Secular AA's Podcast

Monthly, the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA), visits home groups from around the world to bring “secular story time” on the first Sunday of each month. Visit; https://secularaa.buzzsprout.com/ for recordings of groups and communities all over North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia and Hong Kong. 

This episode is from a Virgina meeting, going for decades which is now a hybrid AA group (in-person + Zoom Saturday nights @ 830 Eastern time. We have Penny M, Ken S, Kate F and Dusty K, recorded October 2, 2022. 

Pine Grove is neither religious nor irreligious, it is simply a freethinking, loving and tolerant AA meeting where people feel free to express themselves, regardless of what they do or do not believe, without fear of attempts to persuade or dissuade each other. 

Visit https://www.aasecular.org for information about more agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings, events and links. 

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Find out how to join us live for meetings or other "secular story time" on Zoom the first Sunday of every month...
https://secularaa.buzzsprout.com/

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

In the heart of early pandemic early opening, two Jersey City members long for a secular AA option without having to commute to Manhattan, so they did something about. Friday Night AA Happy Hour held its first meeting in Jersey City NJ April 1, 2022. Hear from the locals; Jersey City hosts our International Conference of Secular AA "First Sunday of the Month secular AA world tour meeting" September 4, 2022.

Join moderator Sue B with Jim Ma D, Matt P and Marco  R and regulars for another great day to be sober.

Join us live the first Sunday of each month (usually 2 PM eastern but subject to change depeneding on the time-zone of our guests).

ZOOM ID: 864 4075 0033 passcode 121212
more info: https://aasecular.org
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More secular AA meetings (agnostics/atheists/freethinkers) https://bit.ly/secularmeetings

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

Diggins kicked it off, Long Island's (big) Mike followed and Jeff Y, past delegate from Cleveland rounded off the panel of long-time AA talks. Like most of the 2015 80th anniversary of AA in Atlanta Georgia, We Agnostics was packed, over the 1,500 capacity with standing room only along the walls and all seats full. 

The 2020 AA World Convention in Detroit was cancelled due to COVID (not an outside issue, lol). The ICSAA (International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous) was looking forward to Detroit; the committee had invited us to host a hospitality suit, as they do with International young people's, Doctors and Lawyers in AA, etc. Well, better luck (cross your fingers) for Vancouver 2025 when we will celebrate the 90th anniversary of AA. 
But this recording offers We Agnostics memories  from 2015. "We Agnostics" has been part of the International AA Convention since 1990. HERE is a list of AA International Convention locations throughout the years:

1955 – St. Louis, MO

1960 – Long Beach, CA

1965 – Toronto, Canada

1970 – Miami Beach, FL

1975 – Denver, CO

1980 – New Orleans, LA

1985 – Montreal, Canada

1990 – Seattle, WA

1995 – San Diego, CA

2000 – Minneapolis, MN

2005 –Toronto, Canada

2010 – San Antonio, TX2015 – Atlanta, GA

Jeff Y's transcript on AA AGNOSTICA
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Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

The first Sunday of each month features the International Conference of Secular AA story time world tour. August 2022 we hear from Mark, Elise and David of Toronto's Queen Street West secular Tuesday afternooner. This meeting, started in 2019 was originally housed at CAMH (Centre of Addiction and Mental Health) @ the Queen Street West and Ossington Ave campus (currently on Zoom only, Tuesdays @ 3 PM Toronto time, EST).
https://www.aatorontoagnostics.com/zoom-meetings


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Email: [email protected]
More about secular AA and our conference HERE
16 hours per day of secular AA: https://bit.ly/secularmeetings
More secular Alcoholics Anonymous audio https://secularaa.buzzsprout.com/ 

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

The international gathering of agnostic and atheist AA members started in Santa Monica in 2014 (November), it went to Austin in 2016, Toronto in 2018 and was scheduled for Washington DC for 2020 until COVID. So things are changing - we have done a number of secular AA Zoom conferences and at the time of posting this, we look forward to our virtual secular AA (International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous) October 29th and 30th 2022 where we will have a general members meeting to vote in a new board and plan for our next location for a face-to-face conference.

This episode "Meet the Board" offers talks about service and AA from Carol (Past Host Chair), Geri (Secretary), Cyril (Europe representative) and Kurt (brand new volunteer on our board, and a little history and intro from the meeting chair, Joe.

Learn about secular AA if you don't already know, think about getting involved.
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Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

For atheists, freethinkers, humanists etc., who are looking for relatable written versions of recovery a la Alcoholics Anonymous, reviews have varied widely through AA history. Seven million copies of Living Sober are in circulation, AA's 1975 offering of the practical experiences of hundreds of thousands of accounts and AA anecdotes from AA's first forty years is appreciated by many. AA Grapevine has printed the experiences of unabashed atheists since the 1960s. 

It wasn't until decade two of the 21st century did AA's publications devote ink to the agnostic/atheist recovery stories in earnest. This recording offers an hour in AA History with Dianne P of Toronto chairing and featuring:

1. John L from Boston, sharing about Living Sober coming off the press when he was a New York City AA members and  the usefulness of this down to earth AA offering for secular AA meetings through the years, 
2. Susan of Bristol UK, talking about secular AA in England and how the Great Britain 2014 The "God" Word: Agnostics and Atheists in AA came to be,  
3. AA Grapevine publisher, Amy B of New York City talks about the hot-off-the-press October 2016 Grapevine special issue on secular AA storytelling.

