What do ANLP Liaisons do?

ANLP Liaisons are a vital connection between MA’s publishing department, ANLP, and the fellowship. The primary responsibility of ANLP liaisons is to communicate between ANLP and members of the fellowship. 

Anyone can be a Liaison by sharing announcements, service opportunities and more from ANLP’s Monthly “Pitch Points” at ANLP12.org/pitchpoints. Email the Liaison Coordinator to be added to the email list to receive news and notifications when the pitch points are updated. Don’t miss out! Sign-up for emails and be one of the first to know what’s happening at ANLP, and help your fellows get their creative works published and recovery anniversaries/birthdays celebrated in A New Leaf!!

Liaisons are not expected to attend any ANLP meetings (but are invited to attend ANLP’s twice-monthly Steering Committee meetings, email [email protected] for more information on these meetings!

While it may be a district role, it can also be “self-proclaimed” (like being a “Service Ambassador”) and there may be more than one Liaison in a meeting or district. The ANLP Liaisons’ primary responsibility is to communicate between ANLP and members of their meeting(s) and/or district and ensure members know how to submit and subscribe to ANLP’s publications and purchase Literature from ANLP’s online store!

The ANLP Charter suggests if an ANLP Liaison is a District-level service commitment, that member(s) selected for the role have at least six (6) months clean and sober from marijuana, alcohol, and all other mind-altering substances (unless those other substances are taken as prescribed by a healthcare provider). However, this is just a suggestion – districts and meetings are autonomous and free to set their own requirements for the role (if any).Tradition 4. However, districts and meetings are also free to set their own requirements for the Liaison role. (for more info see ANLP Charter in SM, Appendix I: Foundation Docs.) 

More specifically, ANLP Liaisons share information:

• Accessing our literature:
  • Free digital downloading from the MA Resource Library such as pamphlets, full PDFs of our books, the Service Manual, New Meeting Starter Kit, and other meeting resources, like format, readings, safety statement, and much more at MA12.org/library 
  • Purchasing print MA literature at ANLP12.org/books or the bulk discount offered when buying Life with Hope and/or the Life with Hope 12-Step Workbook from ANLP in bulk (10+) using the ANLP Bulk Order Form (ANLP12.org/bulk)
  • Daily Dose email subscription(ANLP12.org/daily-dose) the free daily email featuring each day’s meditation from Living Every Day with Hope, 
• A New Leaf is MA’s free monthly, email publication celebrating the creativity of MA members featuring content submitted by MA members reflecting the message of hope, recovery, and service, and that unifies us in our shared experiences as recovering marijuana / cannabis addicts.
  • Published in two formats:
    • Emails received monthly at MA12.org/new-leaf
    • Online blog space accessible at any time at ANLP12.org/blog
  • Archived issues can be shared at anlp12.org/new-leaf/archive
  • Sobriety birthdays/anniversaries can celebrate them in A New Leaf at ANLP12.org/birthday
    • Encourage members to submit, or Liaisons can collect and submit them themselves for their meeting and/or district
  • Creative Publication
    • A New Leaf accepts a wide range of artistic and creative submissions, including: poetry, stories, “break-up” letters (see  ANLP12.org/break-up-letter), prayers (see ANLP12.org/prayerwriting), other writing, crosswords, puzzles, drawings, comics, paintings, photography, other artwork, songs, lyrics, music, “heard in a meeting” quotes, and photos or videos of physical art such as ceramics, sculpture, or even dance, or any other content reflecting the message of hope, recovery, and service, and unifies us in our shared experiences as recovering marijuana addicts.
    • Encourage members to create and submit a variety of creative content (in addition to stories) to A New Leaf at ANLP12.org/content 
    • Use ANLP prompts, and specific monthly topic prompts to spark their creativity, general recovery prompts are collected at MA12.org/prompts and the more unique member stories the stories subcommittee is collecting at MA12.org/stories (which can be submitted to both A New Leaf and the MA Stories Book and Pamphlets projects) 
      • These prompts at (MA12.org/monthly-prompts) also include monthly specific topic suggestions, like content related to an:
        • The Step, Tradition, Concept from the 12 Concepts for Service, or Question from MA’s 12 Questions that corresponds with that month, e.g. Step 1, Tradition 1, Concept 1 & Question 1 in January and so on (you can always submit content about any Step, Tradition, Service Concept, or Question any month!)
        • Event, Holiday, Awareness, or Heritage Day/Month or Date of Personal Significance, and ANL encourages members to submit content relating to events, holidays, or awareness months that occur in particular months; specifically, this includes:
          • MA Events: For example, the Conference is in May/June , the Convention in August/Sept, and the Soberthon is on 4/20, so stories related to these events are encouraged for those month’s issues;
          • Holidays, or Heritage or Awareness Months, Weeks, or Days: If you have experience in sobriety with a condition, illness, or disease that has an awareness month/week, or you are of a heritage, identity or ethnicity with an awareness month,  you may want to submit your story for that month; Or, if you have a story aboutFatherhood, Graduation, or Pride month for June, or about the intersection of disability and sobriety in July for Disability Awareness month, or about sobriety during the holidays in November & December, etc., you may want to submit a story about that in those months; 
          • Or if another date of personal significance falls on a specific month, such as a birthday, sobriety anniversary, holiday, graduation, or other significant date to you personally, submit related content ahead of that month.
• ANLP News – Share announcements with members, such as available service opportunities and ANLP events, like the monthly Writing Workshop ANLP12.org/workshop
• Member feedback – Collect and share to help improve how ANLP carries the message of recovery through the publication of MA literature (and share feedback with the Liaison Coordinator, [email protected] and/or Chair, [email protected])

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