NA FOUNDATION GROUP CHRONOLOGY ADDICTIONARY
Last Updated - July 23, 2010
NA FOUNDATION GROUP CHRONOLOGY
ADDICTIONARY
Welcome!
Bienvenidos! Velkommen! Willkommen!
Bienvenue!
* Fellowship Literary Work in Progress *
YOU are the NA way of life! It is your love and dedicated gratitude that
keeps NA alive.
NOTICE: New stories going into NA Twenty Plus - Greg Pierce, Jack W, Billy A. coming soon!
NEW BOOK STARTED:
"Thank you for all you do!"
The idea is to incorporste stories of fine and exemplary acts by NA members and
service bodies into a book form. For instance, the story of a group secretary
who had to go through police barricades in Watts during the riots there. He had
to open the meeting! And the RSC that had $2000 stolen from P.O. box and
refunded the money to the estate of a member with note, "We do not accept
outside contributions. Thanks for caring."
Thanks Charles M - Moultrie, Georgia
Charles M was a long time supporter of the NA Way of Life Project and worked hard to move the book forward, hosting one Conference in Moultrie, Georgia at the NA Clubhouse there and contributing the original material for the chapter on Mid-Life Crisis. His service will never be forgotten and we all need to give him a moment of silent meditation for a great NA member. He passed from this world on June 21, summer soltice, 2010 after a long illness. Service at Cobb Funeral Chapel in Moultrie to be announced. cobbfuneralchapel@windstream.net
Thanks John V - Knoxville, Tennessee
Most of would not know him he was the man behind the scenes at the Knoxville W.O.L.F. group and its many activities. If there was service to be done in the inner city Knoxville he was there. He found it hard to stay clean but hung in there as best he could - his first encounter with NA in the early 80's. He was told he didn't need NA cause he only smoked pot. John you will be missed and you are still loved.
note:
We will start a Memorial Page linked from this page.
Thanks to all who contributed their experience, strength and hope. - Bo S.
NOTICE:
2010 Form being composed,
editing and review underway. You can participate by sending email to nawol@nawol.org
- Ed
NAWOL
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of 12 Traditions - Long Form
General Input
An item listed for input to the NA Basic Text in the Handbook for NA Lit Committees, the Long Form of the AA 12 Traditions are included for your consideration. Surely they are included in the gift from AA of the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions from which our NA Program was founded.
NA REFORMATION
What we need in NA is a reformation movement to restore some of the things that were so attractive to our early growth and expansion while retaining some of the efficiency and protocol developed by world services during the dark period. Lessons can be learnt from this so that others do not repeat the mistakes of the past twenty years. There need be no repercussions as everyone was pretty confused and blame is hard to access among people disadvantaged by their leadership. In other words, it is a no-fault situation brought about be rapid growth of our NA Fellowship and expansion of money, property concerns and the prestige that comes with service at the world level. Where is the top of the mountain? The Home Group! Time to get Back to Basics! - Ed
1) Everyone has a say in NA. Democratic principles give you a voice in your program.
2) Trusted servants at every level are trained to understand and appreciate the beauty of overcoming personal boundaries through learning self-lessness. Big egos need not apply!
3) Study materials are prepared and distributed under the direction of NA members active in the NA society. People can't be blamed for not knowing that which cannot be read and studied. We have to write the study materials if our side is to be in evidence.
4) Books and role models populate our service structure and recovery meetings
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2009 FORM: Thanks
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New form entering compositon stage.
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Love, Bo S.
Gratitude is not a chance - it is a choice!
Letters of support
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Please send us your reactions and responses to the various books displayed on this website. Feel free to copy and share. We have been working for almost two decades on this book. And now we have three more books to work on. It is obvious that our method is sound and includes a wide variety of NA members from all over. We know there are many members who support our work and have already been using the new material for purposes of recovery for quite a few years. There have been many emails thanking us and expressing gratitude and joy for the miracle of writing new material in the time honored NA way!
Of course, there are still many members who have not read the book and think is it somehow out of order for addicts to combine efforts to work a collective 12th Step in this manner. Please send us letters of support by snail or email fit to be displayed on this website. Some members are just freaked out by new writing. They missed out on the 'Book Years' in NA and don't realize we have every right to write. You don't have to get permission from anyone to work your 12th Step. We want to be gentle and loving but firm in our dedication to doing our part to see that the NA message is carried and heard.
Thanks for all your love and support for "OUR BOOK."
-- In Loving Service, Bo S.
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Traditions
War: a pathway to peace
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comparing 3rd R and 5th
Handbook for NA Literature 2007
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IS THIS AN OUTSIDE ISSUE?
