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NA WORLD SERVICES NEWS
Whats happening in NA World Services
that you may want to know...
We hope you will forward this page by email or copy it for interested members, your ASCs, and your RSCs. We
continue to encourage people to obtain e-subs to The NA Way and NAWS News. This helps us to communicate
more effectively and control distribution costs.
Membership Survey The 2009 Membership Survey is now posted on na.org. You can complete this survey
online, at WCNA 33, or by downloading a copy and mailing or faxing in the results. We will keep this
survey online until 31 December 2009, and we encourage you to spread the word! The website address is
http://questionnaire.disc.na.org. Please forward this link to your friends!
Living Clean Chapters One and Two and a working outline for Living Clean are out for fellowship review
and input until 15 September 2009. You can find the drafts from the link on the project page at
http://www.
na.org/?ID=Living_Clean_Project and access them with the password and user name of WSC2010. You can
also submit your input online. In addition, you can help contribute source material for the ongoing writing
by sharing your experience with any of the topics in the outline online here
http://www.naws.org/lc/.
Financials We have completed our fiscal year. As in the rest of the world, we at NAWS have some financial
challenges. Costs have increased for developmental literature, translations, fellowship publications like The
NA Way and Reaching Out, shipping, and public relations. At the same time, fellowship donations are down.
We will continue to ask for your support and forward our ideas on how to reduce the cost of producing and
distributing our free publications without losing our ability to communicate. We will need your ideas and
help with this!
Effective 1 July 2009 the price of translated versions of the first portion of the Basic Text are $7.50, and literature
from WSO Europe are priced in euros.
Workshops A worldwide workshop is scheduled for Boston, Massachusetts, 2022 November 2009. Plans
for workshops in Japan and the Middle East are under way. Please visit
http://www.na.org/?ID=nawseventsevent-
reg for more information.
WCNA 33 Our convention will be 2023 August 2009 in Barcelona! The last world convention in Europe
was in 1995, and the next will be in 2027. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate both our recovery and
our diversity. We currently have pre-registrants from fifty-nine countries and are working hard on providing
lots of fun and entertainment to go along with the recovery. Come and celebrate with us! Please visit
http://www.na.org/wcna/.
HRP Individuals who wish to be considered for nomination by the HRP to a world services position need
to submit or update their World Pool Information Form by 31 August. The Human Resource Panel also distributed
a new form in March that must be completed by 31 October for all candidates submitted to them by
regions, zones, and the World Board.
Go to NAWS News at
http://www.na.org/?ID=reports-nawsnews-nawsmain
VOLUME EIGHT | ISSUE FOUR | JULY 2009
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May - July 2009 Activities
mo ving forward in this
cycle ; mo ving toward
the ne xt cycle
The World Board met 2527 June
2009 in Chatsworth, California.
With a three-day meeting, our
agenda was concentrated; we had
numerous items that we needed
to work on and accomplish at this meeting. Our agenda
centered on the Service System project, WSC seating and
purpose, strategic planning, WCNA 33, and the current
financial picture of NAWS. Additionally, we discussed
how to reduce costs for two NAWS publications, The NA
Way and Reaching Out, and considered the workgroups
recommendations for improving these publications. We also
completed our final round of discussions for potential WB
candidates to forward to the HRP for consideration in their
nominations process.
We spent a full day in a facilitated discussion focused on our
20102012 strategic plan. Our plan had been updated from
our April meeting; we reviewed the objectives and carryover
approaches (items that still need to be done and were not
accomplished in the 20082010 cycle). Our next step was
to identify any new approaches (avenues to accomplish
stated objectives) and to begin our prioritizing process.
Additionally, we performed our first evaluation of an existing
NAWS program, the worldwide workshops.
We spent time reviewing the progress and direction of the
Service System project; we offered suggestions for a global
vision statementone that both encompasses our entire
service system and inspires. We continued our discussions
on WSC seating and on the purpose of the conference, which
will help us in our consideration of seating. We recognize
that seating is a small part of a larger issue, namely, the
purpose of the conference and what is to be accomplished
during the WSC.
