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Workshop: Joe and Charlie Big Book in one file - 12 hours

The Joe and Charlie Big Book workshops have been popular for many years and it was one of my first posts.  I went looking for the latest version I could find and came across this one from 2013, it has great audio quality and I have combined all the files into one 12 hour workshop. 

A little background on the workshops:

In 1977, some AA members met in a Tulsa, Oklahoma hotel room for a discussion on The Big Book. One member asked Joe and Charlie to come to his home group to present a program on The Big Book. A taping of that presentation was made and called "The Big Book Study". Through the circulation of these audio tapes throughout the Fellowship, Joe and Charlie received invitations to present the Study at AA conventions, roundups and special events.

At the AA International Convention in New Orleans in 1980, Wesley P, organized a lunch for 1,500 AA members from all over the world and gave away 100 Joe & Charlie tape sets as door prizes. Invitations exploded, and within a couple of years Joe & Charlie were presenting about 36 seminars a year worldwide. These seminars struck a deep chord within the AA members.

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Big Book Study: Preface and Forwards

Today we have a big book study of the Preface and Forwards of the book. This group has covered the big book multiple times so we have six different people presenting on the same topic over three separate meetings. I popped a quick click track between the meetings.

Recording provided by, The Big Book Awakening, a Womens Big Book Study for all who identify as Women and/or LBTQ+. They meet in person every Saturday in St. Paul Minnesota at 8:30am. If you would like to join them please visit https://westendaa.org

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Workshop: 12 Steps by Sandy B - Part 1: Steps 1-3

Sandy B conducting a workshop on the 12 steps over 5 different sessions this session is about Steps 1,2 and 3, at an unknown event. If you are unfamiliar with Sandy he was a highly sought after circuit speaker who has spoken globally over many years. Part 1 of 5

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Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 6 of 6

Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill  PA in June 2009. This is part six of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. This has a lot of good discussion, and is not just a lecture format.

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Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 5 of 6

Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill  PA in June 2009. This is part five of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. This has a lot of good discussion, and is not just a lecture format.

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Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 3 of 6

Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill  PA in June 2009. This is part three of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. This has a lot of good discussion, and is not just a lecture format.

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Workshop: The Big Book and Steps of AA - Part 2 of 6

Bob O from Denver CO conducted this 6 part workshop at Primary Purpose in Camp Hill  PA in June 2009. This is part two of a six part workshop going through the Big Book and steps of AA. This has a lot of good discussion, and is not just a lecture format.

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A play about the creation of the Big Book (1981)

This one is not an AA meeting, so if you need one please choose something else from our list.

This is a play about the creation of the Big Book written by Homer D and performed on Unity Day in San Jose California in December of 1981 by an unknown group. Please keep in mind this is a dramatization about the creation of the Book and should be taken as such, its historical accuracy should not be taken as absolute fact. I particularly enjoyed the arguments about the wording of the steps presented in the second half.

The audio quality of this is okay to good, it had a very nasty buzz that I was able to remove however it does occasionally sound a bit fuzzy or slightly hollow, the sound quality improves as it progresses.

For those of you that might want to learn more about AA history I suggest a visit to the leading international webgroup for the study of Alcoholics Anonymous history and archives.
AA History Lovers: https://groups.io/g/AAHistoryLovers

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Book Study: We Agnostics - Chater 4 (Multiple Speakers)

This is a book study on the topic We Agnostics presented by four folks from the Big Book Awakening Womens Book Study group. This was two separate book study meetings both on the same topic so you get multiple perspectives. Its fairly obvious when it switches from one meeting to the next. Zoom

One quick fyi, it did have an audio dropout of around 5 seconds on one of the meetings, so I removed the dead air and added a click track so you know what is what.

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Workshop: Bob D conducts an 11 hour workshop on the 12 Steps

Bob D conducts a workshop on the 12 Steps, this was held at The Monastery in August of 2012 in Adelaide South Australia. Bob D conducts these workshops all over the world and this one runs 11 hours in one episode.

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