AA Conference Questions 2014 (contd)

AA Conference 2014 Committee No. 1 Q 1

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“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.”

Note: 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

Cheers

The Fellas (Friends of Alcoholics Anonymous)

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