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Alcohol statistics & Deaf people

Thought prompt 01 intro

Thought Prompt 01: What is alcoholism

Early history of alcoholism

Quiz 01 intro

Quiz 01

Handout: AA history timeline

Meet Bill W.

Reading assignment 01: "Chapter 1, Bill's Story" pp.1–8

Thought prompt 02 intro

Thought prompt 02: Bill's alcoholism

Bill's drive to be number 1

Bill learns his problem

Surely self-knowledge is the answer

Bill's second trip to Towns

Meet Lois

Fear sobers Bill up

Reading assignment 02 intro

Reading assignment 02a: "Chapter 1, Bill's Story" pp.8–16

Reading assignment 02b: "Foreword to Second Edition" pp.xv–xvii

Meet Ebby

The spiritual solution & program of action

Bill's white-light spiritual experience

Service keeps Bill sober

Bill goes to Akron

Meet Dr. Bob

What is needed to recover?

AA's founding

Quiz 02: Notable AA figures & dates

1. Spiritual malady

Handout: Big Book quotes: Spiritual malady

Thought prompt 03 intro

Thought prompt 03: AA's conception of a spirituality

2. Physical allergy

The physical allergy is what sets alcoholics apart

Handout: Big Book quotes: Physical allergy

Thought prompt 04 intro

Thought prompt 04: The physical allergy to alcohol

3. Mental obsession

Handout: Big Book quotes: Mental obsession

Quiz 03 intro

Quiz 03: The 3 components of alcoholism

Quiz 04 intro

Quiz 04: Matching the 3 components of alcoholism

Review 01: 3 components of alcoholism

The alcoholism equation

Self-reflection

How the Big Book came about

Purpose of the Big Book

Handout: Big Book on the Big Book

How we will examine the steps

Handout: Step 1

Step 1: Powerlessness

Step 1: Unmanageability

Step 1: Being miserable & hitting bottom

Step 1: Directions

Translation: Step 1

Handout: Step 2

Step 2: Power

Step 2: Came to believe

Step 2: A Power greater than ourselves

Step 2: Sanity

Step 2: Directions

Translation: Step 2

Handout: Step 3

Step 3: God as we understand God

Step 3: Interpreting "as we understood Him"

Step 3: Our own conception

Step 3: Our will and our lives

Step 3: Care & direction

Step 3: Decisions vs. resolutions

Step 3: Directions

Step 3: Third Step Prayer

Translation: Step 3

Handout: Step 4

Step 4: A moral inventory

Step 4: Resentments

Step 4: Resentments column 1

Step 4: Resentments column 2 & prayer

Step 4: Selfish, dishonest, self-seeking, frightened

Step 4: Fears

Step 4: Sex conduct

Reading assignment 03: Now about sex

Step 4: Sex conduct directions

Translation: Step 4

Handout: Step 5

Step 5: Admitting to...

Step 5: The exact nature of our wrongs

Step 5: Interpreting for a Fifth Step

Step 5: Being honest

Translation: Step 5

Step 5: Post instructions

Reading assignment 04: Step 5 post instructions

Step 5: May have to interpret a bit more

Handout: Step 6

Step 6: Defects of character

Step 6: Directions

Translation: Step 6

Handout: Step 7

Step 7: Shortcomings

Step 7: Directions & prayer

Translation: Step 7

Handout: Step 8

Step 8: Amends don't mean sorry

Step 8: Made a list of people

Step 8: Became willing to make amends

Translation: Step 8

Handout: Step 9

Step 9: Direct amends

Step 9: Wherever possible

Step 9: Except when to do so...

Reading assignment 05: Steps 8 & 9

Step 9: Translation intro

Translation: Step 9

Handout: Step 10

Step 10: Taking personal inventory

Step 10: Prayer

Translation: Step 10

Handout: Step 11

Step 11: Improve conscious contact

Step 11: Prayer & meditation

Step 11: Praying for knowledge...

Translation: Step 11

Handout: Step 12

Step 12: Spiritual awakening

Reading assignment 06: Appendix II

Step 12: As the result of these steps...

Step 12: Carry this message

Step 12: In all our affairs

Translation: Step 12

Congratulations!

Speaker meetings

Step & Tradition/Big Book step study meetings

Call-up meetings

Topic/Discussion meetings

Business meetings/Group conscience meetings

Workshops

Round-ups

Conventions

Open vs Closed meetings

Introductions

Sobriety

Home group

Sponsorship

Typical introductions

Story timeline

Early drinking

Problem drinking & hitting bottom

The turning point

Coming to AA

The Serenity Prayer

Translation: Serenity Prayer

AA Preamble

Translation: AA Preamble

Third Step Prayer

Translation: Third Step Prayer

Seventh Step Prayer

Translation: Seventh Step Prayer

Chapter 5, How It Works

Reading assignment 07: How It Works

Signing the numbered steps

Resource: Signing the numbered steps

Thought prompt: Your thoughts now

Online Resources

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