Alcoholics anonymous
Beginners’ meetings

It is 1946. You have a drinking problem and reach out for help. A.A. responds by
taking you through the Big Book and all Twelve Steps in ONE MONTH. Your life changes. You never drink again. As incredible as this story may seem, it actually happened, not once, but many thousands of times during the early days of A.A. when the recovery rate from alcoholism was estimated to be 75%!* (ref. 1945 Grapevine. three separate articles). In one month we will take you through the 12 Steps as they were taken in the A.A. Beginners’ Meetings. You will TAKE THE STEPS and you will have the opportunity to experience the life changing spiritual awakening that occurred as the result of TAKING the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in four sessions. These meetings were held all across the U.S. and in Canada during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. (These meetings dwindled in numbers with the introduction of the book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions). There is a desperate need to revive this life-changing, solidly proven formula for recovery from the seemingly hopeless state of mind and body known as alcoholism. What have you to lose...except perhaps your life. This is a genuine reenactment of those meetings.

Friday, Nov. 8, 2002
6:00 p.m.—Registration
7:30 p.m.—
Speaker:
Ellie van V.
Ottawa, Canada
Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002
8:00 a.m. —Registration and Coffee
9:00 a.m.—10:30 a.m.
Session 1:
Overview & Step 1
10:30 > 11:00 — Coffee
11:00—12:30 a.m.
Session 2:
Steps 2, 3, and 4
12:30—2:30
Lunch and completion of Step 4 and 5
2:30—3:15
Session #3
Steps 6, 7, 8, 9
3:15—3:30 Coffee
3:30—5:15
Session #4
Steps 10, 11……….
(4:15—4:30 Coffee)
and 12
5:15—7:30
Break for Dinner….
7:30 p.m.
Speaker:
Gil S.
Knoxville, Tennessee
8:30 p.m.
Coffee Cafe
and Sharing Guidance

This HUGE! EXCITING! 2-day event is being hosted by the
Washington, D.C. West End Club.
The Back to Basics presenters are:
Ellie van V., Ottawa, Ontario Canada,
co-author of Back to Basics by Wally P………….. and
Martha S., Chattanooga, TN, Back to Basics leader at the Chattanooga East Brainerd A.A. Club

Washington, D.C. West End Club
Back to Basics Weekend………………………………….…..
Back to Basics Registration Ticket # ________________
Ticket Holder Name:______________________________
Ticket Holder Phone No.:__________________________
$20.00 admission includes coffee, attendance at speaker meetings, 4th step inventory handouts, guidance
booklets, and agenda.
Copies of Back to Basics may be purchased at cost, ($12.00) and Washington, D.C. pamphlet:
“An Interpretation of Our Twelve Steps” may be
purchased at cost: ($2.50)

2 days in
recovery you
will
never
forget!