Are you including Traditions Meetings in your local meeting schedules? We’re finding increasingly a need to study the Twelve Traditions as part of our group process of recovery. Some groups will alternate once a month in the Step Study meeting by holding one meeting a month on the Traditions, reading from the Twelve and Twelve one Tradition and then sharing it (see enclosed paper regarding meetings).

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Results of using the newly suggested format (the “Santa Barbara” format, implementing the sobriety consciousness in meetings — see Newsletter dated August 24, 1985) are still coming in. And results are very positive, even though there are various objections from some members. Once the decision is made to try to uphold the sobriety imperative in meeting format, groups seem to get stronger.

Suggestion: Your group might want to try it out for a time and give it a chance.

Comment from one group: “The ratio of newcomers and those with less than 30 days sobriety to those with longer term sobriety is such that meetings usually end with those who are not sober or with very little sobriety ending the meeting. We’re wondering if perhaps we can have leaders allow room toward the end of meetings for sober members to share or call on them to share. This can help end the meetings on a positive constructive note and also be helpful to those not sober.”

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Our book, Sexaholics Anonymous, has been translated and printed in German. It is titled Anonyme Sexaholiker, patterned after the German edition of the AA Big Book, Anonyme Alkoholiker. Our SA brochure has been out in German for some time now.