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11/4/08:
District 5
Election Meeting
7 PM at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1300 St. Francis Road, Santa
Rosa.
Coordinators for the next panel (2009-2011) will be elected. Anyone who
wishes to stand for election, please attend. Read more
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11/21/08:
The Holiday Bash
Planning Committee meets for their final organizational planning at the
Rohnert Park IHOP, 6 PM, Friday, 11/21. Anyone who would like to assist
is encouraged to contact the committee person listed in the Alagram
(or ANY committee person can direct you), and the Decorating Committee
needs more folks particularly, for two hours prior to the doors opening
on 12/6.
Some basket themes have been confirmed, and
we
would LOVE it if you'd call your themes in to the contact person on the
flyer/Alagram....we have a volunteer who will make a decorated tag for
your group's donation, and list all the info. It’s going to
be an
EXTRA-FUN ONE, surprises galore, so don't miss it!
- Marcy
11/26/08,
11/27/08:
Some of the
Wednesday and
Thursday meetings
will not be held on or before Thanksgiving Day.
Those
who are looking for a meeting are encouraged to attend the Alathon
at Memorial Hospital, any hour on the hour from 8 am to 8 pm.
REPORTED
HOLIDAY CLOSURES
- The 7:00 pm
Wednesday Night Women Only meeting
at the Bennett Valley Senior Center in Santa
Rosa.
- The 4:00 pm
Thursday Afternoon meeting
at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Sebastopol.
- The 8:00 pm
Thursday Night New Beginnings meeting
at Knox Presbyterian Church in Santa
Rosa.
11/27/07:
Thanksgiving Day
ALATHON
Meetings
every hour, 8 am - 8 pm
Santa
Rosa Memorial Hospital
Room A
1165
Montgomery Drive
Please
email me
if your group decides not to meet this day so that I can post
temporary closures here -
DC
DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE'S Report:
What Service Means to Me – A Cycle of Growth and Recovery
in Action
I am writing this as I leave a service position and take on a new one.
At our October District 5 Business Meeting, I was elected District
Representative for District 5 for the next three years. I am delighted
to accept this position and am proud and humbled to serve in this
capacity for you. And it is you that I serve – all the groups
in District 5 and their individual members. I look forward to what the
next three years bring to District 5 and to me personally in my
recovery.
I realized as I was thinking about what to
write that I will probably have an overall theme for my service as your
DR, that theme being the incredible opportunities for growth and
recovery that are offered to us through service, by giving back to the
program. I want to share with you the growth I have experienced myself
and witnessed in others in service to the program. I want to excite
you, motivate you, energize you, encourage you, and make you curious
about service – wanting and willing to explore what service
has to offer you.…Read
more >
GROUP REP
Report:
It isn’t
hard to imagine some members’ eyes glazing over
at the thought
of a “boring” business meeting. But as my
group’s
representative (GR), I have found a lot of serious program and recovery
at the monthly District meetings and the four Area Assemblies I have
gone to during this 3-year panel of service.*
I have also witnessed some powderkegs,
including the perennial Dual Member debate. The Al-Anon/Alateen Service Manual
outlines current AFG’s policy on dual members:
“Because of the unique nature of both programs,
Al-Anon/Alateen members who are also A.A. members do not hold office
beyond the group level” (2006-2009 edition, p.
79).…Read
more >
ALAGRAM EDITOR
Report:
I Have the Family Disease of Alcoholism. I
have been in the Al-Anon program for over six years and have grown in
many ways. I have learned that alcoholism is a family disease, and I
defiantly find it is always present, whether the alcoholic is drinking
or not. I have been affected. Just like the addict, I suffer from
problems that affect or affected my relationships, friendships,
employment, my childhood, parenthood, love affairs and marriages. All
of these suffer from the family disease of alcoholism.…Read
more >
DISTRICT
TREASURER'S Report:
The District
Treasurer has submitted the September and October 2008 general treasury reports.... Read
more >
DISTRICT
SECRETARY'S Report:
To read the October
District
meeting
minutes
... Read
more
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MEMBER SHARE – Cross Talk?:
Cross Talk is not a word in Al-Anon. It is not
in our Service Manual. The
World Service Office in Virginia Beach does not take a stand on the
word Cross Talk. I have done some research on it and dug up some
information that may have led to the use of the word. The word may have
originated in a 12-Step program around 1989. It was not an Al-Anon
meeting. I have collected 15 different articles on the pros and cons of
the word. I believe in “A loving interchange between
members.” In our meetings, it is written in our opening
message and other Al-Anon Literature. I do not use the word Cross Talk.
It is not used in one of the meetings I go to.…Read
more >
MEMBER SHARE
– Cross Talk, Another Point of View:
"Cross talk" has as many definitions as there
are meetings. Like the
previous share says, AFG World Services does not recognize the term,
but rather leaves it up to group autonomy.
I know that in my meetings “cross
talk” is usually defined as giving advice or directing a
share to one person rather than the whole group.…Read
more >
MEMBER SHARE
- Visible Instruments of My Higher Power:
One of the things
I am fortunate enough
to have discovered early in the Al-Anon program is that
when circumstances in my life cause emotional upheaval, there are
benefits to sharing how I’m feeling instead of reverting to
my lifelong, habitual pattern of withdrawing. I used to contract like a
poked turtle, hiding my real self from others while experiencing
jumbled emotions. The embarrassment, shame, and fear of what people
might think of my inability to be strong and stoic caused me to quietly
retreat to my shell while figuring out how to cope with the behavior of
my qualifiers. Even after being educated to the fact that bottling up
emotions depletes me of energy, makes me irritable and unreasonable
without knowing it, and leads to serious health problems and
depression, I still slip and find myself trying to
“handle” my feelings silently.
…Read
more >
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