Monday Night Zoom Meeting History

 

This meeting began June 15, 2021.  We had our first Group Conscience on July 20, 2021 and made the following decisions concerning the meeting:
 
1. Determined that there was sufficient commitment to make the meeting viable.

 

2. Decided to allow chairs to use of literature from other (traditional) 12 Step programs, with  word substitution, provisionally.  The group will reexamine this policy in 6 weeks.

 

3. Decided to use PayPal for 7th Tradition contributions

 

4. Agreed that although our current expenses are negligible (89 cents annually to use a member’s Zoom account for one hour each week), having our own Zoom account ($150/year) is preferable.   There will also be additional expenses for outreach via either contributions to Sunday’s web page or hosting our own.  With this in mind, we will begin collecting 7th tradition donations.
 
5. Decided to actively encourage additional participation in our meeting.  We will ask the Sunday night web page list our meeting, and will ask Workaholic members to let their friends and family know about it.

 

6. Although we think we’ll need a Treasurer (to collect and disburse funds), a Secretary (to keep track of who is chairing, get newcomers contact info onto the list, and possibly serve as timer), and an Intergroup Rep (to keep us abreast of what is happening in other meetings and to facilitate cooperation on joint projects), we did not elect anyone to those positions yet.

 

7. We determined that we do want to time our shares to be sure that everyone who desires to do so will have time to share.
 
A member agreed to put together a rough draft of our new format.

 

We agreed to hold another group conscience in 6 weeks on 8/31/21 to see how the new format is working.

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Since that time we have had many group consciences and made changes to the format, meeting day and time, and many other details.  However, the focus of the meeting has remained unchanged.

 

A European Work-Anon meeting has joined the fellowship as of 11/21/21.

 

Prior to the founding of the Monday night Zoom meeting, there had been a Sunday night telephone meeting that had met for many years.  It was members of that Sunday night meeting, who met there, that ended up forming the Monday night Zoom meeting.  It appears that the first Work-Anon meeting happened 2/18/2007, or at least that is the first time the Work-Anon Blogspot (now discontinued) was started.  We are grateful for those who went before us.

 

Updated 5/7/25