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Uppdaterad info från ACA WSO angående BRB

Dear ACA Fellowship,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to provide an update regarding the memo sent on July 2nd regarding counterfeit BRB’s being sold worldwide.

I am pleased to inform you that ACA WSO has successfully worked with Amazon to remove the known sellers of the counterfeit BRB’s. We are deeply grateful to those who alerted us to these online sellers as soon as they became aware of them. You can now confidently purchase our books through Amazon by ensuring the author and publisher listed is Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization (or ACA WSO) and the ISBN numbers match the ones marked as authentic below.

To identify whether you have purchased a counterfeit BRB, simply check the back cover for the correct ISBN number on the barcode. Authentic BRBs have the following ISBN numbers:

  • Authentic Hardcover  ISBN 978-0978979706
  • Authentic Softcover ISBN 978-0978979782

The Counterfeit BRBs have the following ISBN numbers:

  • Counterfeit Hardcover ISBN: 978-9192874224
  • Counterfeit Softcover ISBN:  978-8940473641

As previously mentioned, this incident has had a significant financial impact on ACA due to tens of thousands of dollars in pirated sales, and has harmed the reputation of our branded intellectual property. To address these issues, your World Service Organization has engaged an Intellectual Property Legal Firm to recover lost revenues resulting from this infringement. Our attorneys have filed a lawsuit in the United States Federal Court against the primary distributor and approximately twenty anonymous individuals, who will be identified during the discovery phase of the lawsuit.

If you have inadvertently purchased one of these counterfeit books, we encourage you to attempt a return. If returning it is not feasible due to time constraints, please notify us via email at info@acawso.org and attach your receipt for the book. ACA WSO is committed to assisting those who have received a counterfeit book that cannot be returned by providing a replacement.

Once again, I want to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has shown support for ACA WSO as we address this significant issue. Please let us know of any sellers you come across still selling counterfeit books.

Telefonkonferens European Comittee


 

Dear European ACAs,
With a summer quIckly approaching, a loving reminder about an upcoming European Teleconference that is easy to remember – it will happen on the 1st of June. The agenda attached in this letter is still in flux and is a living and changing document here, so let us also check back before the Teleconference itself; one of the themes that is worth celebrating are the decisions voted for at our 2024 ACA Annual Business Conference, where delegates gathered, and some decisions will still be decided or implemented soon – like new literature and the important news about the name change (extension) of the fellowship. Let us meet and discuss them!

I have also received questions about the dissemination of info about ACA events in Europe and helping IGs / meetings with their business, but for that your help is needed as well – let us hear from each other and meet on
June 1st
13:00 London time
14:00 Central European Time
15:00 Helsinki / Baltics
(codes are in the document to avoid zoom bombing)

With love and thankfulness to you all,

Edmundas V.
Serving as EC chair

ec-chair@acawso.org
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If you are looking for a volunteer opportunity, please consider joining the European Committee. We are looking for more people to join us. Please email us at: ec-webservant@acawso.org

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The European Committee works to unify and carry the message to the fellowships of the European countries according to our traditions and concepts. The European Committee (EC) functions as a group of trusted servants elected by its members. The officers carry out the jobs and goals set by the European Committee. The EC is a standing committee of the World Service Organization of Adult Children of Alcoholics (WSO).

Februari tredje Quarterly Delegate Meeting Aca

February 3rd QDM

Dear ACA Groups and Delegates,

There is still time for New Delegates and Observers to register for our upcoming Quarterly Delegate Meeting (QDM), scheduled for February from 9am to 1pm Eastern US Time.  

Registration for delegates closes January 27th.

Existing Delegates who registered for the 2023 ABC and the 2023 QDMs and plan to attend this QDM do not have to re-register.

To register as a new Delegate or Observer, go to the conference page at, www.adultchildren.org/conference.  

You will find three different registration forms.

  • One for observers – any ACA member may observe.
  • One for those who are registered from the ABC and want to change their registration.  
  • One for new Delegate registrants.

Delegates are elected representatives of WSO groups, i.e., registered meetings, InterGroups or Regions. An individual may only represent one group at the conference.

The Agenda for the Feb.3 QDM can be found at www.adultchildren.org/conference/agenda, as well as on the 2023-2024_registered_delegates WSO Slack channel. Links to documents will be embedded in the Agenda, which will be updated on the website copy as they become available. The Agenda is based on the direction of the 2023 ABC, the 2023  QDMs and your voices expressed in their follow-up Surveys.

If you are able to volunteer for a service role at the QDM, please message Edmundas V. on Slack or send an email to abc@adultchildren.org to find out more.

Thank you to each of our volunteers for making this all happen and helping us all to connect in service for ACA.

In Service,

The ABC Committee

Carmen B., Edmundas V., and Marcus H., Committee Co-Chairs

abc@adultchildren.org

Inbjudan att hålla öppet onlinemöte under Aca’s årliga världskonvent

Dear Fellow Travellers, I would like to extend an invitation to your local ACA communities to consider holding an online open ACA meeting in a language other than English at the Annual World Convention 2023 (Friday November 17 until Saturday November 18 Eastern Time).

If you are interested, please submit your application for a 90 minutes open ACA meeting (topic of your choice) by Monday November 11, 2023.
Direct access to the application form:
https://forms.zohopublic.com/admin1564/form/OpenACAMeeting/formperma/FEjVi4tScR2vCOHwFSll5gDSlrEcQSJwAugEElQa-fk

Take a look on the Convention program and see where open ACA meetings can be scheduled https://adultchildren.org/2023-awc/
We are waiting for your applications until November 11th.
If you have questions please email the AWC Planning team at 

awc@acawso.org
In thankful service,
Edmundas V.,

serving as the Chair of European Committee

ec-chair@acawso.org

Registrering ABC QDM öppen

Registration for the November 4th QDM is now OPEN

Dear ACA Groups and Delegates,

We are happy to announce that the registration for our next Quarterly Delegate Meeting (QDM), scheduled for November 4th, 2023, is now open at the conference page, www.adultchildren.org/conference.  This registration is for both new Delegates and Observers:

There will be three different registration forms.

  • One is for observers, any member may observe.
  • One is for those that are registered from the ABC and want to change their registration.  
  • One is for new Delegate registrants.

Delegates are representatives of WSO registered meetings, InterGroups or Regions. An individual may only register to represent one group at the conference.

Existing Delegates who plan to attend do not have to re-register.

The QDM agenda will be based on the direction of the 2023 ABC, the August 5 QDM and your voices expressed in their Surveys. This agenda will be posted on www.adultchildren.org/conference

If you are able to volunteer for a service role at the QDM, please message Edmundas V. on Slack or send an email to abc@adultchildren.org.

Thank you to each volunteer for making it all happen and let us all connect in service for ACA.

In Service,

The ABC Committee

Carmen B., Edmundas V., and Marcus H., Committee Co-Chairs

Öppet Litteratur policy möte

Open Literature Policy Meeting
To our ACA Members:
You are invited to a second conversation about the wording of the ACA Open Literature Policy. This date and time were set to work for our worldwide members in different time zones: Saturday October 28, 9pm ET

Examples of world time zones:
GMT + 7–11am Sunday, Thailand time
GMT + 11 noon Sunday, Australia time
GMT + 13 2pm Sunday, New Zealand time

Zoom: 856 5245 7314Passcode: 876816

First, I would like to reassure you there is no plan to abandon the open literature policy. Any information you may have received to the contrary is not true. There is no poll and we are not taking a vote. There would never be any changes to the open literature policy without the fellowship’s agreement and there is nothing proposed.

Concept VI states that “our Annual Business Conference with delegates from all our meetings, intergroups and regions have the final decision respecting large matters of general policy…”

Again, the purpose of this meeting is NOT to get rid of the ACA Open Literature policy.The purpose is to review the language that is in the BRB (p 612) and the Literature Policy trifold (https://adultchildren.org/wp-content/uploads/Literature/Literature_Policy_EN_US_A4.pdf) to see if it should be updated or improved.

We thought of some questions for your feedback, and you may have others. That is the purpose—to have a conversation about what works and what doesn’t.

Here are a few of the questions we are looking at:
1. The trifold says outside literature should “support the growth of ACA and promote unity and consistency of our Twelve Step message” Should the “message” be more in line with The Solution, including reparenting?
2. The BRB p 612 says outside literature should not contradict “Sponsorship?” ShouldSponsorship be removed and just keep the Laundry List and the Solution?
3. Should we consider language more like “promote ACA recovery” without referring toparticular documents?
4. What does it mean to “promote an author?” Doesn’t every book promote an author?

If you can’t attend and wish to offer your views, you can email me. At litchair@acawso.org.

I have assembled all comments I have received and will forward to the committee.

A few important notes:
We heard that many of you benefit from using “A New Hope.” It has completed the Literature Review step and has been approved for the Fellowship Review step in the process of obtaining Conference Approval. So, it is in the process of becoming ACA literature!

Also, many of you referred to Tony A’s steps. ACA is prohibited from using the exact language in those steps by the copyright owner, who has threatened to sue. However, we been working for over a year to create a new set or sets of ACA Steps that are gentle, loving, and in line with ACA recovery. We will be sending out 7 sets of steps soon in a survey for you to rank.

Our effort is to determine if the language in the policy needs to be more definitive and more inclusive, loving, etc. Any information circulated indicating an attempt to abandon the policy is totally wrong and in no way ever reflected our intentions. The current intent, with your help, is to make this policy clearer.

Our committees and subcommittees are open to volunteers. We welcome your participation.

We encourage all our groups to register a delegate to be involved withdecisions affecting our fellowship.
Please click on https://adultchildren.org/conference/.

With love in service,
Christine B
Literature Chair, litchair@acawso.org