LPG Script- 10am & 8am CST (please do not read what is in bold print. You are only required to read the script, then call on people who raise their virtual hand. The chat posts, meeting admissions, and screen shares are done by the tech host. The tech host also watches for Zoom bombers, mutes distractions and answers any questions in the chat.)

Hello.  My name is (your first name).  Welcome to Recovering Daily, a Loving Parent Guidebook meeting of Adult Children of Alcoholics.  

By growing up in a dysfunctional family many of us did not have the loving parent we desired or deserved. In ACA we realize that we can become our own Loving Parent. Becoming our own Loving Parent is at the core of healing from a neglectful childhood; it is the gateway to our Inner Child.  By practicing the 12 Steps, by focusing on the Solution, and by accepting a Higher Power of our understanding, we find freedom from the effects of alcoholism and other family dysfunction.  

 

Will you please join me in a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer? (screen shared)

 

Would someone please read the Laundry List.  Laundry List (or Other Laundry List, your choice)  (screen shared)

Would someone please read the Solution (screen shared)

 In this meeting we ask that everyone respect the following boundaries:

  • Please mute when not speaking and turn off your video if you’re engaging in distracting behaviors.

  • Please use the words “I, me and my” to share your personal experience.  Please avoid the use of “you, we and us.”

  • We do not ‘cross talk,’ which means we do not refer to, negatively or positively evaluate, or comment on anyone else’s sharing.

  • Anything heard at this meeting stays at this meeting.  Please respect the privacy of those who shared here today.

Today we will be reading page (  ) and will stop reading at page (  ) in our Loving Parent Guidebook.  We will place the reading in the chat.   We read the entire reading prior to opening it up for sharing.  When we come to questions in the Guidebook, we take 5 minutes to journal on the questions, then open up the meeting for sharing. (We only take 5 minutes to journal if there are questions to answer.   If there are no questions, we do not take 5 minutes, we read the entire reading, then open it up for sharing)

 We raise our virtual hand to share.  We time our shares at 2.5 minutes (for meetings 15 people or smaller, we time it at 3 minutes)

Is somebody able to time the meeting today?  We time using the ‘Zoom timer’ displayed for everybody to see and please set it on the ‘beep’ tone.

We will now begin reading.  Please limit your reading to 1-2 paragraphs and say pass when you’re finished.  Who would like to start us off on page ( )?

(At 5 minutes til the hour….)

We’ve reached the end of our sharing time and it’s now time for the 7thTradition which states that “Every ACA group ought to be self-supporting, declining outside contributions.”  

After the Zoom fees are paid, this group sends donations to the ACA World Service Organization.  I put a link to Venmo in the chat. 

https://account.venmo.com/u/werecoverlpg

If you didn’t get to share today and would like to, we will keep the room open for 15 minutes after the meeting is over to give you an opportunity to share.

I placed our group phone list in the chat, if you would like to be added to it, please place your phone number in the chat.  It’s an excel spreadsheet, you just click on it to open it up. 

Are there any ACA related announcements?

Would someone please read the Promises (screen shared)

Let us close the meeting with the Loving Parent prayer (or Set aside prayer, your choice), you are welcome to join.  After a moment of silence…..  (prayer is screen shared)

Thank you for joining the meeting today.  This group meets (dependent on which group you are hosting:

Monday-Friday 10CST

Mon/Wed/Friday 8am CST