Q1 2026 Community Update

Q1 2026 Community Update

To our Alumni community,

First and foremost, thank you.

Thank you for showing up.
Thank you for committing to your recovery.
And thank you for doing so in a way that supports everyone else’s recovery, simply by being present.

What we are building together exists because of sustained attendance, honest participation, and mutual respect. The facilitators are not separate from this community—we are part of it. We need these meetings just as much as anyone else, and we are deeply grateful for the trust you place in us to help guide and protect the spaces we all rely on.

Your commitment to yourselves strengthens the entire fellowship. That matters. A lot.

Team Updates

Alongside the five facilitators you already know—Morgan, Megs, Eric, Ev, and Warren—we are happy to officially welcome Alex and Luc to the official Alumni Facilitation Team.

These additions will help support the continued growth of the Alumni community as we move into the next phase of its evolution in 2026.

Both Alex and Luc are integrating at their own pace. We are committed, as a team, to supporting one another and ensuring that every facilitator is properly enabled to provide thoughtful, consistent, and recovery-centered meetings.

At the moment, Alex is not actively hosting meetings due to other priorities in his life. He will be returning in the near future. In the meantime, you may notice some reshuffling of hosts and meeting dates as we continue to adapt.

We are also grateful to count on Andrea and JP, who support the facilitator team as official hosts and consistently help deliver high-quality meetings.

Supporting Newcomers in the Alumni Community

As part of our ongoing commitment to the Alumni community, we will be testing a more flexible approach to facilitator hosting, including rotation and occasional co-hosting across several meeting nights. These adjustments are guided by a single priority: creating welcoming, stable, and well-supported spaces—especially for newcomers.

Monday nights are often the first point of contact for people discovering the Alumni community. It is where many newcomers begin to understand how meetings work, who is hosting, and what kind of environment they are stepping into. Thursday nights have historically been the second cornerstone of the schedule and are frequently the next meetings newcomers attend once they become familiar with Mondays.

For this reason, we strongly encourage seasoned members to attend these meetings whenever possible. Your presence helps set the tone, reinforces safety, and plays a meaningful role in how newcomers experience the fellowship.

To support this initiative:

• Warren will be hosting on Monday, February 2, 2026

• Eric will be hosting on Thursday, February 5, 2026

These are initial examples of how facilitator rotation may look as we move forward. In the coming weeks, you may also notice co-hosted meetings or different facilitators hosting on Tuesdays and Fridays, as we continue to test what best serves the community.

These changes are intended to be collaborative and supportive, while preserving familiarity and psychological safety. More clarity will follow once we’ve had the opportunity to trial these adjustments and assess how they are serving the group.

Winter Morning Schedule

For the winter schedule, we are also adjusting our morning meeting frequency. This is not a permanent decision, but a seasonal one, based on thoughtful prioritization.

At this time, there are no morning meetings on Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays.

This decision reflects several key priorities:

• Not overstretching facilitation resources

• Protecting the quality of the meetings we do host

• Ensuring meetings remain intentional, recovery-centered, and well held

• Maintaining consistency rather than dilution

We are comfortable confirming two committed morning meetings: Wednesday and Saturday. In addition, there may be an occasional pop-up morning meeting on a Monday or Thursday, depending on facilitator availability and community need.

Finally, a reminder that Friday morning’s music meeting remains a self-supported social gathering hosted by JP.

Support Beyond Alumni Meetings

We encourage everyone to reach out to fellows outside of meetings whenever support is needed.

All our emails include links to 24/7 meetings (SMART Recovery, NA, AA, and others). If you are unsure how to access these resources, or need help navigating them, please reach out. When you need a meeting, you should always be able to find one—even when the Alumni is not hosting at that moment.

Gratitude, Autonomy, and Balance

We are deeply grateful for the continued support of Heritage and Searidge. Nearly a year into our independence, their encouragement and collaboration have remained consistent, and we sincerely appreciate that.

At the same time, we want to reaffirm our full autonomy. The Alumni makes its decisions collectively, as a team, without external influence. Our guiding principle is simple: the best interest of the Alumni community always comes first.

We believe we have found a healthy balance—aligned, supported, and fully independent.

What’s Next: Your Voice Matters

In the coming weeks, a community survey will be sent out by email. We want to hear from you—what’s working, what could improve, and what you’d like to see addressed moving forward.

At any time, you can also reach the entire facilitation team at
[email protected]

You may contact a specific facilitator directly as well. All feedback is handled with care, discretion, and respect for anonymity. This is part of our facilitator code of conduct.

If someone is struggling, in danger, or in need of resources, you can count on a private, dignified, and supportive response. When treatment or additional care is needed, we can help facilitate access through our continued relationships with treatment centers.

The team is here for you—not the other way around.

We’ll close where we began: with gratitude.

These meetings do not exist without participants. Every time you show up, raise your hand, or share honestly, you are helping someone else—often without even knowing it.

We are addicts helping addicts.
That is who we are.
And that’s how we move forward—together.

The Alumni Facilitator Team