At the assembly I attended a round table and a workshop on home groups. The focus was on clarifying what IS a home group (there is a difference between a meeting and a home group) and how to help home groups full fill their primary purpose: To help alcoholics recover through A.A's suggested twelve steps of recovery.
A group inventory was suggested as a great way to stay focused and address any issues. There are 13 questions listed in "The AA group... where it all begins" pamphlet. Ideas on how to do the group inventory ranged from doing a potluck and getting thru all the questions to tackling one question a month at a business meeting. I heard so many stories of groups that were stronger and more focused after doing the inventories I can't wait to get my home group started on ours.
I am really enjoying my rotation as the GSR for my home group. I'm pretty sure I'm the only GSR functioning in this area. If you have a home group up here, I'd love another GSR to commute with! We have monthly sub district meetings, and quarterly assemblies which require some travel. This role has enhanced my sobriety by leaps and bounds. I understand the upside down triangle, how things get changed in AA (slowly and carefully), the traditions and I have an awareness up upcoming changes and my group has a voting voice on issues at the assemblies.
I have met wonderful friends, feel connected to a larger AA population and I get out of myself and into action. Which is a good thing :)
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I totally related to what you said. I was a GSR for a couple different groups, a couple different times. It was very enriching for me, but was kinda bittersweet too. I would bring news and info back to the group, and only rarely did someone connect with anything that I said. It kept me sober, but I don't know what it did for anyone else. The old 80/20 rules seems to apply in the AA world as well. Anyway, it was a fun, rewarding experience.
It is hard to get others to get all fired up over a panel topic isn't it?
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