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WACYPAA Booth Presentation

We have a late addition to our roster for December.

Here is the event link for booking –> WACYPAA Booth

WACYPAA needs volunteers to staff a booth presentation at their Western Annual Convention of Young Peoples in Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is their website with particulars — wacypaaxxi.weebly.com and their schedule for the convention is here.

You are asked to staff a booth between the hours of 10AM to 4 PM on both/either December 29th and 30th. The events is being held at the Chateau Lacombe, downtown Edmonton.

If you can staff this booth for any length of time, your efforts would be greatly appreciated.

If you are already attending the events, and would like to step into this for a little while, that would be helpful as well.

Michelle B has volunteered for Friday the 29th.

We need another member to fill in along with Michelle B that day!

Mike M and Peter J have volunteered for Saturday the 30th.

Monthly PI/CPC Events

December Events

‘Tis the season…

For everything good. After the spate of activity during the month of October, November seemed a respite, and December a virtual detente, with only our recurring events scheduled this month. Go to events now.

For me, this if fortuitous, as it will allow time for many things to happen. Our new speakers will have time to familiarize themselves with this site set up, and how it functions, but it will also allow me to acclimate to its use as well. The Events Manager will allow our speakers to go to the page of each event listed, either from the interactive calendar, or the Event List page, and individually book their event.

I do not proclaim to have every nook and cranny of operations fleshed out, yet. This site is still a work in progress, but over this coming year, its development should bring with it the capacity to function at a higher level, and remain at that level through rotations, with the end result being an ability to reach a far wider audience with relative ease. The stage will then be set for growth we can handle.

October was an acid test for me. With 14 events scheduled for that month, some went unfilled. I found the limit of my ability, and our committee found the limit of our resources, quite literally overbooked beyond our capacity to fulfill. What a wonderful problem to have! Under this new system, given time and your participation in finding events for us to become involved in, a calendar month with 14 events could be the norm.

We reside in a metropolis of over a million souls, and our committee currently number eight of them, yet combine that with our current pool of speakers, as well as the new ones coming on board, and we have a group of some 40+ individuals with the ability to reach out into that populace from all areas.

Indeed, we have work to do, but it is honest, fulfilling, satisfying, and appreciated work at that!

December Events

Each event heading is a link that will take you directly to the event page where you can sign up to participate.

December 9th — Salvation Army

It is at 10 AM, is an hour PI presentation, and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

This event went unfilled.

December 17th — Impact Edmonton

It begins at 12:30 PM, is a half hour PI presentation, UT US
and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

Brian B. has booked as PI speaker.

December 17th — Elizabeth Fry

This goes from 1 – 2 PM, and is an hour long PI presentation with room for one speaker and two shadows.

Cassandra N. has booked to speak at this event.
Janice B has booked to shadow this event.

December 19th — Alberta Health Services

This begins at 7 PM and goes until 8:30 PM, and is a 15-20 minute PI presentation with room for two speakers and two shadows.
Mike R and Cassandra N will PI this event.
Greg B has booked to shadow this event.
Trina S has booked to shadow this event.

December 20th — PI/CPC Committee meeting.

This is our regular monthly committee meeting. Come by and see what we get up to.

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Notice of Motion Approved

I am pleased to announce,

(to virtually no one yet…), that the Edmonton EGSC committee approved, and with a vast majority, the notice of motion put before them to include a line item on our budget dedicated to the support of this website.

Over the course of the last few months, God has placed me in positions that allowed me to tell my story, and to explain to several what I hope to make possible with the use of this site. It is strange how life develops, because many of those were present to support the initiative this evening with their votes. I thank you, very much, for your support.

Over the course of the next several months, I will attempt to transition from the old WordPress.com blog, to this WordPress.org site. The differences are many, most notably the elimination of pay-walls, but not the material of this post. The adoption rate of our current speaker base is a prime consideration, as they have been through a lot of changes over the past year.

New speakers coming into service through our upcoming speaker workshop will significantly change the group dynamic going forward, as they will be the first round of speakers I will have a chance to talk to in person regarding the use of our blog and website.

At this point, I’m unsure if this site will be ready enough for introduction to this new round of speakers, or a different type of roll out will have to be adopted. I will have to sleep on this and ask for the answer.

Use as a communication tool for the Edmonton PI/CPC committee will be the primary focus for now, and that will help write the policies and procedures that will be needed as the site grows, if indeed that is what God has in store.

The A.A. Guidelines for Internet have been read over many times. Save for the formation of a committee dedicated to its use (which is forming now), there is little in that regard that this site has not taken into account. However, I encountered significant difficulty in getting the word out past our committee regarding our intentions because I am not a GSR*, and rather than sit idly by, I decided to donate the funds needed to get the site to this point ($25 CAD).

