What is back to basics in alcoholics anonymous?

Take all Twelve Steps in a couple of hours using the Big Book and the Back to Basics format developed by the AA pioneers in the 1940s. In the past fifteen years, more than 500000 have recovered with this time tested and highly effective program. It works-it really does. read more

"Back to basics" is a loosely defined movement to return to the principles and methods defined in the big book ("Alcoholics Anonymous") It is also sometimes referred to as the "Big book movement". Probably the most well known promoters of this movement are "Joe and Charlie" two long time AAs that work the speaker circuit. read more

The Back to Basics Foundation is dedicated to saving the lives of alcoholics by showing them the sheer simplicity of the "original" A.A. program of recovery and by guiding them through the Twelve Steps as they were taken by many of the A.A. pioneers in the 1940's. read more

Wally Paton is the author of Back to Basics--The Alcoholics Anon-ymous Beginners Meetings and How to Listen to God--A Guide for Successful Living Through the Practice of Two-way Prayer. He is the originator of the Back to Basics Beginners Meetings, which have grown to more than 2,500 groups, and produced more than 150,000 recoveries since its reintroduction into the Twelve-Step community in 1997. read more