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Do You Ever Feel Adrift in the Universe?

2024_07_06-OrientationBDA Solvency Immersion
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We meet for 90 minutes every Saturday — starting at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern — plus a 45-minute After Party 

Suggested contribution is $60 to $180 for each 6-month registration, more if you're able. Every $30 buys a set of DA books for a fellow debtor. 

See our flyer, calendar, summary workshop format, and overview for our current and / or next conference cycle.

Many participants will use these workshops as studies, most will take the Steps, all will learn and grow together ... 

Review conference survey reports to see what previous participants have had to say about their experiences with us.

We request a generous registration contribution within your means; if you have no means, we have scholarships ... 

Please be clear that these are not DA or BDA meetings. This is a six-month planned, structured, and closely moderated 26-part recovery conference, with a suggested 7th Tradition contribution.

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If you are looking for a DA or BDA meeting, please click here for a meeting schedule.

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Registration is now OPEN for the January through June 2025 
BDA Solvency Immersion Conference

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Payments we receive from our fellow DA and BDA members are contributions, not fees. 
By group conscience, we neither offer nor provide refunds. 

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First things first! Let’s please be clear that our workshops and related recovery activities are not DA or BDA meetings, so we are not listed on the meeting list at https://debtorsanonymous.org/meeting-search-virtual/. Our workshops, After Parties, and Fellowship Drop-ins are all elements of a single interrelated recovery event, with an emphasis on generosity and reciprocity, especially related to contributions to our fund for provision of free — to recipients, purchased from our group treasury — DA and BDA literature for requestors. The conference spans six months, with a single conference host for all activities, and with a speaker for each pair of workshops.

We are simply a small group of solvent, recovering BDA members practicing the DA and BDA program principles, tools, and promises.
We are BDA members helping BDA members … and DA members too. Through the 7th Tradition contributions received from our conference participants, and directly from fellow members, we’ve been able to serve DA and BDA members globally with our literature service for several years. Since 2020, we have happily provided free literature to more than 1,700 requestors from every continent except Antarctica. We like to think there’s been a positive effect from our service. Visit https://www.bdaworkshops.org/free-literature to request free literature.

Unfortunately, our received
7th Tradition contributions, both direct and at the time of registration for our six-month conference, decreased so significantly in 2024 that we need to make our literature service US-only beginning January 1, 2025. The exception to this new service limitation will be non-US debtors who register for the conference. We will continue to ensure that those debtors have access to conference-approved literature.

Over the past five years, we’ve heard concerns that we might be breaking the 7th Tradition because we ask for generous contributions as debtors register for our six-month recovery conferences which, again, are not DA or BDA meetings, but which are closed to non-debtors. We’d like to think these events, like most recovery conferences, are
MUCH MORE than meetings. We do not ask for weekly contributions during the conference. 

Here’s our truth: We spend approximately $1,000 per month purchasing and shipping conference-approved literature to debtors who request it. Conference contributions at the time of registration are our primary funding source for that service with secondary funding coming from direct contributions from gratefully solvent debtors. Our experience is that immediate practice of generosity and reciprocity in this program has changed our lives and opened us to receiving in ways that we never could before. Please join us in these practices. 

Additionally, we are embarrassed by our fellow members who refuse to contribute despite months or years of recovery in this program, and we do not support that stinginess and ingratitude, although we do offer
one-time scholarships. Otherwise, we ask everyone to contribute SOMETHING, and we suggest $60 to $180 for six months, where every $30 buys a set of conference-approved books for someone who requests them (or sometimes for public information outreach). Our steering committee members each contribute $250 to $500 per six-month cycle.

We love helping compulsive debtors, especially business owners, to get and stay solvent and to take the 12 Steps. Please feel free to share this information with other debtors.

 

For information about "where the money goes," please visit our treasury reports, our service goals, our free literature page, and our outreach actions page.

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