Delegates of Member Groups

“The members of this corporation, also known as ‘ISO convention delegates’ or ‘international convention delegates’ shall consist of one individual elected by each SAA member group as its international convention delegate…”

— Bylaws of the ISO of SAA, Inc., Article II, Section 1.

The delegates to the international ISO convention elected by SAA member groups are the shareholders in the ISO corporate structure. In annual and called meetings, the delegates represent the opinions and wishes of the member groups that elect them.

A meeting of the delegates is convened annually by the Board of Trustees at the time of the annual international convention. At that meeting, the delegates receive reports from the various ISO components – the Board of Trustees, the Literature Committee, and the ISO Office. The delegates then consider business items of interest to the fellowship-at-large.

In addition, acting in regional caucuses, the delegates elect members to fill vacancies on the Board of Trustees and the Literature Committee. In caucuses the delegates also identify persons to serve as regional coordinators for prisoner outreach and conduct any other business of particular interest to members and member groups in each region.

Each delegate to the international convention is elected to serve for a one year period of time.

Additional information about and for delegates is provided in the annual Call to Convention.

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The 12 Steps

  1. We admitted we were powerless over addictive sexual behavior - that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other sex addicts and to practice these principles in our lives.

The 12 Traditions

  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon S.A.A. unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  3. The only requirement for S.A.A. membership is a desire to stop addictive sexual behavior.
  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or S.A.A. as a whole.
  5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the sex addict who still suffers.
  6. An S.A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the S.A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
  7. Every S.A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Sex Addicts Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
  9. S.A.A., as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  10. Sex Addicts Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the S.A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and films.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.