| AAWS |
Alcoholics Anonymous
World Services: one of two corporations of the General Service Board,
it oversees the operation of GSO and publishes approved literature. |
Alternate
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A
service worker who supports and assists a
trusted servant and in often considered “in training”, but always
stands ready
to step in for the trusted servant.
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Area
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All or
part of a state or province that is responsible for sending a delegate
to the General Service Conference. There are four Delegate Areas in
Ohio. |
Area Assembly
|
A
quarterly meeting of GSRs and Area committee members that assembles to
discuss Area affairs and to elect a delegate and area officers every
two years. Please refer to the Area schedule for dates and location. Area
Schedule
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| Area Committee |
Body
composed of the District Committee Members, the Area Committee Chairs,
the Area Officers and the Delegate. |
Autonomous
|
Our
Fourth Tradition
states: “Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other
groups or A.A. as a whole." This means that we have been given the
courage
to declare each A.A. group an individual entity, strictly reliant on
its own
conscience as a guide to action. However, a group ought not do anything
which
would injure A.A. as a whole, nor affiliate itself with anything or
anybody
else. |
Conference
|
The
General Service Conference; this can mean
either the structure involving committee members, GSRs and Delegates in
an
Area, or the annual meeting of Conference Delegates each April in New
York City.
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Conference
Approved
Literature
|
Pamphlets,
books, videos and films produced by
A.A. World Services that have undergone an approval process within the
General
Service Conference. To be modified they must be brought to the
Conference.
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C.P.C.
|
Cooperation
with the
Professional Community.
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D.C.M.
|
District
Committee Member. An experienced GSR
elected by other GSRs to represent the groups of their district in Area
committee meetings and to coordinate services in the district. |
Delegate
|
The
man or woman elected every other year to
represent the Area at the annual General Service Conference meeting in New York City
and to
bring back to the Area the results of that meeting.
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| District |
A geographical division
within an area,
represented by a DCM. |
District
Meeting
|
Meeting
of the DCM and GSRs in a district.
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Group
Conscience
|
The
collective conscience of the group
membership representing substantial unanimity on an issue before
definitive
action is taken. |
G.S.O.
|
The
General Service Office, which provides
services to groups in the United States
and Canada
and publishes A.A. literature.
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G.S.R.
|
General
Service Representative: The group representative is the contact on
record with the GSO and a voting member of the Area Assembly. |
Mini-
Conference
|
Area
54 conference held prior to the General
Service Conference with the purpose of acting as the collective
conscience of the
groups on current issues of the General Service Conference. |
P.I.
|
Public
Information committees at the district,
Area, Trustee and Conference level help carry the message by working
with the
media.
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Region
|
A
group of several Delegate Areas from which a Regional
Trustee is elected to the General Service Board. There are six regions
in the
U.S and two in Canada.
Area 54 is part of the East Central Region, which includes the fourteen
Delegate Areas in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois
and Wisconsin.
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Third Legacy
|
Our
three legacies include Recovery, as
described in the Twelve Steps, Unity, as described in the Twelve
Traditions,
and Service, as described in the Twelve Concepts for World Service. Our
Third
Legacy of Service is the sum total of all A.A. services, from a Twelfth
Step
call to worldwide service activities. |
Third Legacy
Procedure
|
A
special type of electoral procedure used in
the election of Delegates and Trustees. It is explained in chapter one
of The
A.A. Service Manual. |
Trustee
|
The
title for a member of the General Service
Board. Fourteen trustees are A.A. members (Class B); seven are
non-alcoholic
(Class A). |
