The Program of Alcoholics Anonymous: Interpretive by Design
Just try to refute that membership in AA is based on individual interpretation of Tradition Three, “The only requirement for membership is a…
Feb 12 2019
The future of "Suit Up and Show Up" in AA culture
“Suit up and show up!” Who’s heard this Circa 1958 AAism? The picture above is from the first International Conference of Young People in AA, Niagara Falls New York, 1958. Is business-wear the best way to represent AA from…
Jul 7 2018
July 2018: Resentements Coffee Pots and new AA Meetings
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Our Summer Box 4-5-9: News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A.[i] reports about 15,000 less AAs, year-over-year. Also, of us two million +/- members, we are spread between…
May 4 2018
Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It
Rebellion Dogs Blog, May 2018
Why Now?
With over 90% support of voting members, the 68th General Service Conference (2018), for USA/Canada, adopted and approved the pamphlet “The ‘God’ Word; Agnostics and Atheists…
Feb 19 2018
From Genius Recovery "What’s the Future of the Word 'Alcoholic'?"
What’s the Future of the Word “Alcoholic”?
Written for (reprinted from) www.GeniusRecovery.com by Joe C. January 18, 2018 [Click links below for videos, blogs and Genius Recovery resources]
Here’s a couple…
Jan 12 2018
Think Think Think: Recovery & Conflict Resolution
Rebellion Dogs Blog, January 2018
Your Best Thinking got you where!?!? Freethought, 12-Step Rooms and Conflict Resolution
READ, VIEW OR DOWNLOAD AS A PDF CLICK HERE Online bullying led to the suicide of another youth. I was moved…
Nov 3 2017
After AA: Stories of people who graduate 12-Step rooms
Download or view PDF Many Paths and Many Myths about AA Graduates
This May, Steve K posted an essay by Lisa Martinovic on 12StepPhilosophy blog. Lisa shares wise words about “neuroplasticity … the phenomenon by which the brain changes…
Oct 17 2017
Can You Hear Me? Understanding Worldviews and how each Sees 12 Steps
Step Language – is there an expression of AA for everyone in their own, authentic native tongue?
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Very, very soon, some of us will meet in Sedona Arizona for “Beyond…
Aug 21 2017
How Baby Boomers are Killing AA and Four Ways You and I can Stop Them
Rebellion Dogs Blog August 2017: Generational issues and How to Accommodate Them
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Today: How Baby Boomers are killing…
Jun 10 2017
Founder's Day and other AA Myths... Busted!
AA’s birthday - June 10 - was chosen in hindsight as the start of AA. Happy 82nd anniversary (with an asterisk) everyone!
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Fact-checking shows this “Founders' Day” celebration…
May 19 2017
Reviewing AA's 2017 Membership Tally + A look at "Love & Tolerance"
JUNE Rebellion Dogs Blog: The 2017 AA Membership Survey and What the Numbers Tell Us (download the PDF)
In the Summer Box 4-5-9: News and Notes from the General Service Office of A.A. our latest membership numbers will be…
Mar 3 2017
The God Word and the April 2017 General Service Conference
Rebellion Dogs Blog The ‘God’ Word & this April’s General Service Conference March 2017
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In 2009 an African American president was inaugurated in the USA and I mistakenly, naïvely felt America…