LifeRing Annual Meeting 2013
Every year LifeRing holds an Annual Meeting, inviting all convenors, delegates to the LifeRing Congress and interested members to gather together to meet one another, hear presentations by highly regarded professionals in the Recovery area, and to discuss LifeRing’s progress. The meeting is held over a weekend each Spring and includes the Congress in which elected delegates choose who is to serve on the Board of Directors, and which, if any, changes to the LifeRing bylaws will be accepted.
This year, the meeting is set for Denver, Colorado and will run from May 31 through June 2. Denver has the largest concentration of LifeRing meetings and members outside of California. The annual get-t0gether has been held there twice before with great success.
This year, we’re particularly excited to have arranged for Dr. Gabor Mate to be our main speaker. Mate has written several books, including a seminal and prize-winning work, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, which draws on his years of experience as a medical doctor, particularly his work at a clinic in a part of downtown Vancouver, Canada, with substantial numbers of drug and alcohol addicts. Having a speaker of Dr. Mate’s stature is unusual for us and involves higher-than-usual expenses, so there will be an extra charge for those who wish to hear his presentation. He is widely regarded as a fine speaker, “known for the power, insight, clarity, candor, compassion, humor, and warmth of his presentations.”.... more information here...
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