ESCYPAA VIII Program

Registration&Merchandise

Registration and Merchandise are located in the Melville room. Registration: Friday 3-7pm, 9:30-11pm and Saturday 8am-7pm Merch: Fri 3-7pm, 9:30-11pm; Sat 8am-7pm, 9:30-11pm; Sun 8am-noon

Badges

All convention attendees must wear their ESCYPAA lanyard/badge while on the hotel property. We appreciate your cooperation as this will allow our security team to operate most effectively. Lanyard/badges must be visible upon entrance into any convention event. Please visit registration in the Melville room to pick up your badge. No one will be turned away from any ESCYPAA event based on inability to pay. Scholarships are available through the generous contributions of AA members and groups. Anyone needing a scholarship should head to registration, where our team would be happy to assist.

ZenDen

The Zen Den is our decompression room for anyone who may become overwhelmed or have sensory issues. The Zen Den is located in Executive II. Feel free to use this room if you need to take a breath and relax, and please be respectful of others using the space. The Zen Den will be open throughout the convention and will have sensory toys, comfort items, and water available. If you find yourself needing more support, please find a host committee member.

Accessibilities

ESCYPAA VIII has a strong commitment to ensuring we carry the message to individuals and groups who otherwise wouldn't have access to ESCYPAA and AA resources. The main meetings will have American sign language (ASL) and Spanish translation. ASL interpreters are on call and they can be provided for any meetings panels or workshops. Please come to registration if you need assistance with accessibility.

God, today help me set aside everything I think I know about You, everything I think I know about myself, everything I think I know about others, and everything I think I know about my own recovery so I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things.

Set Aside Prayer Responsibility Statement

I am responsible when anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there, and for that: I am responsible,

Anonymity Statement

There may be some here who are not familiar with our tradition of personal anonymity. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. We need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and film. Therefore, we respectfully ask that no AA member be identified by full name, photographed, or videotaped in published or broadcast./social media reports of this meeting. We also encourage members of Alcoholics Anonymou who are concerned about their anonymity to "share in a general way" that cannot identify them from unique events or circumstances in their life.

3rd Step Prayer

God, I offer myself to Thee To build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of Life.

7th Step Prayer

My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.

11th Step Prayer

God, direct my thinking, especially that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest, or self-seeking motives.

Hospitality

The hospitality suite is located at Executive I. It will open Friday at 4pm. Hospitality suite will remain open throughout the duration of the convention, but will close for the main meetings. We have light freshments and snacks available. There is no smoking/vaping at the hospitality suite.

Smoking/Vaping

There is no smoking/vaping inside the hotel including guest rooms. Please note there will be designated smoking areas that will be designated with signs.

Lost&Found

Please check with the registration desk in the Melville Room for any items you may have misplaced during your time at the convention. If you find items lying around that look as if they are lost and need to be found, please bring them to the registration desk.

Security&HostCommittee

Members of our security team will be wearing safety vests and host committee will be wearing yellow shirts that say HOST. If you find yourself or someone else needing assistance at anytime throughout the convention, please find one of us and we will be happy to help.

Archives can be found in the Mattituck room

EVENT EVENT

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives hadbecomeunmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restoreustosanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of GodasweunderstoodHim.

4.Madeasearchingandfearlessmoralinventoryofourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exactnatureofourwrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7.HumblyaskedHimtoremoveourshortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to makeamendstothemall.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except whentodosowouldinjurethemorothers.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptlyadmittedit.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only forknowledgeofHiswillforusandthepowertocarrythatout.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principlesinallouraffairs.

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends uponA.A.unity.

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders arebuttrustedservants;theydonotgovern.

3. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groupsorA.A.asawhole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to thealcoholicwhostillsuffers.

6. An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property,andprestigedivertusfromourprimarypurpose.

7. Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but ourservicecentersmayemployspecialworkers.

9. A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boardsorcommitteesdirectlyresponsibletothosetheyserve.

10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A.nameoughtneverbedrawnintopubliccontroversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion;weneedalwaysmaintainpersonalanonymityatthelevelof press,radio,andfilms.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever remindingustoplaceprinciplesbeforepersonalities.