Joni E. read report.
CLOSING REPORT
C.A. WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE 2017 UNITY REPORT
INTRODUCTION AND OPENING COMMENTS
Welcome to the Unity committee 2017. We hope you enjoyed your 12 hugs before breakfast. The purpose of the Unity committee is to enhance communication and outreach among diverse elements within the fellowship of Cocaine Anonymous in the interest of carrying the message to the addict who still suffers and promoting C.A. Unity. We would especially like to thank Rob W. for being our speaker after the Unity breakfast.
The committee is excited to have many first time conference attendees join Unity with enthusiasm. We are excited to bring our passion and our ideas for Celebrate around the World back to our areas and we hope you will too. In order to increase the number of submissions we receive for CATW artwork we have added a request for submissions on the Unity page of the CA.ORG website. We encourage you all to make this information available to your area.
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Committee Introductions
Chair-Joni E.
Vice Chair-John H.
Breakfast Sub-comm Chair-David M. Member-Evans S.
Member-Joseph G.
Member-Lisa W.
Member-Sean H.
Member-Ashley D.
Member-Erik H.
Member-Ryan A.
Member-Alunda L.
Member-Edwina S.
Trustee-Suzanne V.
WSOB vice Chair-Alesia F.
COMMITTEE WORK THAT RESULTED IN MOTIONS
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David M. presented motion. Seconded.
1. MOTION: The theme of the 2018 World Service Conference will be: “Service Work is Gratitude in Action.”
Vote 2 – For 129, against 0. Motion passed.
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Edwina S. made motion. Seconded.
2. MOTION: Attached is the draft of the logo to be approved as the 2018 Celebrate around the World art work.
Vote 3 – For 136, against 8, motion passed.
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REFERRALS THAT RESULTED IN MOTIONS
REFERRAL NUMBER Unity-2017-2
From Cynthia C. Washington State Area (IN-conference)
Please consider updating the WSC Unity Committee Guidelines under unity event for the world’s service convention to read as follows: “It is the responsibility of the WSC Unity Chair to work with the WSCCC Unity chair to create an event at the WS Convention. A suggestion for this is 2 to 4 hour maximum event which should include meet and greet, fun and games, and an educational side concerning traditions and/or concepts.” Thank you
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Ryan A. presented motion. Seconded.
Page, heading Unity Event for World Service Convention.
1. MOTION: To amend the existing Unity guidelines read as follows: It is the responsibility of the WSC Unity vice chair to work with the WSC CAWS Convention Unity Chair to create an event at the WS convention. A suggestion for this is 2 to 4 hour maximum event which should include meet and greet, fun and games, and an educational side concerning traditions and/or concepts.
Vote 4 – For 148, 3 against. Motion passed.
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REFERRALS OR ITEMS TABLED UNTIL NEXT YEAR; AND ITEMS THE COMMITTEE WILL CONTINUE WORKING ON THROUGH THE YEAR
None
REFERRALS OR ITEMS REFERRED TO OTHER COMMITTEES; WORLD SERVICE OFFICE, OR BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Unity 2017-1, housekeeping to clarify the convention statement of anonymity, sent to Convention committee
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REFERRALS THAT DID NOT RESULT IN MOTIONS
None
NEW COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AS OF THIS CONFERENCE
Chair-David M.
Vice-Chair-Ryan A.
Secretary-Lisa W.
Breakfast Sub-committee chair-Alunda L.
12 step meeting sub-committee chair-Evans S.
CATW sub-committee chair-Edwina S.
CLOSING COMMENTS
I am so honored to have had the opportunity to work with this great group of Unity enthusiasts from across the world. Being the chair of this committee has been such an awesome experience and every interaction has renewed my excitement and has truly inspired me. I’m so proud of the work we’ve done and so grateful for the friends I’ve made. I’d like to give special thanks to our Trustee Suzanne V. and our Director at Large Alesia F. Their support has been invaluable.
Unity is an often overlooked committee that desperately needs your support. The committee has spent many hours discussing the CATW event and artwork. We will do our best to get the artwork and information out to you well in advance of the March date or whenever you choose to celebrate. Please disperse the information to your areas and districts. We’d love to get photos and videos from your events so we can further inform people at the next conference with a video montage!!.
Thank you all for your love and support.
Respectfully Submitted:
Joni E.
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Trevor S. – Questions to the mic, please.
Rose J. – I see when we voted on the motion for the artwork it said that it had an attachment.
Joni E. – We will make sure it’s in the box. Rob W. – Have you contacted Montreal? Joni E.– No.
Rob W. – Have we contacted Sweden? Joni E. – No.
Rob W. – Unity is important to the fellowship. We need to start contacting the World Convention Committees.
Joni E. – We have not done it before. It is more a communication issue.
Tom P. – Do we have a repository of all the different logos for Celebrate around the world?
Joni E. – We have tried to work with Archives.
Rob W. – Has the WS Convention Committee been made aware of the new guidelines? Joni E. – Not sure. Convention committee has a referral for this.
Trevor S. – Thank you to the Unity Committee. 10 minute break, then S&B will be next.
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