maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: well.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Shall we get started.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Good morning, everyone on behalf of the planning committee for the fort for area DCM sharing sessions hosted by area eight i'd like to welcome you warmly, my name is Maria de and i'm an alcoholic.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: If you would please if you're on a computer go to the bottom and there's a Globe that says interpretation, please select your language of choice, either English or Spanish if you're on a smartphone it's the three dots.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: it's very important so.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Please remember if you haven't already done so to remember to do so.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Before we get started i'd like to on behalf of the planning committee say thank you to all our guests speakers l from area nine tiffany G from area, a billy n from area.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: i'd also like to thank our translation team, Elisa and brianna are asl interpreters just Jessica and jolene and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Our tech our ITT tech person Paul.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: And a special thank you to his news oh and Cynthia F for their kind help with the program and the flyers.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: And I hope i'm, not forgetting anyone, but thank you all so very much you helped make this event possible and to carry the message so without further ado i'd like to introduce to you.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: area nines delegate l one of the warmest gentlemen i've had the pleasure to meet who will, who will.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: open up this event for us ED.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Thank you, Maria my name is Adam an alcoholic like to welcome everyone i'd like to save.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: Money on the setup example it.
Ed L. A09 delegate: says in terms of how many years in a row now the DCM for area sharing session has happened Maybe someone can share that later give us a little historical perspective, the thing I love about this is that about maybe a quarter of you, I recognize here as area nine trusted servants.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Many of our DCM probably a few GS ours, and so forth, but the thing that I love, is that this is an opportunity to mix with our adjacent areas so as each of you know we.
Ed L. A09 delegate: have representatives from area nine area five over in Los Angeles area eight San Diego and area 93.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Extending up more through the central valley so it's wonderful to have that kind of participation and like anything in alcoholics anonymous, this is an opportunity for people who will not go away.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Then hang around to teach the new people that are coming in, but general services all about.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So this is a new opportunity at a different level in alcoholics anonymous and I appreciate, one of the things that that I see over and over is the repetitive patterns that happened.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And when we come to meetings that that's how we start that's our introduction, for most of us to alcoholics anonymous then.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Some small percent of the people to go to meetings here, these two magic words general service.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And it's almost like that that Bible parable where the seeds get so and the majority of them don't turn into fruits.
Ed L. A09 delegate: But for some of us probably everybody that i'm looking at on the screen, this morning the seed gets planted in the kind of soil is fertile.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And you have people that get on fire for service and for general service usually started out as a gsr and then extending on into district, and then area, and then perhaps beyond in terms of working at the conference in New York, so the beauty of that is that we all come in here seats.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And, and the fruits our trustees you know those are those are the folks that have kind of been around for the most part the longest I mean.
Ed L. A09 delegate: There are a few exceptions, I think at the conference this year, we had a delegate who had only been in general service for about six years so that's that's very quick.
Ed L. A09 delegate: But probably he was beat up enough and and available enough that he was willing to be of service so.
Ed L. A09 delegate: We have three different sessions, that will be talking about.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Today, and I like the idea that we're all going to remain in the same room and that's intended to facilitate interpretation.
Ed L. A09 delegate: For both or Spanish speakers and also at least one def Member who's with us today, so, but I think it's an opportunity to facilitate.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Great discussions and the first topic is how do we get it any links to recover unifying Sir now I didn't recognize until about five minutes before the meeting when I was looking at this, that those were the three legacies.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And one of the things that i'm fond of saying is that it's important that they come in a certain amount of order I mean probably most of us are some of us have examples of putting a treasure.
Ed L. A09 delegate: into service too soon and shortly thereafter the money disappear so maybe it's a it's a wise thing that someone serving on the capacity as a treasure has already.
Ed L. A09 delegate: You know, had some recovery and learned a little bit about the unity and our traditions and then at some point they're available for service we put them in that responsible situation.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So the thing that happens in a group from serving coffee to be in the Secretary to be in the gsr for the group.
Ed L. A09 delegate: happens throughout alcoholics anonymous it happens at the district level that's going to be our focus today.
Ed L. A09 delegate: It happens at the area level which I don't think there's really a good way to separate the districts from the area it's kind of like the districts really are the the bones.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Of the area, you know they are the the main parts and i've seen that better than any other time during this pandemic were in area nine we have 24 districts.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Six of them are linguistic who never really got into zoom so the only physical meetings that i've done up until May of this year were.
Ed L. A09 delegate: At Hispanic districts in person, where everybody was respectful and more mass, but what I what I really noticed in visiting with a business meetings that are many districts, is the heart and soul of alcoholics anonymous in general service really is the best.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And and, like it or not, the DC DC mcs are the ones that are the conduit through which that energy flows.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And the quality of the district, I have noticed really depends a lot on the enthusiasm, the DCM the decency.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So if you're not already on fire for service at that level we're hoping that the before the days out that you'll have a glimpse as to how important how fulfilling it is to be a decent.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Next, one is going beyond fear and one of the things i've noticed general services taught me a lot of fear, but it's also taught me that if I face that fear it will go away.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So what happens to every one of us when we come into.
Ed L. A09 delegate: The our particular position, whether it be a gsr DCM or an area officer, or perhaps even a trustee which I don't have that experience is that we go in there, with a little bit of trepidation.
Ed L. A09 delegate: But I think the thing that to keep in mind is that there's a healthy fear and if you've been asked to speak at process or you've been asked to run a workshop or to be a DCM that it's healthy to have a little bit of fear, because to me what that means it's an indication that you care.
Ed L. A09 delegate: The kind of fear, I think that you want to avoid as the debilitating fear that makes you say no yeah no one ever learns anything by saying that.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And the thing about general services invariably 95% of us when we say yes, have no idea of what we've just said yes to.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And there's fairly goes along with that and it's natural that you should feel that and even at the conference.
Ed L. A09 delegate: there's a lot of the structure is intended to make sure that the new delegates at the conference are able to deal with that fear by rubbing elbows with the old timers the ones that have been there one year before.
Ed L. A09 delegate: he's he was the first person I heard that said that the you're either in your first year or your last year.
Ed L. A09 delegate: and general service in the position that you're serving so as a gsr you come in brand new and then the second year you experienced and that's true with DCM Cindy cmc so fear is one of those things, I think that if it's not if it's faced with a healthy.
Ed L. A09 delegate: and unhealthy healthy manner it actually benefits and then, finally, our third session will be how to reach anyone anywhere.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And I love the fact that alcoholics anonymous is really intended for that the conference is geared towards it.
Ed L. A09 delegate: In spite of all of the discussion that is created the reason the preamble changed from men and women to people.
Ed L. A09 delegate: is very much exactly what we're talking about here it's intended to make sure when the new person comes to alcoholics anonymous and they don't necessarily identify as a man or a woman, but do it otherwise people have.
Ed L. A09 delegate: That they will feel welcome and that there's no exclusion another here in area nine we've just recently created a remote communities standing committee.
Ed L. A09 delegate: and several of the Members that are instrumental in that committee or here, I was it was wonderful last weekend I I went to phoenix with the alternate delegate Jose of your area nine and we spent.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday talking about Lavinia and Lavinia, as you know, is the Spanish version of the grapevine were celebrated its 25th year.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Several hundred people got together, but the thing that's really cool is they shared at the end of on Sunday, when we were finishing and get ready to drive back home the 1200 and 25 new subscriptions of Lavinia.
Ed L. A09 delegate: resulted from that one three day of it, which is phenomenal what that means.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Is that each person that buys it actually came home with subscription olivia's are a result of attending but each person who gets olivia.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Who then passes it on to four or five other people is one way that we're reaching out to those folks so we have some wonderful speakers.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Today i've been to several of these, and I know that it will be very rewarding I really thank the organizers for all the obvious work that you've put into it and I hope you have a wonderful day and that your energy comes to fruition, so thank you.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you so much ED.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Our first guest speaker is from area eight tiffany G and tiffany is the current arms service committee chair.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: tiffany.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The morning i'm to phenomena uncle holic.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Chair of the armed Services Committee area, a thank you for the invitation to speak here, thank you for that great lead.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Thank you for the talk on healthy fear, because a we definitely can get hung up on I shouldn't be afraid that we are all afraid.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: As I sit here vibrating with my own nerves, which is the way I get before I speak anytime.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Being a recovering alcoholic is my greatest asset today and I work on that and i'm grateful for all of the service commitments that I have that have helped me stay connected to a as a whole.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: During the last year and a half, which has been trying for all of us in some way, shape or form, I didn't mean to become the chair of a committee.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: This found me, I have to have an opportunity to go live with our military overseas, and I was attached to the marine corps through a civilian family member.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And that was prior to moving to area eight San Diego so recently I was attached to the marine corps i'm presently attached to the navy.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: When I was overseas, I just wanted to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic on base, and I use the resources available through alcoholics anonymous to try to carry the message directly to the Member in uniform.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: When I moved to San Diego two and a half years ago, I thought I would just do the same thing, I thought I would just carry the message to the alcoholic I would get on base and go talk at safety briefings and it would just be easy it was not easy, it was challenging I have.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: met every form of adversity, there is and trying to carry the message the still suffering alcohol.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: In uniform, I would say that is the short version of our mission statement and committee goals you can't carry the message if you can't get on base So how do you get on base, have you talked to a command.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: How do you get into a command if you just roll in as a civilian they tried to talk to him about alcoholics anonymous they'll think you're crazy and give you an escort right back off the base and you'll be disbarred.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: anyways i'm just so grateful for the people that have joined me, I was told to not mentioned that we started meeting at my kitchen table, but that's really how it is.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: When I got to San Diego I wanted to just connect people that were crowded service commitment as the military liaison and they would contact me.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And then want me to carry a message to another military liaison, and so I just invited those people with those service commitments to my home.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And we just started talking and then one that seemed like they might be a good fit got an invitation.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And we went I went to the area committee meeting made it presentation and soon after we became an ad hoc committee.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Not too long after that, with a tremendous support we're actually voted in as an ad hoc committee with a 100% vote not one person was opposed, which is tremendous if you have spent time in the voting process.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: I can't say it was as simple when we got to our first assembly, but we did pass as an area standing committee with about an 80% approval rating, which again for a is pretty darn fantastic.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: today.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The committee has, thankfully, for us, we were voted in as a standing committee early on and co bid, and so we had Kobe time and donations by.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: districts, to have money to spend and so Thankfully we built structure and got to work and had each other to hang on to through most of this last year and a half.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: One of the things we created during this time our public service announcements, this is one that we created specifically for camp pendleton and on here you're want to your central offices is probably listed on here we have.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: macula valley central office orange county central office, the San Diego central office and central North county camp pendleton touches three areas and is the border for San Diego county on the backside we put the qr code for the meeting died out.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: So you can see that, and then I always say the heart of San Diego is navy, and so we created, one that is for the navy.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And it has just San Diego in North county San Diego.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Go So hopefully like you have a PA committee or CPC that creates PSA.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: We created those and then it was here's the business card size, I want to show you guys this.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: We have active duty service Members on the Committee and due to anonymity concerns, it was decided that we make this small size.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: So that service Members can put it in their pocket or in their wallet and just slip it away without anybody noticing that they picked it up.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And I have had the great opportunity to see service members pick up this card and turn it over and write phone numbers on the back and slip it into their wallet and i've watched him pull it back out of their pocket to add a phone number to it, so this is pretty bryant.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: My heart is devoted to our service Members and to alcoholics anonymous, of course, and at this time I would love to answer any questions that you might have about our committee.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: don't all talk at once, where are the hands.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: and
Ed L. A09 delegate: To say real quickly i've got a spot see over in Arizona, who is really excited about helping the military, and particularly those Members who have issues with suicide.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And if there are any resources that you know of, or contact people or if you're willing to share your contact information so that I can give that to him i'd appreciate it.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And said i'll put.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: My information in the chat if you go to the area eight website, there is, we have an armed Services Committee page.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And if you find the armed services standing committee page there's an email link that will come straight to me, our committee does have communications liaison position to help with.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Handling communications, we have been interviewed for box four or five nine and that should be coming out sometime in 2021 So hopefully we can see that and be prepared to handle.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Information requests from across the country we have recently been contacted by Georgia, which is area.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: They have attended our committee meeting we have attended they're very committee meeting and are helping just a little bit with the building of their own armed services are armed forces committee, which will be a subcommittee for them, I see on my screen blaine.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Panda.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: blade alcoholic tiffany Have you had any luck, establishing new a meetings on military basis.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Oh, what a great question, yes, is the short answer and damn it's hard um anytime we start a new meeting anywhere, whether it's on base or off base, you know it's always that standard thing you know, showing up, can you know consistently we have.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: facilitated a new meeting aboard camp pendleton this came from my commanding officer their request to have an alcoholics anonymous meeting.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: This is really huge when the when the request comes from an active duty service Member it carries a lot more weight than it does, if it comes from a civilian aboard the installation and this is kind of internal language that I might lose some of you, if I talk in this language.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: But we have in our currently facility that facilitating that meeting board camp pendleton there are currently five meetings of word camp pendleton.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The other four to take no credit, for they have been there for years and years we do just help support them, which is a common request Can you help support the meeting that's on base.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: we've started a new meeting on SS miramar which is marine corps and started a new meeting aboard naval base San Diego So yes, we will build for community.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Where i'm providing information for meeting on base, I see Alex he.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: got a couple more we got matt Norman bill to.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Go going in order.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you yeah it just and and, as a follow up since it seems like this was a rather daunting process to to penetrate the military.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Court on that they place around there.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Have you found that it's easier to reach and work through the va and through.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: through existing.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Recovery programs within the military.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Or, I mean how how, how do what what tools would you recommend a specific specifically to reach out to the active service personnel do do work with people who are already in the military to.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Does that seem to facilitate hi I haven't my Internet connection is poor i'm Alex I didn't hear all of that, but i'll say an area eight, we have a hospital and institutions committee.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And so the va is under it's a hospital, and so we work hard to not step on the toes of other committees within the area and.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: So I would say, if you have an age night committee.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: That would fall under their purview and so an area eight because we have such a tremendous H, and I committee we don't go into the va, but there are meetings there.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: If they reached out to us, we were probably connect them to H, and I.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: And I don't know if that answered your question feel free to ask me a follow up question.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: matt and.
area 93.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: it's matt alcoholic tiffany Thank you very much for your for your service work.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I was just curious I heard a lot of like like active service.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Is there like do you guys work a lot with like veterans like like I guess the previous question would be like through the va but is there any other outreach that you guys are doing for for veterans or is it more specifically targeted to active service.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: I would say the committee itself is built almost entirely veterans and one thing that I learned in my experiences who better to carry the message is still suffering alcoholic in uniform than the veteran they know how to navigate a military installation.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: better than anyone they've lived it breathed it drink it, you know done all that So for me for us it's not veteran focused, I would say we're more veteran built, even though I happen to be a civilian almost everyone else on the committee has prior service so.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: I don't know it's in our mission statement to carry the message to veterans that will probably edit that sometime in the future.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Because it's i've seen some the miracle happened when there is a veteran sitting with someone in uniform and they talk, I see a healing happen from prior service that maybe can only have been between a veteran and an active duty service Member I don't know i'm just here.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Normal norm so area 93.
