2025, 75th General Service Conference (April 27-May 3, 2025), New York
(Your Area 32 delegate can give you more details on the conference and the issues)
Delegate: Don M.
Email: Delegate@cmia32.org
ADVISORY ACTION HIGHLIGHTS
Read the Quick Reference Guide here: https://tinyurl.com/GSC75
- The following theme for the 2026 General Service Conference: “Humility in Action”
- The following presentation theme and topics for the 2026 General Service Conference:
- “Restoration and Discovering Grace, Unity and Fellowship”, “Gossip vs Facts: Examining the Health of Our Own Communications”, “Finding Common Ground”
Cooperation with the Professional Community
- The project for the development of an outward facing pamphlet for mental health professionals be redirected, utilizing existing content in the current draft and reformatted in a quad-fold layout. The committee requests that a draft pamphlet or progress report be brought back to the 2026 Conference
- On a one-year trial basis, AAWS subscribe to a LinkedIn premium business account at a cost not to exceed $1,000 per year, and to bring back a report on the effectiveness of the upgraded account to the 2026 Conference
Finance
- The Conference-approved level of $10,000 for individual bequests to the General Service Board from A.A. members be raised to $12,500.
Literature
- The trustees’ Literature Committee update the language and content of the book Living Sober with a progress report or draft manuscript to be delivered to the 2026 Conference Committee on Literature.
- The proposals to rescind or revise the Plain Language Big Book be collected and deferred until the 77th General Service Conference (2027) to allow for a wider Fellowship experience.
- The development of a process within the trustees’ Literature Committee for receiving, assessing and forwarding proposed changes to the Plain Language Big Book to the Conference Committee on Literature.
- The developed video animation of the pamphlet “The Twelve Concepts Illustrated” be approved with minor edits
- The revisions to the pamphlet “Questions and Answers on Sponsorship” be approved with minor editorial changes and formatting standards.
Public Information
- The pamphlet “Understanding Anonymity” (P-47) be revised to address anonymity and social media and looks forward to a draft or an update report to be brought to the 2026 Conference Committee on Public Information.
- The trustees’ Public Information Committee develop a plan for a 2026 A.A. Membership Survey utilizing random sampling methodology. The committee requested that the plan for the 2026 Membership Survey be brought to the 2026 Conference Committee on Public Information