Extracts:
aacultwatch forum (section 4)
“Conference
Questions can be downloaded in pdf from the GSO (GB) website.
They are on pages 5-11, AA Service News, Issue 157, Winter 2013
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/download/1/Library/Documents/AA%20Service%20News/157%20Winter%202013.pdf
Conference 2014 background material can be found on the GSO (GB) website. Follow the “Background Material for Conference 2014” link in the Document Library. http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/Members/Document-Library#”
“I don’t think AA should supply certificates of attendance to professionals attending AA presentations because it would violate AA traditions. How AA public information services ought to co-operate with professionals is given in the AA pamphlet “How AA Members Cooperate with Professionals” http://aa.org/lang/en/catalog.cfm?category=4&product=52 Cooperation which goes beyond providing professionals with information about AA, the Steps, Traditions and Concepts constitutes affiliation rather than cooperation.
Tradition Five states: “ Each group has but one primary purpose – to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers” http://aa.org/twelveandtwelve/en_pdfs/en_tradition5.pdf Tradition Six states: “ An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.” http://aa.org/twelveandtwelve/en_pdfs/en_tradition6.pdf
If doctors, nurses, and other professionals (or the management systems of the related facility or outside enterprise that employs them) require certificates of attendance at A.A. events, then it is up to the management systems of these related facilities or outside enterprises to provide the finance for printing the certificates and the responsibility for issuing them. AA members should not be asked to take on the managerial responsibility to finance and issue certificates to employees of any related facilities or outside enterprises.”
Cheers
The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)
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It is my sincere hope that AA in Great Britain will not venture into this "gray" area of affiliation with outside entities. Beware of parties within AA that want to hide the bad motive of ego support and belief that AA alone can supply the information or that we are of service by performing the certification for any professionals continuing education. Hiding this motive under the "good" one of helping these outside entities. We are not to enter into to alcohol research or education. We certainly should not become the human resources department for a professional organization and determine if their employees are meeting arbitrary educational job requirements or participation in research related to their profession. Be very wary of any such slippery slopes.
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