Norm S A93 Chair: Sure i'm tiffany, thank you for what you're doing I think it's just really wonderful that um.
Norm S A93 Chair: You know that, in an area with these active military bases that we have an armed Services Committee it's so fitting and so appropriate, my question is that I guess, especially in the navy the marines.
Norm S A93 Chair: The service Members get deployed all over the place, for months, at a time.
Norm S A93 Chair: And then, they also get transition from base to base to base So how do we maintain continuity for them now, I know that certainly.
Norm S A93 Chair: If they want it bad enough they'll they'll they'll go to any lengths, but what is done to facilitate the continuity, so that those who do want it, are able to get it.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The short answer, that is, we don't.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: The long answer is, we need to do better.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: You know, in a we rotate after two years in the military is standard to rotate after two or three years, and so we've had to committee members.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: That have rotated they've gone on to their next duty station and they're gone and as much as I want to follow up with them, and I do as the committee chair email them call them text them love.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: them from afar, keep them on the agenda.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: they're gone That being said, we are devoted to the grapevine and we give out as many grapevine subscriptions as we can it's imperative that they have a great fine to put in their bag when they roll.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: So if they're going to their next duty station if they're going to see if they're being deployed.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Nothing there's nothing better than a big book than having a stack of grapevines or a subscription to the grapevine and so we're devoted to giving out subscriptions to the grapevine and we'll keep visiting this issue, I saw the timer come on.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: I don't know how much time we have left, but I see is there, time to take another question merida.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I actually know.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: me so Would you be so kind as to put your information in the chat so anyone and everyone could reach out to you with their questions, would you be able to do that.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Yes, ma'am.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I will be happy to do that, and thank you so much that was incredible.
Tiffany G/Armed Services Chair A8: Thank you tiffany Thank you everyone.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: paul's got the hands going.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Okay.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Our next speaker, it is my distinct pleasure to introduce you 2 billion from area billy was panel 49 past delegate of that area and he was one of our past class be general service trustees billy welcome so much, and thank you for your service, I give you billion.
Billy N: But thanks billy i'm an alcoholic.
Billy N: Have a bad connection so i'm gonna keep my video off, but i'm just looking for your reaction that you can hear me clearly.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Yes.
Billy N: Excellent okay.
Billy N: i'm glad to hear that So yes, it is right, it is January 20 1991 group St.
Billy N: alpharetta unity group.
Billy N: And I have been a panel service trustee and aws director.
Billy N: I now say in kindergarten I was a panel 49.
Billy N: delegate.
Billy N: Which is 1999 I chaired the public information committee of the conference this year.
Billy N: And I want to thank the committee for asking me to be here.
Billy N: I would have given up my time to let the last person keep going because.
Billy N: I personally sponsor disabled veteran.
Billy N: retired US army actually lost his left leg can Afghanistan and i'm very connected to the military and veteran population.
Billy N: I just, I guess, I only have a couple of minutes, so I want to talk about a couple of things quickly.
Billy N: Number one agent for change that if I sometimes feel that in personal recovery, we say.
Billy N: change or die.
Billy N: A service we send the message that if you want to come up a new idea will kill you that drives me crazy.
Billy N: that drives me absolutely insane.
Billy N: Because while our messages fine.
Billy N: coming up with new ways to carry it.
Billy N: should be our number one priority and, for me, looking at the world of a, and this is just based on my experience i'm sure other people have different experiences and that's fine.
Billy N: But from my experience.
Billy N: As failed the service structure in two specific areas, the first is technology.
Billy N: For the last 20 years up until we got kicked in the ass by coven we have pushed back every single step of the way.
Billy N: At harnessing the great power of technology and I don't need to quote bill w, but you can look up and just search the word communication inside as bill sees it for language of the heart.
Billy N: And you will see what bill w said that nothing is more important than us Han harnessing the vast colossal of communication.
Billy N: And unfortunately between like eight years 1997 and up until about a year and a half ago.
Billy N: While we did certain things we were always 1520 years behind the rest of the world.
Billy N: The other thing is the military I applaud this area for having a standing committee or an ad hoc committee or whatever it is for the military, I mean.
Billy N: thinking that what we did 20 years ago is going to work today is not a good business plan and concept six as we chose the corporate model.
Billy N: And so, if you work in the corporate model, you should have a business plan and a strategic vision and just saying we're not going to change because we've never had a military committee before.
Billy N: That things like that drive me crazy, so my number one message here today is to tell anyone is new in service.
Billy N: don't listen to the big lie, and when I say the big lie.
Billy N: The big lie in a service is this.
Billy N: Those of us who are trusted servants go everywhere and we tell people, we need to We need your help, we need you to show up, we need more GS ours, we need we need we need.
Billy N: But then you come to your first assembly or district meeting and you commit a class a felony which is you brought a new idea and we weren't asking for new ideas we were just asking for help.
Billy N: And I want to tell you that if you have a new idea shout it from the rooftop if you have a new idea find a way in your area to get it on the floor to get emotion made out of it if you have a new idea don't give up on it, because I want to tell you this.
Billy N: God has a mysterious way of working in a service, and I say that with full respect for anyone who might not believe in God, because I didn't believe in God for a long time either.
Billy N: But my experience in a service is that about 10 years after you rotate out of a position.
Billy N: You will see, or read or something.
Billy N: That your idea finally came to fruition.
Billy N: But your name is not attached to it, and everyone forgot, it was your idea and I think in a that as it should be.
Billy N: Personal credit is not good for the DNA of real alcoholics.
Billy N: I also want to talk about things we shouldn't change.
Billy N: If you, I would just encourage anyone in service to not take what I say, for granted and to talk to people.
Billy N: Talk to that person when I do, that what I find out.
Billy N: Is that we've taken a lot of empowerment away from our districts, the district, and the DCM used to be the number one boots on the ground, serving the local population.
Billy N: made up of the groups that make up that local area, so they know what the best.
Billy N: And it seems over the last 30 years area assemblies and area committees have elected more and more positions so that.
Billy N: Sometimes area officers and district officers out number DCM GS ours and and and I want to encourage that nobody knows that local community better better than the district, and at the end of the day, if you believe in the upside down triangle.
Billy N: it's none of the areas business what a district is up to district forms a committee in the area doesn't like it too bad really.
Billy N: The area reports to the district.
Billy N: The district reports to the groups, and I see a resurgence during coven of districts taking more and more responsibility and that really makes me super happy and thank you for having me here today thanks.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: ellie Thank you so very much.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: good to have you here okay everybody if you've just joined us please if you're on the computer go to the bottom of your screen to the globe.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: To translation and remember to select your language of preference English or Spanish and if you're on your smartphone it's under the three dots we will now begin breakout session number one.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Our translation team is Elisa and brianna our asl interpreters are Jessica and jolene and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Our moderator is manga w.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: So amanda, would you please introduce the first theme for today.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: hello, my name is Monica an alcoholic and i'm super grateful to be a part of this for area DCM sharing session, thank you, America and I do want to ask if you would like you want me to share my screen, or because I can do that with the questions.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: I capability, I believe, so I will go ahead and share my screen if you guys don't mind.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Everybody can see my screen and everybody can hear me okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Alright, so.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: Please excellent dairy Thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: how's that.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay alright, so the our first our first session that we are talking about is how do as go to any lengths to recover unify and serve so just as ED mentioned earlier, these are.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: are three main legacies of service so supporting your district gsr is and meeting, so how we're going to do this as we're going to ask the question.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And as Michael mentioned, if you want Spanish interpretation, please go to the bottom of your screen.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And you can pick either English or Spanish you can also if you have a mobile device click the three dots and move on from there, so the first question.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And we'll just I asked the question, and anybody is open to answering the question and then I will go ahead and just call on people in that way.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: and hopefully that works, and if it doesn't then we'll do a different thing okay first question, the world is changing, what do we need to change question in person online.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And i'm gonna go ahead and i'm going to open it up.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Try to figure out participants here and.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Show, though.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: He also show live in Spanish.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Yes, give me give me one second i'm so sorry.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Give me one second Okay, I have the final questions in English, should I just stopped my share and have somebody do the Spanish ones.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Are interpreter is actually site translating the questions into Spanish right now okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: resume I share.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, and.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: So right now i'm only monitoring the participants window, so if anybody has anything that they would like to talk about please raise your blue virtual hand and I can call on you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: All right, susie P DCM area five district 14.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Hello everyone thanks for letting me share to the first question about when we get to my questions.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: about what can we do, can you can you read the first question to make is now I can't see it anymore on the screen.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Yes, ma'am it's right here okay oh i'm sorry about that questions.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: All right, the first question is the world is changing, what do we need to change in person online.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Okay, what I wanted to say is you know now that the Los Angeles county has opened up more and so that now, people are going back into live meetings.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: we've had some real challenges with whether we should continue doing the zoom meetings as well, and making it into hybrid meetings and there have actually been.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: A lot of controversy and like one of the things that we have a meeting that's been going since 1946 and one of the things that happened at that meeting, we have a lot of.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: We have some old timers that are out of the area now that's their only way to participate and things like that, and at a business meeting with the.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: With the vote you know they were voting that those people could be on they couldn't speak and they couldn't and the only people that could celebrate their birthdays were people that could actually be there in person and so.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: You know my alternate delegate, who is also my service sponsor and I we we talked about, we went back and he he spoke and we were able to get another vote and have another meeting.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: To where we could change that so that everybody could be available and, last night I went back to one of my favorite meetings.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And we also voted to have that hybrid and I just wondered if anybody else was having difficulties with that i'm part of this our CPC group as well, and we just.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: had a talk from people that were from San Diego saying that there they really have a lot of the hybrids going on and it's going really well and I think like what billy was saying that's one of the best ways to reach more people, so thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you susie and just as a reminder, thank you guys so much since you're doing great on time and romy will be posting.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: You can share and then she'll post up how much time you have left so about a minute, so thank you so much alright, so we have some more people in our participants window I have map H from area 93.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Yes, good good morning everybody, my name is matt i'm an alcoholic I am the DCM for district one and area 93 and one thing that i'm noticing in our in our district and and in our areas is it relates to technology.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: is having a central repository for all of this information, information on you know events in the area, or in the district.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know, having meeting meeting minutes having agendas just having a like we I really think in in our area we need to have a central repository of all this information because right now, if I don't have somebody email I don't know how to get this information to them.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: If if we had a website or a you know something like that, where we can have all this information I can just say you know oh yeah go to this website.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And all the information that you need to attend this specific event or you know any information that that you might need is going to be here.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: When we were in person, it was you know we just print out all these flyers we'd print out all these documents and we'd have these physical things.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: There, but but it's it's been a lot harder with this trans transition to to hybrid you know online is it's difficult to get the information out if I don't have your email.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And that's that's just what i've noticed lately, so I think I don't know if the other areas and the other districts have have a simulate have a similar experience but that's what I can see, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: awesome Thank you matt all right um so we have a couple more for this for this topic Stephen K.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And then shar am and then we'll move on to the next.
Stephen K. A93 D11 DCM: question, what is the UK i'm an alcoholic serving as DCM for district 11 and area 93 just.
Stephen K. A93 D11 DCM: To piggyback on what matt said we're hoping that the newly revised and updated website for area 93 which is being constructed right now.
Stephen K. A93 D11 DCM: will be able to we're going to have areas on a website specific to the individual districts and we're hoping that.
Stephen K. A93 D11 DCM: Most of the information about events and other important goings on will be available there and the newly revised website will be a lot more functional and effective so we're hoping that's going to help a lot, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, thank you, Stephen all right i'm sure I am.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: Okay hi char alcoholic and a DC MC for district seven area nine.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: The question about the hybrid meetings of the my three regular meetings, one is still completely zoom and no changes are in the offing on it at this point.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: The other two meetings that I go to which is a woman's meeting on Friday morning and my book study, which is going to occur at 1030.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: are both hybrid and the thing, I think that makes it work is that they are smaller meetings okay i'm the one doing the zoom and connecting with the other person on zoom and, with it being a smaller meeting.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: It makes it easier for me to be able to do it i'm not quite sure I could do a big big meeting but um, but I do, I think it is so important, once I do believe, the best thing coming out of zoom is being able to reach people.
Char M DCMC Distrist 7: Have people at our meeting okay that are in different areas, and it is so important, so I mean I am i'm willing to continue doing that, as long as we need to, and that is, you know, a part of the way that I can be of service, but that thanks for letting me chair.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Right good Thank you so much, and I know we have a few more hands raised but we're going to go ahead and move on to the next question.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: So hopefully the people raising their hands, would like to answer that one so i'm going to go ahead and highlight that one, and the next question is how do we help the gsr be more effective training service sponsorship.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: and get some people to answer some of those questions all right Esther eight alternate DCM of district 18 and area eight sorry.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: OK, I can hear Esther i'm I believe that.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: esther's just changing from Spanish to English certainly.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: On it Okay, thank you, I appreciate that okay so just one more reminder.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: brianna just mentioned it in the chat, but please make sure that if you need to.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: If you need to submit your translation, you would just either click the dot dot dot sign on the bottom or there's also a translation there's a little there's a little Globe on the bottom of your screen.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Alright, so the second question is how do we help the gsr be more effective.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Does anybody have anything to share, about this one is, and I still have esther's hand up some lower the hand.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, so um.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Can I interrupt just for one.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: yeah I.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: want to share with us we're having a little trouble with the translation so Paul do you do you know what's going on there with the translation we'd love to hear from Mr.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: know I know.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: alicia right now set up the driveway so she um no, I think I guess I turn it off.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Okay briana is also a translator and she's the one putting stuff in the chat so.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Let me, let me see if I can.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: see what happens here i'm gonna sure.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Okay.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Can everybody hear me.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Yes, Okay, instead, can you first competitor.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: To me, no.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: soy El tema i'm 70 feet of a certain area to.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: My name is Esther i'm an alcoholic and the alternate DCM for district 18 and area eight.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: let's try the state this panel apologize to that Center so samples a cameo.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Our Spanish speaking district, has been able to help itself during these changing times.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: A radical service is he a scandalous.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: fantasy that the potential.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Speak by speaking with the gsr isn't making it known to them, helping them realize how important it is to work through zoom.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: And then the street oprah Hamas goodness St Thomas hello, Sarah.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: In the district we worked with them to help them see what is it that they needed to do to reach out to the other gsr that weren't a part of the district.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: say so we're not going to building Catholic.
