Amis/Amigos de Bill W. & Dr Bob's friends

4 - 5 JUIN 2011

Coldwater, Michigan

"Les 12 étapes en 1 jour!" - Format AA original des années 1940

Séminaire organisé par la groupe AA de Monroe Street, Coldwater, MI

Wally P., archiviste AA et historien signe ses livres

Organise depuis plus de 20 ans des séminaires

A écrit Back to Basics The Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners' Meetings et How to Listen to God Overcoming Addiction Through Practice of Two-way Prayer

Il existe 2 200 groupes "Back to Basics"

http://www.kreizker.net/article-back-to-basics-43165562.html

in "The Star", 3 juin 2011 (Toronto, Canada)

Catholic priest Fr. Pete Watters has been sober for 50 years. He says belief in a higher power, God, is essential to getting sober in Alcoholics Anonymous. Photographed at St. Andrew Church in Oakville on June 3, 2011.

Le prêtre catholique Pete Watters, 82 ans (sobre depuis janvier 1961)

A fêté son 50° anniversaire à Oakville (Toronto)

A "voyagé" Bill W. pendant 7 ans

“People and agencies can help,” Watters says, “but the only one who can restore that person to permanent sobriety is God. But that’s the God of your understanding — that can be anything you want.”

In AA God can be interpreted as an acronym for “good, orderly, direction,” or as something that can be found in nature, a set of ethical principles, or even in the courage of fellow AA members.

But it’s essential to turn yourself over to something or someone other, says Watters. “If you don’t believe in any power greater than yourself, you are on your own.”