Topic: The Home Group

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Tim M from London is sharing on the topic of, The Home Group. This is a zoom meeting recorded in 2022 at the Friendly Circle meeting held in Berlin Germany. AA International Update: All the conference reserved hotels are sold out, over 22,000 people have already registered. Efforts are being made to find additional hotel space, some room is still available in the university dorms (your best deal). I added a hotel zone map to the event listing with a link to a more detailed pdf. At the moment you would be lucky to find a hotel close to the venue for under $600 per night with most well above 1k. If you look an hour+ from downtown your still in the $3-400.ish range, if you are thinking of going book sooner rather than later. Details: https://scast.us/intup Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? List the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	My name's Tim, I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.6	Thank you all for being here today. Date of sobriety 24th of July 1993. My home group is Group 12 in San Antonio.
0:40.0	I'm going to be talking about groups today, the home group. Now these are my own views. I'm not, I don't speak on behalf of AA.
0:52.0	It's not AA's views, it's my views. I may change my mind.
0:56.7	I've certainly changed my mind many times over the last 30 years and I'm sure to change my mind again.
1:04.3	And I just preferences.
1:05.8	There are a lot of things which all groups have in common and then groups differ in all sorts of different ways. Those differences are to a great extent a matter of taste.
1:17.0	So I'm going to show what my preferences are about home groups, but I'm going to explain why I have those preferences and that might be useful. So what I think is neither here nor there, but the explanation might be helpful. So I've always been encouraged to have a home group. What is a home group? Well, in some places they keep lists of members. I know in Bristol, you are very officially of
1:43.4	members and in Bristol, you very officially become a member of a home group in London.
1:48.0	That's not the case at all.
1:50.0	You just tip up if you call it your home group no one can gain save.
1:54.5	So if I consider a group to be my home group but it is my home group.
2:00.0	There we go. What does it mean to have a home group? It means I go every week.
2:05.9	If it's a multi-meeting group, I try to go to the same one every week in order to maintain some kind of continuity and
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