Intergroup Websites in Area 83

Website links are provided as a service to members for information purposes only.  Area 83 has no affiliation with the sites and assumes no responsibility for their content.

GTA Intergroup       Lakeshore Intergroup      Ottawa Intergroup

Welcome to Alcoholics Anonymous General Service!

This page is meant to introduce new G.S.R.'s to General Service and provide resources to help all G.S.R.'s better serve their groups.

The G.S.R may be the most important job in A.A.

As an elected General Service Representative (G.S.R.) you now represent the voice of your A.A. Group's Conscience to the A.A. General Service Conference held in New York each April.

Through your elected District Committee Member (D.C.M.) and the Eastern Ontario Area Delegate, you will become the two-way link between your group and the world of A.A. as a whole. As such, you and your fellow G.S.R.'s all over the world have become the key to the unity of A.A. 

Currently Area 83 has 936 groups listed in the GSO database. There are 483 active groups, 325 inactive groups and 21 merged groups. 

We also have 105 groups with a Status of Unknown and 2 groups with a Status of Incomplete. 

These groups will not receive mailings until they are marked Active.

An Active group must have a Primary Contact for mailing and at least one meeting time.  

General Service Representative Workshop

District Websites in Area 83

Website links are provided as a service to members for information purposes only.  Area 83 has no affiliation with these sites and assumes no responsibility for their content.

1. Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
2. The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole Society in its world affairs.
3. To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. - the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives - with a traditional "Right of Decision."
4. At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.
5. Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
6. The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.
7. The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document; it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.
8. The trustees are the principal planners and administrators of overall policy and finance. They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising this through their ability to elect all the directors of these entities.
9. Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.
10. Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
11. The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
12. The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.

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