• Overview of the weekend program.
• Introduction meeting 7:30pm, intro of who/where from, how many retreats attended, what are you looking to get out of the weekend? (90 second timed shares)

Meeting – 60 min – Tradition 1 and 3 – Our Common Welfare and the Only Requirement (Chairperson Chuck C)

In this exercise we suggest you find someone you are not familiar with, or at least not from where you live and take a walk. Or just find a place to sit and have a conversation, either way this is all about the conversation. We have carved out a large portion of our day for this. Please take your time and really get to know the other person. We have some suggestions to guide the conversation so that when we meet and discuss we are all on somewhat the same page. We have found these three areas allow us to get the insight we need.

HOPES – We define hope as our short-term goals.

DREAMS – Dreams are our long-term goals.

FEARS – Fear is defined as any of the roadblocks we may see ahead.

At the meeting we will randomly select names and ask that person to share their interpretation of what was shared with them. We will then ask their counterpart to do the same.

PURPOSE – This exercise gives us the opportunity to share some of the areas of our lives that we don’t normally talk about with someone not involved with our day to day lives. We also build long-term relationships outside of our areas this way.

• 5 min timed shares, randomized (Raffle Tickets)

Chairperson Steve R.

This is an exercise where we create an ornament to represent one of these two areas in our lives. Please feel free to use any and all of the art supplies provided.

PURPOSE- Please look at this as a mini, single subject, 4^th step. We want to pull out that one area in each of our lives that we may not be willing to normally discuss. Many of us withhold our grief so as not to burden others. And some of us feel like sharing our accomplishments and successes is just ego inflating. Neither of these two lines of thought are true.

At the meeting we will randomly pull names and ask that person to share on their ornament. We will leave some time at the end of the meeting to allow anyone who’s not been selected and wants to share the opportunity to do so.

Please note, this is not an art contest, and nobody’s work will be judged. We strongly encourage everyone to participate.

What did you get out of the weekend?

Clean up your room, take out trash, vacuum, mop floors, follow instructions in room, clean common areas and leave as found or better