Secular AA's Podcast

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...

In this ICSAA Podcast episode, we share Scottish AA from the June 19th European International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous. We will hear the history of how the first meeting in  Scotland for freethinkers came to be. The international AA community gets to participate in the regular Tuesday night 7:30 PM format of the online version of this first secular AA meeting in Scotland. More ab...

As AA staggered into the digital age, thanks in part to COVID-19, many firsts are coming to Alcoholics Anonymous.  This recording, on Juneteenth, no - not an outside issue - was the first International AA Black, Indigenous, People of Colour panel focusing on secular AA.  This was the first ever International Conference of Secular AA hosted in Europe. The whole world was invited but on note, this w...

Agnostyków i Ateistów w grupie AA z Polski  Agnostics and Atheists in AA group from Poland z Międzynarodowej Konferencji Świeckich Anonimowych Alkoholików w Europie: 19 czerwca 2019 r. Jest to polski panel świeckich AA w języku polskim z tłumaczeniem na język angielski. from the International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous Europe: June 19, 2019. This is the Polish Secular AA panel in P...

Every first Sunday of the month, International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA) offers some local flavor from around the world. This recording comes from the Freethinkers Living Sober Group in the Verde Valley of Arizona, recorded at high noon their time June 5th 2021. ICSAA board members Geri and Joe host with our guests, John R, Suzanne P and Randy P.  Previously we've been to London, Montr...

Welcome to the International monthly secular AA speaker world tour, brought to you by ICSAA: International Conference of Secular AA. May 2, 2021, was the date of our Zoom meeting and our "London Calling," episode is represented today by the Rainham Agnostics, Atheists and Freethinkers AA group form an east suburb of London England. We get a brief history of secular AA through the last fo...

This was the first world tour of First Sunday of Every Month secular AA speaker meeting, on Zoom January 3, 2021 with Kim from Eugene OR and Declan from Dublin IE. Included is a little informal pre and post-meeting chit-chat. The plan is to visit a new city/town every month and bring a local flavor of atheist/agnostic AA to the world. February we’ll be in Orlando with the OMAGOD group, March will...

This recording from April 4, 2021 is the fourth monthly International secular AA speaker world tour stop. We’re in Montreal, we’ll hear from Izzy D, Robert B & Bianca. Recorded from the audio of our zoom meeting, what you’re missing is the theme acted out. Hats off to Spring invited attendees to wear a hat and there were some good sports and creative headdressings. The chat is always alive wit...

On the first Sunday of every month, the International Conference of Secular AA hosts a secular speaker meeting. March 7, 2021 it's from the Secular Serenity Group of Cape Town South Africa. This was a wonderful meeting moderated by Rose, giving a history of secular AA in South African and heartfelt sharing from Gershwin, Graham and Russel.  April, it's Montreal, Canada, May is London UK...

The first Sunday of every month the International Conference of Secular AA hits the road to bring the taste, experience, strength & hope of a new host group/city. February 7th, ICSAA Zoom experience is poolside in Orlando for a pretend virtual Winter Vacation. Members dressed in pool and patio garb or their favorite Disney character. Mickey J chairs, with a little history from Our Mostly Agnos...

Unintended consequences for secular AA is that atheists & agnostic groups and our meetings are zooming. How many more people are finding an attachment to AA while maintaining the authenticity of our secular worldview? No one, anywhere could visit one or two or three irreligious AA meetings a day - not a year ago anyway. The International Conference of Secular AA celebrates the science of addic...

The first International gathering of agnostics, atheists and freethinkers in AA was in Santa Monica in 2014. In 2016 it was Austin and Toronto hosted 2018. Washington was going to host the in-person ICSAA2020 but that has been postponed to 2021 (fingers crossed at time of recording). So - we went virtual for our December 5, 2020 ICSAA gathering. This is "It came from the Kitchen!" Not an...