• To add your Back to Basics A.A. Beginners' Meeting to the website just email us the information, including where (name and address of location), when (day of the week and time), and contact (phone number and/or email address).  Attach a flyer if you like.
   

• New: Back to Basics Meeting Leader Guide with PowerPoint CD
  A great way to bring your Back to Basics meeting into the 21st century.  The PowerPoint CD contains all the "Big Book" passages plus early A.A. photographs for the four one-hour sessions.
   

• Back to the Basics of Sponsorship
  This is a seminar that Wally P. has been conducting for the past several years.  He has a two-hour and a one-day version of the presentation.  Some of the handouts for the seminar are now available.
    
       Key Concepts from the 1940's
       B2B of Sponsorship-2 pg Summary of
       Big Book passages
       Sponsorship Styles
   

• Back to Basics Tenth Anniversary
  As of August 2007, it has been ten years since the release of the First Edition / First Printing of Back to Basics, fondly referred to by many as the "Step Guide to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous."  Click here for the story.
   

• Another milestone has been reached.  
  Based on the number of attendees at Back to Basics A.A. meetings and seminars, more than 300,000 people have now had their lives changed as the direct result of taking the Twelve Steps in four one-hour sessions.  The success of Back to Basics speaks for itself.  "It works--it really does."
   

• Online Forums
  Click on the link below to contact online B2B forums
  groups.yahoo.com/group/back2basicsbeginners
   

• New Meetings and Upcoming Seminars/Workshops 
  Back to Basics has exploded with hundreds of new meetings and groups during the past year,
               many of which are not listed on this site. 
  Please send us your meeting information and we will post it as soon as possible. 
  
  Click on your state below to find a meeting near you...

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Back to Basics
Phone Teleconference Meeting
Began Sunday March 11, 2007 at 3:00 pm CST.
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New Flyers
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Below is a table of upcoming one to three day seminars and workshops, with contact information and downloadable flyers. For more detailed information on seminars and workshops click here.

For a one page summary of the Back to Basics A.A. Seminars, History of A.A. Presentations and Speaking Engagements for Wally P. in 2008, click here

• Back to Basics NFP Foundation Needs your Help
  We are working on the following life-saving projects:

  • Back to Basics-German Translation
  • B2B-101 DVD (The Wally P. Chalk Talk--12 Steps in 80 min)
  • Back to Basics for Correctional Facilities DVD (45 min)

For more information on these projects, click here

• James H. (Recovered Alcoholic 100 years old and 71 years sober) Tells His Story About Early A. A. (DVD)

 During this 71 minute DVD, recorded on August 22, 2005, James descries his drinking career, his recovery beginning on December 12, 1934 (one day after Bill W.), how he met and attended meetings with Bill in the 1930's, the original program of recovery, and how he carries the A. A. message today.  Filmed in "half-shadow" to protect James' anonymity.

For more information, click here

• The James H. Q+A  (DVD)

  James answers questions about the Spiritual Roots and the Early Days of AA)
  
  “One of the most important historical documentaries about the “original” A.A. program ever recorded.”
  
  During this two hour DVD, James answers more than 40 questions on topics of historical significance to anyone interested in the foundation and the "original" program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Filmed in Towson, MD on 4/12-4/13/05.  

  For more information, click here

• De Regreso al Libro Grande now available
      
  Back to Basics--The Spanish translation is now available. You can purchase a 10 workbook package, a Meeting Leader Guide, or a Meeting Leader Guide plus 10 workbooks.

Click the Add to cart button to purchase the Guide, books or DVDs or click the picture to go to the shopping cart

To learn more about Back to Basics for other Twelve Step programs, such as cocaine addiction, chemical addiction, and codependency,
                                            please click here.

To learn more about the Spiritual and Christian roots of the Twelve Step movement, please visit our companion website, www.faithwithworks.com

Wally P. has no royalty arrangement with Faith With Works Publishing Company and receives NO income from the Back to Basics book.  He insists that Back to Basics is Twelfth Step work for which no member of A. A. should be paid.  So that every person, both inside and outside the recovery community, will know Wally's position on this matter, he has added the following statement to the "Acknowledgments" page of every Back to Basics book:

 "Authors note: I do not believe in 'making money out of A.A.'  Any proceeds from this book, after out of pocket expenses are met, will be used to distribute books at no cost to individuals and groups who cannot afford to buy them."

Tradition 5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
   
Recently, the Board of Directors of the Back to Basics Foundation met in a special session and voted to operate under the guidelines of the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.  The Back to Basics mission statement has been modified to reflect their position on this subject.
   
The Board has also voted to move all materials pertaining to other Twelve Step programs to a separate web site, so there will be no confusion as to the primary purpose of the Back to Basics Foundation.
   
We ask for your patience on this matter because, at the present time, we have no means to accomplish this objective.  We have no paid employees, and continue to operate with a negative cash flow.  If it is God’s will, we trust there will be sufficient donations to make the wishes of the Board of Directors a reality.
   
The Back to Basics Foundation is a 501 (C) 3, not-for-profit Corporation dedicated to saving the lives of alcoholics.  To read our entire mission statement,
                           For more information, please click here.

Mission Statement - Who We Are
  
The Back to Basics Foundation is dedicated to saving the lives of alcoholics by showing them the sheer simplicity of the "original" Twelve Step program and by taking them through the Steps as they were taken by the AA pioneers in the 1940's when the recovery rate was 50-75%.  We see similar recovery rates today for those who are willing to remain involved in the Back to Basics Beginners' Meetings for three to six months.
  
We accomplish our objective by conducting one day and weekend seminars on the Back to Basics program and by distributing literature, audiotapes and videotapes on the early days of the Twelve Step movement.

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