Secular AA's Podcast

The occasion:  International Conference of Secular AA December 11th, 2021  Stonehenge AA Freethinkers Step meeting started on Zoom in the pandemic. In this recording, we are treated to how this AA group runs their regular meeting. We kick off with Jeffery Munn's Staying Sober Without God: The Practical 12 Steps . We were pleased to present this meeting with simultaneous Spanish/English transl...

The International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous all day Zoom event's grand finale, held December 11th, 2021, was a reading from AA conference approved Living Sober with discussion to follow . Chairperson, Geri B of Las Vegas NV spoke about the value of the practical book of AA life:  Living Sober . This 1975 record of the first 40 years of collective AA experience (updated as nee...

Happy 2022 from the International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous (#ICSAA)  Our monthly world tour of International speaker meetings Zooms to the world in January from We Agnostics Hong Kong with Jim, Shari and John speaking to us. Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico and members from coast-to-coast in USA, Canada, Shanghai and Hong Kong ,are in the house.  Every month it’s somew...

While Alcoholics Anonymous is not affiliated with Al-Anon or other peer to peer support—including 12-step fellowships—there has always been cooperation, since our early days.  Today, many of us fall prey to more than affliction, simultaneously or one addiction at a time. Friends we haven’t met yet await us in many mutual-aid groups. At the 2021 International Conference of Secular AA we are pleased...

People, meet Brianna, Marsha, Lyra D, Janie B, Charlize and Adam M. "LGBTQIAP+, find out what it means to me!" From the OMAGOD room at the International Conference of Secular AA 2021, we heard from a sampling of Alcoholics Anonymous' gender and sexual identity members.  We can find sobriety in AA without accepting anyone else's beliefs  nor denying our own. "Love and toler...

North American and European youth join in for the 2021 International Conference of Secular AA ( #ICSAA ) to talk recovery over Zoom. Join Teun, Zoe, Adam and Lina, who kick off the conversation; joining in are fellow atheists, agnostics and freethinkers in Alcoholics Anonymous. AA is a peer-to-peer community where people get and/or stay sober. All AA groups are autonomous, secular AA appeals to pe...

William Schaberg wrote Writing the Big Book: The Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous (2019) after over eleven years of primary documentary research. William reflects on the three things the research revealed that drastically altered his core beliefs about early AA: 1.     Bill Wilson was a fabulous storyteller and not a reliable source for accurate historical details.  2.     No Hank Parkhurst—no boo...

The 2021 International Conference of Secular AA, December 11 2021, presents a third decade of the 21st century contemporary update from our 80+ year old text, Alcoholics Anonymous . From "The Doctor's Opinion" to "A Vision for You," we take to heart how the book wraps up: "... the book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize that we know only a little." And as...

Dr Paul F has worked as a physician in the field of addiction medicine and occupational medicine for more than twenty-five years.  His interest in addiction medicine has morphed over those years into a greater curiosity related to addiction recovery science and treatment.   Dr. Paul S, full-time addiction medicine physician, focusing on occupational and recovery medicine, this Paul is past Preside...

November's first-Sunday-of-every-month world tour of secular AA speakers travels North by North-West: Our Seattle AA coffee club features Lori, Bruce, Eric and Marilyn. Following  the speakers on this Zoom meeting November 7th, 2021, members from around the world chime in.  Part of AA as a whole, the International Conference of Secular AA is special-purpose AA body - like International Confer...

June 19th, 2021 was the first European hosted International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous (ICSAA) and it was two Zoom rooms, 11 AM - 11 PM. Attendees were largely delighted with the days events. The grande finale was an around-the-world AA discussion of the brief history of Zoom & AA, with opening comments by Mark from Tus Nua Freethinkers and Joe from Beyond Belief Agnostics &amp...

Our October 2021 world tour stop for our secular Alcoholics Anonymous speakers meeting is Glasgow, home to Happy Heathens. At the time of recording Glasgow offers both in-person and online (Zoom) AA for atheists, freethinkers, agnostics. Today with David in the secretary seat, we hear from a co-founder of Scotland secular AA, Dante as well as Karen who has found the Glasgow group because of the pa...

Every month the International Conference of Secular AA world tour brings you a local feel from different agnostic/atheist/humanist AA communities around the AA world. September 2021, hosted by Jenny, we feature the New Englanders: Dan found sobriety 50 years ago at the age of 27. His first International AA convention was Colorado in 1975. Several members of Dan's family found sobriety in AA s...