WCNA 33 registration numbers and the Barcelona site
updates completed our agenda. We have almost 4,000
registered for the world convention in August 2009, and
we continue to look at ways to maximize our use of the
location of this convention. Pre-registration has ended; we
are looking forward to celebrating recovery in Barcelona
with more than 5,000 members from fifty-nine countries!!
Finally, we are continuing to find ways to maximize reporting
and control production costs for NAWS News, The NA Way,
and Reaching Out. We have created a front-page synopsis for
NAWS News and would like to encourage you to distribute
this one page to your RSCs and RCMs. Please contact us with
your ideas or experience at
worldboard@na.org.
membership survey
Our survey is live and we want you to
participate. We are keeping this survey up
through 31 December 2009 in the hope
of attracting more members. For the 2007
survey, we had more than 13,000 members
take part during the ninety days it was
available; with the 2009 survey, we would
like to see 25,000 members involved in the
process.
This survey is online at
http://questionnaire.disc.na.org,
If members choose to fax or mail their completed surveys,
we will gladly accept them. We request that each member
complete only one survey. Some areas and regions may
choose to collect surveys in a batch, perhaps by asking all
GSRs and trusted servants to complete a survey and return
it to the areas designated person. For those who choose this
approach, we suggest that they contact
Stephan@na.org.
Stephan will assist them with the online entry process.
Some of you may be wondering why you should complete a
survey. First, let us reassure youthe surveys are anonymous;
information is gathered, but no names are needed. Second,
we want to emphasize the importance of the survey. We
have a vision that NA be viewed as a credible, viable recovery
program by all. The information from the surveys helps us
demonstrate to professionals, who rely on data, that NA is a
valuable community resource for addicts seeking recovery.
So please join the thousands of members in completing
this survey. In our first seven days online, we received 814
completed surveys. We appreciate your enthusiasm!!
strategic planning
our ne xt step
We took our next step to plan for the
20102012 conference cycle during our
June board meeting. Jim DeLizia, a NAWS
consultant, facilitated this planning day,
which focused on the updated plan
that was created from items identified
in our April 2009 environmental scan.
Looking at the world around us and how it affects NA, and
at statistics and information about what is happening in
NA around the world and at NAWS, leads us to create a list
of objectives. These are the goals that we need to attain to
address the issues and needs of our fellowship. We looked
extensively at the ever-changing world in which we live and
its perceptions about addiction. The attitude in the world
about addiction and its treatment through medical means
is definitely something that impacts NA. It is important that
as much as we all tend to resist change, we look at not only
our current needs and issues, but at those we anticipate
affecting us in the years to come. We added two objectives
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as a result of this look at the world inside and outside of
NA. Our objectives are long-range goals, and each goal has
several identified approaches that would help us to reach it.
Approaches are simply the steps needed to reach a goal
or our stated objective. We examined each approach to
determine whether it is still valid, whether it has been or will
be implemented in the current cycle, whether it needs to be
carried over to the 20102012 cycle, and whether we need
to add new approaches to our plan. We identified many
approaches that will need to be carried over to the next
cycle, such as the continuation of the Service System project
and the Living Clean recovery literature project. These were
approved as two-cycle projects, yet they remain in our
strategic plan as carryover approaches. Once we affirmed
the carryover approaches, we discussed and identified
new approaches. For example, we had information that
the growth of NA in the US has flattened, but we currently
have no real way to determine why this appears to be
happening. Therefore, we created an approach that would
help us research and assess trends related to growth or lack
of growth of NA in our worldwide fellowship. All of this is
meant to ultimately help us better carry our message.
Once we all agreed on what we need to do to achieve our
objectives, we went through our first round of prioritizing
our approaches. We all want to do everything, yet that is
not realistic; prioritizing helps us determine what could
possibly be accomplished in a conference cycle. Now that
we have our first round of prioritized approaches, we will
look at our available human and financial resources before
our October meeting. Those approaches that we believe
can be reasonably accomplished and for which we have the
needed resources will be developed into project plans for
presentation at WSC 2010.
conference project updates
Living Clean
The Living Clean Workgroup met 14
16 May 2009. The group focused on
reviewing the draft of Chapter Three.
Work is continuing with the drafting of
the remainder of the narrative for this
chapter. However, we still have many
opportunities for members to affect this
project by sharing their experiences of living life in recovery.
In fact, we want members to participatemembers who
are new to the recovery process, members who have lived
life and recovery for a while, and most certainly, members
who have many decades of recovery and life experiences to
share with us.
The optimal time to affect the development of literature
is now; we are still early in the process of the creation of
this book. We are trying new and innovative methods of
gathering input. The latest innovation is in the form of a
discussion board that is PUBLIC and is open to all members of
the fellowship. The discussion board is divided up by chapter,
and the topic outline is posted there for easy reference. We
appreciate the members who are viewing the discussion,
and we encourage members to share their experience in
Living Clean regarding the topics covered on the outline
and some other topics as well. This is a wonderful reservoir
of source material that is aiding in the development of the
book. The link is
http://naws.org/lc/index.php.
The survey that provided us with over 500 responses to kickstart
the project has been discontinued, and members are
redirected to the discussion boards as a forum for responses
and ongoing involvement.
Chapters One and Two and the detailed outline were released
for review and input at the beginning of June. That reviewand-
input material can be accessed online from the links on
the main project page:
http://www.na.org/?ID=Living_
Clean_Project. The deadline for input for these chapters
and outline is 15 September 2009.
Subsequent chapters will be sent out for review and input as
they become available; the project plan called for staggered
periods of review and input. These review-and-input cycles
are of at least ninety days in duration. The text must be in
approval form by April 2011 for consideration at WSC 2012;
as a result, we must have completed drafting and sending
the material out for review and input before the end of 2010.
ser vice system
Following our joint meeting with the Service System
Workgroup in April, where we agreed on the fundamental
needs that an effective service system must meet, the
workgroup continued to put together foundational pieces
for the project. They have discussed, for instance, the many
variables that must be considered when framing options
for service delivery and the necessary roles that would
need to be filled in an effective service system. In all of our
discussions we are trying to follow the maxim that form
follows function, so we are being very thorough in these
first steps putting together these basic building blocks.
In that spirit, one of the first tasks of the Service System
Workgroup was to create a common vision for NA service
efforts. After some discussion, we determined as a board
that the best approach was to simply widen the focus of
the existing NAWS Vision Statement to make it a Narcotics
Anonymous Service System Vision. This proposed revision
will be included in the CAR scheduled for release in
November of this year.
As of this writing, the workgroup is putting together a
template that lists all of the elements that must be
included in a model of the service system. In addition to this
we are looking at the ways in which both NA service bodies
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and external organizations are arranged so as to gather as
many ideas as possible. We are still asking NA members to
send us any innovative ideas that are working in their local
services, so if you are doing something new to answer an
old need, please let us know about it. Your experience may
be invaluable in NA communities around the world. We
will use all of this information at our next meeting to begin
discussing alternative models for service delivery in NA. We
have determined not to limit our thinking at this point, but
instead are keeping our minds open to any ideas that seem
effective. We look forward to sharing our thoughts at the
conference and beyond.
self -support
The Self-Support Workgroup held their final meeting in June
over the same weekend that the board met. The workgroup
reviewed all of the fellowship input on two review draft
IPs released in February in order to make decisions about
revising the pieces. The review period for the project ended
at the close of May, and though we accepted late input and
left the online input form up until 4 June, our numbers were
still low. Altogether, we received sixty-nine pieces of input.
We know the geographic sources for only a little more than
half of the input, because the state/country lines were not
added to the form until halfway through the review-andinput
period. Among the known sources from which we
received input were nineteen states in the US and a total
of five countries outside the US: Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, South Africa, and Turkey.
While input numbers were low, the good news is that plenty
of people did read the drafts. The shorter graphical piece
aimed at groups was downloaded a total of 644 times, and
the longer text piece aimed at members, 432 times. The
input contained a great deal of constructive suggestions
and critique. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a small segment of
the input seemed to reject the principle behind the drafts
altogether. It seems some of our members still consider it
wrong or unprincipled to focus on the financial aspects of
self-support. This sentiment was limited, however, and the
input largely contained information that will improve the
pieces, such as changing the titles, shortening the textual
pieces, and adding to the world map on the graphical pieces
(we hear you, New Zealand!). Using the input as a guide, the
workgroup was able to accomplish a great deal during their
three-day meeting, reworking the material without major
revision to the content included. We are confident that the
approval drafts are significantly improved. Thank you to all
who gave input.
We also want to mention a couple of process-related items.
This project broke new ground in a couple of remarkable
ways. For one, this was the first world services workgroup to
have a non-board member as the point person: Khalil J from
the Business Plan Work Group. This went quite well, which
might be useful to know in considering projects down the
road. In fact, the entire workgroup is to be thanked for their
diligent work on our behalf.
The other notable breakthrough was that this workgroup
included the first-ever member from the Middle East in a
world services workgroup, Ahmed M from Cairo, Egypt.
Having a member from that region in the workgroup
provided a valuable perspective on the work being done, and
also serves as further illustration of our continued progress as
a truly worldwide fellowship. The World Service Conference
voted in 2008 to seat the Egypt Region, meaning that their
first conference participation will take place at WSC 2010.
in times of illness
At WSC 2008, the In Times of Illness
Workgroup was charged with updating
the booklet to reflect the challenges
that our members currently face with
both physical and mental illness. The
fellowship review-and-input period for
the proposed revision ended 31 May. We
would like to extend a special thank you
to all who took part in this process; we are
grateful for individual members and committees who took
the time to read the original 1992 booklet and the revised
booklet. We understand that this effort took time, planning,
and dedication. We accepted one collection of late input
from a committee that was submitted on 4 June. In total,
ninety-three pieces of input were received, and seventyone
percent of the participants perceived the revisions as
a positive enhancement of the booklet. Input was received
from fifty-one US states and four countriesthat we know
of. (We added the state and country line halfway through
the review-and-input process.) The review-and-input draft
was downloaded from na.org a total of 1,057 times.
The In Times of Illness Workgroup met for the final time 1820
June. All responses from the review process to the draft were
collected and presented to the group. Each piece of input
was thoroughly discussed and evaluated. We appreciate
the request from members who wanted page numbers for
the literature quotes. However, we no longer identify page
numbers; we simply cite the recovery literature source. Since
page numbers vary depending on format, with various
translations and editions of the Basic Text, we discontinued
the practice of citing page numbers. The result of the
workgroup meeting was a plan for final revisions that will be
reflected in the approval draft. The workgroup members felt
that these changes are a reflection of careful deliberation
and group conscience. The approval draft of the revised
booklet will be available in the 2010 Conference Agenda
Report. We want to thank all members of the workgroup
who selflessly and conscientiously worked on our behalf to
complete the revision to this booklet.
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NAWS PUBLICATIONSmo ving forward
Reaching Out
We discussed recommendations
from the reports of the Reaching Out
and NA Way Magazine Workgroups,
which both met in March. Reaching
Out is a newsletter designed to
share NA recovery with individuals
in institutions. It is a resource for H&I
subcommittees and interested members
on the outside. The newsletter is available on our website:
http://www.na.org/?ID=reaching_out-index.
To more actively engage local H&I subcommittees, and to
encourage submissions from members on both the inside
and the outside, we approved the RO Workgroups plan
to develop templates members can use to help generate
submissions. One template will be incorporated into an
outline that members can use to interview other members,
and another into a session profile that members can use
to conduct local letter-writing workshops. Well also be
working toward including an online portal where those
interested can write and submit directly to Reaching Out
on our website. We hope that making the writing process
a little friendlier will encourage members to write for RO. As
these tools are developed, well include them in upcoming
issues, mail information to H&I subcommittees, and initiate a
discussion on the na.org H&I bulletin board.
With the judicial systems focus on treatment and alternative
sanctions, we agreed with the workgroups recommendation
to expand the focus of Reaching Out to include addicts who
are housed or staying in places other than jails or prisons.
While we all know that much of our H&I service has been
conducted in correctional institutions, today there are
many other facilities where our members and potential
members seek NA recovery. We also clarified that expanding
the overall focus of Reaching Out will allow for letters from
members on the outside who have been incarcerated, have
H&I experience, or have experienced treatment as a part of
their recovery process.
The NA Way Magazine
The NA Way Magazine submission guidelines are being
revised to include information on how members can submit
artwork and photographs, and on a new set of inspirational
questions to prompt writing ideas. Further, well clarify that
we dont accept poetry submissions due to the challenge
of translating metaphoric language or rhyme into other
languages.
