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New: LifeRing Area
Convenors
LifeRing Area Convenors are people who
take responsibility for starting, supporting, and growing
LifeRing meetings in a specific territory. A territory may
be as small as a neighborhood or as large as a country.
In general, an Area Convenor:
- Has their first name, last initial or full name (your
choice), email address, and phone number listed on the
LifeRing web site;
- Is ready and able to respond to requests for
information, referral, and support from members of the
public in their territory, either directly or via referral
from the Service Center;
- Assists in every way possible with the practical details
involved in starting a new meeting and growing existing
meetings.
- Acts as a liaison between local meetings and their
convenors, and the LifeRing Service Center;
- Participates in the annual LifeRing Congress;
- Does whatever else it may take to help the LifeRing
self-help support network grow.
If you are already a LifeRing convenor
or want to start LifeRing in a territory where no meetings yet
exist, please contact the LifeRing
Service Center for information how you can become an Area
Convenor.
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New: LifeRing Convenor Blog
An interactive, content-rich
platform for the wonderful people who give something back to the
LifeRing organization.
Go there.
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About LifeRing
Convenors
LifeRing convenors are ordinary people in recovery from alcohol and drug
addiction who do something extra: they help bring other people
together in recovery. Convenors are the ones who start and lead
meetings, and who perform any of the numerous other services,
foreground and background, that it takes to maintain and grow a
volunteer organization. Convenors facilitate sober connections
and thereby make it possible for people to transform themselves
from scattered, isolated individuals into members of a coherent
recovery network. Without convenors there would be no LifeRing
organization and no LifeRing recoveries. If you want to
"give something back," become a LifeRing convenor.
convene,
verb. Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French convenir
to come together, from Latin convenire. Date: 15th
century. Intransitive senses :
to
come together in a body.
Transitive senses 1: to summon before a tribunal 2:
to
cause to assemble.
Synonym see SUMMON. Convener or
convenor,
noun. -- Merriam-Webster
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Convenor Workshops
San Francisco Bay
Area Convenor Roundtables:
Second Saturday Each Month*
An informal workshop, support
group, pizza lunch, and roundtable discussion takes place the
second Saturday of each month at the
Lifering Service Center in Oakland from 1 to 3 p.m.
No-host pizza served. We go around the table talking about
issues that come up in our meetings and in our personal
recovery. The sessions are open to all current and past
LifeRing convenors and to LifeRing members who are planning to
become convenors or are interested in knowing more about the
convenor role.
*No meeting in August or
December.
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Convenor connections online
The LifeRing Convenor Blog
This blog is an
interactive discussion forum and a searchable database of posts
that LifeRing convenors may find of interest. Small
anecdotes, letters, email messages, factoids, and longer event
reports, research summaries, and theoretical pieces are all
accessible and open for comment here.
Go there.
The
liferingconvenor Email List
Convenors need support, too!
It's true that being a convenor can be a great boost to one's own
personal sobriety. But it's also true that being a convenor
brings its own issues and stresses. Experience shows that
convenors need support from other convenors. There's a
special list for just that purpose: the liferingconvenor list.
This is the place to share convenor experiences, ask questions
about issues that come up in convenor work, and to let other
convenors know news of interest to convenors. Moderated, by
subscription.
Apply to subscribe.
Note:
As of 1/1/08 the liferingconvenor list replaces the
former convenors list. If you tried to join the old
convenors list and had no response, or you are still on the
old convenors list, please subscribe to the
liferingconvenor
list now.
The LifeRing
Online Convenors' list
LifeRing chat hosts, forum
hosts, email listmeisters, webmasters and moderators are convenors too. The
online convenors' list is for discussion and support for the special
issues that come up in the online meeting contexts. By
subscription.
Apply to subscribe.
The lsrcon
list
LifeRing convenors and the
general membership need an email forum for discussion and debate
of internal political issues, such as proposed Bylaws amendments,
upcoming Congress resolutions, and similar concerns.
Civility expected, moderated. Any LifeRing member can join.
Subscribe.
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The Annual LifeRing Congress
Each year in the spring, LifeRing
convenors and other active participants get together face-to-face
in our annual LifeRing Congress. The event is partly
social, partly educational, and partly a business meeting (the
Delegates' Assembly). It usually forms the highlight of
the year. The next Congress is May 30-June 1 2008 in Berkeley CA.
Click
here to review past
Congresses.
For a more detailed description
of the role of the Congress, see
How Was Your Week Ch. 9, and
consult the Bylaws. Whatever you do, don't miss the annual
Congress. Be there or be square. |
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