International Humanist Congress 2026

World Humanist Congress 2026

You are invited to bring a song--Your Song--that mattered most in a challenging time in your life, a song that empowered you or comforted you or said what you could not articulate. Or something you've written that has a cathartic impact on sorrow, fear or challenge. Saturday AUGUST 30, Root Love, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

The International Convention of AA theme is The Language of the Heart.

You'll find a hospitality suite for the International Conference of Secular AA in the Fairmount Vancouver; other grand hospitality suites await throughout the convention spaces.

Rebellion Dogs Publishing will be hosting a table at Sober City - a merch, food, and fellowship place and we have friends joining, all of whom fall into the "Language of the Heart" criteria. Jay Stinnett has an award-winning documentary about Bill W's journey into Transcendental Meditation. Authors Tom Adams (A Marriage That Changed the World: Lois and Bill Wilson and the Addiction Recovery Movement) and Andy C (Gems, More Jems, Closing Arguments), WIlliam Schaberg's 2024 30 Things: Practical Advice for Living Well will all be there plus more: Video, merch, books, meet & greet. Forty thousand are coming to Vancouver. Visit AA.org for registration information.

Sober City is free. Contact AA.org to register for meetings and panels at the Convention Centre and BC Place Stadium.

Root Love and Rebellion Dogs Publishing presents "Emotional Sobriety" with Joe C

Participants are limited to 20, offering a participatory, intimate workshop in a beautiful, natural environment.

This event is at Root Love, just 15 minutes from Picton, Ontario. Located in beautiful Prince Edward County, RootLove is an off-the-grid, eco-conscious Healing Sanctuary nestled on 33 acres of forest. It is a safe haven that empowers our guests to adopt a happier and healthier life mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually within themselves, towards others, and in respect to our planet. Finding emotional regulation in a world gone mad has its challenges. This will draw on the recent work of Dr. Allen Berger, Gabor Mate, and writer/YouTuber Heidi Priebe. Otherwise known as "Wise Mind," "Self-regulation," "Emotional Intelligence," and" Emotional Sobriety," emotional sobriety has captured the zeitgeist--there are over 15K #emotionalsobriety posts on Facebook right now. We will be talking about strategies that can improve or life experience right now, where we are at, to gain benefits now, as a journey of emotional sobriety - not a destination we may never arrive at.

Please visit the website, email or call David or Amie @ RootLove for more information.

Thriving instead of Surviving: What are the characteristics of people who are better because of addiction and/or trauma? The science is ongoing but strong evidence suggests Connection, Hope, Identity, Meaning & Empowerment are factors in the best outcome rates we can hope for.

https://bit.ly/GrowingInUnderstanding What is the latest science around Peer-to-Peer? How does CHIME show up in 12-Step and other mutual-aid groups?

This is ten years of ICSAA - International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous, a three-day "everyone welcome" event of workshops, speakers, friends of AA (secular NA, Al-Anon, OA, ACA, and more), meetings, events, pool-side chats, and food.

Bill Schaberg has written a NEW book called 30 Things Practical Advice for Living Well

Rebellion Dogs Publishing invites you to our Gala Zoom Launch Party Please join us for the festivities on Sunday, August 11th at 3 PM (Eastern) ZOOM Link: 853 2798 6422 (no password needed)

A full day of recovery presentations and workshops including: Dr Ray B on the research behind LEROs (Lived Experience Recovery Organizations) Meet the host committee for the 2025 AA World Convention hosted in Vancouver Canada Joe C, picking up from where we left off last year, an interactive CHIME recovery workshop with attendees, identifying how Connection, Hope, Identity, Meaning & Empowerment in our recovery stories Speakers, lunch, meetings for and by atheists and agnostics in AA Everyone is Welcome $25 for the day

Mike G on re-writing the 12 Steps to make them work for you. Mary C on affirmations, workshopping on techniques that work Joe C on CHIME: Connection, Hope, Identity, Meaning, Empowerment - what the science says about people who thrive in recovery from addiction and mental health challenges: post-traumatic gains.

