Recovery Tech: The East Bay Intergroup Helpline
Just a phone call away, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, is the East Bay Intergroup (EBI) Helpline. Available to help alcoholics find current Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and provide current AA meeting directory information using the East Bay Intergroup Meeting guide (HERE). Additionally, there are 12th-step volunteers to talk to […]
The AA Grapevine Half-Hour Variety Hour
Each week, long-time AA members Don, Olis, and Sam interview a different member about their experience, strength and hope, in a casual “meeting after the meeting” manner. Special features will enhance each episode. Conceived in 2021, near the end of the pandemic, the Half-Hour Variety Hour podcast was a new way to communicate with members […]
Recovery Tech: AA Meeting Guide App
In 2013, Josh R., web developer, moved to San Jose, got sober and began looking for a convenient way to find A.A. meetings on his phone. The local Intergroup website had listings but didn’t sync well with phones so Josh began to work on a solution. He presented his idea for Meeting Guide to the […]
Call for stories – “A.A. for the Asian and Asian-American Alcoholic,” pamphlet
In 2024, there was a General Service Conference advisory action that “a pamphlet on the Asian and Asian-American alcoholic in A.A. be developed.” In response, the trustees’ Literature Committee has opened a call for recovery stories. The trustees’ Literature Committee is seeking stories of personal recovery from all members in the A.A. structure of the […]
Heard in a Meeting: The hardest direction….
The hardest direction I can receive from a sponsor is to just leave it alone. It’s a copycat program. Just make sure you copy the right cat. I’ve learned to ask myself: Is it a catastrophe or just an event? When I drank, I had two speeds: grandiose and comatose. At first my drinking was […]