Rapport de la conférence des affaires du service mondial 2025

Voici un aperçu des actions prises par la conférence des affaires du service mondial, qui a été maintenu pratiquement de mai 4-10. Les délégués comptaient un timide 200, et à peu près 1 dans 4 Parmi ceux-ci étaient des participants pour la première fois. Dix-sept langues étaient représentées, et les délégués de 27 Les pays ont participé - et c'était plus difficile pour certains que pour d'autres. An Australian delegate shared that her conference day stretched from about 10 pm to 6 un m. Six days in a row.

Il y avait 13 business matters before the conference, but before they could be approached, three amendments were proposed for the standing rules, which govern how the conference is conducted.

• One had to do with using the Zoom interpretation function.
• Another allowed screen shots to be taken as long as no people were in them, whose equivalent had been allowed in person last year, but hadn’t remained in the standing rules.
• A third wanted to change the length of time caucuses would have to organize before each policy discussion and vote. Ten minutes each was defeated, five minutes each was defeated, and it was left at two minutes, only to be changed to three minutes the next day.

Several literature changes were approved:

• The “Just for Today” wallet card was given the Conference Seal of Approval.
• “Sponsorship in OA: Guiding Others” was given the Conference Seal of Approval. Included in this decision were removing the seal from two pamphlets, Guide for Sponsors” and “Sponsoring Through the Twelve Steps” that the newly approved pamphlet replaces
• “To the Man Who Wants to Stop Eating Compulsively, Welcome” was given the Conference Seal of Approval.

Of the 13 proposals, the chair placed more than half of them, at one time or another, on the consent agenda, which is a parliamentary way of dispatching with non-controversial motions with one vote. After delegates ID’d the ones that one small bloc or another wanted to have debated, delegates approved a consent agenda of three items:

• Housekeeping items related to the closure of Region 4 last year, which occurred because not enough trusted servants came forward to do the region’s work.
• Allowed volunteers to address the conference.
• Something about defining the “days and hours” of WSBC.

That left 10 articles.

• After a long, déroutant, and frayed discussion, the delegates approved changing the name of the Young People’s conference committee to the Young Adults conference committee.
• An attempt by secular members to update the Unity With Diversity policy “to let all OA members know that proselytizing is inappropriate in OA. It is a religious activity, and we are not a religious organization.”
  • The reference subcommittee, whose job it is to review motions for clarity and other reasons, changed the makers’ proposal before it reached the floor, but in debate, the maker lamented that the subcommittee had actually made her proposal worse.
  • The matter was then attempted to be amended three more times during debate, which by rule sent the matter back to … the reference subcommittee.
  • Ultimately, delegates approved a change in the third paragraph of the policy that reads,”For example, this means we do not try to convince any member or visitor to adopt a belief in God.”

• A measure to change the number of trustees. It started out as a proposal to change from 17 to between 13 et 15. An amendment changed that to 16, and that passed. Noter: The fellowship has not had 17 trustees in quite some time. Lors de cette séance, all four trustee candidates were elected, leaving two spots still vacant.
• Proposals 4 et 5 were returnees from last year, and again they were defeated.
  • Aucun. 5 sought to remove gender pronouns from the 12 Mesures, replacing male words for non-gender words.
  • Aucun. 4 sought to remove a requirement that changes in the Steps require, among many other hurdles, 55 percent of all OA groups to respond before a bylaw amendment can go forward. Proponents argued that OA doesn’t really know how many groups it has, so how can it know that 55 percent of them have responded? Delegates didn’t care, and voted to keep the requirement.

• Allowed trustees who are not region liaisons to be affirmed for further trustee service by the trustees. Most candidates must be affirmed by a region assembly first, although appointed trustees who later run for full terms are never affirmed by the fellowship, only the trustees.
• Rejected a proposal to make all future world service business conferences virtual.
• Overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to require trustee candidates to offer two ideas for the future health of the fellowship as part of their applications.
• Approved a proposal to allow groups not affiliated with intergroups or national service boards to choose the region they wish to be affiliated with.