Posts by The Chief

The 2012 LifeRing Annual Meeting was held May 11. 12 and 13 in San Francisco and came off very smoothly. Attendance was not overwhelming, but those who came both contributed to the meeting’s success and benefited from it. The meeting, held primarily at the very comfortable San Francisco LGBT Center, featured it’s usual mix of…

Martin Nicolaus, one of LifeRing’s founders and its only leader until two years ago, will be the keynote speaker at the LifeRing Annual Meeting on May 12th at the LGBT Center in San Francisco. His talk is entitled, ‘Toward a Medical Model of Addiction Recovery, or:  Is it Time to Occupy Recovery?” The talk, which…

Just to clear up any confusion, the fee that we set for attending the Annual Meeting is suggested, not required. We do need the money, but nobody will be turned away. (Well, except from the banquet — that does have to be paid for!) Further, advance registration is not required for the meeting events. You…

As plans for the LifeRing Annual Meeting continue to fall into place, several items promise to arouse discussion at the Sunday LifeRing Congress. Four seats on the board of directors will be decided by a vote of the delegates present. Each LifeRing meeting is entitled to send one delegate. Three of the seats are from…