Dear ,
We are pleased to welcome you to A Serenity Place. We hope you will find
here the healing we have been fortunate to receive. This is the purpose
for which A Serenity Place was created."
To many of us the first comforting words we heard in
Al-Anon were: "You are already surrounded by people who love you
in a very special way." Please accept a cyberhug from A Serenity Place:
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Cyber-hugs feel good; we give and receive them a lot. They contribute to
the ambience of A Serenity Place. It has been created to be a warm and
healing "room". Here, relatives and friends of alcoholics can come
together for the loving interchange of our experience, strength and hope.
This is how we help one another in Al-Anon.
Different people have different needs for anonymity. Some are comfortable
with very little while others need the most anonymity that they can get. A
Serenity Place is devoted to maintaining personal anonymity and in line
with this we follow certain policies:
1. Members are asked NOT to repeat (copy) any part of other members'
shares to anyone outside ASP at any time nor to quote personal shares
publicly within the group.
2. Fingering (tracing an e-mail user to their source), and use of any
other similar technologies to identify a member, are unacceptable at A
Serenity Place.
3. To "flame" is to make critical, ridiculing or antagonistic remarks to
others. To do this at A Serenity Place is to deny the very things our
Al-Anon program fosters. If you receive such mail, please notify
Steve.
4. In Al-Anon we help each other by sharing our experience, strength and
hope and refrain from giving advice.
5. At A Serenity Place we use ONLY Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature
(CAL) and refrain from discussion of therapy or other 12-step groups.
Please remember that jokes, poems, inspirational writings, etc. are not CAL and
should NOT sent to the meeting. Exceptions are brief references to the AA
Big Book and things you have written yourself.
While these are some of the group's policies, online Al-Anon is
particularly vulnerable to enforcing the unenforceable. If you have a
particular need for anonymity, you may want to discuss it further with your
service provider or our Greeting Committee.
In order to share with the group, at the top of your email form, address it to:
asp-afg@lists.serenitysys.com
The server will then automatically send it to all members of A Serenity
Place.
We use subject lines that identify the mail as coming from A Serenity
Place. Subject lines are always preceded with the abbreviation ASP (A
Serenity Place) to identify them as A Serenity Place mail and then by
topic, general share, request for experiences, strength and hope (E,S & H)
or business as follows:
ASP TOPIC - Trust
ASP SHARE - Gratitude
ASP REQUEST - E,S & H Needed
ASP BUSINESS - Volunteering for Position
When you receive email from ASP, if you wish to reply to the sender, just
choose "reply" and it will go only to the original sender. If you wish to
send a reply to the entire group, you will need to delete the original
sender's name from the "to" and paste in asp-afg@lists.serenitysys.com
In Al-Anon we do not give advice but rather share our experience, strength
and hope. We do not bring into the meeting non-Conference Approved
Literature (CAL), therapy, or discussion of other 12-step groups. We keep
the focus on us and not on the alcoholic. In this way we help one another
in Al-Anon.
Online we tend to use acronyms and symbols quite a bit, such as: : - )
for a smile or <G> for grin or <VBG> for very big grin. We'll try to
explain the acronyms and symbols as we go along, but we may forget, so
please feel free to ask. We encourage all our members to visit the Web
home page often for updates:
http://www.serenitysys.com/A_Serenity_Place/
and for business updates or to volunteer for a service position (please
don't give this out; it is only for members of A Serenity Place):
http://www.serenitysys.com/A_Serenity_Place/Business/
If you have any questions at all, please ask the Greeting Committee.
Again, welcome to A Serenity Place. We're glad you're here!
Love & Hugs,
[greeter's name]
[greeter's e-mail address]
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