Enhancements to the online PDF version of the magazine,
such as live links and more interactive content, will be
incorporated in upcoming issues. In addition, the workgroup
set up a beta NA Way blog and will develop plans to provide
the magazine in this format. We believe the time has come to
provide our magazine in these formats to improve response
to the fellowships requests, improve our communication,
and provide NA Way readers with a more valuable electronic
magazine which can be viewed at
www.naway.org.
Finally, the workgroup recommended exploring a new set
of characters for a comic strip. The current characters were
adopted in the early 2000s because some didnt like the
snarky, biting humor of the original Home Group; however,
many dont like the current characters and feel that, while
instructional and inspirational, the current strip is not really
very funny. Rather than simply changing the characters,
we decided to appeal to the NA Fellowship for new ideas
or submissions. An announcement to this effect is included
in this NAWS News and will appear in the July and October
issues of The NA Way Magazine.
CALL FOR COMIC STRIP SUBMISSIONS TO
THE NA WAY MAGAZINE
The Home Group comic strip was introduced in
1989 to mixed reaction. Some were offended by
the cynicism, while others lauded the humor of
recovery lifes twists and turns. Slugg and the
other seven home group members reflected some
of the best assets and worst defects of recovering
addicts. Eventually, concern about the tone led to a
new set of Home Group characters in 2002. These
are the more generic characters many of you have
come to know. Now we believe its time for another
change, so were inviting you, our NA members, to
develop and submit your own characters, settings,
and situations. Electronic documents (jpg, gif, pdf,
etc.) may be emailed to
naway@na.org with NA WAY
COMIC in the subject line. You can fax submissions
to 818.700.0700, attn: NA WAY COMIC, or mail
them to NA WAY COMIC; PO Box 9999; Van Nuys,
CA 91409. Submissions received by 30 November
2009 will be considered for publication; well share
more information with you in upcoming issues.
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Volume 23, Number 1
Fiscal update
Fiscal Snapshot
We have completed our fiscal
year and are in the process of
finalizing all of the adjusting
details that it takes to close out
a year and prepare for our audit.
We have no really new, glowing,
or drastic news to report at this time. Although we still
will show a substantial loss for this fiscal year, our income
seems to have stabilized, primarily through the sale of
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recovery literature, and we have reduced our expenses
through dramatic reductions in travel to fellowship
events. We are currently in the process of evaluating
costs of all events, including worldwide workshops,
and determining how we can continue to effect cost
savings. Fortunately, we have been successful with
managing some of the costs for WCNA 33 and are
hoping to have less of a loss than was projected in
the budget approved at WSC 2008. NAWS costs that
continue to rise are related to project expenses and
publications such as NA Way and Reaching Out.
We believe that, in keeping with our mission to support
the fellowships primary purpose, we have continued
to provide free and subsidized literature. The demand
is ever-rising, and for this fiscal year expenses reached
over $783,000 for this. This figure rose dramatically with
giving away the Fifth Edition Basic Texts we still had
in stock after the Sixth Edition was released. Without
this specific expense in this next fiscal year, and with
expanding our local printing efforts, we expect to
reduce this total expense.
Fellowship contributions continue to show a dramatic
decline. We had $807,711 in fellowship donations,
which is more than $200,000 under budget. We have no
indication from members as to the reason for this decline.
We can speculate as to why contributions are down, yet
we truly do not understand or know. We will continue
to communicate and engage members in discussions
about this drastic decline. We encourage you to write us
at
worldboard@na.org with your thoughts.
Pricing at WSO-Europe
As we reported earlier, we made a decision to
change prices in Europe to be based on the
euro. WSO Europe has operated at a loss for the
past few years, primarily because we began a practice years
ago of setting our literature prices each month based on the
dollar-euro exchange rate in order to ensure the availability
of literature in Europe. For a branch that has expenses in
euros, as well as additional expenses like VAT that are not
incurred by NAWS in the US, this practice does not make
sense.
