Applications to present at the 2025 ACA Annual World Convention are now open!

We invite you to share your experience, strength, and hope! Members who have experience presenting in ACA are invited to apply to host a session at the upcoming Convention.

The ACA Annual World Convention (AWC) has become a transformative 24-hour live event. Next year's theme is “Feeling is Healing – Processing Trauma in ACA through Reparenting and Working the 12 Steps.”

The Convention will take place on Zoom, over the 4th and 5th of April 2025. To get a sense of the scope of this event, please see the listing of recordings from previous years here.

Based on our survey results, applications with a focus on the following will have priority:

• Reparenting
• The ACA 12 Steps
• Feeling is Healing (Convention Theme)
• Processing trauma
• Emotional sobriety

The presentations will be 90 minutes for a topic that helps others in their recovery - be it a practical skills workshop, a thought-provoking lecture, a panel discussion of your favourite ACA literature or something we can’t even conceive of yet!

We are hoping for global representation among presenters, and for presentations that are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Applications will be accepted from November 1 until December 15, 2024, 11:59 pm YOUR time zone.

Selection criteria include:

The Presenter:

• Is an active ACA member and preferably has a regular meeting group / home group
• Has experience presenting in ACA, such as a workshop, panel discussion, speaker, etc. If not, please gain ACA presentation experience and return next year
• If they are a practitioner, author, etc. commit to observe Tradition 6 (do not self-promote)

The Presentation:

• Is consistent with the Convention Theme
• Offers a variety of ACA recovery tools
• Is interactive / experiential / engages the participants

Before you fill in your application, please prepare in advance the following information:

Presentation logistics:

• All presenters’ names and contact info
• All presenters summary of ACA recovery and service experience
• All Presenters’ Bio’s
• All presenters’ ACA workshop experience, other workshop experience
• Feedback received from previous presentations
• Preferred presentation date and time

Workshop offering:

• Workshop style, focus, title-description, plan
• Expected learning / takeaways for participants

Miscellaneous:

• Workshop language, interpreter needed?
• Handouts to be used?

You can submit your application HERE

Questions? Email us at [email protected]

We look forward to reviewing your application!

~ The ACA Annual World Convention Planning Team