Beth H, Phoenix AZ, Dr Ray B, Vancouver and Joe C, Toronto + panels and discussion

From 1968 to the 2022 (soon to be released) AA Membership Survey in the USA we check our demographics for outreach to healthcare professionals and the general public. We also use the survey to take inventory of how we are doing: who is getting the help they need; who's being left behind. Looking at them collectively we can measure trends.

The Great Britain 2020 Membership Survey reveals two new talking points: How are AA members doing with the proliferation of Zoom (and other online) AA meetings? What do AA's really believe? Members answer if they believe in a higher power and how religious or secular they are.

This event is part of a series from the Growing in Understanding group.

Free ZOOM event; help yourself to a program in several different time-zones ICSAA 2022 Program Oct 29 & 30 @ https://www.omagod.org/announcements

this is "some of" the history of atheists and agnostics in AA. Secular AA has "widened AA's gateway" according to founders and "isn't REAL AA" according to fundamentalists. In this meeting we will take a historical look at gatherings: secular AA meetings, conferences and literature in AA.

updated and revised history of secular AA: meetings and other gathering, the impact of Zoom, barriers and bridges, Secular AA: is it a different program or a different language?

The Spirituality Series is sponsored by Mary & Joseph Retreat Center Herb K & Joe C will discuss their respective approaches: Traditional VS Non-Traditional and dialogue about their understanding and experience then open the workshop to participant questions. Herb K will unpack his understanding and experience with the Big Book from the “spiritual” perspective – helping participants clarify the practical meanings of: FAITH; CHOICE; DECISION. Joe C will share his approach from the “secular” viewpoint – addressing the % of people coming from or drawn toward atheism or agnosticism, modeling how to have an effective personal experience.

From Joe C.: “Step Two and Three are a process for a freethinker like me--not an event. My unaided will was insufficient to sustain sobriety. What resources would suffice; where would I go or what/whom would I turn to for the care that I needed? None of these are original ideas, but I heard them at AA meetings and applied them to my life: a) the power of example, b) a Group of Drunks, c) a higher purpose. As ideas and practical tools, these three touchstones have all been instrumental throughout my AA recovery. I see in these principles the same practices and hope of Steps Two and Three that others find who ‘call it God-consciousness’."

Herb K’s journey ~ 7 years in Claretian seminary, a graduate education in psychology, 40 years in human resources consulting, certification as a Spiritual Director, active participation in 12 Step Fellowship since 1984 and the publication of 3 books on spiritual awakening. www.herbk.com

Joe C’s search for a secular daily reflection book for people in recovery came up empty, leading to his writing “Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life” (2013). Joe is a broadcaster & author, clean and sober since Disco music. His writing, research and reporting efforts have been directed towards music, finance, travel, mental health and addiction/recovery. Joe hosts a syndicated show on IndieCan Radio, devoted to the emerging music scene and Rebellion Dogs Radio, a contemporary look at 12-step life. Contact Joe at https://rebelliondogspublishing.com/

Cost: $25 - Zoom information and links will be emailed to you a few days before each event. info: https://maryjoseph.org/event/steps-2-3-we-agnostics-a-choice-a-decision/ register: https://giving.ncsservices.org/App/Form/ca432038-394c-4a06-992f-f6485beca71e

EMOTIONAL RANGE: Skillfully navigating highs, lows and in-betweens... While recovery frees us from the emotional, physical, and mental hell that is active addiction, it doesn't grant us a pass on the emotional ups and downs of regular life. As addicts, we often lived in a state of nonstop emotional emergency, where every feeling, good or bad, led us back to our substance or behavior of choice. In recovery, learning to live "life on life's terms" means becoming aware of our whole emotional range and developing the skills to navigate the ever-shifting terrain of our own inner world. This talk will focus on how we can become more adept at handling both the internal experience and the external impact of our own highs, lows, and everything in between.

https://youtu.be/DnfV1PZP9Iw for a recording of the presentation featuring Rebellion Dog's Joe C, Dr. Allen Berger, author Marya Hornbacher and host, John R from Cottonwood AZ.

Zoom ID for Friday: 882 1549 8348 passcode TOM

Panels, speakers, entertainment and a town hall meeting hosted by the Washington DC ICSAA 2021 host-committee