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Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We actually installed Internet and also we bought a laptop.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: It for their most of their last boot as a in in persona for you totally can be.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We can have meetings in person and also online.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: stomach acid the stock available by ghosts exist that are i'm almost as if the locomotive our.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We have made this change for everyone in the district, and now they're starting to feel comfortable with it.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: that are more school after school do those lesser sadness that.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: We had.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We study that concepts, we have like special study meetings of the concepts twice a month.
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Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: we're going to have a sponsorship workshop.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: The thread throughout the protagonist cadmus necessity as severe as a sub assembly tempo our service orders malaria practical visit them on the street.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We keep asking them what else would they like to to know and we keep inviting area officers to come to a district, so they can also share their experience with us.
Esther A8| AltdcmD18: But most special part of our most common and grasses.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: we're going we're walking slowly but we're still walking ahead, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Sir Thank you so much for sharing such amazing appreciate that all right, I do have Jerry delegate of area, a 70.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: I Jerry alcoholic glad to be here thanks for everybody shares some participation, I really appreciate the question.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: A couple years ago, is the product of a really thorough area inventory, we tried to tackle this question and one of the ways that we were able to respond was through the development of gsr school which proceeds all of our five assemblies throughout the year, so we created.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: Five learning modules that somewhat complemented the activities and experiences that gsr would have later that day at assembly.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: In a really fun collaborative sharing experience that introduced some of the.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: More instrumental pamphlets that support us as we walk in general service and other tools, one of those learning modules was utilizing technology in a, and this is pre pandemic.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: So I really look forward to seeing how that learning module evolves as we move forward, I know that the pandemic did kind of.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: forced us to set aside some of the traditional procedures so that we can have more of a sharing session during those experiences, and I think that was vital to helping all of us kind of.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: Whether the waters that dependent and put in our way, but now that technology is kind of.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: You know, taken over to new and innovative way looking forward to seeing how those modules change and we continue to use that space before assemblies to keep our GIs thousand form.
Jerry | Delegate A8P70: And then also to put a lot of that information that's supports those experiences on our area website so Those are some of the ways that I know, an area we're trying to tackle that very challenging question.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Excellent Thank you Jerry alright Claude of area five.
Claude Area 05: hey guys clinical holic from area five.
Claude Area 05: yeah for the question to be more effective to help the gsr.
Claude Area 05: In my opinion, it's just to share, about my previous service central service at the meeting level.
Claude Area 05: Because I know, like most meetings don't even know it exists, along with other services to like central office mentioned, I know stuff so.
Claude Area 05: Just sharing my previous experience as being a service and letting the meeting know that there is other opportunities to be a service, besides group commitments.
Claude Area 05: And kind of help support like yeah there is general service and it's a fun experience kind of its kind of helps public gsr at the meeting has a gsr so thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you so much, Claude all right we're gonna go ahead and go to our area nine delegate add, and I think if we want one more question or one more response after that then we'll move on to the third question.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Go ahead and alcoholic and Jerry also, I think, was author of the glide APP that is really made it around to a lot of different areas and hearing area nine and probably some of the other areas too there's a glide APP for gsr.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And perhaps Mitchell remind your somebody can share that but it's a wonderful.
Ed L. A09 delegate: introduction and in resource for gsr is it has the gsr work kits and various other things in there, the gsr preamble things like that so.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Again I think Jerry and and area eight develop that area nine Alex w and others are really taking it on and kind of.
Ed L. A09 delegate: moved it forward so that's a wonderful thing and and then also a similar APP has been created for DC ups, so I know mine, you can also share information on that Thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you add yes i'm happy to share a link to our DCM collide APP that was created by our DCM school very good night thanks to area eight for helping out with that, and then we also have one for gsr, so I will post, the link momentarily, thank you for mentioning that.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Ammonia you're muted.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: muted ah.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: I was talking about a time to Dan.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: We just halfway through.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay weird okay that's okay not important yeah i'll post the links in the chat for those for those glide Apps that we have for area dine and.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: So any other thoughts on this question before we move on to the next one.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: OK, so the third question you don't want to see all that give me one minute.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: See sorry I have it up here.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, let me the third question, we have and i'm gonna go ahead and just post it in the chat again, but I will also share the screen, so you guys all have it.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: One second.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, how do you make service more attractive, do you invite speakers to your district, do you do fine informational events or informative events, and I have matt w of area five district for DCM who would like to share.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: Hello good morning everybody, my name is matt wam alcoholic and I want to thank everybody for their participation.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: My, I guess, my response to this kind of encompasses all three of the questions in one as a new gsr.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: I brought a idea to our DCM at the time and we created a general service open house and we hold held it at our local alumni club and, in that we had our past delegate Tom and sales come out and speak.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: We had a few past DC ends and also general service representatives give their experience with general service.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: We we provided lunch, we did a raffle which was really fun and help also raise money for our district that then went to world services and, at the time, I believe the book are great responsibility.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: By bill w had came out so we were able to collect our funds and purchase a few of those books, along with a couple of other things, and had those.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: As raffle prizes which got a lot of people really excited we had the archives committee come out.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: And it was just really a fun event to invite everybody into the general service world who may not be familiar with it, I believe in like a fun and exciting way and.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: Now, as new DCM of my area we are currently brainstorming a service workshop, and so I will be reaching out to the other districts in our area, and I think that is one of the things that we can do is collectively work with other districts in the area, so that way, we can have a combined.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: brainstorming session and information, you know we can pick and choose what we think will work as a collective conscious and I think it just brings a lot of interaction, a lot of Community and then.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: In turn, turns around and brings a lot of fun and excitement and we get the word out and we we kind of like.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: create this buzz around the event that's coming up, and a lot of people start actual questions and they get really, really excited and that's been.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: My experience with a few things that we can do to make general service look more attractive, especially to the newer generation a newcomers and alcoholics anonymous who will then.
Matt W A5 D4 DCM: be our future gsr is DCM and trust the so that is what I have on that question and I apologize for the noise i'm at work guys, but you guys are doing a fantastic job and thank you guys so much.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: No worries man Thank you so much for your for your help and for your question responses Okay, I think I have let's see roseanne of area nine district eight team.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: morning everybody, my name is roxanne i'm an alcoholic.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Good question you know I think it's hard sometimes to make something fun, because my idea of fun at a general service event may not be somebody else's idea of fun.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: So I tried to do as many different things, and our board tries to get creative and so what we've done is, we have our tradition and concept study.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Before the business meeting and what i've done is i've tried to get people from out of the area, out of state out of the country, trying to get people from different areas, so that our district can get an idea of how other areas do things you know so.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: i've been lucky enough to meet a ton of people over the course of you know my sobriety and general service so i've invited past delegates past trustees.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Current delegates area eight area nine area everything you know area five I had some folks come down and do both the tradition and the concepts and that to me gives people an idea of.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Just the expanse of alcoholics anonymous and and other people's.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Service experience, and I think hearing somebody else's ideas, always been, for me, I see that thanks for me and the other things that we do is.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: We do have a service sponsorship announcement, we make sure that everybody knows that the Board is there and available to them, always and the other thing that we do too is our training we have our.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: gsr school right beforehand, and we have a someone who has experienced being a gsr that goes ahead and helps people, so you know we try and do workshops and whatnot.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: been a little bit difficult this year, but you know we're hoping that we'll get one more in person meeting and hopefully have like a Christmas party or something Anyway, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: awesome Thank you so much roseanne appreciate that all right, we have susie.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: P of area five DCM of district 14.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Is the Peters here again Okay, so it was saying, like what do we do what events and things that we have.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And so, in district 14 we have two events, a year, we have a spring event and then a fall event and one of the events we had earlier in the year to do with coven was we had Thomas be our former delegate come and talk about how the traditions affect the decisions we make.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And it was extremely interesting another thing we've done is we've had an event and we've done plays, we have a lot of want to be actors in our area and so we've.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: we've done the play on with the man in the bed, where I got to play sister ignatius and you know dress up like a nun and.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Then we have done a traditions play with the be leading deacons and rule 62 and really ham it up and that's a lot of fun and then recently at our spring event, this year we had.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: la central office they came and they gave this wonderful talk about how a first started in Los Angeles, and then we have a list of trivia questions, and you know, we asked the question, people get to respond in the chat and then.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: You know we're like ding ding ding are, and then we send out prizes and one of the things that I try to do, whenever we have anything and i'm going to have to.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: You know, announcing event I practice being really, really excited in the mirror and laughing about everything, to try to engender enthusiasm for events so and we had these on zoom both of these things that i've been discussing, not the place, but the ones to share so that's what we do.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: pull so much service Thank you so much susie okay at David w will be our last responded to this question and we'll move on to the fourth question DC and see a very fine.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: My name is David w i'm an alcoholic I have the privilege and the pleasure of serving as the DC MC for West side combined district of area five.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: number years ago, some people got involved, you know general service should be fun let's have let's have let's have a Barbecue and speakers and booze informational moves and so he started doing that, at the.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: veterans park in culver city now i'm i'm old school general service should be rewarding but not necessarily fun, but I was kind of out voted.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: So, right now, we have going forward, we have the Nada guam lot service festival, we did not have last year because of coven we are still looking to do that.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: At the culver city park but we're you know it's it's really kind of up in the year because of the changing situations.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: It ultimately if we do nothing else will have it on zoom or some kind of a park.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: But the idea is to get gather have information on booze all the trappings Barbecue and everything free food people show up and get involved and there's informational booze about what the various.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: Service committees do and things of this nature, so it's a fantastic event and we've always thought it's been a great event, a way of.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: Keeping people informed about general service hopefully get their interest spark and moving in that direction i'll conclude by saying that my name is David i'm an alcoholic I will be back, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Very good Thank you so much, David.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Really really appreciate it, I know I heard informational booze and I was like that's that's a new thing but.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: Please or is a booth.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: As.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: far as our last question of the day for this first session okay so i'm going to just go ahead and posted in the chat you guys have a link to the program as well, so you can have all these questions at your.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: disposal that Paul just posted Thank you so much okay so really quickly the last question for this panel and how can we as DCM better foster participation from our district members, so that no voice is left unheard.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Do I have anybody would like to share on this last question.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: Could you repeat the question, one more time.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Sure thing, the question is posted in the chat, how can we as DC ends better foster participation from our district members, so that no voice is left unheard.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Bobby has her hand up.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you, sorry I missed that I have Bobby and then I have roseanne so go ahead Bobby t of district 45 alternative.
Bobbi T- Alt DCM Dist 45: hi, so I think that this may have helped some of the district meetings district Member meetings that we have within our.
Bobbi T- Alt DCM Dist 45: was like combined districts, which was to provide the DC ends with a suggested agenda for our breakout meetings into districts, which are really just a lot of questions for the members and it's everything from icebreaker questions to what's happening in your meeting two questions about.
Bobbi T- Alt DCM Dist 45: Initiatives that we're proposing for workshops and everything else i'm hopeful that this has led to DCM asking individual Members in a sort of circle format to participate by answering the questions thanks.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you so much appreciate that all right roseanne.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: roseanne again alcoholic just real quick in our district meeting we recently instituted a gsr moment, so to speak, and what we do is whenever we have a new gsr.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: We have them answer three questions How long have you been a gsr how did you get to be a gsr and you know why, why are you a gsr because sometimes they get volland told.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Some volunteer on their own and some just kind of take the position because nobody else will.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: So we have them introduce themselves and tell us a little bit about their meeting, and then we asked, do you have any questions Is there something going on in your district that you need help with.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: So that every every meeting now, excuse me, every district meeting they have an opportunity to say hey yeah this is going on, you know that's going on, I don't know what to do.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Thanks.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Excellent Thank you so much all right, we have Sean see area five the cmc.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: My name is Sean Craig and i'm an alcoholic.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: That you know when I got into general service, it was because I need somebody in general service it wasn't because I was curious about general service.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: My first meeting was in 1996 October the 19th and I didn't get into general services a couple years ago and it was primarily because.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: One I barely knew it existed and to I had no desire had no idea that the traditions and the concepts were connected to the steps.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: In other words, I just didn't know about it, and so I had no idea, the importance of it no curiosity about it, so, in other words, there was no communication to me in all the years i've been coming to a there was no communication and so.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: That kind of falls directly on on us to to not only just carry the message, but to.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: Let people know what that is what exactly general service is and why is it, why it is important to their group or to their meeting because they just don't know.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: They might get a pamphlet once in a while a gsr report which mumbles for about 60 seconds and then that's it so they there's no inclusion and so that needs to change a lot, and it can happen through the secretary's to the gsr to the DCM.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: By more participation, I included I gotta go to more meetings in my district, I have to be more accountable and a half to.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: provide the information that was given to me, including the service manuals and in spending time with the gsr.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: And going over key little components of the service manual even if it's one little bit of information and so.
