Back to the Basics of Recovery

Back to the Basics of Recovery is a 2016 version of the 1946 Beginners' Meetings described in a best selling recovery book titled, Back to Basics. The Back to Basics book has been rewritten specifically for treatment centers, aftercare facilities, half-way houses, recovery homes, correctional facilities, and twelve-step programs. The material has been modified for all addictive and compulsive behaviors, and the "Big Book" passages have been converted to gender neutral.

Over the past twenty years, the author has guided more than 100,000 people through the Twelve Steps in one-day seminars. Thousands of others have led Beginners' Meetings and at this time, more than 700,000 have taken the Steps using the Back to Basics format with dramatic results. "It works--it really does."

Wally P. Abbreviated Biography Wally P is an A.A. archivist, historian and author. From 1992-1993, he was the Arizona Area archivist. From 1994-1995, he was a member of the National Archives Study Committee reporting to the General Service Office in New York City. Since 1999, he has been the caretaker of the personal archives of Dr. Bob and Anne Smith in Akron, OH.

He is the originator of Back to Basics, a re-enactment of a series of 1946 A.A. Beginners Meetings during which newcomers TAKE all Twelve Steps in four one-hour sessions. More than 700,000 people have taken the Steps using this time-tested and very effective program of recovery.

Wally has written four books:

But, For the Grace 0f God How Intergroups and Central Offices Carried the Message of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1940's

Back to Basics The Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners Meetings

How to Listen to God, The Steps Bill W., Dr. Bob, and the A. A. Pioneers Took Before the Big Book was Written

Back to the Basics of Recovery How to take the Twelve Steps "quickly and often"