Full CRU 2011 Printable Program (PDF)
| Friday, August 19, 2011 | |
| 5:00 pm | Registration Opens! Come to Our Welcome Party! |
| 7:00 pm | Welcome Meeting (Speaker: Pat M. from Jersey City, NJ)Bio: Born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. Eighth of nine children. Raised Irish Catholic (I’m still Irish!). Gangs and lots of drinking and violence. Happy kid. Played a lot of sports. Marine Corps 1965-1968. Combat veteran of Vietnam. Washed up on the shores of A.A. on June 14, 1981, 35 years old, married with two kids and deeply closeted. Got sober and lived happily ever after! More will be revealed. I always try and keep it light. |
| 8:30 pm | We Are Not a Glum Lot: Mis-Adventures Toward Sobriety Comedy ShowComedians: Sanders H. (Atlanta) and Greg M. (Chicago) |
| Saturday, August 20, 2011 | ||||
| 6:00 am – 7:00 am | Sunrise Meeting at the BeachClick here for meeting location info (see the home page if you are not sure where to go) | |||
| 8:45 am | Registration Open | Continental Breakfast | ||
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Guided Meditation on the Rooftop Deck | |||
Workshops |
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Steps |
Spiritual and Fun |
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| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | 3 Traditions and Our World Today | Alanon – Detaching with Love | Young People in Recovery | Acceptance and Handling Unexpected Events |
| 10:00 am – 11:15 am | Steps 1, 2, 3 | Another Lie They Tell You in AA | CMA-Triggers | The Recovery Rut! |
| 11:15 am – 1:00 pm | Lunch on your own. Fun activities and fellowship in the Hospitality area! | |||
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Open 12-Step Meeting | |||
| 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm | Steps 4, 5 | Emotional Sobriety: When Theory and Life Collide | Newly Sober | Page 69 – And Now About Sex! |
| 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Steps 6, 7 | Yoga – Healing the Mind and Body | Isolation vs. Solitude | Grey Areas of Recovery |
| 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm | Steps 8, 9 | Gettin’ Crazy in Sobriety | Sick as Our Secrets | Drug Addicts and Recovery |
| 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Banquet Dinner | |||
| 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Speaker Meeting (Speaker: Rich S. from St. Louis, MO/Dawn C. from Chicago)Bio: Rich S: is a native West Virginian, went to his first meeting in Washington, DC on a Sunday morning in late December 1990 at the Triangle Club, but he didn’t put down his last drink until 9/1/91, where he got sober at the Lambda Group in Harrisburg, PA. He has lived in St. Louis, MO, since 1995, where his home group is the Friday Happy Hour meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at 6 PM at the Steps-Alano Club, St. Louis’ gay recovering clubhouse. He lives with a cat named Chester. | |||
| 8:30 pm | Chicago Community Dance Destination Freedom: Adventures on a Dance Floor |
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| Sunday, August 21, 2011 | |||||||||
| 6:00 am – 7:00 am | Sunrise Meeting at the BeachClick here for meeting location info (see the home page if you are not sure where to go) | ||||||||
| 8:30 am | Registration Open | ||||||||
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Guided Meditation on the Rooftop Deck | ||||||||
Workshops |
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Steps |
Spiritual and Fun |
Foundational |
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| 9:30 am – 10:45 am | Steps 10, 11, 12 | Alternative Spirituality: Athiests, Agnostics, Non-Theists and More! | Setbacks and Slips: Relapse Prevention, Care and Tools | Long-Timers Circle | |||||
| 11:00 am | Brunch | 11:45 am | Gratitude Panel | ||||||