Recordings from this past workshop series are available on our Freethinkers Living Sober YouTube channel. A selection of earlier audio recordings is also preserved below.
This workshop series began on June 27, 2021. Speakers and panels shared their experience, strength, and hope about getting, staying, and living sober in AA in a secular way, followed by discussion and questions. For our current regular meetings, see the meeting schedule.
“In AA we are supposed to be bound together in the kinship of a universal suffering. Therefore the full liberty to practice any creed or principle or therapy should be a first consideration. Hence let us not pressure anyone with individual or even collective views. Let us instead accord to each other the respect that is due to every human being as he tries to make his way towards the light. Let us always try to be inclusive rather than exclusive. Let us remember that each alcoholic among us is a member of AA, so long as he or she so declares.”
from Bill Wilson’s 1965 Address to the General Service Conference
As freethinkers, we aspire to open-mindedness and to appreciating the sharing of others—particularly those with whom we disagree. We ask only that everyone share without attempting to dissuade, argue, or disrespect anyone else or their beliefs.
As a group, we are secular. That is, we do not endorse or oppose any system of belief, nor do we have any quarrel with any form of religion. We also do not use prayers of any kind in our workshops or meetings. Our only wish is to assure suffering alcoholics that they can find sobriety in A.A. without having to accept anyone else’s belief or having to deny their own.