Workshop: Has AA lost it’s Edge?

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Bill C from Torrance California and Jay S lead this workshop on the topic of - Has AA lost it's Edge? This was held at the South Bay Family Roundup in 2008. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1800+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast format.
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0:28.0	Good morning everybody.
0:30.0	Morning.
0:31.0	I know this is a little early for a workshop but here we are.
0:34.0	My name is Bill and I'm an alcoholic.
0:36.0	I bill.
0:38.0	Jay the alcoholic.
0:41.0	And what we're going to do this morning is talk about as AA lost its edge.
0:49.0	You hear a lot of things around alcoholics anonymous.
0:53.0	And one of the things that you hear is that there was a time we had a 75% success rate.
1:01.0	And now it's down to 10 maybe 5% or less that we've lost something.
1:08.0	Somehow the message has been diluted.
1:11.0	The fellowship is different than it used to be.
1:14.0	We're not working the steps correctly.
1:17.0	The meetings are structured poorly.
1:20.0	The message is not being conveyed.
1:23.0	So what we'd like to do is we'd like to address some of that.
1:27.0	And Jay and I are blessed to be able to travel around AA a bit and talk to a lot of people.
1:34.0	He's cursed with the historian problem.
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