Diversity Committee

The Conference Diversity Committee (CDC) is a group of ABC/M delegates and individual members of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous interested in the following goals:

• Representing and honoring the considerable diversity of patterns and forms of sex and love addiction inside and outside S.L.A.A., including romance addiction and anorexia.

• Honoring and helping diverse groups within S.L.A.A. get their recovery needs met in the Fellowship.

• Supporting groups in creating formats to carry the S.L.A.A. message to other sex and love addicts. Some possibilities include formats to honor spiritual diversity, Step meetings, Eleventh Step meetings, and so on.

• Carrying the S.L.A.A. message to broader groups of people in our countries and to other countries.

DIVERSE MEETING FORMATS CATALOGUE PROJECT

In line with our third goal, the Conference Diversity Committee has complied a catalog of all the various meeting formats known to be in existence. Examples include, but are not limited to, meetings devoted to sexual or emotional anorexia, 11th Step meetings, closed gay and lesbian meetings, and others. The meeting formats are now available to local intergroups. The CDC has selected the best example in each category for the final catalog. In the case of duplication of meeting formats, the formats were edited or combined with other formats to achieve the best representation of a particular meeting format. Along with providing meeting formats to local intergroups, the CDC would also like to include a contact person, knowledgeable about the format.

If you are aware of any specialty meetings in your area, please send them to the CDC in order for other cities to benefit from your city's experience. Although electronic media is preferred, we will accept hard copies as well. You can send electronic copies to the e-mail link and/or hard copies to:

F.W.S.-- Conference Diversity Committee

1550 NE Loop 410, Ste 118

San Antonio, TX 78209 U.S.A.

Email: 

Diverse meeting formats are now available at F.W.S.

Other C.D.C. Projects (all S.L.A.A. members are invited and welcome to participate in our projects! Please attend our next conference call. Members from all countries can call into the international telephone number. Please send your telephone charges to the C.D.C. chairperson via F.W.S. Thank you!)

• People of Color Subcommittee

- to promote racial diversity in S.L.A.A.

• International Diversity Subcommittee

- to promote international diversity in S.L.A.A.

• Website Subcommittee

- to make the S.L.A.A. website and meeting information more accessible to people in other countries and to people who speak languages other than English.