Welcoming Newcomers to Electronic Meetings
Dear Al-Anon members and Trusted Servants, At the recent 2020 virtual World Service Conference (WSC), the World Service Office (WSO) shared with the Conference members the email created by the Board of Trustees’
Include AFG LinkedIn Profile in Outreach to Professionals
We have updated our profile content to include articles and videos with relevant testimonials from professionals. They share about the effects of alcoholism on the families and friends of drinkers and how Al-Anon Family
Keeping Calm with the “Conflict Resolution Kit”
I once thought of Al-Anon as a perfect, safe, and happy place—one big happy family. I naively believed that our admission of powerlessness in Step One meant that we relinquished control or domination
A Spark for Service
Before starting out in Al-Anon as a volunteer in service, I occasionally would hear terms that were unfamiliar to me, such as District, Area, or Area World Service Committee (AWSC). I was told
Who Is Responsible for Alateen Safety?
Early on in my personal recovery, I thought that our young boys would not need to go to Alateen meetings because they would reap the benefits of the Twelve Steps by osmosis through us—and
Al-Anon’s 60th World Service Conference Is Right Around the Corner!
While this will be the 14th year that I will have the pleasure to attend the World Service Conference (WSC) as Associate Director—Conference, it will be Al-Anon Family Groups’ 60th World Service Conference!
Spring Forward with “AFA” Magazines
Members and groups can provide help and hope to families and friends of alcoholics in their communities by using the Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism (AFA) magazines as a public outreach tool. Members’ experiences explain the
Read All About Growing Up with Alcoholism
Since the 1980s, as more adult children of alcoholics attended Al-Anon, they began writing and sharing their stories, helping to make our Conference Approved Literature (CAL) more reflective of our membership as a