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This is the welcome message sent to new members. It explains how the
meeting works. Enjoy!
Welcome
to
sia@lists.riseup.net, an open meeting of
Survivors of Incest
Anonymous. My name is ________ and I am an incest survivor and your
secretary tonight. Let's open the meeting with a moment of silence
followed by the Serenity Prayer. :)
~ Please grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the
courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the
difference. ~
We are a group of people who are guided by 12 suggested steps and 12
traditions. (They, as well as this welcome message, will also be sent out
to all members once a month.) The only requirement for membership in SIA
is that you have, or suspect you might have, experienced incest and that
you want to recover from it. We have SIA's definitions of incest and
ritual abuse available at the meeting's website; they can also be found at
http://www.siawso.org.
Please post a message to this list introducing yourselves whenever you
feel comfortable. If you are a newcomer, please tell us so we can welcome
you. A newcomer is anyone who is attending an SIA meeting for their first,
second, or third time. We also recommend that new members create a free
account at livejournal.com (or use
one you already have) and join the business meeting by going to:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sia_meeting. Information about the business meeting will follow in a separate email.
This list is a good place for:
posting introductions and hearing from other survivors
sharing your experience, strength, and hope about anything that you
feel is related to your recovery from abuse
sharing your work on the steps
posting SIA-related announcements
sharing any recovery anniversaries you have
This list is NOT a good place for cross-talk. Cross-talk is:
asking questions or giving advice
talking about other people on the list or about what they have shared
We have another list for that: sia-discussion. (sia-discussion is
currently being set up.) If this list is a meeting, sia-discussion is like
the time after the meeting when everyone is hanging out and chatting. On
that list, discussion, questions, and giving solicited advice are
welcomed.
Any of those can also be done via private email. However, if someone has
not said that it is okay to comment on their share, please ask before you
comment on it - whether it is via private email or on the discussion list.
Everyone makes mistakes sometimes: if a member cross-talks on this list by
mentioning someone's name or what they shared, it is up to that someone
and/or the secretary to respectfully and privately (not on the list!)
remind them about the cross-talk rule.
Many survivor spaces online require "trigger warnings," where members warn
everyone before mentioning specific subjects, or censor certain words
using asterisks. We do not require any such warnings or self-censorship:
there is nothing too heavy to share in this space.
Our seventh tradition says we are self-supporting through our own
voluntary contributions. Since we are an online meeting, we do not have
literature you can order; you can order SIA literature directly from the
World Service Office at http://www.siawso.org. Seventh tradition
funds go to help SIA pay rent, manage its pen pal program and speaker's
bureau, and produce outreach materials, as well as to make donations to
riseup.net and livejournal.com to fund the spaces this list uses. The
virtual "basket" for the seventh tradition gets passed separately, once a
week.
Welcome to the meeting!
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