Back to basics the aa beginners meetings 10 book package. Based on the content and flow of the earliest aa beginners meetings in the 1940s, this guide conducts you through the twelve steps in four onehour sessions. Inventory inspiration is a list that has been helpful at jarring the memory for out inventory list while basic instincts and glossary usually printed. The alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings 2 by wally, p. Consider the viewpoint of any individual member as just that. Alcoholics anonymous aa district 33 in north carolina, covering alamance, orange, chatham and. Back to the basic getting started i believe that we as a fellowship are being guided by a greater consciousness, a loving and caring god. The alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings, here are the steps we took. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps we took. Back to basics as currently constituted is based on the 1998 book.
Click here to download letter in pdf format back to the basics of. Formatted by wally paton, an alcoholics anonymous archivist from tucson, arizona, back to basics is a reenactment of a 1940s aa beginner meeting where participants are guided through the 12 steps in four sessions, each an hour long. Meetings are based on numerous conversations held from 1997 through. Handouts back to the book a guide for aa beginners.
In my home town, it started innocently enough about keeping to a. Back to basics and other threats to aa aa agnostica. This specifically includes any comments by the author of this study guide of the. I have heard of it, but whats the difference between this and working out of. Pdf back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners. It will be interesting to see if the radical right wing of aa back to basics folks will be able to resist this effort to dilute gods saving grace as much as it has been able to successfully resist aa developing appropriate. Buy a cheap copy of back to basics book by readers digest association. Aa speaker turn our will and our lives over to the care of god new 20 duration. But great numbers of theseabout two out of threebegan to return as time. Download meeting guide app for the most uptodate meeting information. Sections on aa history, back to basics newspaper articles and testimonials, back to basics meeting formats, dr.
Much of what we need to know about the zealotry of back to basics can be gleaned from a talk given by wally p. Pdf version based upon the text of the windows help version and published by arid media. Back to basics is written to assist people in being self sufficient and in homesteading, not survival. Pdf back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps we took. In the ne and nw areas of houston, we now have seven aa groups offering the backtobasics approach to allow those alcoholics who come our way to get their needed miracle promptly, the way dr. Groups need to honour their commitment or make arrangements with the intergroup office by calling 905 7281020 by 4 pm on your scheduled day, please have a member of your group contact intergroup at 905 7281020. Trying to explain working the program is not something that can be easily done. Moreover, we find, backtobasics is the stepbystep original alcoholics anonymous beginners meeting format that produced a 50% to 75% recovery rate from alcoholism during the 1940s. Alcoholism12 step support wally p back to the basics is this program the same as the big book.
Three of the handouts outline homework to be completed outside of the meeting. To switch between chat, questions, or resources, simply click the header to expand your preferred section. If youre new to aa, have just become a new sponsor, or simply want to reinvigorate your recovery program, back to basics will guide you through the twelve steps anew. The alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the. Take all 12 steps in just 4 hours download this aa big book step guide and work book it takes only 4 hours to learn the 12 steps and a lifetime to practice them. There several views to the back to basics movement. Bobs archives, contact forms, and more back to the basics of sponsorship the back to the basics of sponsorship seminar held on sept. Back to basics beginners meetings original format for power point 22. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Download pdf quadfold of all meetings updated february 2020. However, this step guide works well with a 4 column inventory worksheet also.
Back to basics group aa north carolina district 33. It can be used as a handy reference to big book of alcoholics anonymous 4th edition following the instructional flow utilized in the back to 40s five week program. Take all twelve steps in a couple of hours using the big book and the back to basics format developed by the aa pioneers in the 1940s. It is an excellent book which will give you a historic view of how things were done in the past and.
A complete guide to traditional skills back to basics guides gehring, abigail on. Exactly how thone should approach the 4 step inventory has been a problem for many years. You really do have to read this stuff to believe it download the pdf in. Back to basicsthe alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings.
All ten have now passed away of natural causes, having maintained complete sobriety. Take all 12 steps in just 4 hours download this aa big. In the past fifteen years, more than 500,000 have recovered with this time tested and highly effective program. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings one of the most important recovery books ever written discover the sheer simplicity of the early aa program that produced a 5075% recovery rate from alcoholism. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions alcoholics anonymous alcoholics anonymous this is the fourth edition of the. The back to basics group south carolina alcoholics anonymous. World services and its subsidiaries were not involved within the production of this specific work. Different guides have been developed by well meaning folks in several 12 step programs.
A complete guide to traditional skills back to basics guides. He felt that this is a simple program based more on taking action than on knowledge. Alcoholics anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. Aa the original way 12 step guide aa the original way group. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings.
Back to basics beginners meeting back in the 1940s a style of meeting had enormous success with various groups documenting recovery rates between 75% and 93%. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Recorded live during a back to basics study over 12 weeks during summer 2016 by tim b. We simply are not running anywhere near those numbers in aa worldwide. Through our own experience of working with others, many hopeless, suffering addicts lack the necessary power and time to keep coming back to meetings and somehow get sober or. At the same time back to basics is probably the survival book i would want in a longterm survivalcollapse of society situation, the reason being its full of information on everything you could ever want to know in a crisis. Referring to our list, put an x or in the box that applies. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. In this usa area, about 2 12 years ago in 2008, a yellow cover book back to basics by wally p. Rely upon the twelve traditions the long form for clarification of what aa is and what aa is not. Meeting schedule and group information for the back to basics group of alcoholics anonymous, meeting in n myrtle beach, sc.
These range from simple listmaking techniques to questionnaires totaling fifty pages and more. The beauty about working the narcotics anonymous program is that there is no right or wrong way to work it. Step four this guide refers to the included aa the original way 4 th step inventory. Aas forgotten beginning the alcoholics anonymous beginners classes facts and thoughts transcribed from a talk given by wally p. Twelve steps and twelve traditions x alcoholics anonymous. Alcoholics anonymous aa district 33 in north carolina, covering alamance, orange, chatham and caswell counties. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps we. Take all 12 steps in just 4 hours download this aa big book step. This particular book is as its title implies back to basics.
Back to basics north county san diego alcoholics anonymous. This is a thorough yet simple checklist format like bob, bill, clarence and many aa pioneers used. Inventory sheets all as you might imagine is the fourth step with a sheet we use in step 8 as well. Bob and the nine men and women who here tell their stories were among the early members of a. Archivist and historian from tucson, arizona on his 6th return to the austin area fridaysunday, september 2224, 2017 friday 79pm back to the basics of sponsorship saturday 10.
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