Sean C. A05/DCM6/P71: that's that's all I have to say about it, and this came to me, not only for my service sponsor Thomas cells, when my district committee Member chair David w and the people that they came before me, so I thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you so much alright so we're going to go, we have a couple more people, and then I think the session will be over, so I have Brian P, and then norm s P verified Secretary Thank you.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: Thank you.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: hi everybody, my name is Brian them an alcoholic and i'm a former DCM for district three and area.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: And you know, there was something though that was pretty fun that we had going for a little while where.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: We would vote as a district on two meetings of the month to go visit the next month we kind of were inspired by some of the Spanish speaking districts that went around and visited their meetings.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: But we would choose one meeting that was unrepresentative to kind of just do some outreach and let them know that we're there.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: But the other meeting, we would choose would be one of the meetings that a gsr was representing so that we so we would end up going to each other's meetings, and that was.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: A good way to you know kind of just get to know each other and visit each other's meetings you know get to know like you know.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: Just just what what are a life was like and now yeah I think that was that was really cool you know, and you know we tend to choose meetings that were newer gsr because you know people that have been around already we already visited their meeting.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: And yeah that that was that was pretty cool and you know that being said, I think, in my experience, the people that really followed us into service and ended up sticking around where.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: we're district members that really you know that we made a real friendships with that it wasn't just strictly business.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: And so I think you know just kind of getting to know each other and forming real relationships it's a great way to pass it over to submission thanks.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Okay, thank you, Brian and then we have norm so area 93 the Chair.
Norm S A93 Chair: Thank you, man yeah i'm norm alcoholic again, and let me just say what brought me into general service I got into general service, when I was about two years sober about 10 years ago.
Norm S A93 Chair: And what brought me in was at some of these meetings, after the meeting I was at a restaurant with a guy who had been a gsr for four years, and he was 15 1617 years sober at the time, a mentor of mine, when I was new.
Norm S A93 Chair: And we're sitting out in the parking lot of the summer night after.
Norm S A93 Chair: Our meal and he said, have you ever thought about being a gsr and then he dangled the bait says if you're a gsr and you do your full term.
Norm S A93 Chair: You have a 98% chance of remaining sober for the duration I don't know what that number is accurate or not, but it certainly appealed to me, I took the bait I came a gsr when I was about two years sober and.
Norm S A93 Chair: Then general services drew me in.
Norm S A93 Chair: There was no special promotion he had to be done for that when I went to my first process was like wow this whole word there's a whole new world so at least ask my story about what brought me and thanks.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: All right, fantastic Thank you so much, so do we have any other.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Any other young go ahead and open it up to any questions or any other thoughts on any of these questions of this first session so a little bit of time.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: And then also or any Spanish speakers who would like to share.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Oh sorry looks like we still have a couple people okay all right and L or delegate of area nine and then GDP of area.
Ed L. A09 delegate: 5am I know you know I can honestly confess that i'm guilty when i'm in a meeting of prefacing anything that I say about general services general services and outside issue.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And if you want to see people's eyes glaze over start talking about general service.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And I think probably in doing that I probably do a disservice and our meetings, but the you know and we're just a small drop in the bucket right, but I think the cool thing is that those of us who are in general service.
Ed L. A09 delegate: should take the opportunity during a means just to tell people how much fun, it is and that it's like it's it's it's like a new.
Ed L. A09 delegate: spiritual gem, if you will, I mean you exercise a certain spirituality at the group level, but when you get in general service you kind of stretch the borders of that and there's a whole other gem just waiting there to exercise things like love and tolerance.
Ed L. A09 delegate: and inclusion and a whole new idea of what rotation means keep everything fresh, so I think there's a great opportunity for us to go into our groups and and and sneakily.
Ed L. A09 delegate: enter in the topic of general service and how much fun, it has been for us, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Thank you so much, add right Claudia area five.
Claude Area 05: hey guys clinical holic I know I helped me get more into general service is like a officers.
Claude Area 05: asking for help, just as just a gsr at the time and an officer from the area asked me to help out with something with zoom and stuff and.
Claude Area 05: And, and now i'm on the website committee and it's just i'm loving it and it's been really interesting so just add bisping asking Jesus ours for help, I guess you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: could call right Jenny P of area five.
Jenny P. A05: hi i'm Jenny and I am an alcoholic and i'm the past DCM for area five district 13 and in the service manual which I am unfortunately or fortunately keep by my bedside because I am a service sponsor and.
Jenny P. A05: As DCM in the service manual part of our duties, is what I to encourage people to to join in service and to stay in service and I called it, the DCM roadshow.
Jenny P. A05: That I would go to different districts are different meetings or different groups rather different groups differentiating between groups and meetings.
Jenny P. A05: Go to different groups and encourage tell them what service or what general services about and to make it as clear and as simple as possible in order to encourage people to step up and.
Jenny P. A05: Join service as a general service representative and I found that to be very effective and I encourage other groups and other people have spoken about this also.
Jenny P. A05: And also, at different groups in a different districts that I have had the experience of having the.
Jenny P. A05: DCM or the DC MC make a service announcement or an announcement for anyone who's willing to be a service sponsor i've had a service sponsor.
Jenny P. A05: For the 17 or 15 years that i've been in general service, and I find that to be invaluable assets so i'm an encouragement.
Jenny P. A05: and support, so I definitely recommend anybody who is in service to please consider having a sponsor who will guide you through the concepts and support you in your service, thank you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Very good, thank you Jenny all right, we still have a couple more people and a couple more minutes so CCP and then matt m.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: susie alcoholic here I am again the overall topic for this first section is going beyond fear and prior to becoming a DCM I would never voluntarily.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: made myself speak at something that was even really important to me and my server sponsors or alternate delegate.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And he called me, several months ago and asked me if I would do a 10 minute talk at our area.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And I immediately burst into tears, and my heart was pounding and I was so afraid because this is something I never wanted to do.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: But what I said to him was if you're asking me then that's what God must want me to do.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And I I was so afraid, but I did it and it has changed my life by him asking you that simple question and me simply saying yes, because i'm not nearly as afraid anymore, as you can tell you can't shut me up now so.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Let me share.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Radical Thank you so much easy all right, we have not in.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: matt an alcoholic just really quickly, I wanted to.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: just talking about you know getting people involved, especially like you have getting your meetings interested in in in what's going on in general service, I think a lot of times.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like will say oh yeah there's an area assembly or there's this event, or you know something and.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And people just think of it as like oh it's just this this this meeting of these people and it's general service so it's it's going to be boring so.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I think what we can do is like we can talk about like what's actually going to happen at that event.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like Is there something on the agenda that you're meeting might find interesting Is there something.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Interesting that just happened like, if you read box four or five nine you can pick out certain things that you might you your district or your meeting or somebody might find interesting.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know it's easy when when it comes to the general service Conference, because there's almost always.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Some some advisory action or something that comes out that you know that your meeting or your district is going to want to talk about so I think it's.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like highlighting the the things that are there are being discussed the things that on the agenda, like specific items that you know that people are going to have some interest in, so I think that's that's What helps generate interest and participation.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Very good Thank you so much matt all right it's about that time does anybody have any burning desires for this first session before we end it.
Right.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Right Maria do you have anything to say before we move on to break.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Yes, i'd like to thank you man, for that was brilliant and thank everyone for sharing their experience strength and hope for your comments and questions and we will be taking a 10 minute break before session two.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: So get some coffee stretch your legs and we'll see you back here, thank you.
Thank you guys.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Thank you everyone did, may I ask Paul did we get the interpretation is it is it working smoothly behind the scenes there.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: should be no complaints it's on if you, you probably because I had to change or change interpreter so when that happens, you have to go back down to the globe and and clicked on your language of choice.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Okay wonderful I see I see Brian has got her thumbs up so going well yea.
Esther A08/18: like that, but that's generally being asked, yes.
yay.
Norm S A93 Chair: yay Jerry are you still on the air yay delegate.
Norm S A93 Chair: Oh, I want him to send me those modules.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: I don't think he's on Mr leggett.
Norm S A93 Chair: Oh, he left the room.
Norm S A93 Chair: Someone who has his contact information um.
yeah.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: I was just gonna suggest put it in chat and i'll pick it up and i'll make sure he gets that and send it to you.
Norm S A93 Chair: Okay, I appreciate that work.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: Absolutely with your email address that'd be.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Great.
Yes, sir.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: yeah.
Alicia Herrera: start I don't know what happened but bright bright brianna came on and she's been non stop I probably needs a little break.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Okay you're doing i'm starting right now.
Alicia Herrera: Okay.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Are you good to go.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: hey matt.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: i'm sorry norm.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: You know better idea our alternate delegate Monte is in the room, as well.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: And he's the one that delivers and conducts the.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: gsr orientation.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: Money are you on.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: Taking a break.
Norm S A93 Chair: I know Monty.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: yeah.
Norm S A93 Chair: put my name to put my email, and maybe he can pick it up.
Bill S. | 08 Registrar: yeah and i'll be sure to forward them to.
Monty C./Alt Del 8: Know i'm here i'm listening.
Norm S A93 Chair: Areas buddy good to see you.
Norm S A93 Chair: Likewise, about the.
Norm S A93 Chair: fact that you have some training modules for new gsr.
Norm S A93 Chair: And so anyway Marty, I was asking if Jerry and I guess is you actually are the go to person on this could send to my email, which I just put in the chat chairman and area 93 dot org on.
Monty C./Alt Del 8: The tree okay.
Norm S A93 Chair: And I really greatly appreciate it so good to see you my friend.
Monty C./Alt Del 8: i'll put my email in chat like I said, we do have some training modules on here that we use here in San Diego I also got some additional training modules for some other areas.
Monty C./Alt Del 8: That were either a look at our either adding to our employment, so I think this will be some great information for you to look at also as well that might be helpful for you.
Norm S A93 Chair: You know, send me what you got.
Norm S A93 Chair: and
Norm S A93 Chair: i'll have a good look at and.
Norm S A93 Chair: i'm going to get your.
Norm S A93 Chair: i'll have your contact information got some other.
Norm S A93 Chair: monkey do.
Norm S A93 Chair: You do you have a phone number that I could.
Norm S A93 Chair: Put you into my contacts.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: yeah.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: i'm here.
Norm S A93 Chair: Oh.
Norm S A93 Chair: Thanks Monty is there perfect.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: hey This is something from area, as is tiffany tiffany.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: There, right now, or she on break.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: i'm thumbing through my four screens, at a time.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: because she has her her camera and microphone turned off.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: Okay, all right, thank you.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: You have a question, maybe I can help.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: blaine no I was just going to comment that.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: I was at the first area committee meeting that she came to and i've seen the path of this new committee and i'm so.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: it's just been so beautiful to see the growth and to see that seed planted from the beginning and hear what it has.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: Here, what has transpired and and how it has helped so many and I just wanted to thank her for that so.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: yeah that they have done a lot but there's a lot more to do there.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Is a huge population out there that we still need to reach yeah.
yeah.
sutton - Area 08 Alt GSR: Thank you.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Thank you everyone for being here today, I just want to let you know, we have one minute left of our break time we're going to start this session to right at 1030 Thank you so much again everybody for being here, we have 76 people here dedicated deserves on a Saturday it's fantastic.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you so much for me.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Well it's now 1030 i'd like to welcome everybody back we're about to begin session two going beyond fear the role of the DCM DC MC.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: If you have not already done so, or you are just joining us please go to the bottom of your screen to translation and select the language of your choice English or Spanish.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I believe session two will be conducted in Spanish by Richard.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: So Richard if you'd like to introduce session today's topic we can get started, thank you.
richard translation chair: Why good morning everybody, my name is Richard I am the translation chair for the area i'm also a alternate DCM for.
richard translation chair: district eight and good morning to everybody i'm filling in for Ricardo my Tokyo he could not make it this morning he sends his regards my question is going to be so, then.
richard translation chair: I will start speaking in Spanish, and will everybody be switching or how is this going to work.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: All.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Well, I can turn on translation, if you want to do it like if we're alive or the translation to dawn.
richard translation chair: i'm.
richard translation chair: Here I would let the whoever the interpreters are if they want to translate into English that way just it's a little bit more consistent if I just stay in one language and then let them do the English version.
richard translation chair: If they're up for that.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: other words you want me to turn it off, so they can come in do it like as if we were alive you mean.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Oh you're suggesting.
Yes.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Alright, so now we had a fine I think alicia.
richard translation chair: alicia.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: alicia.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: I can do it, and if she's not able to do it i'm already here.
richard translation chair: Excellent.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: alicia.
Alicia Herrera: Can you hear me now.
Alicia Herrera: yeah I can I can go ahead.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: sure.
richard translation chair: Okay, what chase him I was gonna ask yourself am.
Alicia Herrera: I see.
Alicia Herrera: A very much alicia.
richard translation chair: Wilson says, you know middle those.
Alicia Herrera: Were and the second part of the program our session.
richard translation chair: Come on my side yeah tell me.
Alicia Herrera: How to reach fear.
Alicia Herrera: it's almost.
richard translation chair: it's almost me down, though, unless you're known as per the this.
Alicia Herrera: we're looking at the meetings that have been lost our groups.
richard translation chair: come up with them as a guide cornelius.
Alicia Herrera: How can we reach them.
richard translation chair: He can almost I saved one little thing country most.
Alicia Herrera: And what are we gonna do when we do find those groups or meetings.
richard translation chair: come up with Mr Stan a discussion is effective us.
Alicia Herrera: How can we have effective discussions.
richard translation chair: Now let me go for noise factor.
Alicia Herrera: The MIC is open.
Alicia Herrera: Are the session is open.
Alicia Herrera: For questions.
richard translation chair: Alex I checked.
Alicia Herrera: We have Alex ache.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: This is a bit in particularly trying time for many of us in our district line DCM for district 30 and area five.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: we've had a lot of meetings go dark we've had a lot of meetings that have been moved to people's homes or to other locations and it's been very difficult to to reach out to meetings that used to be active, we have never had a tremendous amount of participation.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: The charge to interrupt.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: i'm so sorry to interrupt Alex since we're doing consecutive mode of interpretation, we need you to give us shorter segments, so the interpreter can do so effectively and can interpret everything that you're saying, please.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Sorry, what.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: We were trying, we were trying to have continuous translation in the other language.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: That was the reason it was set up this way is that possible.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: It is it'll be almost like two separate meetings yeah that's fine as long as i'm set up as the interpreter than I can interpret everything that the people sharing can share.
