Aa back to basics instruction manual ebook aa back to basics it s all about saving lives 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. The accompanying cd contains twentyfour pages of pdf. Mar 04, 2016 there several views to the back to basics movement. Experience the spiritual awakening that occurs as the direct result of taking the twelve steps in four onehour sessions. Meetings, led the copper valley group in san manual, arizona, through the twelve. Admitted to god, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature. 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. The alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the. Read online back to the basics of sponsorship aa back to basics book pdf free download link book now. For the aa founders and for those of us who practice all 12 steps today, we are sure god wants this for all people. Reading the corresponding step in the book, 12 steps and 12 traditions, can offer additional insight. We wish to make the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous part of our lives by collaborating with a power greater than ourselves. The assets and liabilities checklist was used by the very early a.
The alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings 2 by wally, p. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings. Beginners meetings as they were held in the mid 1940s. Back to basics is written to assist people in being self sufficient and in homesteading, not survival. This guide exemplifies, as close as possible, one of the strongest original ways of alcoholics anonymous. Take all 12 steps in just 4 hours download this aa big. For members of aa, or other 12 step based programs, this book will astound you as to how it was done in the beginning. All you need is a big book and this guide to go through the steps with someone in a way similar to what dr bob, clarence s or bill wilson would have done. The first step is the beginning of the recovery process. Step 2, 3 and 4 tunity to grow in understanding and effectiveness by once again taking the twelve steps along with you. Back to basics 12 step workshop area 82 alcoholics. Aa speaker turn our will and our lives over to the care of god new 20 duration.
Click here for a copy of the article now in pdf format. Buy a cheap copy of back to basics book by readers digest association. Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, stepbystep sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in back to basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions twelve steps and twelve traditions twelve steps and twelve traditions a cofounder of alcoholics anonymous tells how members recover and how the society functions. World services and its subsidiaries were not involved within the production of this. Be advised that other ideas and interpretations, which are consistent with. This site is like a library, you could find million book here by using search box in the header. Twelve steps and twelve traditions x alcoholics anonymous.
Hi all, i attend a back to basics 12 step study meeting each week and have done so for the last two years. For further study, it is suggested that you get a copy of the big book of alcoholics anonymous. We simply are not running anywhere near those numbers in aa worldwide. In the past fifteen years, more than 500,000 have recovered with this time tested and highly effective program. It is dedicated to those who want recovery from alcoholism, but have difficulty with the word god. Great step book for normies who want to become happy or happier also free if downloaded entitled. This particular book is as its title implies back to basics. The first edition of the big book has 28 stories of alkies that were sober prior to the book or the. The leader began by reading about the first step from wallys book. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading back to the basics of recovery. They were generally outspoken and not recieved well by aa groups and the strong opposition seemed to. Back to the basics of sponsorship aa back to basics. Hes got week back, thank god, but his story reminded me of when i did step 1, and the three fundamental, absolute truths about alcoholism that it taught me. Back to basics beginners meetings original format for power point 22.
Because this book has become the basic text for our society and. In the big book, as the text alcoholics anonymous is known, we read the written words of the first 100 men and women of aa as they were put in the way of a spiritual awakening. It is meant to provide all the resources one needs to study the 12 steps as outlined in the 4th edition of alcoholics anonymous. A cofounder of alcoholics anonymous tells how members recover and how the society functions. 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. A first of anything is a beginning, and so it is with the steps. Ebook back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps we took. You ha ve a drinking problem and you telephone alcoholics anonymous for help. Moreover, we find, back to basics is the stepbystep original alcoholics anonymous beginners meeting format that produced a 50% to 75% recovery rate from alcoholism during the 1940s. Taking this book down from our shelf we turn to the page which contains the twelve steps. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Pdf version one this is a basic version of the text of alcoholics anonymous. 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 clean.
There is no obligation by any member of the original way group to use this guide. All but the inspiration and daily inventory are referred to by the back to the book script along with when they should be handed out. Especially, as that word gets used by individuals who embrace traditional religious concepts of what it means to them. Back to basics in bethpage, li is a 5 week one hour per week meeting. That is how back to the basic text accidentally evolved from a series of questions and notes originally prepared by me, as a na sponsor to aid in helping the newcomers i worked with to learn and apply the twelve step work suggested by the narcotics anonymous program. These early meetings in that spirit had the beginner take the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous in four 1hour sessions. Aa the original way 12 step guide aa the original way group. Aa the original way 12 step guide is the culmination of years of practice and study of group sponsored step guides written by founders and pioneer aa members. In the big book, as the text alcoholics anonymous is known, we read the written words of the first 100 men and women of aa as they were put in the way of a. 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. Back to basics meeting leader guide original 1946 format this meeting leader guide is the companion for the back to basics book.
