Secular Organizations for Sobriety
SOS (also known as
Save Our Selves) provides a successful and increasingly popular
non-religious alternative to "Twelve Step" recovery programs. In
November 1999, SOS launched a series of special events at the Center for Inquiry-L.A.
All SOS events are open to the general public and of course are clean and sober.
Light refreshments will be available for purchase.
The international headquarters of SOS is housed at the
Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles.
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links for more info:
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SOS Celebrates its 27th Anniversary at the
Fifth Annual
International
Festival of Recovery
All Day
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
at SHARE!
6666 Green Valley Circle
Culver City, CA 90230
Free Event ●
Free Lunch ●
Free Parking
Sponsored by
SHARE! and SOS (Secular Organizations for Sobriety)
We're taking over an
entire building: SHARE! (Self Help and Recovery Exchange) at
6666 Green Valley Circle, Culver City, CA 90230, with FREE
workshops, presentations, demonstrations, seminars, talks -
by major presenters in the addictions recovery and mental
health fields - exhibits, authors' book signings, onstage
'open mike' shares, and more! Representatives with free
literature from numerous self-help addiction recovery and
mental health groups will be readily available to answer
your questions!
This event constitutes a common-ground breakthrough and
its purpose is to offer as many options as humanly possible
to address the needs of persons seeking tools for recovery
for treatment of the addictive and mental health disorders.
Don't miss this one-of-a-kind FREE event, including a FREE
lunch!
All day Saturday, April 28, 2012
SHARE!
6666 Green Valley Circle
Culver City, CA 90230
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ABAC (Adults Bullied
As Children)
SOS
Founder Jim Christopher will officially launch this new
group at the 5th Annual International Festival of Recovery.
Jim Christopher created this self-empowerment support group
for adults like himself who were targeted and bullied as
innocent children by peers, siblings, and authority figures.
These
debilitating experiences may carry lifelong emotional
consequences and the impact of our pain from having been
bullied can be shared and alleviated in a safe, secular
self-empowering mutual support group setting; the group
dynamic can provide acceptance, strength, and energy in
order to overcome, to grow, to feel appropriately good about
ourselves both collectively and individually.
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Experience the 13th Annual
Funeral for the Unknown Smoker
at the 5th Annual
International Festival of Recovery
presented by Jim Christopher, author of Escape from
Nicotine Country
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Meet Merci McFaline at
the 5th Annual Festival of Recovery
and attend her free seminar
Beauty 101: Makeup Techniques for the Empowerment of
Women in Recovery
Beauty 101 is a
free makeup seminar that will teach beauty basics to enhance
your natural beauty. It will be taught by Makeup Artist
Merci McFaline and attendees will learn the following:
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Creating the
perfect base and finding the right foundation.
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Colors that
will enhance and complement your skin tone.
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Three
different eye techniques and three different looks:
everyday, professional & night out
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Lips & cheeks:
finding the right color & blush application
This seminar was created
for the sole intention of helping women who are interested
in learning more about makeup and how to apply it. All women
in recovery are welcome to attend.
Who is Merci?
Amanda "Merci"
McFaline is a woman in recovery, just like you. During
recovery, Merci realized that her passion for makeup was
more than just a hobby and she found the confidence she
needed to pursue it full time. Since then, she has become a
Certified Makeup Artist that has worked on photo shoots,
fashion shows, etc. She currently volunteers with Lipstick
Angels, an organization of professional makeup artists that
apply makeup to terminally ill patients in hospitals to
provide an uplifting experience and momentary relief from
their ailments. Contact:
www.mercimakeupdesign.com or (818) 470-2512.
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What is SOS all about?
SOS is an alternative recovery method for those alcoholics or drug addicts who
are uncomfortable with the spiritual content of widely available 12-Step programs. SOS
takes a reasonable, secular approach to recovery and maintains that sobriety is a separate
issue from religion or spirituality. SOS credits the individual for achieving and
maintaining his or her own sobriety, without reliance on any "Higher Power."
Read more here
SOS newsletter
The SOS National Clearinghouse publishes a quarterly newsletter that is filled
with items of interest to all recovering substance abusers, to professionals, and to the
families and friends of alcoholics and addicts. The SOS International Newsletter serves as
an information source for group convenors and as a forum for newsletter subscribers.
Subscriptions to the print edition are $18 per year.
View the latest issue
Find a meeting
SOS meetings nationwide
SOS meetings in the Los Angeles area
More info
An Overview Of SOS: A self-empowerment approach to recovery
Your First 30 Days
The Sobriety Priority
Your Sobriety Toolkit
Family & Friends Recovery
For Group Leaders
SOS Guidebook For Group Leaders
Contact Information
Jim Christopher
Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS)
4773 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90027
(323) 666-4295
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sos[at]cfiwest.org
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