Alicia Herrera: So this history, Brian that you're going to do all the drifting I don't know I don't understand I got lost for the beginning.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: So we were trying to have if if the meeting, the main meeting is, I mean the main speaker whoever sharing is done in Spanish, or we have some someone sharing in Spanish.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: it's difficult to have the interpreter be in both meetings at the same time, because the microphone turns off if your.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: interpreter, so the people that are in the English speaking side can't hear the interpreter so that's why interpretation has to be turned off so that.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: The person, the people in the English side can hear what the interpreter is saying so that's why we're doing the.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: consecutive mode right now, but if somebody if the interpretation is off and someone is sharing an English, then the Spanish speakers can't hear what they're saying, because it's off, so that we can have.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: The the session, basically, the main thread of the session be in Spanish, for them, I know it's really confusing and until.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: We can try whichever you think is.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Best I believe that if you think consecutive is fine that that whatever.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: yeah I mean the consecutive would be more effective, so that.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: For this session since it's supposed to be the Spanish portion of it being Spanish I mean it's up to you guys i'm just sharing what I see as a whole.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: briana so what you're saying, I think the way we're going is working if if the people asking questions could just use shorter sentences and pause for Elisa to translate isn't that the easiest.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Yes.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Okay, so please when you're asking your question the in an English or Spanish pause after your sentence, so that our translators can do their job, thank you.
richard translation chair: which has good ass yes.
richard translation chair: Alex was repeated to comment area.
Alicia Herrera: Alex can you repeat your comment, please yes.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: In district 30 in area five.
Alicia Herrera: district 30 area i'm sorry.
we've.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: encountered a lot of difficulty.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: With meetings going dark.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: At the district level we've devoted several of our meetings to preparing email messages to be sent to the email contacts that are provided by the G so.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: We also asked our tools ours to reach out to meetings outside of their own to try and get more active participation and connection with the district.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: and
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Obviously we'd like to know more about what other people are doing to reach meetings that are either closing down.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: or relocating.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: During the time.
richard translation chair: sorry about that at least he had there was a step further Cinderella interview panel of guests that come in tandem.
Alicia Herrera: With.
Alicia Herrera: Antonio Thompson this.
richard translation chair: Okay let's see.
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richard translation chair: See pajamas all those most likely.
Alicia Herrera: Okay, great all right, thank you brianna.
richard translation chair: Can you just continue with your comment don't repeat, please, but would you continue your comment about the emails that you were.
Alicia Herrera: going to.
Alicia Herrera: On target for our.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Well we've utilized the.
Alicia Herrera: email said.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: provided by the general service office.
Alicia Herrera: can have that always ahead.
and
Alicia Herrera: Send we send it out.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: To reach out to.
Alicia Herrera: Lip lip cancer.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: The meetings that have not participated.
Alicia Herrera: Little plus cannot participate as long.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: As well as attempting to attend meetings that are.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: don't read.
Alicia Herrera: The little postcard nothing in Arizona Hess.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: And i'm curious about what other people have done to read one dark.
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Alicia Herrera: Laura Alex.
richard translation chair: Alex.
Alicia Herrera: Thank you Alex.
richard translation chair: But I do think why rudy okay timeout timeout timeout I don't think this is gonna work folks I need somebody to make an executive decision here on whether.
Alicia Herrera: She, though.
Alicia Herrera: brianna a settlement SEC on.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: And we can turn on interpretation and.
Alicia Herrera: we'll just.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: Do how we did the first session.
Alicia Herrera: And if the interpreter feel it como como como sexual cpr.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: briana.
Brayana Kumeyaay Territory: You can set me up as interpreters okay.
richard translation chair: Thank you, Paul.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: No problem.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: There you go.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: There work now go to English or Spanish whichever language you need.
richard translation chair: Almost I think I rudy rudy, but this is, I have to come into your day, an event like this.
Alicia Herrera: We can you make your comment here from area 93.
Rudy M, A93: hi everyone, my name is rudy i'm an alcoholic.
Alicia Herrera: The numbers rudy you say uncle Rico.
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Rudy M, A93: A great opportunity to be on this.
Alicia Herrera: portal do they sell our CEO MSA.
Rudy M, A93: And I belong to a Hispanic district, the district number three by Nice California.
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Rudy M, A93: And every begins with being a good leader.
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Rudy M, A93: Really creative.
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Rudy M, A93: In our districts are these which are really active all our group active.
Alicia Herrera: Noise, so the group will send myself a state of a song group was case and we activists.
Rudy M, A93: And we also find sometimes groups that don't have any representation gsr.
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Rudy M, A93: One of the things that we do as Hispanic members and dcms.
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Rudy M, A93: There is a busy road every week we beat.
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Rudy M, A93: And we know we hit those groups that don't have any representation, especially.
Alicia Herrera: A mass cannot be mental mental muscle groups can not 100% of film.
Rudy M, A93: And we make sure to give the information and and and and bring this information and tell them about the importance.
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Alicia Herrera: So now, when I promise you don't even see this line for Tanzania.
Rudy M, A93: So if we never get tired of it, even if they don't come, I have an example of a group that for three panel, we will visit in these two groups and elected a gsr so you don't have to give up you gotta continue.
Alicia Herrera: working like so on up or when Sarah and also to say game of C and O Allah lupus kimmel Center percent hours, I am group one particular K Lucy Tom have a pass around dressed panelists yesterday.
Rudy M, A93: So thank you everyone one time, I remember, I had to be creative rent a band myself with my own money and tell the guys we're going to meet at this corner and i'm going to bring you to one.
Rudy M, A93: area assembly you gotta do a lot of teens be creative and and i'm sure you're going to get people come to meetings, thank you for having me.
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Rudy M, A93: Of about a week ago.
Alicia Herrera: And I said man.
Rudy M, A93: This group.
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Rudy M, A93: And this is this, this is so difficult and he has so many Members.
Alicia Herrera: As a group, are still having so much as equal as a team.
Alicia Herrera: Members here is something around.
Rudy M, A93: That all these em when to pull you in and start talking about service.
Alicia Herrera: cannot throw a message, a circle.
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Rudy M, A93: And, and the everybody started screaming and making noise in and and even were making the wave, and it was so crazy.
Claude Area 05: Excuse me alicia.
Claude Area 05: Brown has already interpreting this national.
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Rudy M, A93: So, so I guess you gotta be you gotta I mean when it was my turn to go into the boardroom I just went in I was so respectful and the first thing I said is.
Rudy M, A93: i'm just trust a sermon we are, we are here just to tell you how we are working.
Rudy M, A93: And and and I start making suggestions and and and they like it, they actually be they were quiet after that and they're listening to me, but you have to be real careful, because if you start being.
Rudy M, A93: Would you boys really strong trying to correct these people right there it won't work, they will they will make it, they will make it impossible for you.
Rudy M, A93: So, so you are going to find you will find some of these groups, sometimes, and you got to find a way to be really nice and talk to them, and maybe they will listen and sometimes it works, but good luck with that Thank you everyone.
richard translation chair: What is he was rudy.
Alicia Herrera: rudy.
richard translation chair: Maria.
Alicia Herrera: Esther aster my friend.
Esther 08/18: or effective productive.
Alicia Herrera: It sounds very static.
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Alicia Herrera: Might service alternate DCM or district 18.
Esther 08/18: Then most.
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Alicia Herrera: There are groups that.
Alicia Herrera: want.
Alicia Herrera: to do with the district with third district.
Esther 08/18: And there's a report on the phone call and.
Alicia Herrera: Before I go to to visit a group I say the serenity prayer.
Esther 08/18: Okay, make that a SEC a boy say for the self discipline and discipline.
Alicia Herrera: Because I.
Alicia Herrera: That that group we can connect it to the district, and the district be connected to that group.
Esther 08/18: bundle muskoka Lester seo can assess it and most likely that medical definition and.
Alicia Herrera: When we go there, we tell them we asked tell them that we need your help, so that the the district can continue to do their functions, this is what we let those groups know are the particular group, no.
Esther 08/18: Yes, no se como.
Esther 08/18: Then just process.
Esther 08/18: We let.
Alicia Herrera: We let them know that how important it is for them to be connected to the district, because if you're not connected to the district you're missing out missing out on a lot of information.
Esther 08/18: As the syllabus K is we're supposed to select it sounds like a process that can be putting it in another person.
Alicia Herrera: We let them know that there are groups who are part of the district and others who do not and do continue to just not be connected to the district, and we let them know the importance of being part of her district.
Esther 08/18: Yes, the thing most customers respond in less para of our facility for master.
Alicia Herrera: We let her know that we are available to take them any information.
Esther 08/18: Less they have most last what is this Elsa renters proxy.
Alicia Herrera: We lead with with them with that group the flyers of the events that are going to be happening in the near future.
Esther 08/18: It was a seamless K l m Papa temple on Saturday, except that they are so after the industry.
Alicia Herrera: And we let them know that we will be back soon, because you we let them know that you are part of the district.
Esther 08/18: Because I will ask us for colored glass percocet best in a sense, with an illness or sickness J K grass, yes, I sent back, which I can take out whatever and if it's after police.
Alicia Herrera: We let them know we thank them for keeping the doors the doors open and we let them know the importance that those doors continue to be open in their area.
Esther 08/18: He that I think that that I send them in disarray.
Alicia Herrera: And all of a sudden, they appear at the district.
Esther 08/18: So.
Alicia Herrera: that's all thank you.
richard translation chair: Perfect will ask them, which has good ass yes hey Alex you're sick a sega spit on me was that he asked them matt is almost.
Alicia Herrera: feel I know your.
Alicia Herrera: Your next, but I would like to hear from matt please.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Good morning, my name is matt i'm an alcoholic and you know one thing that I tried to to emphasize, especially to groups.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Because i've like i've shared even as a gsr like i've shared you know stuff at at a meeting on what's going on and know that most of the people are just not that interested, they just don't really care.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know that's and that's fine you know what I try to remind the groups is that.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: While.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: While you may not be that interested there might be somebody in this group that finds this thing interesting.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like and i'm not here to convert a group necessarily into you know getting all in interested in in in general service what i'm.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: What i'm really there for is to carry a message, maybe to just one person in that group, maybe two maybe there's one person that says hey you know what this thing sounds interesting to me and I try to remind everyone that you know.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: general services and for everyone, but there's always an opportunity to be of service, whether it's an H, and I in general service in inner group.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: So just because you may not be interested in it don't ruin it for for somebody else you know you hit you see people you know, like i've been in zoom meetings, and I see people do gestures like oh God it's general service, I want to, I want to kill myself or.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know, making these these gestures and and I just try to remind people, people are like people can see you like don't ruin this for somebody just because you're not that interested.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: that's that's kind of the messages I get in it just i'm trying to carry the message to maybe just one person in that meeting, not not necessarily to the entire meeting and that's it Thank you.
richard translation chair: matt.
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richard translation chair: Alex either supposed to emma's gonna see enterprise.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: just wanted to piggyback on some of the earlier comments.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: In many cases, it is not an issue of enthusiasm, it is not an issue of getting people excited for being of service, some people will burn out on it, they won't enjoy it as much as as we do we accept that alcoholics come in all different stripes.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: But in, but we need to be better informed, in taking the message to the meetings that have gone dark.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: So we can't just we can't ride on enthusiasm we can't just say okay well i'm not trying hard enough because i'm not being enthusiastic enough.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Many of these meetings disconnect because they are concerned about how they're going to be.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: processed by the gsr, we have to remind people that registering with the gso does not mean that you automatically get listed the meeting APP.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: For meetings that are gone to people's homes, they often don't want them posted on the web, because they're concerned about insurance so contacting your central office and planning about alternative insurance arrangements as they relocate to the new.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: facilities that may require them to carry that kind of insurance and distress that the only requirement is that they register through the gso.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: And that they don't necessarily need to have them have the meetings listed to their central office.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: is one of the things that we need to do we need to be better informed me carrying the message to the gsr hurts speaking loudly isn't always going to do you speaking more loudly isn't always going to do what we need to do.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: And the good is off of the enemy of the best we can do better, but we need to be well informed when we carry that message to the meetings, thank you.
richard translation chair: which has asked us to Alex and it was one thing I want to see get that but I want them.
Alicia Herrera: i'd like to continue by.
Alicia Herrera: answering the following question.
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Alicia Herrera: To be able to reach all the alcoholics without having any fear.
richard translation chair: Thomas.
Alicia Herrera: Thomas.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: Thomas cells alcoholic.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: The comment, I want to make.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: Is.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: Any other members of our fellowship.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: are not actually aware of what general service is so.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: I suggest to those who I serve as a service sponsored to.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: To number one not use acronyms when.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: delivering their announcements to their meetings, people do not know what a gsr DCM or all of those initials all of those acronyms they do not know what that is so, use the full words I let them into them and then further I recommend that at least once a quarter.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: When giving their announcements to read the resolution.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: Most meetings do not understand that general service is the replacement, all of us have been tapped to replace.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: bill and Bob and the few old timers that originally made the decisions within alcoholics anonymous so and most people even in general service have not read the resolution where bill and in behalf of Bob post humorously.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: gave to the fellowship the authorization to be the managers, the voice of, and so, if the fellowship begins to understand.
Thomas Sells A05 P69: That that person in front of them is representing the funders they all know who the founders are but they don't know who the gsr is the sole i'd say the general service representative and I read the resolution often Thank you.
richard translation chair: Yes, yes, yes, Thomas.
Alicia Herrera: Thank you very much, Thomas.
richard translation chair: And it was so and either.
Alicia Herrera: We have soda.
Area 05 Zoraida: Hello family, my name is Sarah and i'm an alcoholic and area five.
Area 05 Zoraida: You know the The one thing for me that really helped I remember when I was first elected as alternate gsr turn my video on when I was first.
Area 05 Zoraida: elected as alternate gsr and at my meeting people would boo the gsr reports and I was terrified I did not want to be the gsr i'm slowly things changed over time, but.
Area 05 Zoraida: For me personally, I really had to change my expectations and of the groups and of the Members, you know my members of my group.
Area 05 Zoraida: And just listen, it was really an opportunity for communication and feedback and by listening um I was able to see you know.
Area 05 Zoraida: What the misconceptions were about general service there's a lot of misunderstanding out there about general service and.
Area 05 Zoraida: I got to share my experience with them and little by little, you know some groups were interested others just remained an interested but they're definitely I have seen a fear of change.
Area 05 Zoraida: And a fear of new ideas, but it is an opportunity to let Members know about general service what we do what we don't do, and you know what when there are grievances I usually follow up with.
