Tradition 9: GAA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

We use an upside-down pyramid to show where the power of decision-making lies in the GAA service structure.  Groups are at the top.  No one compels them to do anything, and they have the power to direct the service structure beneath them.

GAA International Services (GAAIS) is at the bottom of the pyramid. It holds no power over the fellowship of GAA. GAAIS is a non-profit service organization that handles publishing literature, maintaining the GAA website, answering inquiries, paying the bills, managing volunteer staff, and meeting legal requirements. Delegates from the groups direct GAAIS through the General Service Conference.

The General Service Conference is a meeting of group delegates and GAAIS trustees who together decide on the overall direction of GAAIS and decide matters such as the content of GAA literature and the website, how to answer inquiries, the wording of steps, traditions, GSC charter, and GAAIS bylaws, and public outreach.

Meetings are held in Zoom. The agendas are notes are posted online.

EXISTING PROJECTS and SUBCOMMITTEES

Basic text. A book that thoroughly lays out the experience, guidance, and suggestions of our fellowship, intended to help both brand-new people making a start in GAA and longer-term members working our recovery program.

FUTURE PROJECTS

Meeting starter kit. A collection of materials, including the Meeting Handbook, fliers, pamphlets, and guidance on starting a meeting and building local GAA fellowship.

While GAA has no rules, we do have Twelve Traditions that guide our fellowship toward unity. The Traditions keep us focused on our single purpose and guide us away from controversies and power struggles that might tear our fellowship apart.

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon G.A.A. unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—our group conscience as guided by power greater than ourselves. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for G.A.A. membership is a desire to stop computer/video gaming.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or G.A.A. as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the gaming addict who still suffers.
6. An G.A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the G.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 G.A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Gaming Addicts Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. G.A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. Gaming Addicts Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the G.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, films and internet.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.