  The setting is the We Agnostics, Atheists and Freethinkers International AA Conference, November 2016 in Austin Texas - the second biennial International gathering for secular AA members. Since this recording, One Big Tent: atheist and agnostic AA members share their experience, strength and hope did get published just in time for the 2018 Toronto International Conference of Secular AA and holds the title of the AA Grapevine book with the most pre-publication order of any published offering.

Since this 2016 recording secular AA meetings can be found worldwide 16-hours per day. You can join us at any of these meetings or visiting our First Sunday of Every Month, World Tour of secular story time on Zoom. Visit our links below for more details.
 
Reach out to us for more info:
Email: [email protected]
More about secular AA and our conference HERE
16 hours per day of secular AA: https://bit.ly/secularmeetings 
https://www.buzzsprout.com

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

międzynarodowa konferencja świeckich Anonimowych Alkoholików z wielką radością spotkała się z polskimi ateistami i agnostykami 12 czerwca 2022

Spotkanie to zostało zorganizowane przez Bernadettę oraz polskich Ateistów i Agnostyków w AA. Dziękuję Michalina za tłumaczenie oraz Bogdan, Michał , Anna za rozmowę.

The International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous is so pleased to to have Atheists and Agnostics of AA in Poland in the house to put on a meeting.

We have Polish to English and English to Polish translation care of Michalina and on June 12, 2022, over Zoom, Bogdan, Michal and Anna speaking.

The "face2face" ICSAA 2022, (pandemic permitting) 4th biennial gathering will be in Washington DC, October 28-30. Come meet us in person. If you'd like to be part of one of these monthly gatherings, it's always the first Sunday of the Month, times vary depending on what part of the world is hosting. Reach out to us for more info:
 Email: [email protected]
More about secular AA and our conference HERE
16 hours per day of secular AA: https://bit.ly/secularmeetings

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

Debra B moderates a panel on "finding our muse in recovery; can I be creative and sober?"
Sri P, Kathleen F and Meagan P - who celebrates 13 years sober in AA - share what it was like, what happened and what it's like now.

To visit our meeting live, check the meeting link below. We gather on Zoom the first Sunday of each month, generally UTC -5 (11 AM Pacific, 2 PM East, 7 PM Ireland/UK). 

The "face2face" ICSAA 2022, (pandemic permitting) 4th biennial gathering will be in Washington DC, October 28-30. Come meet us in person. If you'd like to be part of one of these monthly gatherings, it's always the first Sunday of the Month, times vary depending on what part of the world is hosting.

Reach out to us for more info:
Email: [email protected]
More about secular AA and our conference HERE
16 hours per day of secular AA: https://bit.ly/secularmeetings

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

The first Sunday of each month features the International Conference of Secular AA story time world tour. Every month, different home groups and AA communities from around the world take turns hosting an AA speaker meeting. This lets us get to know our fellow AAs and their journeys, worldwide. 

Hosted by Kingston's Beyond Belief Friday nooner, we hear about and hear from the Broader Path group and Journey Through Recovery. 
The lineup:

• Dennis K
• Kate E
• Martin D
• Jerrod P 
• Donna
• ... and friends

Halfway between Montreal and Toronto and across the St. Lawrence from New York State, Kingston has a long history of friends, foibles, fanatics and freethinkers. We get some history, some experience, some hope and some humour. It's a meeting so nice, you might want to listen, twice.

The "face2face" ICSAA 2022, (pandemic permitting) 4th biennial gathering will be in Washington DC, October 28-30. Come meet us in person. If you'd like to be part of one of these monthly gatherings, it's always the first Sunday of the Month, times vary depending on what part of the world is hosting. Reach out to us for more info:
Email: [email protected]
More about secular AA and our conference HERE
16 hours per day of secular AA: https://bit.ly/secularmeetings

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org 

Two speakers who will be part of the in-person 4th Biennial International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA)  - Washington DC, scheduled for October 28-30, 2022 - give us a sneak preview from their 2020 "Addiction, Mental Health and Recovery in thee time of Zoom and social distancing" presentation.

See what they got right about COVID life for people with substance/alcohol use disorder. See what you got right, with the facts and stats presented about those who have struggles + those who have thrived in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it turns out, some of our natural instincts and reactions have been bang-on. This is Brian Gill, MSW and Dr. George Kolodner: keynote speakers December 11 2020 on our first Zoom ICSAA.

Brian Gill talks about recovery in the virtual world and the effect of social isolation on recovery.

Dr Kolodner kicks off with an virtual adaptation of Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP), and clinical findings with how people are coping in the early months of the pandemic.   Following these two short talks, you'll hear Q&A from the packed (Zoom) house of virtual ICSAA 2020.

Secular Alcoholics Anonymous (humanists, freethinkers, atheists, pagans, agnostics, etc)
Come Zoom with us. If you'd like to peruse agnostic/atheist AA meetings (100 meetings each day) or attend events like this,  Zoom with us live. Check the schedule for times where you life @ https://bit.ly/secularmeetings where you can find agnostic, atheist and freethinkers AA groups.

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Info on conferences etc: https://aasecular.org
Kolmac Outpatient Drug & Alcohol Treatment

Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org