Area 05 Zoraida: Tell me more you know tell me more what would you like to see what interests you how do you think that this fellowship can grow and be more unified and reach more alcoholics that are still suffering from alcoholism.
Area 05 Zoraida: Everyone is interested in that it's part of our DNA it's part of what keeps us silver so as long as i'm focused on that and carry that message there's always going to be that love and unity in a response that people want to hear more and get involved, thank you.
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richard translation chair: But for the most.
Alicia Herrera: How can we.
richard translation chair: are very glad slap reception guess almost our materials.
Alicia Herrera: to correct the reception that we are very boring people.
richard translation chair: Only because.
Alicia Herrera: very involved in politics we love that.
richard translation chair: Almost the Info.
Alicia Herrera: And we lose time.
richard translation chair: hey you get diabetes.
Alicia Herrera: So it's David will start off with David.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: A name is devin them alcoholic let me actually I can't make think my answer questions, my answer kind of goes to both questions about interest in everything.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: In with when I first got silver, there was a gsr very dedicated wonderful old very strong once you get like a four or five minute gsr announcement.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: You can see the eyes roll into the back of the head.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: I found that with gsr announcements and I teach to use ours this less is more make a goal when you make a meeting make a gsr announce that your goal is a 32nd.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: No more than a one minute gsr announcement that way you have developed goodwill, the group.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: And at the time tree need more time for like making presentations regarding agenda items coming up, we need a little more time, you have the goodwill of the group of whole foods to draw but the goal is to make a.
David W | DCMC A05 WCD: check and gsr announcement, no more than a minute, I think that will make you a lot of friends be good service for general service going forward my name is David and my aka like i'll be back, thank you.
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Alicia Herrera: gave it.
richard translation chair: icke roxanne.
Alicia Herrera: roxanne.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: that's not an alcoholic nice to be here, thank you for your work i'm a preconceived notion is that no one wants to hear the report.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: And so, if you if your past gsr as training, you to be a juice, are one of the first things I heard was no one's going to want to hear the report.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: And I found that to not be true that each groups different and that there were some people in the group who were interested in what you had to report, one of the main things that I took away as an I was a very I was a gsr for six years and.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: Two meetings so you can see, there was no rotation going on there was a lot of things that were going wrong with that, but.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: The idea that.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: you write the report out practice it say it to yourself in the car or whatever before you get in.
Roxane R A08 P68 PD: That way, you sound like you know what you're talking about that you understand anything that they might have a question about, and they will actually listen I think so practice it write it down read it, and be confident that they're going to get something from it, thank you.
richard translation chair: guys roxanne ethan Elsa.
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Lauren A. A05/P71: um these are great questions and I encourage the DCM to have the gsr explain the conference and how it works.
Lauren A. A05/P71: To their meetings, even if it takes a few meetings to do that people are worried about change, and things that happened at the conference, especially this past year.
Lauren A. A05/P71: But not understanding that they have a voice in the conference, and that they have a chance to also create agenda items for the conference, just to explain how it works, rather than talk about it, as some kind of you have to be of service here.
Lauren A. A05/P71: And I also agree with the acronym problem of saying general service representative makes more sense and explain what a general service representative is explain why why they're there and explain what the conference means and how to enact change if you're unhappy Thank you.
richard translation chair: Which is good ass yes, that animals have matt thank.
Alicia Herrera: You very ledge we have matt.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Hello everybody matt alcoholic again and, like one of the reasons that I think people think that.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: General service can be so boring or bureaucratic or political is is we, we have a tendency to talk things to death.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: But it's it's important to remember that there's principles behind that you know we always strive for substantial unanimity.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And and finding that unanimity can take a lot of discussion and we also want always want to hear that minority opinion.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: So it's it can be really annoying like I was at a district meeting, and we were talking about our picnic and we had a 30 minute discussion and.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know, vote on having the circle and triangle on signs pointing to where like we were in this park.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: But it's it's it's really important, because at the end of the day, like at the at the end of that discussion somebody brought up something that we all could get behind.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like we could all get behind that that thought in that rationale for for having it or not having it, so we have these, we can have these long drawn out discussions but there's always a principal there's always there's always a reason for it and it's important that you know.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: We talk about what these principles are because sometimes people think it's just.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: We just do things Willy nilly or there's no reason behind it and it's just because we're boring people but that's not what it is, is there's principles and there's reasons behind, like everything that we do so that's it Thank you.
richard translation chair: And it was a norm, he this was up Brian.
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Norm S A93 Chair: There okay so norm area 93 chair and.
Norm S A93 Chair: Personally, I was drawn into general service but it's not for everybody there's this one guy in my group good sober guy sponsors people all that kind of stuff and.
Norm S A93 Chair: and talk to him into being a gsr to represent the group, and he just ran screaming from it it's new acronym for gsr is great suffering and remorse so it wasn't for him at this time, that being said.
Norm S A93 Chair: The way that when I was a gsr area 93 has a suggested format for gsr report and it made it made it so we could really encapsulate things and.
Norm S A93 Chair: Make it brief, it would have we had our Assembly we had our whatever you have coming events are this this was discussed that kind of stuff.
Norm S A93 Chair: And, and that worked, I was in our for a while, at various meetings and I did not tend to get the.
Norm S A93 Chair: You know the the exaggerated rolling of the eyes and that kind of stuff for at least maybe I wasn't paying attention if people were doing that.
Norm S A93 Chair: But at least i'm you know I wouldn't get shouted down or anything like that, so you know I think the thing really is just to be.
Norm S A93 Chair: is to try to keep it brief try to keep it pithy in the reports and that can build goodwill and sometimes you bring someone into general service and they go that and sometimes they come up with a new document acronym for gsr thanks.
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Alicia Herrera: Very much angel can include.
richard translation chair: That what's up Brian p.
Alicia Herrera: We have Brian p.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: hi everyone i'm Brian i'm an alcoholic.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: About you know, often hearing complaints that general services boring to political too time consuming I think it's very important that, when we hear those complaints we don't just see it as.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: You know that that perception is wrong and we need to correct this and you know show you that it's not, I think it's very important that we take that in and as feedback, you know because I do, I do think general service is often very boring.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: To political and it's definitely very time consuming you know and and it's good for us to be conscious of that and.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: And you know, always be working to keep things exciting to make sure that we're driven by principle and purpose and to keep things fair and.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: And to keep things moving and respect people's time you know, but I think the very important thing when we take that feedback is to let them know it's not.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: it's not only you know boring political and time consuming that it's also very inspiring I mean I mean obviously all of us here have been inspired to serve and really find the great purpose here, and you know real things happen and.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: You know, like like what we heard from the armed services standing committee from area eight today, you know things that make a real impact and it's it's you know the changes to our literature.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: You know, deciding that together, and not just having you know, a small group of people decide that but actually deciding with the groups, you know, informing us and you know reaching out to young people, our elder Community all the things that happen, you know there's there's it's just.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: You know, we, we need to let people know that despite all of that, you know so many of us have found it just really worthwhile and purposeful so thank you.
richard translation chair: Which is gonna ask us.
Alicia Herrera: A very much.
richard translation chair: A normal day ED Mr they gather your own commentary okay was there yeah I said ED.
Alicia Herrera: ED is there a comment that you would like to express.
Alicia Herrera: And although you're.
Ed L. A09 delegate: an alcoholic Ada i'd raised my hand about one of the earlier things but that and it kind of builds on what matt say.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And it's a lesson that i've learned and it's one of those things I learned from general service and 2019 as the alternate delegate I was responsible for a service.
Ed L. A09 delegate: and generally we've got 150 people with it, though it was an in person event, but it was in the boonies a very at nine in 29 palms, and so I spent all this wonderful energy.
Ed L. A09 delegate: With a preconception thinking there'd be 150 people.
Ed L. A09 delegate: One of the things real pleasures that came out of it was invited money, who was the newly elected alternate delegate to come out there and speak, and so we got out there, we set up in this building that looked like it was ready to fall down in the end there bit or 45 people.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And I was standing up there, looking out over this spotty crew of people that's a quarter of what I anticipated and it was like the lesson that came out of the backfield was love the ones you're with.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And so, too often, we focus on who's not with us, but I think by exercising loving the ones that were with.
Ed L. A09 delegate: We find out it's much more rewarding and it's also respectful to the people that do show up, and so I see that, over and over and over in general service and and it helps me a lot to to stay in the moment and, by the way, body, I still have your extension cord from that event.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So we ever have a chance to get together i'll pass that back to.
Alicia Herrera: me.
richard translation chair: which was gonna ask us for about a minute or three that they started.
Alicia Herrera: giving me the opportunity to be part of this group.
richard translation chair: john.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you so much, Richard, and thank you so much alicia brianna for your translation and to Jessica and Julian we're now i'm.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: going to begin our final session session three how to reach anyone anywhere your committees in you and our moderator for this session will be Alex H from area five Alex.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America and thank you, Richard for an excellent job moderating with particularly with the the translation kerfuffle well done well handled welcome everyone to the final session, if I can find it here pull it up, but it's not working.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: See all right i'm just going to i'm just going to read what we have here and our third session is on how to reach anyone anywhere your committees in you and the first question on our agenda is how to build a great Community what is working for you, what is not.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: And I can ask for.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Someone who would like to share on this topic, raise their hand.
Claude Area 05: hey guys clinical holic area five.
Claude Area 05: All chair for the website Community there and.
Claude Area 05: um yeah for our committee we use we embrace technology and like we use discord it's another kind of program kinda like whatsapp kinda and where we all can communicate our ideas and talk back and forth, and it works very well and.
Claude Area 05: yeah it's helped our Community, a lot to to help make the APP that we're seeing for our area and just.
Claude Area 05: communicate ideas anytime during the day and it's pretty cool um and.
Claude Area 05: So far, it's been going good Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: susie P, you have your hand up.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: side you susie alcoholic and.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: ECM for district 14 and in district 14.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: We have our own CPC committee and we're also in the area CPC and other our first meeting, I think it was this very good right here who i've never seen her face before.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: But we have a really great chairperson Sue and She invited Maria to come speak because area nine has been doing a fantastic job so we followed a lot of her ideas from what to do and then last week, I was we got invited to go to.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Training the trainer, and this was a CPC event that like 100 people went to it, maybe more than 100 and it was these two gals in.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Minnesota and talking about how they did it like what we originally did we chose one thing and we sent these letters and then we called and we didn't get much of a response, but they have a way they set up a whole.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: PowerPoint presentation that's fantastic they've sent it out to everyone and it's available to anyone who wants to use that for their CPC committee and, if they want to contact me on how to get that i'll be happy to pass that along.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you susie merica you have your hand up.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Yes, Maria alcoholic I don't want to put romy on the spot, but as area nine CPC chair.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: district 14 in area five didn't invite I mean district 12 invited us out to take part in mock committee meetings and I wondered if romy could talk a bit about that because I thought it was an invaluable aid into starting a standing committee romy.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Thank you, Marina my name is a Romeo an alcoholic and the DC MC or an area oh nine district 12 that South orange county California so.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Thank you for bringing that up that was in district 12 we don't have a lot of experience with our committee work and I wanted to know how to inspire that in our districts I invited our area chairs of three different committees.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: They gave short presentations to our district, full of gsr and then we threw them all randomly and zoom breakout rooms and we said now you're on that committee let's go.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: So, Maria was the the area chair for CPC and she said okay guys we're on a committee now everybody here you're all part of CPC what's our budget what's our timeline, what do you want to do.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: And my district God bless them that gsr actually spoke up, they said well how about this, how about that can you do this they had lots of questions.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: And, and it was interactive and that happened in three different rooms breakout rooms, we all came back to the main room and I had no idea what was happening in those secret rooms and then they got to report to me into the board.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: What a good time they had how they actually felt like they were part of a committee.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: And now we are having a Labor day picnic in September, we are going to spotlight those committees are going to have committee tables and we're going to start this activity, and it was awesome so thank you for coming to us and showing us the way.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you so much ronnie ronnie for sharing that Alex.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America uh i'm not seeing any other.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: hands up at this time we move on to the next question since we're a little bit ahead of schedule this point.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: All right, i'm gonna pull up the second question.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: How do you encourage and support self starters and committees, how do you make committee work attractive.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: man.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Yes, matt alcoholic again and I don't I don't know if I if I really have a good answer on on how to.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: You know how to encourage and support self starters, but I do have some experience on what not to do so in our in our district we we had a P, I chair.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And we've been telling people you know hey we've got all these excess funds, and we really need we really need our committees to step up and to you know.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Work on projects and to you know, be of service to our district, and we had a the rpi chair did a great job and he got really involved, and he started doing the work.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: But then, at the at the district meeting he wanted, he was requesting funds and asking to do certain things and we sort of told him, no.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: So it's it's difficult when you are trying to encourage people to get out there and then and do the work and.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And and be active, but then when once they come asking you know hey can I get funds to do this or hey you know, can I get support to do this, and then we tell them no.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Like it's like we're on the one hand we're saying hey let's do stuff and let's let's be active and then, on the other hand, we're saying we don't like what you're doing so stop it so it's it's it's difficult and.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I think the most important thing is to have trust and to remember that the people that we elect are trusted servants.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And it's like the way that I look at it is it's sort of like at the at the conference we have these certain committees and we.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: We asked them to kind of review some of the agenda items that come up, and I think that if those come up onto the floor.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: We trust that this committee looked at it and and they've they've decided it was a good idea, so I think if our committees have these ideas we should be, we should try to be more supportive and and try to be less.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: unsupportive, I guess, I hope that made sense, thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you matt blaine you have your hand up.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Playing alcoholic yes thanks just related to mats comment last year, you know we anticipated having a large surplus from our funds, do you know we didn't spend much money because of covert.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: and towards the latter part of the year we opened it up for anybody actually individuals, groups districts committees to submit suggestions for reallocating the funds, rather than sending a large large contribution back to New York and the reallocation requests were quite varied from.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: Setting up a.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: hybrid meeting for a group to.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: bailing out our asl fund, which we have.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: meetings at least every day that are asl interpretative in and interpreted in and one of them was those.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: PSA.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: cards that tiffany showed earlier, that was a result of our reallocation of funds from our excess in the area thanks.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: America.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: holic i'm.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: i'm in district four I serve as alternate DC MC that's long beach California and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: One of my pet passions this last year was to support our standing committees, I felt like they didn't have enough support in the past, and they do vital work, so what.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I did as alternate DC MC one of my responsibilities is to be like a liaison to the committee's and to do special events so during the course of some business meetings, I listened very carefully.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: to whoever raised their hand whoever made a comment, and then I put an event together and made sure I asked those specific people if they would please do us the service and beyond the committee, and you know from that point on just that bit of encouragement and inclusion of these individuals.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: They not only went on to do a brilliant job and carry the message in our special event on standing committees, they went on to address the district, and one even went on to.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: become chair of a new standing committee in our district for LGBT Q plus so i'm just listening carefully and offering extending the hand of encouragement.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: You can inspire someone to carry the message as the writer said, and I think we all respond to how important it is to carry the message, thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: We have anybody else who would like to comment on this topic.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: let's say that one of the things that seems to me to be important about this is linking the link linking these these committees specific to specific outcomes and emphasizing.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Where those were those committee where that committee work can achieve certain goals that people were interested in pursuing.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: i've seen committees and subcommittees that have dwindled to a handful of people are actually because most of the work that they're doing or most of the activities that they're engaged in.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: are either duplicated by into group responsibilities or with quite by activities by districts of the central office or many of the other Members stop becoming active and they don't continue to pursue the agenda on hand i'm very excited to see the young people in a.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: step up and form a specific committee within our own area, to extend to do to to expand the outreach to the young people in a that's very much of a self starter type thing and i've been i've been really impressed by how young people in a have.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: developed, not just to follow the program and to take direction but also to tailor the message to people in need, who are.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Very specific ideas and very specific attitudes about their about our condition so it's it's to make a point of stressing to people who are interested in service work.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: How those those committees can be successful and where they can make.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Real accomplishments in our work is vitally important as well.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: We have anyone else who has yes ma'am.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I feel like i'm speaking way too much, but.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: One thing that our district is exploring is is creating a budget, like our district does not have a budget, like our area does.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: So one thing that we had been talking about and we're going to bring it up at our next district meeting is to create a budget and and and you know pre allocate money to some of these committees.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: So that the committee is can go Oh, that we have money like we're supposed to do something like what are we gonna like what are we going to do, and it also.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: It also makes it easier saying hey we we are supporting you guys here's some money to go do some stuff so that way they don't have to you know come in.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: come to the district meeting and necessarily request funds if they're already pre allocated I feel like we feel like it's a good idea, because it it, it gives trust.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And it it kind of points people in a direction that yes, you have money and yes there's things that you can do to spend that money.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Ed L. A09 delegate: So alcoholic and one of the things i'll try to look through my notes before we finish, and you know at the conference for some number of years.
