The 2015 World Service Business Conference will be held April 27–May 2 at Embassy Suites Albuquerque Hotel and Spa. This year’s theme is “The Miracle of Abstinence!”
The theme focuses on our Strategic Plan for 2015, and the workshops will emphasize abstinence. Again this year, WSBC will offer the workshop, “All About Conference,” which includes information on parliamentary procedure.
The Mentor Program will offer several opportunities during the week for first-time delegates, affectionately called Green Dots, and mentors to meet and discuss the Conference procedures.
The Second Conference e-Mailing (available online January 9) will include the agenda questionnaire and motions and bylaw amendments submitted by the December 10 postmarked deadline.
As of December 10, 2014, the WSO received the following motions:
• Revise delegate committee participation and membership
• Create a “One Day at a Time” chip
• Replace gender-related terminology in the Steps and Traditions with “God”
• Require the Region Chairs Committee to meet in North America for their third meeting
• Revise OA Preamble to include “restricting and purging”
*Make the Final Conference Report an electronic file only
•Display the name “Overeaters Anonymous” on banners, displays, badges,and other signage at all World Service events
•Housekeeping revisions to intergroup and service board registrations
• Revise delegate registration deadline from 120 days to seventy days prior to Conference
• Delete Outstates IG and its designated cities from Regions One, Three, and Four since it is now defunct. Service bodies should review agenda questionnaires, vote on them, and return them to the WSO by February 26. This is a postmarked deadline date.
Reprinted from A Step Ahead, WSO Newsletter, 1st Quarter, available here.
The theme focuses on our Strategic Plan for 2015, and the workshops will emphasize abstinence. Again this year, WSBC will offer the workshop, “All About Conference,” which includes information on parliamentary procedure.
The Mentor Program will offer several opportunities during the week for first-time delegates, affectionately called Green Dots, and mentors to meet and discuss the Conference procedures.
The Second Conference e-Mailing (available online January 9) will include the agenda questionnaire and motions and bylaw amendments submitted by the December 10 postmarked deadline.
As of December 10, 2014, the WSO received the following motions:
• Revise delegate committee participation and membership
• Create a “One Day at a Time” chip
• Replace gender-related terminology in the Steps and Traditions with “God”
• Require the Region Chairs Committee to meet in North America for their third meeting
• Revise OA Preamble to include “restricting and purging”
*Make the Final Conference Report an electronic file only
•Display the name “Overeaters Anonymous” on banners, displays, badges,and other signage at all World Service events
•Housekeeping revisions to intergroup and service board registrations
• Revise delegate registration deadline from 120 days to seventy days prior to Conference
• Delete Outstates IG and its designated cities from Regions One, Three, and Four since it is now defunct. Service bodies should review agenda questionnaires, vote on them, and return them to the WSO by February 26. This is a postmarked deadline date.
Reprinted from A Step Ahead, WSO Newsletter, 1st Quarter, available here.