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DESCRIPTION:We are a fellowship of people wanting to find aliveness, connection and 
 survival in the face of social-political-economic overwhelm. We do this by 
 recognizing and addressing our unspoken submission to historically 
 entrenched, institutions and influences of the dominant culture. We observe 
 cunning, baffling and powerful social ills perpetuated through inequities 
 involving race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age and ability. We 
 explore how these impact our thoughts feelings and personal habits. We hope 
 that as each of us becomes free from acquisition driven, socially divisive, 
 militarized forces, we can catalyze change and establish a new way of 
 living with care for each other and the earth.\n\nWe work with a modified 
 version of AA's twelve steps and traditions using practices of: anonymity, 
 vulnerability in truth telling, intuitive inquiry, restorative amends, 
 group service, non-hierarchical decision making and conscious 
 action.\n\nThe first Recovery from the Dominant Culture meetings were 
 created and held in west Oakland, Ca through Seminary of the Street. This 
 flyer is a draft proposal for a new meeting in Berkeley. We welcome 
 participation in the process of developing meeting agreements. And most of 
 all we invite you to our upcoming meetings beginning on Saturday March 15th 
 at 10 am\n\n  \n\n\n\nTWELVE STEPS\n\n\n                                    
                            \n\n1. We admitted we were powerless over our 
 thoughts, feelings, desires and actions shaped by the dominant culture and 
 that our lives had become unmanageable.\n\n2. Came to believe that a Power 
 greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.\n\n3. Made a decision to 
 rebuild our lives, seeking truth, love, and discernment through connection 
 with intuitive wisdom, Great Spirit, God, Goddess and/or a Higher Power of 
 our choice.\n\n4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of how we treat 
 ourselves and relate with others.\n\n5. Admitted to our Higher Power, to 
 ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our thinking, 
 feelings and actions based on dominant culture conditioning\n\n6. Were 
 entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove coping habits and addictions 
 not in alignment with our integrity.\n\n7. Humbly asked our Higher Power to 
 remove our shortcomings.\n\n8. Made a list of all persons, living beings 
 and earth sources we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them 
 all.\n\n9. Made direct amends to such people, living beings and the earth 
 wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.\n\n10. 
 Continued to take personal inventory and when acting under the influence of 
 dominant culture patterns we promptly admitted it and sought more conscious 
 ways of interacting.\n\n11. Sought through study, writing, art, prayer 
 and/or meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, 
 and to identify new ways of participating in life affirming culture, 
 holding our well being in balance with the well being of others.\n\n12. 
 Having experienced transformative change with these Steps, we practice 
 these principles in all our affairs, carry this message to those 
 interested, and engage in actions that embody an alternative to the 
 addictive processes of the dominant culture\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/18/18751151.php
SUMMARY:Recovery From the Dominant Culture.
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps\n2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/18/18751151.php
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