2018 SENIORS IN SOBRIETY UPDATE
(This is a post of the email sent in early December)
2019 SIS International Conference Info
The location for the 2019 Seniors in Sobriety International Conference will be in Reno/Sparks Nevada. The dates selected are May 17-19th 2019. The planning committee has chosen The Silver Legacy Resort and Casino in Reno. They are working on a program, and other details required to host a successful conference. They will publish a registration form and it will be available on our website: https://seniorsinsobriety.com
Via email: registration
or hard copies by mailing: SIS 2019 Conference Registrar – P.O. Box 11011 Reno, NV 89510-9998
We will keep you apprised on any changes or modifications of conference information as soon as we receive it. Please click on the link under 2019 Conference Info on the website if you want to download the pdf of the conference flyer.
In the same vein, Joe R. and and Erika H. from Reno visited Mickey W, Chris S. and I in late November. We had an opportunity to get an update on conference planning and to discuss our newly formed SIS Steering Committee with them.
SIS Organizational Info
Since the wrap-up meeting of the 2017 SIS Intl. Conference in Van Nuys, Mickey W., Chris S., and I have noodled over better means of assuring SIS continuity over the coming years and have made some decisions in the absence of any governing body or group conscience. In a phone conversation I had with Chris (and later with Mickey) we felt it would be prudent to recommend every other year SIS conferences at least until after the 2020 AA World Services Conference in Detroit. We were able to identify some helpful folks from two interested communities, Reno NV and San Francisco, CA. (Please see postings on the website for further mention of these developments).
Further discussions over the past few months and a serendipitous event led Mickey to open a bank account and a Yuma PO Box for SIS. The Woman’s Conference in Phoenix gifted SIS some of their excess revenue and it has been deposited into the newly formed SIS Steering Group account as has the excess revenue from the 2017 Van Nuys Conference. We have drafted guidelines for the group and are working on a set of job descriptions for a “Conference Planning Handbook” that will simplify the start-up efforts of future Conference planning committees. The focus of the Steering Group will be to assure continuity of SIS going forward, to support conference planning, and to provide resources for CEC groups and committees within existing AA and Al-Anon Areas, Districts, or Groups throughout the world.
Six charter members of the committee were nominated from members who have been active for the many years SIS conferences have been held. Their terms, replacement, and or rotations will be specified in the Guidelines according to a quorum vote. This group will meet electronically six times a year (and more if needed) and also face to face at the wrap-up meeting of each conference. All members are to be volunteers.
We invite the input and participation of all Seniors in Sobriety at our meetings and for conference planning and SIS/CEC Outreach activities and projects.
We encourage you all to visit the website regularly (at least once or twice a month). Your web servant and other submitting members will continue working to add more content that will attract senior readers as well as those looking for conference and outreach information.
Please visit the website https://seniorsinsobriety.com for SIS information. And tell your senior friends to visit the website and click on the contact area at the top right side of the home page to register their email address with us. I also continue to encourage you all to please send me your senior experiences and photos and I will publish them in a post or newsletter. So far no one has taken me up on the request so please consider doing so or encouraging your friends as well. We continue to need the support of all recovered Seniors including more information about YOUR adventures. (We all certainly have enough other stuff going on that isn’t particularly fun or adventuresome, right?)
In Love and Service,
Colin M. – Webservant