Recordings of keynote speeches and workshops from the 2024 Region 6 convention, held in October in Nashua, NH, US, have been posted to the website’s recovery recordings page. The page now has more than 150 recordings from events going back to 2018. The French collection has grown to 6 entries, and the page also points…
The Intergroup Forum for June will offer an approach for intergroups to help sponsors and potential sponsors prepare for their role supporting members with less experience in recovery than they have. The time, date, and Zoom details are on the flyer; please share it with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Greater New York Metro Intergroup and Westchester United Intergroup submitted a joint blitz application to use the money for an ad in the New York Times. Ocean and Bay intends to use its grant to publicize OA in student periodicals at colleges and universities i.
The committee voted to conduct an IG Forum for the month of July, brainstormed ideas for other forums, and addressed the closure of Rockland IG and the merger of two Maine IGs.
Sandy C was elected vice chairwoman of the committee, and members discussed how to communicate budget decisions and amounts to intergroups.
Meetings, intergroups, and individuals donating money to Region 6 have a new form they can use.
The Twelfth Step Within Committee agreed to several goals for its next six months of work: To write two articles for the newsletter, to aid the World Service Twelfth Step Within marathon in December, and to examine taking ownership of the region’s speaker list.
The Assembly-Convention committee discussed efforts it had taken, and continues to take, to find a host for the 2027 Region 6 Convention. Also, the committee reviewed its proposal to update the convention planning manual.
New members of the Web & Pub Committee joined with returnees to discuss committee topics. One possibility discussed was that the Messenger would be published four times a year, instead of monthly. Meg D. agreed to act as secretary at the Spring Assembly to present the committee’s report.
The bylaws committee filed this report in advance of the Spring 2025 Assembly. Its goals are to update its committee procedures, and to ensure R6 has a prodcedure for proposing and submitting motions and amendments.