Step One
integrity implies trustworthiness...
What is Honesty?
healing benefits of seat lodge ceremony.
The sweat ceremony is intended as a spiritual reunion with the creator and a respectful connection to the earth itself as much as it is meant for purging toxins out of the physical body.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
Co-Founders of AA
Circle teaching, sharing knowledge information and concepts
What is medecine wheel teaching?
Movie with actor Will Smith and Aliens
What is independence day?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol/drugs that we had lost control of our lives.
What is step One?
Ceremonial circular dome place where people chant, steam, and reconnect spiritually. Purification ceremony
Sweat Lodge
Akron, Ohio
3 things that we use to live in balance...
What is Harmony, balance, peace
13 times this rings
Liberty bell
The basic premise of this model is that people can help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from substances of abuse, but that healing cannot come about unless people with addictions surrender to a higher power.
What is 12 step - AA program
White Bison
1935
AA Started this year
Considering all aspects of your life: relationships, work, fitness and health, and emotional well-being.
What is living in Ballance mean?
Which American president was born on July 4th?
Calvin Coolidge, born on July 4, 1872
Consequence list, powerlessness list, unmanageability list.
What is doing the "work" or inventories?
1. Change is from within
2. In order for development to occur it must be preceded by a vision
3. A great learning must occur
4. You must create a healing forest
What is four laws of change?
Nurse who helped almost 5,000 hospitalized alcoholic patients
Born Bridget Della Mary Gavin (January 1, 1889 – April 1, 1966) in Ireland. She moved to the United States in 1914 and joined the St. Augustine Sisters of Charity in Ohio and was given the religious name Sister Mary Ignatia. Along with Dr. Bob, between 1935 and 1965 Gavin was the first to successfully treat thousands of alcoholics as a medical condition at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron as well as St. Vincent Charity Hospital Rosary Hill Solarium in Cleveland. She was remembered for her kindness, honesty and non-judgmental love. Many of the ideas of Alcoholics Anonymous, including the use of tokens to mark milestones in sobriety, were introduced by Sister Ignatia.
The 4 principles, qualities, and powers.
What is the east, south, west and north?
Colloquial saying Fourth of July, but originally its
Independence Day
Average length of time it takes for someone to work through the 12 steps
VARIES, unpredictable, depends on the person
Name of person who started the Wellbriety movement..
Who is Don Coyhis
Bill W. was homeless for 2 years in sobriety - TRUE OR FALSE
True In 1939, Bill and Lois W. lost their home at 182 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002. As the Great Depression eases and property values rise, the company that owns the mortgage on 182 Clinton Street sells the building, forcing Bill and Lois to move out. Thus begins the couple’s two years of temporary residency in the homes of Hank P. and other A.A. families. Bill and Lois continue carrying the program’s message for the duration of this unsettled period.
Hozho, Nawalak, Sila, Tunkashila, Orenda, Nawalak, Wakan Taka, etc.
What is cultural names for the Sacred?
Lee Resolution
Congress voted to approve independence by passing this resolution on July 2, and adopted declaration of independence 2 days later on July 4