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. Much of what we need to know about the zealotry of back to basics can be gleaned from a talk given by wally p. The back to basics 12 step workshop is open to all who seek recovery. Recoveryshop is the onestop shop for recovery meeting materials and 12step program related gifts. Back to basics aa big book beginners meeting pdf book. 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. Take all 12 steps in just 4 hours download this aa big book step. We wish to make the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous part of our lives by collaborating with a power greater than ourselves an inner knowing, our own. Read online back to basics aa big book beginners meeting book pdf free download link book now. In the six years i have followed the 12 steps of aa, my level of happiness has increased beyond. Aas forgotten beginning the alcoholics anonymous beginners classes facts and thoughts transcribed from a talk given by wally p. A complete guide to traditional skills back to basics guides gehring, abigail on. May 17, 2015 back to basics and other threats to aa.
To read a pdf version of the twelve steps and twelve traditions click here. Back to basics meetings and groups in canada, united kingdom and the united states wally p. Twelve traditions while taking attendees through the twelve steps using the big book of alcoholics. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, the back to basics beginners meeting is formatted to accomplish the same thing in much the same way. But there are tons of 4th steps sheets, and people say the 5th step is not confession, i think its to find our character defects. Back to basics meeting leader guide original format. Both sponsoree and sponsor share the answer, experience, strength, and hope. One of the first of these guides, the akron manual, was commissioned by dr. A complete guide to traditional skills back to basics guides. Back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it.
Recoveryshop is the onestop shop for recovery meeting materials and 12 step program related gifts. In my home town, it started innocently enough about keeping to a. Back to basics as currently constituted is based on the 1998. 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. There several views to the back to basics movement. 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 twelve steps and twelve traditions. The instructions developed by wally are also presented here. Then we do the writing assignment of the basic text step study guide of step five. Pdf back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners. As we have discovered right here in these beginners meetings, each time we take the steps, we grow closer to the one who has all power. Back to basicsthe alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings. Liabilities and assets checklist for a moral inventory the introduction to the fourth step starts at the bottom of page 63 of the aa text. The key for me was getting thru the steps all the way in a short time. All of the steps with the exception of the 5th step were taken during the meetings. In this usa area, about 2 12 years ago in 2008, a yellow cover book back to basics by wally p. This 150 page 3ring binder contains all the materials necessary to conduct back to basics a. Back to basics the aa beginners meetings 10 book package.
The back to basics book the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings in four onehour sessions by wally p. Back to basics and other threats to aa aa agnostica. 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. Please feel free to make suggestions about any of these handouts. Helping others newcomers is the foundation stone of your recovery. How to take the twelve steps quickly and often kindle edition by p, wally. Upon completion the sponsoree meets with their sponsor to go over the written assignment. Oes back to basics back to basics aa back to basics back to basics of recovery back to basics acupuncture back to basics audio back to basics strategy back to basics homesteading back to basics wally p back end programming basics back to basics wally p pdf back to basics fourth edition back to basics beginners meetings back to basics abigail r. You really do have to read this stuff to believe it download the pdf in the link above. Good book, and will help you understand the 12 steps. Formats in which the twelve steps and twelve traditions can be read.
It is an excellent book which will give you a historic view of how things were done in the past and. The back to the basics was patterned after early aa beginners meetings. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Step one we admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. Our notes, commentary, and genderinclusive changes are formatted in italics. But great numbers of theseabout two out of threebegan to return as time. Honesty, purity, unselfishness and love and the liabilities were dishonesty, resentment, selfishness, and fear. This is a study guide to the book alcoholics anonymous. For those who have never attended such a meeting the format is where two members of the group read from a script and go through the theory and practical application of all 12 steps over a four week period. Back to basics to be able to twelfth step ourselves and. Liabilities and assets checklist for a moral inventory.
Once taken, all the steps should be worked more thoroughly, forever. Apr 30, 1998 back to basics the alcoholics anonymous beginners meetings here are the steps we took. Looking for books by wally p see all books authored by wally p. Recorded live during a back to basics study over 12 weeks during summer 2016 by tim b. Using this book and the b2b meetings i learned more about the steps and actually doing them in a month than i had in several prior sobriety attempts. Nov 06, 20 in this usa area, about 2 12 years ago in 2008, a yellow cover book back to basics by wally p. This site has been built and maintained to support anyone in recovery. 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. Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted. Pdf version based upon the text of the windows help version and published by arid media. Click here to find out more about the full version for. 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 ses. Any fear of not doing them correctly or too quickly was nonsense for me.
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