UA General Service Board
Literature Committee
August 4, 2013 Meeting Minutes
In Attendance:
Bella, Graciela S, Jazz, Phyllis, Shari Lynn, Peter S
Minutes
1. Opening
Graciela offered her proxy vote at the WSC to Peter, and nominated him as chair of the Literature Committee for next year.
2. Group Inventory
A group inventory was held; each person in turn gave their reflections on the past year, and suggestions for next. See comments at end.
3. WSC
Motion: The Literature Committee nominates Peter S. as Chair of the Literature Committee; passed unanimously.
4. Next Meeting
Next meeting will be held after the World Service Conference, in early September.
Group Inventory
Phyllis:
- She has just been here for a few months: she originally joined to suggest a newsletter, but stayed and is committed to the subject of literature.
- Liked the small changes that we made in the existing literature by very carefully going through things.
- The best thing is the 9th Tradition website, that’s very well done.
- Likes the idea of meeting in person to draft new literature.
- Appreciates Peter’s efficiency and rising above any problems.
- Wishes she could have contributed more.
Shari Lynn:
- It was a pleasure working with Peter as the secretary of the committee and I feel that once you took over as leader the direction of the committee improved and meetings were much more productive and less drawn out.
- I think that the most successful things out of the committee came from Peter.
- I enjoyed editing the stuff on the website literature page that I was in charge of and I am sorry that I didn’t get more done myself.
- I am still committed to the literature committee and want to continue working on the action meeting/goals pages/sponsorship pamphlets and am looking for people to assist me on each of these, however I do not want more than three people working on each pamphlet.
- We can work together on the phone or via email and then give a draft to the lit committee to go over and edit and then take it back work some more and then back to the lit committee as many times as we feel is legit and then send it to the GSB once it is pretty solid, not sure of the timing on this.
Bella:
- Peter’s stewardship was very good, he made an excellent secretary, the way the minutes are presented is great.
- It was good to start with what we had without searching for perfectionism.
- Has a great respect for the process of literature, but felt the buckets thing went on and on, wondering when it would ever stop?
- Overall, thinks it was much better than average in terms of the way the committee functions.
- We can take ideas from other 12 step programs but we need to create our own literature from our own membership in order for it to be UA literature.
Peter:
- Thinks it didn’t go badly for a new committee, but we didn’t get as much done as he wanted. There was not as much participation as he had hoped for on either the conference calls or the emails.
- He wants to focus on drumming up more people.
- Thinking about face to face meetings, maybe monthly, or maybe periodic workshops, maybe at Share-a-Days.
- Would like to be able to use a professional conference service complete with online interaction; this can be a powerful medium for brainstorming and jointly editing documents, and being able to see other people’s faces on the call.
- Things we did well:
- Sort through all the things we could do (goals and actions)
- Sort through existing literature
- Tracking action items
- Not that didn’t go so well:
- Getting people engaged in writing new literature
- Ideas:
- Recruiting campaign in meetings
- Face to face workshops to develop new literature
- Mail group for reviewing drafts
- Change the meeting night!!