Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene

Aloha · ~*Service Worker*~

Al-Anon Without Borders - World Wide Roundup ZOOM meeting

PosiesandPuppies · ~*Service Worker*~

Thank you, Aloha!

KT2015 · ~*Service Worker*~

this is amazing. Thank you.

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

Zoom alanon meetings!!! What a wonderful idea! Thanks for posting Aloha!!!

After my usual Saturday morning meeting -- which has been meeting via zoom for several weeks now -- I will absolutely jump on these meetings!

Thanks again!

a4l · ~*Service Worker*~

Aloha that's really fabulous. Thank you for sharing

who'd a thunk isolation could lead to more social connection.

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

Amazing how people who struggle to get to face to face meetings now have the ability to attend meetings as alanon is "making house calls" so to speak! LOL.

I've been receiving notices nationwide about meetings that are now meeting via zoom! From NY to CA, there are meetings multiple times a day, 7 days a week! Too bad more people can't take advantage of this!

Indra · Newbie

I am blessed to be part of Al anon without borders.
All sharing were insightful. Thanks to host, co host and every members for sharing their esh. Love and hugs.
Am Al anon member from, Gujarat, India. All sharings were insightful.

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

They had at least 1000 people "attend" the meeting!!! I know many people who showed up late, tried to jump on at various points, etc. -- and they already had 1000 people in attendance!!!

A lot of great sharing, great insight, great perspective!!!

Freetime · ~*Service Worker*~

It was announced at my local meeting that this event is happening again next weekend, April 4-5, with new speakers, on the same Zoom link.

I heard from people that attended that they could not login at first because the 1000-person participation limit was full, but if they kept trying, they would be able to get in as people drop in and out of the meeting.

Recordings of some of the March 28-29 speakers are available at msbrecording.com/al-anon-zoom-meetings/

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

That is correct Freetime...next weekend as well...the flyer was posted here by someone else, but I wouldn't dare do that! LOL.

I know some of the people who spoke, and will be speaking this coming weekend...it's going to be a great event!!!

mamalioness · ~*Service Worker*~

Oh WOW!!!! this is GREAT,...THANK you for sharing...I like Zoom....our church has our recovery and our life points on it......

mamalioness · ~*Service Worker*~

oooops saw the dates....are they gonna keep doing this?????

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

Rose, I just know that Part II was planned for this coming weekend. I don't know anything about beyond that. If it goes beyond, I am sure it will be announced by and throughout the major sources.

-- Edited by Bo on Tuesday 31st of March 2020 05:15:54 AM

Bo · ~*Service Worker*~

BTW, the plan was that a couple of the speakers for this coming weekend were a few well-known alanon CA people -- one from LA and one from Orange County.

Iamhere · ~*Service Worker*~

FYI all - there are security concerns with the Zoom app. For those of you concerned about your computer/phone security, I encourage you to seek solutions to ensure you have not bee 'affected'. There are also reports that trolls are joining recovery meetings, and being extremely disruptive. If this interim solution is working for you, don't give up hope! The app. is working to stop both concerns.

I 'grew up' in technology, so am hyper-vigilant about my security - computer, phone, etc. I also am one who avoids new applications until the bugs/defects are worked out. I am not affected directly by any of this, so can't be of much help. Be wise what system you access any app. on/from, especially social media apps and the like! Most are continuously collecting a variety of data that you may/may not want 'out there'.

Aloha · ~*Service Worker*~

I attempted to connect several times this weekend myself and kept hitting that 1000 person limit. Oh, well! But that was just wonderful to know thousands of people were attending.

As IAH stated, practice personal safety measures if you feel concerned about connecting through the internet or phone meetings.

For right now, however, this is sort of the new normal for recovery groups to get together. And while perhaps it felt scary and dangerous to attend face-to-face meetings in the past, members took what necessary precautions were needed to ensure their personal safety, and it should be just so for electronic meetings now.

Google "zoom security risks" (or under any other platform your groups may be using) to educate yourselves on the proper precautions to take.

The material presented here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method to exchange information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal level.

Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene