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Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop in one file - (12 hours) a 2013 version

The Joe and Charlie Big Book workshops have been popular for many years and it was one of our 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. FYI... this is a 220 meg file.

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 Workshop: Led by Brian P a former bank robber (1.5 hours)

"Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles" from the top of page 62 in Chapter 5 is where this workshop picks up it is led by Brian P a former bank robber who spent 7 years in prison.

This is a portion of a 3-day workshop held in May of 2013 as part of the New Freedom Big Book Retreat at the Skycroft Center, this is from part 5 of day 2. If you are interested in hearing the entire workshop please drop me an email.

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Author of the Big Book Story: Winner Takes All

Gay N is the author of the story in the 4th edition of the Big Book titled -Winner Takes All . Gay got sober in1985 and was 19 years sober at the time of this speak in 2004 at an unknown convention held in Ventura Ca.

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ESH: Dr Paul O author of - Dr Alcoholic Addict

Dr. Paul O got sober in July of 1967 he authored the big book story - Dr Alcoholic Addict (re-titled Acceptance Was the Answer in the 4th edition). Dr Paul is telling his story at the Monterey Bay Roundup held in Monterey California in 1997. Dr Paul was a very popular circuit speaker from the 70s through the late 90s he passed away in May of 2000 at 83.

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Topic: Step 12

Dick A from Atlanta GA shares on the 12th Step at the 1st Annual Jersey Shore Roundup held in New Jersey in 2011.

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Bill W speaks about the creation of the Big Book

Bill W one of the co-founders of AA speaks about the Big Books history and creation. This consists of two seperate speaks, the first is at the 30th anniversary founders day in Akron. 

The second speak may be from the same event but there is no way to know, the introduction of Bill the 2nd time does mention the 30th anniversary.

Repost from Oct of 2018, most of the recordings of Bill W are pretty bad quality and these 2 speaks are some of the clearest around.

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Topic: Steps 4 and 5

Meg W does a great job walking us through Steps 4 and 5 using the big book as the reference at this workshop held at A Women's Perspective in Bernardsville NJ in 2004.

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Topic: Using the Chapter Working with Others

Peter M leads this workshop on the topic, Using the Chapter Working with Others as part of the 3rd Annual Keeping the Spirit Alive Roundup held in 2010

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Topic: Doctors Opinion and Bills Story

A guy called California Rob leads this book study on the Doctor's Opinion & Bill's Story, it was held in Orlando Florida in 2008 and is very literature centered. Hosted by an unknown group.

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Workshop: Steps 10 - 11- 12 (Multiple Speakers)

Three speakers take us through steps 10 - 12 at the New Freedom 12 Step Workshop held in Catonsville MD in November of 2012.

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