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Joe and Charlie Big Book Workshop Part 7 of 8 (Repost)

Joe McQ and Charlie P met in 1973, they instantly discovered their mutual fascinations with AA's basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous commonly called "The Big Book". They would frequently meet to discuss The Big Book, often driving 225 miles to meet in each other's homes.

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. This is a later recording from around 1999 and the audio quality is quite good.

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Multiple Speakers: Spiritual Panel Meeting

Multiple speakers at the Spiritual Panel meeting of the 33rd. Michigan Conference in 1985

Multiple Speakers: 3 Speakers on an Old Timers Panel

Three speakers at an Old Timers Panel, speaking at unknown location or date. Jim H starts the meeting followed by "conference junkie" Lady, the last speaker is Jim T, all the speakers got sober in the 70's.

 

Panel: Starting a young peoples AA meeting

A panel meeting from 2011 on the topic of starting a young peoples AA meeting (location unknown)

 

Mark H and Dave F conduct a workshop on Step 1

Mark H and Dave F discuss how important the first step is not only to starting the program but to maintaining sobreity. There is also a discussion about working with those who relapse often.

 

LGBTQ: People of Color countdown workshop at the Living Sober Roundup 2014

Since its the last 2 days of Pride month I thought a couple of LGBTQ speaks might be in order.

Gabriel and Tony T leading the People of Color countdown workshop at the Living Sober Roundup, they lead the meeting sharing for about 5 min each, then open the meeting up for discussion. 2014

WACYPAA Panel Meeting: Walking through pain in sobriety

Panel Meeting: Walking through pain in sobriety at WACYPAA Las Vegas 2012

Diana C: Oceanside

Miguel B: Sherman Oaks

Danelle B: Nairobi Kenya

Young People’s Panel – Controversial Issues in AA

Panel meeting about Controversial Issues in AA.

1st: Dating in early sobriety.

2nd: Mental health & medication in sobriety.

3rd: Talking about drugs in meetings.

Q&A for the last few min (there are a number of inaudable questions and answers, I have removed 4-5 min. of silence and left in the parts that you can hear), this also ends fairly abruptly.