Links to other LifeRing web sites and the gateway to the internal newsletter are on the left. They may begin by bringing LifeRing literature to their friends, or bringing their friends to meetings, or taking a turn as meeting treasurer or librarian or secretary, or participating in speaker teams, or helping out with mailings, or starting new meetings, or any number of other services that make the organization go. Bringing people together is the essence of what convenors do. Because convenors need to be free to share in confidence, the inside pages of this special web site for convenors are password-protected. The core unit of LifeRing is the recovery meeting.
Meetings are autonomous except in matters affecting other meetings and the organization as a whole.
LifeRing is a free-standing organization. LifeRing is not affiliated with any other organization, and is independent financially, legally, organizationally and in every other way. The LifeRing Constitutional Congress met in Brooksville, FL, in Feb. 2001 and adopted a set of new bylaws that further define the LSR organizational process. The historic vote capped a full day of reports from the meetings and debate of specific issues within the proposed bylaws. The atmosphere was lively, direct, and mutually respectful.