Hello from Refuge Recovery World Services. We have an important update about our upcoming 6th Annual Refuge Recovery Conference, to be held at the Against the Stream Meditation Center in sunny Venice Beach, Los Angeles. Although we had been holding out hope that we could still meet in the first week of June, due to recent announcements extending Covid gathering restrictions in most states we have rescheduled our annual conference for February 26-28th, 2021. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause with your travel plans. Registration is open for the new February 2021 dates. If you are registered already and are able to attend in February, there is no need to do anything, we will keep you registered for the new dates. If you cannot make it, please let us know, so that we can issue a refund.
Otherwise, registration for our 6th Annual Conference is open. Be ready for a weekend of community, recovery and service. Come, make connections, and get inspired. Share your experience and practice. Hear speakers from the greater RR sangha. Participate in panel discussions and hear updates from the founder, your world service board members and your international RR sangha.
Registration is available here: Refuge-Recovery-Conference-Six-February-2021
The conference is also an opportunity to be involved in Refuge Recovery World Service. For the first time, elected representatives from RR State conventions will be voting on how to elect members to the first Refuge Recovery World Service Committee. One day of the conference will be devoted to the world service assembly. Be a part of this historic first for RR. The good news is, this unavoidable conference delay gives us more time to organize state level service conventions before February. Holding online state conventions will allow as many state and alternate state reps to be elected as possible. Send a representative and an alternate representative from your state and help create the democratic voice of the sangha.
Refuge Recovery World Services has begun to move scheduled in-person RR state service conventions online this week. All state conventions can be held online in the upcoming weeks and months while we are all still in the process of getting back to being able to gather in-person. Look for mail and phone contact from RRWS this month scheduling dates for your first state RR convention. We also need as much contact information as possible for all those doing service at the meeting and Inter-Sangha levels. Please send us your contact information and please include the RR meeting or Inter-Sangha you are a part of to:
refugerecoveryworldservices@refugerecoverymeetings.org
Online meetings have been a place where we have been meeting and getting to know each other. Along with your regular weekly meetings we encourage everyone to attend meetings hosted by other groups and to get to know our greater Sangha around the world. We look forward to meeting you all in online meetings, online conventions and hopefully in the fall, in-person service conventions.
Please register for the conference as soon as you are able, in order to assist us with the planning of this event. Space at Against the Stream Meditation Center is limited, and 100 is our maximum. Our conference planning committee is available to answer questions at: refugerecoveryworldservices@refugerecoverymeetings.org
In Service,
Joseph Souhrada
Russ Smith
Rachael Savage
Noah Levine
Refuge Recovery World Services