WSBC 7th Tradition
One 7th Tradition was taken Friday afternoon for the entire conference. Delegates donated $9,411 in USD, and $20 AUS. Based on the din that greeted the announcement, delegates were impressed by the figure.
One 7th Tradition was taken Friday afternoon for the entire conference. Delegates donated $9,411 in USD, and $20 AUS. Based on the din that greeted the announcement, delegates were impressed by the figure.
OA’s board of trustees has issued what it calls a significant new policy regarding whether meetings should allow minors to attend face to face, online, telephone, or non-real-time meetings. As you know, OA is a bottom-up organization, and no trusted servants govern OA, so this question remains with each local meeting. The board said, “the…
Owing to rotation of service and other factors, 10 vacancies out of 17 positions existed on the Board of Trustees as delegates gathered for the conference. Six candidates stood for election, and all were elected. One of the vacancies materialized because Beth B., Region 6 trustee, reached the end of her term and chose not…
Sixteen posts about the World Service Business Conference appear “after” this one in the article list, but because R6 blog posts are shown “newest first,” you might think this is the first one. That’s worth mentioning because it’s really the last one; it seeks to wrap up actions that weren’t deemed to warrant individual posts….
The conference started with 188 voting delegates. By the last session Saturday morning, that number was down to 170. That shrinkage happens every year — because people have to leave early, for example. But this year, two people were reported to have tested positive for Covid on Thursday afternoon, and they were not isolated incidents,…
One of the last occurrences of the 2024 World Service Business Conference was very concerning to many. Trustee Gary D read a letter signed by all members of the board, the region chairs, and OA’s Unity With Diversity Conference Committee: May 15, 2024 RE: Overeaters Anonymous Supports The Rainbow (LGBTQ+) Specific Focus Service Board To…
The World Service Business Conference is so committed to information’s getting back to intergroups, meetings, and individual members that the conference manual’s first appendix is a form to be filled out indicating the sorts of information that should be carried back home. The first few blocks of the form are about who attended the conference,…