Ed L. A09 delegate: On the day before the conference, they actually meet to talk about remote communities and there's something called a remote communities communicated.
Ed L. A09 delegate: That comes out of that effort and this year I was one of one of three members of the Conference, it was actually able to speak on remote communities and I felt a little bit nervous about it because I realized that I was presenting.
Ed L. A09 delegate: What could be construed as a controversial idea and we maintain some metals and, for some reason they chose mine is one of the three of the 19, and this was the theme of my topic was I was referring back to 100 games.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And I don't know how many of you have seen that or not, but in the hunger games there's this class of.
Ed L. A09 delegate: people at the top, if you will, that are all in their flashy clothes and they've got the best of everything life has to offer, and then.
Ed L. A09 delegate: It was only actually a few minutes before I gave my talk that I put two and two together realize that the in the hunger games thing that have these things, called districts.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And if you've seen that movie you'll see that you got these bright pretty people that have handled, like the politicians of the world that point and then you've got all of these districts and and within each district their representatives, who are asked to come and kill each other.
Ed L. A09 delegate: But just to that, but the point, the point was that I was trying to make to the conferences how.
Ed L. A09 delegate: available.
Ed L. A09 delegate: To alcoholics anonymous.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you so much money do you have your you.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: would like i'm on yet yeah hi mommy alcoholic I hope you guys can hear me.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: audio fall off, I just wanted to share a little bit about I think we're on the question how do we encourage and support self starters.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: So I liked what grow me and Greek or sharing anything matt was sharing earlier about budgets and our district, we had.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Good have allocated funds for budget for for the communities, but they weren't using it like we would encourage Okay, we have these funds, etc, etc, and took a little bit of work on the boards cart to kind of put together some interesting activities to help these committees to be.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: To not just to participate, but to.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: get involved and be I guess attracted to what they're doing and their service work, so we had paired other committees together, for example.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: To you know that were had similarities and they work together, we did in one of our boards panels, we did a service palooza, which is something similar to what ramiz talking about our Labor day picnic.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Where we got all the committee's together at a Park, we had food and entertainment and we had service boots and so, if anybody's interested any and all gsr is from anywhere could go.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Any you don't have to be a gsr and it was a really cool opportunity for people to not only learn about the committee and learn about general service and as a whole, so.
Manya W. A09 DCM School Chair: Something to consider for the future, now that things are a little bit opened up.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, mine yeah.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: we're going to move on to the next question now, how can we mobilize our districts, to identify and better serve remote communities that may go unnoticed and or underserved.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: My favorites.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: would like to.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Yes, America.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: break alcoholic.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: We just started a conversation in our district about remote communities and that came from being involved, those in leadership with our area nine in area nine with the help of Thomas s who's here and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Kevin F from area three Arizona, and some of the women who are present today, we started with an ad hoc remote communities committee and then this June we voted in.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: a standing committee remote communities and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: What I did it for district four is I brought.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Some enthusiasm and I reported in on what the area nine remote communities Committee was starting to do and I kept them apprised of our progress over the course of the year and then I extended my hand to.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Several people who I thought, who had kind of expressed to me that they consider themselves part of a remote community and they in turn, as I mentioned started an LGBT Q standing committee.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: And we've been having an ongoing discussion how.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: They would like to break down the barrier that exists, they feel between LGBT Q and the greater fellowship of our district so um I find that that's where district participation in in an area is important and to bring back the information.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Of what's happening so that you can inspire and better connect your district, thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: sure.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Yes.
Area 05 Zoraida: I family, my name is rhonda and i'm an alcoholic i'm telling you know remote communities, has been.
Area 05 Zoraida: A passion of mine in general service and it's been such an amazing.
Area 05 Zoraida: Part of this journey for me.
Area 05 Zoraida: The one thing that I remember hearing it process.
Area 05 Zoraida: A few years a few years ago is you know, to look around and see who's missing in the rooms and and that goes for for my district as well, when I was a part of district three i'm part of the area, now, so I serve all the districts, but when I was part of district three and area five.
Area 05 Zoraida: One of the things that I noticed was missing were you know Spanish speaking women in alcoholics anonymous and so you know we started talking and doing a lot of outreach and.
Area 05 Zoraida: Then started meetings, and you know started a workshop and and that was great and then.
Area 05 Zoraida: You know just looking around and noticing when I go to the supermarket when I go, you know to run errands when i'm at work when i'm just driving around.
Area 05 Zoraida: Who do I see walking down the street in my area, you know who lives down the street that isn't represented in alcoholics anonymous that I don't see my district meetings that I don't see in my area meetings, how do I reach that community.
Area 05 Zoraida: And so, one of the things that was brought to my attention with with Brian was you know the Chinese community, and so we went out and we looked for other Members that were interested in reaching out remote community and and now we started a Chinese meeting you know, and I mean it's.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: you're frozen.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Sorry, we lost you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Well, people are being dropped on occasion here happened to me once already.
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Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Right Alex alcoholic.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: it's.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: The challenge of reaching communities traditional communities that have traditionally been isolated, I recall having attended a unity conference a couple of years back.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Relating to one of one of the breakout groups that discuss these issues involved.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Indian reservations and failure to reach out to.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Communities that were.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: physically remote I think more and more now we're seeing situations where that remoteness isn't even physically.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: It not not just being physically remote but being isolated due to physical concerns now, especially during the time coven and people who are who are in firm and are in need of a meeting.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: hybrid zoom has been has been a bit of a blessing for a lot of people who might not otherwise have had access to meetings.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: or might not otherwise have might not otherwise have occurred to them to attend meetings, except now they can do it online, and I think we also need to be mindful that during this time, where.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Well, people are going back into the rooms, we don't want to leave those people stranded i'm seeing a lot of zoom meetings becoming.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Less and less populated and people who still need the help of other alcoholics finding themselves without the people that they're used to meeting with what we're going what we're trying to do at the district level and i'm encouraging at the area level is.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: assisting in providing more hybrid meetings so that people don't become stranded in that in the in this new environment and, hopefully, that that will develop.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: into something that that will allow us to reach a lot of these communities, otherwise haven't had access people in rest of the people who are physically again people who are physically infirm or at risk, so let's hear from susie.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: susie alcoholic and I would like to tag along with what zurita was talking about my alternate DCM is Christopher and he's here today with us.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And after process, we were discussing it, and I was mentioning about I can't remember her name but she was the the Chinese speaker that they.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: They translated into English and she was so Poignant and so interesting and we were talking about it and Christopher is with the Los Amigos group.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And he told me that he gets a lot of people from Monterey Park, who are Chinese speaking only, but he had no way to reach them, and so I called my buddy Brian who helped hands right I helped set up the.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: bridge to hope that Wednesdays and Fridays in English and also in China and Brian send us a link to get.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: The big book translated into Chinese we had flyers put over there and Los Amigos I don't know if he's made contact with anybody.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: But then from that we attended the meeting i've only been once but hear yourself speak and get translated into Chinese is something you must not miss, and I am.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: so excited because I actually get to speak at that meeting in December, I think it is, but I think it's fantastic the way we're reaching all across the world and especially due to zoom so.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: There, Brian put it up in the chat where the bridge to hope is so if you get a chance try it out thanks.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you susie oh very good, yes, I see the link in the chat room Okay, and once again last night PDF version of the.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Of the agenda but i'll read out the quote the last question that we have front of us.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: How can we be more inclusive neuro diversity and identify those alcoholics or most new to barriers of culture geography language socio economics and or gender so.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Building on what soraida and susie and others have have have commented on what can we do to reach these groups that are otherwise isolated within our own communities of America.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Bring alcoholic.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: To build on what's susie and zurita had to say, I think the right, I made a very good point, we have to take the time and the care to notice who's missing.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: In our mission statement in our news remote communities standing committee at area nine we talk and in this question Alex that you just read, we talked about socio economics.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: And one of the remote communities that we identified in area nine and in definitely in my district for long beach California, is the homeless.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: So we are going to have a joint project between the remote communities area committee and district, for in order to reach the housed in long beach directly and we call that program mannion roseanne help set up boots on the ground and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I learned from tiffany today, she made those wonderful cards, we were going to do flyers, but I think we'll have enough of the budget that we can do those cards with the qr code in the back and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I think what you said, also is very, very important to keep at least hybrid if not zoom going because many of the in house.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Just have other issues that they can't get to a meeting or can attend, but we could bring it to them, but this is what this is one of the remote communities that will be doing a joint project on Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America ED.
Ed L. A09 delegate: college and and there's always more to do, but I don't think we should dismiss what we've already done, you know at the conference this year.
Ed L. A09 delegate: I served on the literature committee and we had 17 presentations that we took to the floor 16 of those 17 were passed as advisory actions.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Among those are three new big books, so we have a fifth edition English fourth edition, Spanish and a plain language, big book and I can honestly tell you from an insider's view of that, that the whole reason for those three pieces of literature was to be inclusive.
Ed L. A09 delegate: To make sure that we have stories that represent our current members not no it's not number one of our pamphlets was what the writer refer to.
Ed L. A09 delegate: A Spanish speaking women and we were able to see a camera ready version of that this year, and I think it's right, I might actually have a story that pamphlet is really cool Carla also, I think, has a story in that one or one of the other ones so it's amazing we also pass.
Ed L. A09 delegate: The revised pamphlet for the black and African American to try to figure out better ways to reach that particular community so and the preamble again.
Ed L. A09 delegate: As fun as the controversy seems to be in talking about that, and all the conspiracy theories that I hear from about that it was a.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Somebody agenda personal agenda item get that done that wasn't the case, it was a full.
Ed L. A09 delegate: conference substantial unanimity decision fully intended for no other reason than to make sure that we knew about and Alex come to our knowledge tsunamis, the don't identify as men or women that they feel welcome.
Ed L. A09 delegate: And that the preamble, which is usually the first thing we're here they meeting says welcome people.
Ed L. A09 delegate: You don't have to be anything I love what pulses down in San Diego he says that if you're in a meeting of alcoholics anonymous and if somebody shows up as two heads you don't stare at the second head, you ask it if it also wants a cup of coffee.
Ed L. A09 delegate: But thank goodness for policies.
Ed L. A09 delegate: Anyway, thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: yeah i've just got the one right now doesn't always work.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: I bet no it's what's up with you let's hear from you.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: My name is fan i'm an alcoholic again.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I think what's important is to have is to have people that that feel like there's barriers that there were barriers when they came in, to share, about them.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I like I, and I don't really know exactly what what the right answer and how we can you know help with this, but like personally I feel like there there's a lot of issues with.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: With kind of accept accepting change in in a like I hear a lot of it, this is from from from meetings from groups that i've attended in the past and and today where there's this idea that if you're offended or if you feel like there's a barrier then you're just not ready.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: you're not desperate enough, you know, maybe you need to go out and drink a little bit more, but like there's this idea that Oh well, this person just you know clearly they're just not ready.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And I I really hate that I really I really dislike hearing that.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: And again, I don't know what what the solution is I think if if people could hear about the experience that others have had that have run into these barriers, maybe, maybe that could you know ope you know, bring some open mindedness and some willingness to kind of hear about that, but.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: I just I really don't like this idea that there's something wrong with you, if you feel like there's a barrier or if you feel like.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: you're not being included, and it goes along with that process, I heard, are we being are we inviting people are we actually including them because it's one thing to invite people.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: But it's another thing to actually include them and and and let them know that they're welcome.
Thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you matt.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Pretty yeah pretty topical.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: issue here, we have anybody else would like to jump in anything to share on this.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: America.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Right recall it going to see, this is a topic near and dear to my heart.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I wanted to piggyback off of what it said.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: area nine our Chair Mitchell be and his team put together a book published a book pioneer women in a and they translated into Spanish, especially to reach our Spanish speaking women in area nine and.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: To reiterate, taking the time and as matt said, because when you are, I was a remote community, I was very involved in area nine for many years and then I was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I lost my job I lost my house and I ended up living in my car while undergoing cancer treatment and as connected, I was, I became very isolated So when I was well enough to return remote communities interested the very much because I was hoping to have to.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: inspire people sensitive to barriers so that there is someone to reach out, and I think what matt said is just so pertinent that i'm.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: A don't feel like there's anything wrong to feel that there is a barrier between you and the greater fellowship and alternatively those reaching out, please take the time and patience to include and the love to include those for which barriers may exist, thank you.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you, America susie.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Okay now i'm double dipping so the the one of the topics that's very near and dear to me this year is.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: The literature and all the voting and all the things that passed, and that was the topic that my service sponsored Doug had given me.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: To do the 10 minute talk about and I did a lot of research on it and I I read.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: All the things that had been requested by different communities, the transgender Community the gay community just a lot of remote communities.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And one of the things that came to me when I was putting this together was that I don't need the literature change, for me, because i'm already all the way in.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: And what I put in, there was like what about the alcoholic who who looks at our stuff and says, you know.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Am I an alcoholic can I be an alcoholic if I have a job at home, what Community What about me what's wrong with me all the questions that I was asking.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Before I ever got sober and and I think with our literature and to be inclusive, we have to ask ourselves those questions, and so I was really glad to see where they change them, we are a group of people and to.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Add things you know, change the stories, you know I have transgender sister who.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: left a because she felt not included, and she started drinking and using again, I have a lot of gay people in my life that are sober I have a brother and a sister, you know, and I just think it's really important to just.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Love everybody of everybody, and include them all that's my motto thanks.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you susie yes, the lonely stepchild unity merica.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Great I didn't put down my hand.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: But susie.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: right on.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Love everybody.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: one.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Actually, we may be running out of time here, so if we can make it quick.
Ron Edmundson: i'll make it quick in recovery RON.
Ron Edmundson: I I served in area nine many years ago i've been to 25 process.
Ron Edmundson: And this was, I wanted to echo what what ED talked about, I want to thank anybody who was involved with the conference.
Ron Edmundson: For me, this was the best conference that there's been in all the time that i've been around general service was very progressive and the best thing that we could have done, in my opinion.
Ron Edmundson: And so I want to thank them all personally in at the conference, it was a it was a wonderful experience the report back was was excellent by yet the lot i'll i'll quickly say that to me the one of the huge.
Ron Edmundson: Is a group without a gsr that to me that's a remote Community calm and so i'll just leave you with that, thank you very much.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Thank you RON now pass the meeting back to America.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you, thank you so much.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Alex and i'd like to thank our moderators manual w from area nine Richard from area eight and Alex from area five you did a wonderful job and a special thanks to our timer romy s.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Now we have a special guest to close us out area at its very own past delegate Joel see and our very own past Pacific regional trustee tool see welcome Joel.
Joel Castellaw: Everybody i'm Joel i'm alcoholic and it's been a great event, this morning I love the four area DCM sharing session.
Joel Castellaw: I was on the planning committee for it, when I was at DCM I made deep connections with fellow dcms and and then we sort of tag teamed each other through our descent.
Joel Castellaw: In the in the triangle and it's just a really special event for me, I am Joel an alcoholic imma pass delegate panel 60 from San Diego.
Joel Castellaw: imperial California area eight and your past specific regional trustee and you know I came to a as a guy in his mid 20s a gay guy was really, really isolated and drinking alone.
Joel Castellaw: and deeply paranoid.
Joel Castellaw: And and just perplexed about what to do about about my drinking and I wasn't entirely sure that I was an alcoholic but I knew my life sucked and that the way that I drank.
Joel Castellaw: was a significant contributor to why my life sucked and I came to alcoholics anonymous and I put myself in your hands on and.
Joel Castellaw: You know you showed me a new way to live on that has released me from the obsession to drink on and that has just given me a great sense of freedom and i'm so grateful today.
Joel Castellaw: When I got involved in general service, the thing that impressed me the most about the people in general service in my first introduction was that it was a bunch of people who were grateful and who were willing to make a sacrifice on because of that of that gratitude.
Joel Castellaw: So yeah gentle service was attractive to me from from the get go and I wanted to get involved oh yeah and I also was dating a guy who was in general service and I thought it would make a good impression on him.
Joel Castellaw: If I also became a gsr so and we get to spend more time with each other and that worked out pretty well because we're still together.
Joel Castellaw: um but yeah You know, as has been alluded to here not not all Members of alcoholics anonymous find the juice in general service in it, it says on page 23 of our current service manual the.
Joel Castellaw: Stimulating interest in general service most a Members are primarily interested in their groups in their own sobriety and in helping other drunks one on one, and that is as it should be.
Joel Castellaw: And that is as it should be.
Joel Castellaw: Well, the work of channel service has precisely the same objective carrying the message to the alcoholic and still suffers.
Joel Castellaw: The connection is not always director obvious some stimulators are usually needed to get the attention of a Members.
Joel Castellaw: To show them that service can add a rich dimension to their silver lives and plus to work with your participation is vital to the future of a welcome we've heard a lot of discussion today that that really connects to that we've talked a lot today about about how to.
Joel Castellaw: get your groups in your district interested in general service and how to help your your districts in your or you could send your districts.
Joel Castellaw: You know, see the relevance of of channel service and and just I really want to encourage you to keep up that effort you know, the first topic today was about.
Joel Castellaw: Recovery unity of service, and I know when I was at DCM we were always looking for ways that we could connect things that we were doing to recovery our steps and connect things that we were doing to unity or traditions.
Joel Castellaw: And then sort of get people little bit interested in what was going on with service, you know so so doing district level workshops that are not general service workshops, but you know.
Joel Castellaw: We did a workshop on how to 12 step wet trucks.
Joel Castellaw: and other districts did workshops on on step 11 you know.
Joel Castellaw: And those sorts of things really help the district, to see the relevance.
Joel Castellaw: And to get the group's interested right.
Joel Castellaw: And, and in the district meeting we always had a little segment every month, where the gsr is we're able to bring up whatever challenges their groups were experiencing.
Joel Castellaw: On with the traditions and then other Jews ours could share hey here's our group, we had a similar challenge here's what we did.
Joel Castellaw: You know, there was one discussion one month about dealing with disruptive numbers right which is, which is really like a first tradition and a third tradition challenge right because the disruptive Members can harm unity.
Joel Castellaw: um but for third tradition, like we don't kick people out some what do we do.
Joel Castellaw: And there was some really great sharing about different approaches and different responses.
Joel Castellaw: That groups had taken too disruptive numbers and then the gsr who brought it up, was able to go back to their group and say hey at the district meeting I heard shared experience about how other groups are.
Joel Castellaw: responding to this why don't we try some of these things, and that that sort of experience can oh wow things do happen at the district meeting that actually have an impact and be helpful to us.
Joel Castellaw: The second topic today, you know was about fear and I heard a lot of discussion about the fear that people have, as they make their way into the DCM role, usually this.
Joel Castellaw: This DCM sharing session is like in February right and so we've always got some brand new DCM you know most of you have been a discount for at least seven months now, but still i'll bet you've got some fear about some things that you need to do as a tcm.
Joel Castellaw: And you know, all we have to do in alcoholics anonymous from face fear is drop our egos and say hey I need help.
Joel Castellaw: When I got when I got elected trustee the very first words out of my mouth was you're kidding me.
Joel Castellaw: But then the next thing I said was i'm going to need a lot of help, no, and I said that to the delegates who had elected written part of the conference that.
Joel Castellaw: i'm really did lean on those folks for their health, so lean on your GS ours for the help that you need on.
Joel Castellaw: It and they'll, thank you for it right, because when you.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Joel Joel.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: You might have lost connection so.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I see Joel but I can't hear him.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: I don't see him on here myself.
Joel Castellaw: sorry that you lost me do you do you want me to continue or.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Yes, please continue.
Joel Castellaw: Okay cool um yeah I always thought like did did we was, I still with you when I said when I was drinking, I always thought that happiness came from being able to do whatever the hell, I wanted to do.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: He didn't hear that but we're glad we're hearing that now.
Joel Castellaw: Did you hear the part about i've learned today that real happiness comes from usefulness.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: No, but thank you for that.
Joel Castellaw: right on yeah did you hear the part about hey when you're DCM and you asked her to source for help you're helping them feel useful.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Oh that's great yes.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: We did hear that.
Joel Castellaw: We did hear that all right cool so Now I know where we left off.
Joel Castellaw: um so yeah give your gsr things to do, respond to your own fear with hand need help gift you give your gsr something to do.
Joel Castellaw: they're going to them feel useful and then they're going to be happy and if they're happy right, then the enthusiasm that they have for general service will naturally come through in their reports to the group.
Joel Castellaw: And then there was great discussion here today about reaching anyone anywhere and It reminded me of something that billy and told you know, used to say, all the time when he and I were in board meetings together, and that is that a is local.
Joel Castellaw: And that dovetails right back into that quote from the service manual you know that most of us are interested in our own recovery and our own groups right as local.
Joel Castellaw: You know, so I loved hearing people talk about how they looked around in their own local community and say hey who's on the streets in my own local community and yet they're not in our meetings and what can we do to reach them and the challenge often is.
Joel Castellaw: Well, let me just make it concrete in my own local neighborhood.
Joel Castellaw: there's a large Vietnamese community, there are no Vietnamese meetings in San Diego but i'm aware right and if I the white guy you know goes into the Vietnamese community and said hey you need a.
Joel Castellaw: that's not.
Joel Castellaw: Right, and so we need to see we need cooperation with professional need strong CPC committees.
Joel Castellaw: That can make the Community that can make the connections to the leaders in those local underserved or unserved.
Joel Castellaw: communities that have trucks in them that haven't found us and say hey on you know if you've got folks in your Community we're having some challenges with drinking.
Joel Castellaw: We have a potential solution, I know we're over time this was supposed to end at noon, so I want to finish by dovetailing back into something that ED shared at the start at talked about how the districts are the bones.
Joel Castellaw: The districts are the skeleton right i'm.
The.
Joel Castellaw: One of the conclusions I came to when I was serving as trusted he was that the dcms are actually the most important people in the service structure that's my view on because.
Joel Castellaw: You can have to use ours, who are clueless and who don't know what's going on, but the dcms can still connect directly to the groups.
Joel Castellaw: And you can have an area committee or a group of area officers that's maybe not functioning as effectively as they could be, but the DCM can still get their hands on the information right.
Joel Castellaw: The dcms will spend more time with the gsr and anyone else in the service structure done.
Joel Castellaw: And so i'm the district, so the bones, that means the dcms or the marrow I guess you might say.
Joel Castellaw: So I don't want to lay that on too thick that you've got this really significant responsibility to make the general service structure work.
Joel Castellaw: But he seems you do you have a tremendous amount of responsibility, make this whole thing work, and I want to thank you for everything that you're doing.
Joel Castellaw: I know it's time consuming and can be challenging and I, and I hope that also finding it delightful and rewarding I love you all and have a great day.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: So thank you so very, very much on behalf of all of us are most grateful you brought everything into focus, you put us in this solution.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: And you gave us profound points to ponder so thank you very much for your service and for being here and i'd like to thank.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Everyone who helped make this possible, who participated was a wonderful event, we will stay on some of us if you would like to stay on and chatter have further questions, but thank you very much for attending lane, would you like to say anything.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: I just want to thank everyone who's participated.
Blaine H. |Chair Area 08: All the people who participated in the planning, thank you very much.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you everyone.
Rozanne-A09/D18DCMC: Thank you to everybody who who created and did this you all did an amazing job, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Yes, thank you.
Brian P | A05 Secretary: Great Thank you.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Ryan.
Hello.
Alicia Herrera: Joe are you still here.
Alicia Herrera: Joe no.
Nikki U, Area 05 Chairperson: It.
Nikki U, Area 05 Chairperson: was a great event.
Romy S. Timer-DCMC A09/D12: Thank you so much Thank you everyone have a beautiful day.
Mark M D-45 DCM: It was terrific Thank you.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: hey everybody.
Thank you.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thanks Oh, and thank.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: God Paul Thank you.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: Thank you.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: Thank you.
Claude Area 05: Thank you.
Alicia Herrera: Thank you.
Alicia Herrera: Thank you so much.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: Sorry worked out the interpretation all right i'm.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: gonna have this recorded so just the audio part fit and.
Right.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: You can get Ahold of that so I can begin work on the transcription.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: that's a good question I gotta figure it out, but not i'm going to download it.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: And I can email it to this planet, who was on the panel and they can disperse it.
Paul K. A08 IT Committee: How about that.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I would really appreciate that also thank.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: You yes Alex can you share with area five, please.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: yeah it's gonna take a while i'm.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: transcription but yes, once we get it.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: Thank you so much.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: This was.
awesome.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: Thank you so much area for.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: Thank you so much.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: We have to do the next one right area.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: yeah yeah.
yeah.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: So.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: I guess yeah like Mickey slapped me with that one, so I get to know, since since district 30 is right at the crossroads between all four areas.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: it's sitting right on top of my district, so I get to do it.
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Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: movie right there.
Yes.
Zoraida: Yes.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: And really this guy you guys.
Alicia Herrera: You just.
Zoraida: smell good to see you.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: I think we could hang out.
maryka d. Area 09 District 04 alt dcmc: I would want.
Matt M. - A93 D1 DCM: Crossing my.
Alicia Herrera: fingers that Nick killers in.
Susie P DCM Area 5 Dist 14: person yeah.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Well, and and I want to try and get it back.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: For February this this coming year, if we can get it back to to February that gives the area's time to digest the proceeds of the.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Sharing session and any anything that proceeds from that that might be proposed as an amendment, Amendment can be made available before the September deadline.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Obviously, right now, anything you take away from this meeting is going to be useful to your groups to your gsr to everybody who's in service but there's not a lot, you can do within the time within the time that's left for us with any of that.
Alex H. - DCM D30 A05: Right.
Jo??Sun, CHD, DCMC: Right well panel 71 says one complete more ears so.
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