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What are the criteria for
e-CAL presentations?
Is there anything
e-CAL won't use?
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What are the criteria for e-CAL presentations?
• Is it identifiably Al-Anon in content and feeling?
• Is it factually accurate?
• Is it timely?
• Is it understandable by a broad-based audience?
Al-Anon literature, including books, pamphlets, and now electronic presentations, all share a common purpose: to help family and friends recover from the effects of someone else's drinking. Al-Anon literature supplements face-to-face meetings, but it cannot substitute for the help and healing that take place at Al-Anon meetings.
Is there anything e-CAL won't use?
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Submissions that don’t meet the criteria listed above
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Copyrighted or already published material, including copyrighted art work, photos, and music
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Helpful tips
- Share an experience from the heart with the focus on yourself, not the alcoholic or others.
- Relate a personal experience based on a program principle such as detachment, acceptance, a Step, Tradition, or Concept of Service, etc., and give an instance of how and where you used it.
- Use the first person (I, me, we, us). True personal sharings do not give direction; they express your own experience, strength, and hope. Please avoid the use of the pronoun "you."
- Avoid generalities, outside issues, treatment center language, and religious philosophy or doctrine. Al-Anon members in other Twelve Step programs, including Alcoholics Anonymous, are asked to write only of their experience in the Al-Anon program.
- Kindly observe Al-Anon's Twelve Traditions when sharing.
- Please do not use full-face photographs of any kind
Note that all sharings become the property of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., and may be used in whole or in part to develop Al-Anon/Alateen printed or electronic material.
We look forward to receiving your presentation!
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