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The Wild Edge of Sorrow
This book from author, Francis Weller, talks about grief work as sacred and communal. As you journey through the ACA process, you will encounter grief. Weller helps us understand the forms of grief and how we work through our grief to healing. Below is a link to the author’s website: Francis Weller
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The Body Keeps the Score
Recommended by many in our meeting, this book talks about the neurological and biological changes resulting from trauma and some of the ways we can heal. The Body Keeps the Score
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Service Positions
Meeting Positions Technical Host Admits participants and assigns Co-hosts to those serving as Room Hosts and Room Moderators in Breakout Rooms. Creates Breakout Rooms. Assigns the Room Hosts and Room Moderators to the rooms and invite participants to join rooms for sharing on the daily reading. If asked, may screen-share meeting slides for the Meeting…
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The Feelings Wheel
This graphic comes from the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., and Nonviolent Communications. We include it here as many people in ACA are learning to differentiate and name their feelings, some us for the first time.
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Fellow Traveler/Sponsors
From BRB Chapter 11 ACA Sponsorship: Fellow Travelers p. 374 Fellow Traveler – This is the traditional method of ACA sponsorship. A person who is willing to share experience, strength, and hope in helping the sponsee work his or her way through the Twelve Steps and to pick up the recovery tools for facing life on life’s terms. …
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Comfort Rules
In the Main Room “To create safety and mutual respect in the meeting: We ask that there be no “crosstalk” which means interrupting, referring to, commenting on, or using the content of what another person has said. What you hear at this meeting should remain at the meeting. We do not talk about another person’s…
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Crosstalk
ACA’s No Crosstalk Guidelines Somewhere along the line, we learned to doubt our perceptions, discount our feelings, and overlook our needs. Telling people what we thought or felt often resulted in our being ignored, laughed at or punished. We learned to look to others to tell us what to think, what to feel and how…
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The ACA Service Network
Being ‘of service’ is at the heart of ACA recovery. Service opens the ‘door’ of the Zoom room where we meet. Service created this website. ACA members provide service whenever they attend a meeting and offer their experiences. And you offer service when you lead a meeting, answer an email, chair a Group Conscience or…
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Service from love
This is the first meeting I’ve actually WANTED to do service for. I’ve done service in other groups, of course, but always from a sense that it was something I should do or something I needed to do. In this group, I feel my contribution is valued and I feel like who I am is…