We published our intent to standardize pricing in euros at par
to the dollar and received a lot of input from members and
service offices in Europe. We listened and considered their
perspective, and revised our price change to about half of
what had been initially proposed. When you finally realize that
you have based your business model on practices that have
been faulty for many years, it is difficult not to try to adjust
them. But we also agreed that a significant price change does
not seem reasonable or fair to institute all at one time.
It is also difficult to explain to the average member why a
model that works for net literature sales of almost $7,000,000
in the US cannot be the same in a branch that has net sales of
only slightly over $250,000, or 175,000. These members had
gotten used to literature pricing that had not made sense
for years and years. We went through a difficult adjustment
many years ago with the pricing and discounts offered to
US service offices. At that time we realized that for NA World
Services to continue providing service, offices would have
to operate on a smaller margin of discount. It was difficult,
but we all adapted and adjusted. That same adjustment,
and the lengthy discussions that took place as a result,
never occurred in Europe because European members were
unaffected. We realize that this was not a popular decision,
but it was one that was long overdue and needed to be
made. We expect that this will be an ongoing subject of
discussion with service offices, regions, and members in
Europe for some time to come.
wsc seating update
Our discussions on WSC seating continued from our last
meeting, where we talked about the underlying philosophy
and principles of regional representation at the conference.
At our June meeting we touched on some of the larger,
foundational elements: the purpose of the WSC; the
decision-making process; how NAWS receives direction;
training, development, learning, and sharing experience;
the magic of attending the conference; and the impact on
a local fellowship of WSC representation.
In the NAWS News following the April board meeting we wrote,
It would seem that once we are focused on the principles of
the issue, a process would be most easily developed. One
thing is clear: There are many facets to the issue, with no easy
answers, and resolution will take the efforts of all of us. Well,
we were certainly feeling that sentiment at this meeting. The
broad topics we covered in June began to outline our ideas
about the what of the ideal WSC. Our hope is to discuss the
purpose of the conference and how it satisfies the needs
both of world services and of local NA communities. These
discussions will in turn help us to tackle questions about
the size and composition of the WSC, which may be more
like the how of the issue. It proved to be quite a challenge
to encompass an issue of this size in the short time we had
available at this board meeting, however.
Seating is an issue that is closely linked to the work of the
Service System project. The work of that project definitely
overlaps with the issues related to seating, which in turn
may be affected by the possibility of changes to our system.
We will meet together with the Service System Workgroup
again in January, and we hope at that time to be further
along in our discussion. We are finding the question of
seating to be more formidable than we had first hoped, but
we remain committed to engaging delegates in structured
discussions at the 2010 WSC.
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WCNA 33
2023 August 2009
Barcelona, Spain
With almost 4,000 preregistrants
from fifty-nine
countries, our vision and
desire to celebrate recovery
with 5,000 registrants on
the Mediterranean Sea in
Barcelona may become a reality. We are jazzed by the mere
thought that members from throughout our worldwide
fellowship will be attending this convention! The closing
meeting of this convention will be a reflection and celebration
of our growth and will help us see how much more we need
to do to help addicts everywhere experience recovery from
the disease of addiction in Narcotics Anonymous.
With all of the people who have booked cabins on the
week-long cruise leaving Barcelona at the conclusion of
the convention, we anticipate having meetings during the
cruise. In addition to the cruise, we are encouraging and
working with areas and regions surrounding Barcelona on
events that are either pre- or post-WCNA 33. We are hoping
that if it is your plan to see the Costa del Sol or make a
quick trip to the south of France (a five-hour drive), you will
be able to attend some local NA events while you stay in
these world-renowned vacation destinations. As those NA
events are planned, you can check our website at www.
na.org/wcna. We hope knowing you have other European
destinations to incorporate into your vacation will make
your trip to Barcelona more enjoyable.
With all the expenses associated with entertainment, the
economic downturn, and the desire on the part of many for
Spain to be the beginning or ending of a longer European
vacation, we decided that we would have no paid events. Of
course, we will be offering a festival on Saturday night and
we will have coffee houses with live music on Thursday and
Friday nights outside the convention center on the beach.
These events are in addition to dances at the AC Barcelona
each night. We are simply including these recovery activities
in the registration charge. You wont need to incur any
further expense for entertainment at WCNA 33.