"i" stands for International; "PAN" stands for All Addictions (substance use disorder, process addictions) and this is a Zoomiverse only fellowship for anyone seeking recovery from anything by any means. For more information: eMail: freethinkingipan@gmail.com The primary purpose of iPAN is to provide a comfortable and safe environment for people to discuss whatever issue they m...

Angie A is secretary and host with speaker, Neil "Sam" Samworth, former Strangeways Prison Officer. Addiction, treatment, recovery, mental health, trauma, life on the inside will be the discussion kicking of Sam's comments and followed by Q and A from participants. Neil “Sam” Samwoth YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/hieOsLGS8so More International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Ano...

June 19, 2021 was the first All Europe International Conference of Secular AA. Held on Zoom in two rooms running 12 hours each, it was a day of many firsts, for Alcoholics Anonymous, for agnostics and atheists in AA and the greater recovery community. At 4 PM in the Tus Nua Room, there was a cancellation, a change of schedule and Chantal asked Zanner to tell her story. This is Zanner's story,...

Welcome to the AUGUST 2021 monthly World Tour first-Sunday-of-the-month secular AA speaker meeting, brough to you by International Conference of Secular AA. August 1, 2021 our Zoom plane touched down in Canberra Australia. It was “our normal time,” 2 PM Sunday—but that was local time AEST, which meant we were 9 PM Saturday Pacific time, Midnight (0:00 Hours) EDT and 5 AM Ireland and UK.  Moderated...

Another “first” for EURO ICSAAA secular LGBTQIA+ Ireland Meeting. There are AA meetings for LGBTQIA+ members in Ireland. There are secular AA meetings for people in Ireland. At the European-wide International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous we host the first Irish LGBTQIA+ Secular AA meeting. In accordance with meeting and committee wishes, this recording is an abridged version of our m...

Jeffrey Munn is a licensed marriage and family therapist from Santa Clarita CA where he has professionally and personally been involved in the field of addiction recovery for over ten years. Antonia and John of the Stonehenge  Freethinker's AA Step Study meeting moderate a two hour Staying Sober Without God book author Q&A with questions provided by group members and attendees in advance...

Français Rencontre avec Chantal et Claire Bienvenue à la première Conférence Internationale Européenne des Alcooliques Anonymes laïcs pour athées et agnostiques, le 19 juin 2021.    Pour plus d'informations sur l'I.C.S.A.A. visitez https://aasecular.org       Welcome to the first European International Conference of secular Alcoholics Anonymous for atheists and agnostics, June 19, 2021....

Alcoholics Anonymous and our Cooperation with the Professional Community. AA presentation on the role Secular AA as a special purpose group. A recent About AA: A Newsletter for Professionals sited the March 2020 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews “AA and other 12-step programs for alcohol use disorder” and findings that "increased AA participation can lead to higher rates of continuous a...

Vince Hawkins ( a pen name) started a secular AA meeting in  Valencia Spain. It didn't seem to go as planned. Vince took his concerns to secular AA/recovery social media for feedback. In this ICSAA workshop,  Vince shares the first-hand experience and practical advice received from Facebook with this European International Conference of Secular AA June 19, 2021. This podcast captures this dis...

Born of the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down, a lone online secular AA meeting was started in Ireland to meet a need. It did satisfy an unmet need. Today (at the time of our June 19, 2021 European International Conference of Secular AA), there are now 11 meetings weekly with the odd 24 hour... well, 25 hour (that will be explained in the meeting) around the clock back-to-back meetings.  https://tusnua....

Sunday, July 4th, 2021, Live from New York City!  The International Conference of Secular AA ( #ICSAA) was stoked to be in New York City for the “First Sunday of every month secular speaker world tour” July stop. This recording features: Ken H moderates with  Glenn S-P Kendell T and  Susan C  Many other New Yorkers were on the live Zoom meeting. We saw key players in past and present stewardship o...

Stonehenge Women's & Sober She Devils team up in an International collaboration  for a secular AA women's meeting/panel that was open to all 4 PM Ireland/UK time June 19th. This was the first EURO International Conference of Secular AA, a two Zoom room, 12-hour program bringing together members of Alcoholics Anonymous from around the world. Secular AA is grounded in our experience th...