Enter your email address to receive updates from the website and the area 61 newsletter ocean views when it is published. The big book encourages the reader upon waking up to think about the next 24 hours. We invite you to join us at our weekly big book awakening meeting for compulsive eaters. Other groups read from the big book weekly and discuss each chapter as they go along.
Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions alcoholics anonymous alcoholics anonymous this is the fourth edition of the big book, the basic text for alcoholics anonymous. At this time, our monday del mar, tuesday mission valley workshop and wednesday mission valley will be not be meeting in their regular locations until. It is our groups belief that we wish to keep it simple and adhere to the early success model of bill, doctor bob and the first one hundred. My mission is to carry on what dan sherman started. Big book, open, temporary closure, wheelchair access, young people. We see the original goal of twelve step, a spiritual awakening, being substituted with the goal of resocialization. Whether we are the one stepguiding another, or being stepguided ourselves, each person has the most direct and alive experience of what it means to have recovered for good and all. This meeting is based on the 12 steps and is open to anyone wishing to deepen their recovery. This book will help guide you through a personal experience with all twelve steps as they are outlined in the aa big book. Spiritual awakening aa meeting open big book friday at 7 8 pm zoom meeting meeting id no.
Beginning november 6, 2019 wednesday bba is moving. Twelve stepping sisters virtual meeting online meeting. Virtual meeting only not at this address 842 s campbell ave. Bba formats and readings big book awakening san diego. Please feel free to peruse our website, which includes information about meetings and audio archives from past meeting chairs, as well as a list of contacts for various addictions. Our format florida big book step study all addictions. This site was created for people who want a deeper recovery than theyve received in the rooms of their program. Hyannis format name of meeting big book step study meeting format. The big book, alcoholics anonymous some groups discuss one chapter from the big book each week.
You can purchase a bba workbook at any bba meeting, or online at. The washington area intergroup association is a service board of representatives from the groups in the washington area, including montgomery and prince georges counties, md, as well as washington, dc. Be sure to let us know about your meeting, so that we can post it on the meeting listing. These meetings can be accessed go to thought and click on read more for how to accessfor free via computer, tablets and mobile devices, and also by telephone by calling the teleconference line. Bba meetings archives big book awakening san diego.
Big book awakening by alcoholics anonymous 2006 paperback on. The dppg guide is a meeting format that just gives you an excuse to read every sentence carefully. On awakening is a passage from the aa big book starting on page 86 through 88, which is focused on meditation. This outlines where each step is found in the big book of alcoholics anonymous. It nudges the reader to humbly ask god to direct the thoughts, to purify them of selfish motives, as it helps one to clear the mind of evil and worldly motives. Enter through glass door, between madison and 5th ave. I have just started to work the 12 steps with a bba guideworkbook, idiots guide and a brand new big book that i am marking up like crazy. This is an open big book study meeting on wednesdays at 8 pm est on zoom. Aa meetings in longmont aa boulder county central office. Non alcoholicsaddicts may attend open meetings as observers. To read a pdf version of the fourth edition of alcoholics anonymous. Strictly solutions aa meeting closed mens meeting tuesday and thursday at 5 pm zoom meeting meeting id no.
At half past the hour the meeting is open for discussion on the reading. Stepwork downloads bba formats you will need the big book of alcoholics anonymous large print or hard cover recommended and the big book awakening workbook. Written to be used in conjunction with, not instead of the big book of alcoholics anonymous. Due to the covid19 pandemic, the experience the big book meetings will be accessible online as zoom video conferences, starting sunday, march 22, 2020 at 6pm central time. The big book awakening is an indepth study designed to take you through the 12steps as outlined in the big book of alcoholics anonymous so to enable you to have a personal spiritual experience that you can pass on to grow in understanding and effectiveness about aas main original discover your own truth and to live in the 9th step promises. Conference approved literature aa the original way group. The big book awakening group cares deeply about your health and safety and we are focused on helping you take action and precautions surrounding covid19 and the impact this has on our recovery community and nation. We are all sad to have lost him, however the world was made a better place, for having had him. Big book awakening i have just gotten involved in some bba meetings and am interested to hear others experience with bba, whether it be in meetings, workshops, working the steps, etc.
Open sharing with or without a reading from aa literature. Established on such a footing step 3 we became less and less interested in ourselves, our own little plans and designs. Temporarily closed washington area intergroup association. If you think you have a problem with alcohol or need to speak with another alcoholic, please call the boulder county intergroup hotline number at 3034478201. Suspendedsolutions group location temporarily closed.
Welcome to the uk home of the big book awakening bba approach. Alcoholics anonymous big book awakening 12 step workbook. Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous. The westfield big book workshop is an outgrowth of the spiritual awakenings group of bernardsville, n.
Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous fourth edition big book dan sherman on. The big book awakening group cares deeply about your health and safety and we are focused on helping you take. At this time, our monday del mar, tuesday mission valley workshop and wednesday mission valley will be not be meeting in. A vision for you should be a separate printed document that can be given to a visitor or new member who agrees to read it at the designated point in the meeting. Great workbook for anyone in aa recovery that wants an in depth look at the big book and the 12 steps. We attempt to carry the message in the way that was passed on by the founders and pioneers of alcoholics anonymous. Honest, open and free virtual meeting online meeting. Our experience with our illness is one of lethality. Ii spiritual experience the terms spiritual experience and spiritual awakening are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change suf. Note that these meetings have a slightly different format for each week. Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous fourth edition big book book. The following bba materials can be downloaded and printed for.
You write notes and questions from the big book awakening into your own big book for personal consideration. On april 14, 2016, dan sherman, the author of big book awakening lost his battle with cancer. And while healthy meetings are by no means a waste of time, they should never be confused with working the twelve steps with a sponsor by the directions in the big book. The big book authors, men and women who have recovered from a seamingly hopeless state of mind and body, all who have claimed having a spiritual experience or awakening, describe it as. The triangle recovery club of westminster meeting schedules. The questions are just there to force you to read the book slowly. Our format is that each meeting has two leads who read the big book line by line, sharing their experience, strength and hope throughout. Big book awakening and the bba workbook was been created to provide a reliable, consistent and clearly understood method to awakening.
Big book awakening for use with alcoholics anonymous fourth edition big book. Following the conclusion of the step meetings, some groups will discuss the traditions so that, every thirteenth meeting the group focuses on a tradition. Read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions. Big book awakening emotional sobriety thursdays from 7. Big book, location temporarily closed, open, wheelchair access. Experience the big book aa meetings available online. Big book awakening by alcoholics anonymous 2006 paperback. International convention detroit, michigan july 25, 2020. Big book, discussion, location temporarily closed, open, wheelchair access.
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