Imagine sitting in a circle and having an NA meeting where the topic was discussion of written recovery material. As the material is being read, all members present have prayed to be used as instruments of a Loving God and listen to the letter and the spirit of the writing. This is a literature review meeting.
Is this outside literature if the subject matter is our written message of recovery? There is a big difference between writing recovery material in a group setting and reading outside literature. How else could our written message be created? We may not have a future is we can’t update our program with new literature. The disease of addiction never slowed down.
Reading, discussing and editing in a group setting after prayer is the basic formula for NA literature, right? Do we hire people to write for us or do we write our message down in groups of members?
THE FELLOWSHIP IN 2008 MAY NOT KNOW
THEY HAVE
A RIGHT TO WRITE - SPREAD THE WORD!
UNDERSTAND THIS : WE CAN'T DO IT FOR YOU - ONLY
ADDICTS CAN WRITE NA LITERATURE IN OPEN, PARTICIPATORY CONFERENCES. WE HAVE SEEN
LITERATURE WRITTEN WITHOUT FULL PROCESSING AND THE CHANGES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN
MADE BY CLEAN ADDICTS WERE LEFT UNDONE
IN MATERIAL APPROVED AT THE WSC, WEAKENING OUR WRITTEN
PROGRAM OF RECOVERY. ONLY LITERATURE THAT HAS BEEN FULLY PROCESSED BY
FELLOWSHIP CAN REALLY BE CALLED "NA APPROVED." - ED
To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us. List first names and last initials of members work-shopping, location of workshop, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. - Ed
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Open, Participatory Recovery Writing in spiritual state induced by prayers for selflessness and guidance. |
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It is your Heritage! |
(...this means you can help write the book. - Ed) |
The N.A. Way of Life
NEW 2008 Form
Section One: Orientation
Section Two: Issues
Section Three: Applications
Section Four: Evidence
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To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us.
List first names and last initials of members workshopping, location, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. - Ed
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2 How Service Took its form
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Chapter 3 The Book
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Chapter 4 Money, Property and Prestige
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Chapter 5 The Growth Through Our Book |
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| Chapter 6 History Movement Starts Madison, Alabama |
Chapter 7 Allentown History Conference |
Chapter 8 Montgomery - Celebration Two |
Chapter 9 Baby Blue |
Chapter 10 History Committee Folds |
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| Chapter 11 The World Service Inventory |
Chapter 12 The Superboard |
Chapter 13 The Internet |
Chapter 14 The Disenfranchised |
Chapter 15 Changes |
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Chapter 16 Vocal Minority |
Chapter 17 Twelve Concepts |
Chapter 18 Political Correctness |
Chapter 19 Traditions War Memorial |
Chapter 20 Pathway to Peace |
To participate in this writing, print out a single chapter, read it in a setting of NA members after SP, mark comments on one copy and snail mail it to us. List first names and last initials of members workshopping, location, and date. Will either be utilized right away or reviewed at next conference. Right now, conferences are planned in Knoxville late April, 2005 and Draper, Virginia June, 2005
NEWEST
VERSION 2005
310 PAGES due to better formatting
New book to focus on the spirituality found in NA that has worked so tirelessly in the background from our earliest beginnings through the present. Anyone knows that loud people get attention and those members busy working their 12 Steps, living the program and honoring the 12 Traditions are not noisy. But they are the men and women who keep NA alive and make the program worth coming back to! Trouble makers, mis-matchers, are often much more visible and vocal than those who plug in the coffee pots, lay out the literature and stay up last talking about NA with newcomers and other members. So, let's hear it for those who love us as they learn to love themselves.
In Loving Service,
Bo S.
Conferences and Workshops
from 1991 to 2002
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We have sought throughout this effort to involve members from all over in the process of reading, editing and collecting new material. This section gives you a chance to see the group conscience process in action. We value this inclusive approach because we believe those who have to live the program should be the ones to authenticate written recovery material. No service board or committee can do this because that would be dictating group conscience. We believe dictating group conscience is a contradiction in terms. - Ed
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All rights reserved. This draft may be copied by members of Narcotics Anonymous for the purpose of writing input for future drafts, enhancing the recovery of NA members and for the general welfare of the Narcotics Anonymous Fellowship as a whole. The use of an individual name is simply a registration requirement of the Library of Congress and not a departure from the spirit or letter of the Pledge, Preface or Introduction of this book. Any reproduction by individuals or organizations outside the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous is prohibited. Any reproduction of this document for personal or corporate monetary gain is prohibited.