Pictures are more than a thousand words, especially when it comes to the internet. Upon reflection, I can find little cause for concern where it comes to the Traditions, Guidelines, and Concepts I have spent the last 16 years of my life trying to adhere to. ** Edit – A global password now protects this site from outside eyes during development. **

Perhaps, that may be proven false, but here is your chance to create an informed opinion yourself — a right our traditions demand.

Here it is, in all its imperfection….

* I joined PI/CPC as a speaker looking to get into service in spring of ’16, and attended a committee meeting in the fall to inquire why…. and the rest is history. Perhaps, after this settles down, other service positions…

Monthly PI/CPC Events

November Events

Hi All,

The calendar never rests. November has 8 events, one of which is our long awaited Speaker Workshop. Speakers, be sure to check back to this post around the turn of the month to see if you have been placed at an event you volunteered for. If your name appears under the event you volunteered for in blue, that is your confirmation.

I’ll get to it.

November 5th — Impact Edmonton

It begins at 12:30 PM, is a half hour PI presentation, and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

Cathy S. is our speaker for this event.

November 9th — U of A Psychiatry Students

Beginning at 1:30 PM, this is a one hour long PI and CPC presentation to psychiatry students at the U of A. It has room for one CPC and one PI presenter, and two can shadow. If you want to become a CPC presenter (and we need more) shadowing a CPC presentation is a must. This one is perfect.

Pat L. has come forward as CPC speaker.
Michelle B. has come forward for PI speaker.
Mike R. will shadow this event.

November 11th — Salvation Army

It is at 10 AM, is an hour PI presentation, and has room for one speaker and two shadows.

This position is vacant.

November 18th — Speaker Workshop

This is our membership drive to bring on new speakers into our midst. It takes place at the Alano Club, from the hours of 1PM to 5 PM and if you are interested, or have questions about anything related to PI/CPC, here is your opportunity.

November 19th — Elizabeth Fry

This goes from 1 – 2 PM, and is an hour long PI presentation with room for one speaker and two shadows.

Linda C. has put her name forward to speak.

November 23rd — U of A Psychiatry Students

This is the second of its kind this month. Same time, same place, and the same number of speakers required. Preference will be given to those not attending the first one.

Cathy S. has come forward for CPC speaker.
Either Christie N. or Mike R. will be PI for this event.

November 26th — Impact St.Albert

This is the second Impact presentation this month, but in St.Albert instead. Again, it starts at 12:30 PM, and goes for a half hour, and requires one speaker and room for two to shadow.

Linda C. has come forward.

November 28th – Alberta Health Services

This begins at 7 PM and goes until 8:30 PM, and is a 15-20 minute PI presentation with room for two speakers and two shadows.

Brian B. will be one PI speaker.
This event requires another PI speaker.

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Berth of the Blog

Generally, this area will be used for news and upcoming major events rather than posting monthly events as in the past. Our calendar is intended as the “goto” place for those events, and can be committee specific.

Admittedly, not all aspects of this space have been entirely thought out. Thus the use of the term “berth” in the title. The concept for this site was borne during the trial period of our blog, where many lessons were learned, and there is much work yet to be done prior to prime-time.

Development began in the last week of August, 2017, with the purchase of the domain name ~~www.aaservices.org~~ *changed to www.areacommittees.org* It was pointed at a server space, and I began putting the pieces together that you see here. My knowledge of web-design is growing daily.

As has been mentioned in other areas of this space, collaboration is the purpose of this site, and I am only one person. Daily, I remind myself to not be “the director”, thus possibly excluding the vast experience and ideas of our members, which could bring in ideas and concepts previously not thought of. I look forward to those discoveries.

All aspects of this site are open-source software, with user-friendly administration areas, so rotation (passing it on) is not accompanied with a steep learning curve. Consultations over a term of some weeks should set an incoming member on course with comfort.

Next on deck is finding beta-testers to “run amok” and find the flaws and operational bottlenecks every site has but cannot be found until put out into the wild. The important concept here is that it does not have to be perfect at first, it just has to work as a tool to reach the alcoholic that still suffers.

God willing, it will gain acceptance and support, and with that, become what it is intended to be. The best our community has to offer.

RY,

Mike R.

*While in my opinion the original name remains entirely appropriate given the scope of what this site may become, www.areacommittees.org was deemed less “confusing” for users during the growth cycle. It was anticipated develop into subdomains such as edmonton.aaservices.org, or calgary aaservices.org, but on its own, it simply wouldn’t survive the peer scruitiny long enough to require the addition of the subdomain, and thus remove any question of association with aa.org. So be it.

Group conscience is what it is, and it was changed. Sadly, this controversy transpired immediately preceeding the November Speakers’ Workshop, hampering a long anticipated launch to a large round of prospective speakers, but such is the learning curve, not to mention Gods’ will. Retention of the domain name is inexpensive, should it ever be desired to change it back. ***