The WCNA 33 program is offering Flamenco dancers before
the Thursday evening meeting, and drumming prior to
the start of the Friday night meeting. We believe the Unity
Day meeting will again have many of us teary-eyed as we
hear members from throughout our worldwide fellowship
share recovery. We hope that members take the time to
meet members of the World Board during board forums or
during the weekend. We would love to give you a hug, take
a picture, and talk recovery, life, and service. And, if you are
planning to attend the convention and have not signed up
to volunteer yet, please go online to sign up. This is a great
way to meet people from all over our fellowship.
Our public relations efforts in Barcelona for this convention
have been unique, and we are utilizing the skill and
experience of the support committee to assist us. We
have been working with a PR firm in Barcelona whose aim
is to help us raise awareness of NA. This collaboration has
been necessary in order for us to get some assistance from
the local government for the convention. The support
committee has been assisting in this process, and our hope
is to leave Barcelona and Spain with a group of NA members
who can continue the PR efforts that have begun.
For additional updates about WCNA-33 as they become
available, please go to
www.na.org/wcna.
WORLDWIDE WORKSHOP
It is not too early to plan to attend a fall worldwide workshop
2022 November 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. This is sure
to be a great opportunity to interact with members from
in and around Boston, the Northeast, Canada, and beyond.
We will have more details on the Boston WWW as we move
closer to it, and once those details are finalized we will post
a flyer and online registration form on the website.
We hope everyone will help us get the word out on
this workshop to ensure a successful event. Remember,
registration is free, and the program is designed to be
of interest to every NA member, not just those involved
in structured service in NA. It is a great opportunity for
members to share what is going on in their NA communities
and broaden their perspective by hearing and seeing what
is going on elsewhere in NA.
We are also currently planning a workshop in Japan in
November and in the Middle East in the fall. We will post
details of these events as they become available.
fROM THE HUMAN RESOURCE PANEL
Hello from your Human Resource Panel.
The third meeting of the HRP for this conference cycle is
scheduled to take place 2527 October 2009. By that time
we will be very actively working on the nomination process
for WSC 2010.
In order to be included in the process for a WSC 2010
nomination from the HRP, the deadline for submitting your
World Pool Information Form (WPIF) is 31 August 2009. We
also ask those members in the World Pool whose WPIF is
older than three years to update their information. Please
remember, if you do not respond, as outlined in A Guide to
World Services, you will be removed from consideration for
this conference cycle. The link for the WPIF is
http://www.
na.org/?ID=HRP-wpif-default.
In mid-September we will be contacting all of those World
Pool members with eight or more years clean and an interest
in being considered for nomination to the World Board, HRP,
or a cofacilitator position, and inviting them into the process.
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May - July 2009 Activities
Also, the deadline for the submission of regional, World
Board, and zonal forum (RBZ) nominees is 31 October 2009.
Those service bodies interested in forwarding names must
have their submissions in by that date. The submission forms
can also be completed online at
http://www.naws.org/
hrp/rbz1.htm.
As always, we thank you for the opportunity to serve. We
invite any thoughts or concerns. Please feel free to contact
us at NAWS, or via email at
hrp@na.org.
CALENDAR FOR 20092010
Worldwide Workshops
2022 November 2009 Boston, Massachusetts
Dates in Japan and the Middle East still to be
determined.
Deadlines
1 August 2009 Regional motion deadline
Motions must be received by this date and must be in
CAR-ready form by 28 August. We encourage all delegates
to begin a dialogue with the WB ahead of this
deadline. We will attempt to help you find ways to get
your issue discussed by conference participants.
31 August 2009
Deadline for WPIF submission or update to be considered
for WSC 2010 nomination from the HRP
15 September 2009
Review-and-input deadline for Chapters One
and Two of Living Clean
31 October 2009
Deadline for region, zone, and World Board candidate
submissions to the HRP with the new submission form
25 November 2009
English Conference Agenda Report available
25 December 2009
Translated Conference Agenda Report available
25 January 2010
Conference Approval Track material available
1 March 2010
Regional report deadline
25 April1 May 2010
World Service Conference 2010
WCNA-33
2023 August 2009
WCNA 33 in Barcelona, Spain: Amor sin Fronteras, Love
without Borders
22 August 2009 World Unity Day
