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2024 D.A. WSC Host Committee Info Sessions

Call for volunteers

The General Service Board (GSB) of Debtors Anonymous (D.A.) has selected Ottawa as the host location for the 2024 World Service Conference (WSC). A Host Committee needs to be formed to support this conference and to help plan the behind the scenes activities. There are various roles in this Committee which will be reviewed during the calls.

Find out more

The GSB will be holding two informational meetings on Zoom for individuals who would like to find out more of the volunteer positions available. These will occur on Saturday, 15 April at 1 p.m. EDT and on Tuesday, 18 April at 8 p.m. EDT. Each call will cover the same content.

2024 D.A. WSC Host Committee Info Sessions

TWO ZOOM MEETINGS

Call 1: Saturday 15 April, 2023 at 1 p.m. EDT

Call 2: Tuesday 18 April, 2023 at 8 p.m. EDT

Zoom ID: 851 888 7121

For the Zoom passcode and further info, please see this flyer.

About the Conference

The World Service Conference (WSC) of Debtors Anonymous is the annual meeting of all worldwide General Service. Representatives (GSRs), Intergroup Service Representatives (ISRs), and General Service Board (GSB) Trustees.

These trusted fellows are committed to providing service to Debtors Anonymous at the World Service Conference committee level in order to best advance the good of the Fellowship of Debtors Anonymous.

The representatives who attend are elected by their local groups or intergroups.

The WSC allows for discussion, the debate of recommendations and voting on motions.

2024 D.A. WSC Host Committee Info Sessions

Conference Details

Location: The Brookstreet Hotel and Conference Centre, Kanata (Ottawa), ON

Dates: Wednesday to Sunday, 7-11 August 2024.

The San Diego DA community is hosting 2 workshops this month. Please announce and / or attend. We appreciate your supporting us in this way. (Note the Zoom IDs are different as are the starting times).

• March 5th (12:00 – 1:30 pm Pacific Time): WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A DA INTERGROUP?

Hosted by Ocean Beach DA group 

There will be 4 Speakers sharing on this topic. 

Zoom ID 616 149 8468

For the Zoom password and further info, please see this flyer.

• March 25th (11:30 – 1:30 Pacific Time): THE ART OF NEGOTIATION: Having Normal Discussions about Money.

Hosted by San Diego DA Intergroup

There will be 4 Speakers sharing on this topic: Marian (Morro Bay), Roxanne (Minneapolis), Eddie (San Diego) & Joy (Nashville). 

Zoom ID 396 583 3455 

For the Zoom password and further info, please see this flyer.

Hello all: please see this updated poster for this in-person event in Toronto on 25 Feb 2023, 4-7 pm EST (poster includes an announcement in French / l’affiche contient des renseignements en français).

This is an opportunity to meet the General Service Board of DA in person. In addition to the official event itself, there will be a chance to socialize afterwards. A reservation has been made at the Denny’s at 121 Dundas St W. (about a five-minute walk away from the meeting space) that will allow for a variety of price points (just a coffee to a full meal) for those who wish to join us afterwards.

Hard-copy DA literature (books and pamphlets) will be available for sale at the event.

For more info, contact Roger at visionsyyz@gmail.com.

On the afternoon of Saturday, Feb 25th, 2023, The General Service Board (GSB) of Debtors Anonymous invites you to meet the 10 Trustees on the present board and learn about how the D.A. structure works, what the Board does day to day and how GSRs and the WSC conference fit into the service structure. This is an in-person event that will happen in Toronto. For more information, see the event poster.

L’après-midi du samedi 25 février, 2023, Le Conseil des Services Généraux (CSG) des Débiteurs Anonymes vous invite à rencontrer les 10 administrateurs du présent conseil et à découvrir comment fonctionne la structure des DA, ce que fait le conseil au jour le jour et comment les représentants auprès des services généraux (RSG) et la conférence des services mondiaux (CSM) s’intègrent dans la structure de service. Cet événement se tiendra en personne a Toronto. Veuillez voir l’affiche pour plus de renseignements.

The General Service Board of Debtors Anonymous is pleased to announce that Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has been selected as the host city for the 2024 World Service Conference in early August. More details will be forthcoming.

The Board wishes to thank the Canadian Feasibility Committee for offering assistance at the 2022 WSC when no bid for 2024 materialized. This committee prepared and sent a Request for Proposal to the convention and tourism boards of Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver and received replies from several hotels and conference centres. In January 2023 the GSB-Conference Support Committee met with venues and conducted site inspections and decided on Ottawa as the ideal location for 2024.

Groups and Intergroups are invited to consider hosting a future World Service Conference in their area. Bids for 2025 are due by 1 July 2023 and will be voted on at the 2023 WSC this August in Newark, NJ. The email address for bids and inquiries is: BidsForWSC@debtorsanonymous.org.

The Barrie DA group has decided to shut down, and to merge its Zoom meeting with those of Montreal’s Prosperity D.A. group (#706). For information on how to join this meeting, please refer to the Find a Meeting page.

Debtors Anonymous World Service Conference International Committee presents:
NEW YEAR’S DAY 24hr MARATHON MEETING, starting at Noon January 14, 2023 (New Zealand Daylight Savings Time; 6 pm EDT, 13 Jan 2023).

Please see the flyer here for more information on Zoom links and timezones.

Dear Intergroup reps: if you wish to send a 7th contribution to Intergroup by e-transfer, until further notice please send it to the following email address: web.cecda21@gmail.com. Please also note that the information currently on the Groups page of this website is out of date with respect to Intergroup contributions, and will be updated shortly.

If you live in the Halifax area and want to help bring the DA message to the debtor who still suffers (which may be yourself!)

Contact me and find out how you can help be part of recovery:

Éowyn (member of DA since 2018)
E-mail: dancin_feet@outlook.com
Mobile: 902-448-1140 (Available to chat on the phone/text from 9:30am to 9:00pm Monday through Friday, AST).

We are pleased to announce that the “DA Toronto Tools Meeting” (#7790) is again meeting in-person:

Sundays 10:30 to 11:45
Alano Club, 686 Broadview Ave. (1 block south of Danforth and Broadview)

Please note that Group #386 continues as a virtual meeting: International Virtual DA Tools Meeting, Sundays 10:30 to 11:45 (please see the Zoom meeting list for details)