Open

Open with the Serenity prayer in the plural, and the service prayer was read out.

God, grant us the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change

The courage to change the things that we can

And the wisdom to know the difference.

God grant us the knowledge that we may work according to your great divine precepts.

Install in us a sense of your purpose.

Make us servants of your will and grant us a bond of selflessness, that no addict anywhere need die from the horrors of addiction.

Previous GSF Topics

1.   Christmas BBQ

• The group is still unsure if Janice has been repaid.
• Will check with Janice and see if there is anything outstanding and address at the next GSF.
• Update: Monday, 15^th April 2019 – Janice has confirmed that she has been paid in full.

2.   GSF Attendance

• Update added after GSF by BICR.
• Contact details for the Secretaries of most of the Brisbane Inner City meetings are held. Still require:
  • Living Clean – Tuesday Night West End;
  • Women’s Meeting – Sunday Night New Farm;
  • Thursday Night Padding Topic Meeting.

Group Report Backs

1.   Spiritual Concepts – Sunday Afternoon New Farm

• Has a core group of home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• All service positions are filled.
• Has a really good atmosphere of recovery.
• Excellent attendance.

2.   Tuesday Night Spring Hill Steps and Traditions

• Has ten (10) home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• All service positions are filled.
• Has a really good atmosphere of recovery.
• Excellent attendance.
• Group does literature runs to detoxes and rehabs:
  • Where the group pays for, and drops off literature to these institutions.

3.   Wednesday Night Rainbow Recovery New Farm

• Has a massive 30 home group members, with a core group of 10 – 15 attending each week.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• All service positions are filled.
• Has a really good atmosphere of recovery, although recently there has been some disruption.
  • Rehabs and recent storms have been contributory.
  • Andy A from the rehab on the hill has assisted greatly by bringing the bus a little earlier.
  • Excellent signage has been put up to politely let people know to only enter between shares.
  • Greeters are stationed at entrances to welcome participants and foster respect for the person sharing.
• At the end of May 2019 when the Community Centre is unavailable (renovations), the venue will change to the New Farm Croquet Club.

4.   Tuesday Night West End

• Has a core group of four (4) home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
  • Rent is expensive but up to date. May be an issue in winter months.
  • Good support from home group OCMs.
  • No prudent reserve.
  • Not fund flowing.
• Meeting has been running for about two (2) years.
• It is a Living Clean topic meeting.
• Attendance ranges between eight (8) to 24 per week.
  • Solid attendance; averaging 16 a week.
  • Rehabs have never come to the meeting.
• Atmosphere is a good atmosphere for recovery.
• All service positions are filled.

5.   Wednesday Night West End

• Has a core group of five (5) home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• Attendance is sporadic with either high attendance with lots of new comers; or low attendance with lots of clean time.
• In terms of the atmosphere of recovery, the perception that the meeting is just home group members sharing has been addressed.
• All service positions are filled.

6.   Farsi / Persian Meeting – Wednesday Spring Hill

• Group is the only Farsi meeting in Queensland.
• Has good attendance, with a core group of 12 attending.
• Not many newcomers attending.
• The group is financial averaging a 7^th of $50 per week.
• The group is waiting on Persian literature and banners to arrive from Iran.
• Need to get the meeting on the meetings list.
• Group to email the details of the meeting to webservant@na.org.au.

7.   Monday Night Mitchelton Meditation

• Has a core group of home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• All service positions are filled.
• Has a really good atmosphere of recovery.
• Consistent attendance.

8.   Saturday Night Id – New Farm

• Report added after the meeting as the BICR forgot to represent.
• Has a core group of home group members.
• Group is financial and paid up in rent.
• All service positions are filled.
• Has a good atmosphere of recovery.
• In terms of attendance, usually always a good turnout.

New GSF Topics

1.   Regional Service Committee (RSC) Speaker Jam

• Looking to put together a committee to arrange an RSC Speaker Jam.
• The RSC is being held at Dianna Plaza 20^th July 2019. It is proposed that the Speaker Jam be held around that time to leverage off the fact that the RSC members are already here.
• Looking for a venue:
• Somewhere in Annerley would be ideal.
• Looked at the previous venue, but that appears to be booked out.
• The venue at Merthyr was good for a previous event.
• Update on the progress.
• Looking to put a sub committee together to provide a dinner.
• Two (2) committee members to date.
• Need to put out the word for support.
• Leverage off the Unity Weekend to rally support.

2.   Proposal for a New Women’s Meeting

• There is an opportunity to put together a new women’s meeting focusing on sponsorship and strength.
• The existing meeting clashes with Spiritual Concepts. So looking for something that doesn’t clash.
• Initial thoughts are for 6:15 pm on a Friday night somewhere in New Farm. So that members can attend both that and the Friday night topic meeting.
• The forum agreed that this is a great idea and NA related announcements can be used to get the word out.

3.   Brisbane Unity Weekend

• The committee is well supported with enthusiastic and active members.
• Flyers are provided for distribution to various meetings.
• Eventbrite pre-registration is up and running.
• Discussed the fact that members in rehabs won’t be able to go to the Cairns convention so this is also about getting them involved in the fellowship in a meaningful way.
• Regular Bowlers are there on Saturday and as a part of that they will be “having a beer” between 4:30pm and 5:30pm.
• Cordoning their area off as a way to minimize impact.
• Running a new comer meeting at that time as a mitigation strategy.

4.   Feed back from Communify

• Andrea from Communify has provided some feedback that there is an amount of chaos around the transition of access cards between members.
• Communify provide venues to us for $5.00 per hour.
• It would behoove all members to make the transitions between different card holders as smooth and seamless as possible.

5.   Lunchies

• A few members have experienced a few issues at the lunchies.
• Perhaps an induction of how to chair a meeting would be beneficial.
• It may be valuable to ask non-home group members to co-chair meetings to provide experience in chairing a meeting.
• The group agreed to an NA related announcement that Lunchies need support from older cleaner members.

6.   Local Service Conference / Board Update

• Discussion around NA today (mag)
• The board recommend it lives in PDF and stop distributing.
• Printing limited to H&I.
• Discussion that they are not spending 7^th
• Mechanism for how this money is being spent
• RSC costs $6-8k to put on
  • Necessary function
• Doing it via skype – wouldn’t work
• Web conferencing functions that might work.
• Positions vacant on the RSC
• Jenny to provide a list of the positions vacant.
• There is an H & I group and the board
• LSC –
• Board are meeting in cairns in July
• Next LSC in august
• What is the role of the LSC and what is the role of the board
• Topic for the next meeting
  • Whether or not we feel as a GSF should we really taking our own H&I …
  • Should we be more empowered about the services that we take on and offer here

7.   Homegroup and sponsorship workgroup

• The group supported a homegroup and sponsorship workgroup.

8.         Next GSF

• May 2019 GSF – to be hosted by Tuesday night West End.
• June 2019 GSF – to be hosted by Wednesday night West End.

Close

Serenity prayer in the plural.

God, grant us the serenity to accept the things that we cannot change

The courage to change the things that we can

And the wisdom to know the difference.