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I have the following speaker bookings and other attendances booked. AA unless indicated otherwise. Al-Anon meetings are open to any member of Al-Anon or anyone who qualifies (if you are an AA member etc., you automatically qualify.

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11 November 2025, then weekly

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: For CA members and others but unaffiliated
• Name of group: ZOOM164 workshop
• Open / closed: Open
• Time: 7.30 p.m.
• Time zone: Ireland / UK
• Duration of meeting: 1 hour
• Format: Talk followed by Q&A
• Topic of talk: Twelve Steps per the Big Book
• Invite Link: See website
• Website: https://first164.blogspot.com/p/zoom164.html

11 January 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA / Al-Anon
• Name of event: Keep On Tookin’!
• Open / closed: Open
• Dates of event: 9–11 January 2026
• Time zone: Central (Texas)
• Date and time of meeting: 9.00 a.m.
• Duration of meeting: 1 hour
• Duration of talk: 1 hour
• Topic of talk: Experience, Strength, and Hope
• Physical address: Moody Gardens, Seven Hope Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77554
• Meeting ID: See website
• Website: https://first164.blogspot.com/p/keep-on-tookin.html

18 January 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA
• Name of group: Deep Down Within
• Open / closed: Open
• Time: 18:30
• Time zone: UK
• Duration of meeting: 75 minutes
• Duration of talk: 45 minutes
• Topic of talk: Serving God
• Meeting ID: 956 003 1616
• Passcode: None
• Invite Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9560031616

21 January 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: CA
• Name of group: Over Eights The Best Is Yet To Come
• Open / closed: Open
• Time: 7.30 p.m.
• Duration of meeting: 1 hour
• Duration of talk: 30 minutes
• Topic of talk: Problems of Later Recovery / Worship of Other Things
• Physical address: Soho Recovery Centre, 123 Charing Cross Road, WC2H OEW

27 January 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA with Al-Anon Participation
• Name of group: Double-Winners
• Open / closed: Open
• Time: 6.00 p.m.
• Time zone: UK
• Duration of meeting: 1 hour
• Duration of talk: 15 minutes
• Topic of talk: Let It Begin With Me
• Physical address: St Columba’s Church of Scotland, Pont Street, London, SW1X OBD

31 January 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA
• Name of group: Islington St Mary’s Reflections meeting
• Open / closed: Open
• Time: 10.00 a.m.
• Duration of meeting: 60 minutes
• Duration of talk: 15 minutes
• Topic of talk: 31 January Daily Reflections
• Physical address: The Wilson Room, St Mary’s Church, Upper Street, London, N1 2TX

OUR COMMON WELFARE COMES FIRST
January 31
The unity of Alcoholics Anonymous is the most cherished quality our Society has. . . . We stay whole, or A.A. dies.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 129

Our Traditions are key elements in the ego deflation process necessary to achieve and maintain sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. The First Tradition reminds me not to take credit, or authority, for my recovery. Placing our common welfare first reminds me not to become a healer in this program; I am still one of the patients. Self-effacing elders built the ward. Without it, I doubt I would be alive. Without the group, few alcoholics would recover.

The active role in renewed surrender of will enables me to step aside from the need to dominate, the desire for recognition, both of which played so great a part in my active alcoholism. Deferring my personal desires for the greater good of group growth contributes toward A.A. unity that is central to all recovery. It helps me to remember that the whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.

2 April 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA
• Name of group: Set Aside Thursday
• Open / closed: open
• Time: 7.30 p.m.
• Time zone: UK
• Duration of meeting: 75 minutes
• Duration of talk: 30 minutes
• Topic of talk: Step Four
• Meeting ID: 525 792 6949
• Passcode: Rule62

29–31 May 2026

• Twelve-Step Fellowship: AA
• Name of event: Welsh National Convention 2026
• Open / closed: Open
• Dates of event: 29–31 May 2026
• Time zone: UK
• Time of meeting: Saturday
• Duration of meeting:
• Duration of talk:
• Topic of talk:
• Physical address: Metropole Hotel, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5DY
• Website: