, p.76, Where to Find AA, first paragraph, after second sentence.

Committee 2

1. Would the Fellowship share experience and make recommendations on how groups can continue to meet in-person and abide by government COVID-19 regulations, such as contact tracing, vaccination status, whilst being mindful of our Traditions?

2. Would the Fellowship consider how post lockdown the website can evolve to meet its requirements?

3. Review Archives Sub Committee revision of Chapter Eleven, Service Handbook, pp. 67-71.

Committee 3

1. Would Conference discuss and make recommendations on making our language and literature more inclusive, taking into account the numbers of non-binary and gender-fluid members accessing the Fellowship in recent times.

2. Would the Fellowship share experience on how, under pandemic conditions, it:

a. has carried the message to members and potential members in hospitals, treatment centres and other institutions;

b. has carried out PI activities aimed at doctors and other professionals working in these institutions?

3. Review addition to current Structure Handbook chapter, The Region, section 2, ‘The Regional Assembly’, p.94, after final paragraph of section / first paragraph of page.

4. Review slight deletion to current Structure Handbook chapter, The Region, section 3, ‘Conference Delegates / Alternates’, p. 94, fifth paragraph.

Committee 4

1. Would the Fellowship please consider deleting the second point of the “Just for Today” card, “Just for today I will be happy. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be”, as it is potentially misleading for newcomers?

2. Review the language for 'One Member, One Vote' addition to the Structure Handbook, 'The Group' Section', p. 75, in the paragraphs 'The Group Conscience and Business Meetings' and 'A Home Group' (Conference 2021 – C3, Q3)

3. Review Service Sponsorship language for Section One, Service Handbook, pp. 7-10 (Conference 2021 – C4, Q2)

Committee 5

1. Should AAGB update the AA Preamble published on its website and in literature to the gender-neutral version recently updated by the AA Grapevine and agreed upon at the 71st General Service Conference (US/Canada)?

2. Will the Fellowship (through Conference) discuss and give further guidance concerning the autonomy and authority of National Conventions and their committees relating to online marketing, AA commemorative merchandise and raffles, etc., within their venues.

3. Review the Employment Sub-Committee (ESC) revision of Chapter Five, Service Handbook, pp. 45-49.

4. Review the Terms of Service for Prisons' roles for Chapter Eight, Structure Handbook, pp. 57-58 (Conference 2021 – C5, Q1).

Committee 6

1. Would the Fellowship discuss and share experience on the following matters concerning group autonomy:

a. How may a group’s qualification for inclusion in the AAGB and English-Speaking Continental Europe service structure and local and national meetings lists be determined?

b. How should secular AA groups using a modified version of AA’s 12 Steps and AA’s 12 Traditions be viewed within the context of the legacy of AA unity?

2. Would the Fellowship discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks of the General Service Conference (GSC) being held online and make recommendations on whether future Conferences should be held online?

3. Review additions to the current Service Handbook sections 1.6, ‘Service within the intergroup’, and 1.7, ‘Still more ways to serve’.