The SOAAR 2023 Kingston Round-Up

SOAAR 2023 KINGSTON PROGRAM & PRESENTERS

Jarrod P. serves as Emcee, bringing sounds of Scotland to our exciting and educational Roundup.  Co-leading the opening session on Roles in Recovery is acclaimed New York Times best selling author Marya Hornbacher, along with secular recovery trailblazer Joe Chisholm.  Then we welcome Gord Garner, shaper of policies, practices, and educational materials in Canada, and at the UN, on harms associated with Stigma. Marsha F. will complete our morning with an update on some of today’s challenges to being unconditionally accepted.  

In the afternoon we hear from Roger C., historian, author and creator of the first website for secular AA people searching for sobriety.  Then Johnathan CJ, recent District Committee Member for Kingston and the Islands, speaks about service work and healthy AA environments.  Derek H. and fellow members of the Review share their experience as a Zoom group that welcomes people from every Anonymous fellowship to participate in a nightly Tenth Step using page 86 of the Big Book.   Closing out our day are Donna B., Martin D., and Kate W., alcoholics who helped convince a skeptical District to let us take the ‘God Excuse Off the Table’ and keep suffering alcoholics from giving up, and dying.