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May 18, 2008

Augustine Alchemy 2016 Conference

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AUGUSTINE ALCHEMY DAY OF HEALING

17th Annual 12 step conference 

Jointly sponsored by COSLAA and SLAA

SATURDAY, August 13, 2016

8:30am registration for 9am to 5pm conference

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

941 Old Rock Hill Road

Wallingford, CT 06492

Suggested 7th tradition $18

Conference includes:

Closed COSLAA meeting

Two speakers from COSLAA

Separate getting current rooms

Facilitated topic sessions

Beautiful gardens for meditation

Fellowship and Refreshments Room

Recovery Gift Raffle

Conference Sponsors for the Day

Sober sharing of Strength and Hope for Individual, Couple,

and Family and Community Healing.

Step One Booklet for each COSLAA attendee.


Tentative Program

 

Time Event
7:30 AM Open for hospitality and quiet contemplation. Eating and quiet rooms provided. There is outside gathering room for talking NO SMOKING ON GROUNDS.
9 AM General Session.Introduction and instructions SLAA speaker. COSLAA speaker
10 AM First Breakout sessions. Those who wish to moderate sessions please let personnel at the desk know you wish to do so. Six month bottom line sobriety requirement. There are provided formats for each session. Depending on attendance there will be from 4 -6 different breakouts. Sessions regarding partners or relationships should have a partner team leading those groups (see formats at the meeting). There are always getting current rooms reserved for SLAA and COSLAA respectively. Please be respectful of boundaries.
11:15 AM Second Breakout sessions. Those who wish to moderate sessions please let personnel at the desk know you wish to do so. Six month bottom line sobriety requirement. There are provided formats for each session. Depending on attendance there will be from 4 -6 different breakouts. Sessions regarding partners or relationships should have a partner team leading those groups (see formats at the meeting). There are always getting current rooms reserved for SLAA and COSLAA respectively. Please be respectful of boundaries.
12:15 PM Lunch. Bring a bag lunch or go out on the town (Westport) is within walking distance. A map will be provided of lunching spots. A posting here will have many of the on foot choices.
2:00 PM Third Breakout Sessions. Those who wish to moderate sessions please let personnel at the desk know you wish to do so. Six month bottom line sobriety requirement. There are provided formats for each session. Depending on attendance there will be from 4 -6 different breakouts. Sessions regarding partners or relationships should have a partner team leading those groups (see formats at the meeting). There are always getting current rooms reserved for SLAA and COSLAA respectively. Please be respectful of boundaries.
3:15 PM Fourth Breakout Sessions. Those who wish to moderate sessions please let personnel at the desk know you wish to do so. Six month bottom line sobriety requirement. There are provided formats for each session. Depending on attendance there will be from 4 -6 different breakouts. Sessions regarding partners or relationships should have a partner team leading those groups (see formats at the meeting). There are always getting current rooms reserved for SLAA and COSLAA respectively. Please be respectful of boundaries.
4:15 PM Closing remarks and closing speakers from COSLAA and SLAA
5:00 PM Final remarks and closing circle.   (Updated July 4, 2011)

Temporary sponsors: Temporary sponsors agree to be sponsors-for-a-day and will be available for sponsorship help in respective getting current rooms. Please adhere to boundaries and use an SLAA sponsor if you are an addict, a COSLAA sponsor if you are a NON-addict but in relationship with or affected by an addict. Sponsors will be wearing SPONSOR-SLAA or SPONSOR-COSLAA ribbons with their name tags. If you wish to do this service ask at registration. Please have appropriate sobriety from bottom line for this service. If there are other non-SLAA group attendees who wish to sponsor for their program, please advise us at the desk.

Hospitality help: The hospitality room will need some assistance with put out and clean up. If you wish to do service in this way, please let us know at the registration desk.

Moderators: Program chairs are chosen at each session. There is a format to follow for each room; however, be mindful that chairs usually do less sharing and more facilitating. If you have questions about the role of chairs in the rooms, or questions about sobriety requirements, please ask at the registration desk.
Updated  July 2016

February 18, 2007

Canada & Netherlands COSLAA

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COSLAA coming to CANADA and Netherlands

Interested Montreal newcomers can email to
COSLAAmontreal@yahoo.ca (Attn:Jane)

Interested Vancouver newcomers can email to
COSLAAvancouver@yahoo.ca (Attn:Diane)
2/18/07

Interested Rotterdam, Netherlands newcomers can email to
Andrea.daisyduke@hotmail.com (5/19/07)

July 29, 2006

1st Step-1st Call to Helpline

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The COSLAA helpline 860 456 0032 is for the use of the suffering family, friend, or significant other whose life has been affected by a sex and love addict, but who does not have a pattern of sex and love addiction his/herself.

This reach out call is part of a newcomer\’s Step One, of surrendering to reality and admitting unmanageability. By calling the helpline the individual is asking for help from others who are part of a recovery program known as COSLAA.

We ask that a newcomer to COSLAA be the one to call the helpline. Well meaning partners, therapists, physicians, clergy, friends, etc. may offer the phone number, website information. But the help stops there. It is by the choice of a newcomer to use the helpline as a support that recovery can start for her/him. No one can force recovery on a newcomer. It simply will continue a struggle for control and someone else\’s will, and will not work.

Over the years of COSLAA members\’ stories of entering recovery the following principles have resounded true:
1. Making that first call can be the most difficult step to take, as it can bring up enormous pain, shame and guilt, and confusion.
2. The anger of emotional and sexual betrayal toward the sex and love addict can lead to blame and rage that can hide the parallel soul sickness of the family, friend or significant other to the sex and love addict.
3. The decision to turn one\’s eyes away from the sex addict and toward the suffering and unmanageable life of the family member is the beginning of recovery.
4. All newcomer calls are handled with respect and anonymity. Only first names are used and recovery support will be offered usually within 24 to 48 hours.
5. COSLAA offers a life saving recovery program for newcomers.

May 23, 2004

COSLAA MEETINGS

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The COSLAA National Site is up for the first time on April 1, 2005. It is currently maintained by the Willimantic, Connecticut Wednesday Night meeting.

COSLAA provides 12 step recovery, based on a system pioneered by Al-Anon, for family, friends, children or those in relationship or affected by a sex addict. We ask that sex addicts DO NOT attend our meetings

If you have questions, would like to help with this website, would like to find a meeting or are a member of a meeting that would like to list here, please contact the
Webguide for more information regarding these matters.

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