Sheraton Times Square Hotel New York City

GNYRCNA Impossible Dream Convention

23 – 25 August 2019

Sheraton Times Square HotelNew York City

HOW IT WORKSIf you want what we have to offer, and are willing to make the effort to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps. These are the principles that made our recovery possible:

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

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

7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

How It Works .. 2

Our Purpose .. 5

Readings .. 4, 18

Information .. 6

Friday Program .. 8

Saturday Program .. 10

Sunday Program .. 16

Contacts ..17

The Twelve Traditions .. 19

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WHO IS AN ADDICT?Most of us do not have to think twice about this question. We know! Our whole life and thinking was centered in drugs in one form or another—the getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. We lived to use and used to live. Very simply, an addict is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. We are people in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are always the same: jails, institutions, and death.

WHY ARE WE HERE?Before coming to the Fellowship of NA, we could not manage our own lives. We could not live and enjoy life as other people do. We had to have something different and we thought we had found it in drugs. We placed their use ahead of the welfare of our families, our wives, husbands, and our children. We had to have drugs at all costs. We did many people great harm but most of all we harmed ourselves. Through our inability to accept personal responsibilities we were actually creating our own problems. We seemed to be incapable of facing life on its own terms.

Most of us realized that in our addiction we were slowly commit-ting suicide, but addiction is such a cunning enemy of life that we had lost the power to do anything about it. Many of us ended up in jail or sought help through medicine, religion, and psychiatry. None of these methods was sufficient for us. Our disease always resurfaced or continued to progress until in desperation we sought help from each other in Narcotics Anonymous.

After coming to NA, we realized we were sick people. We suf-fered from a disease from which there is no known cure. It can, however, be arrested at some point and recovery is then possible.

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OUR PURPOSE

The Greater NY Region Impossible Dream Convention is a

sub-committee of the Greater NY Regional Service Of-

ice, Inc., created to help provide the services the

GNYRSO has been directed to deliver by the GNYRSC -

to strengthen the unity within our Region, to celebrate

recovery, and to carry the message of hope and the

promise of freedom from active addiction.

Meetings, Workshops, and Activities are scheduled to

encourage fellowship, to share our experience with living

life on life’s terms by practicing these principles in all our

affairs, and to infuse our members – old and new – with

the spirit of gratitude and joy for our new way of life.

If you’re reading this, then you’ve chosen to celebrate

recovery with us this weekend. Welcome! And, thank you!

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INFORMATIONGNYRCNA MERCHADISE STORE HOURS:Friday 23 August6:00pmSaturday 24 August9:00amSunday 25 August9:00am

VENDOR STORE HOURS:Friday 23 August6:00pmSaturday 24 August9:00amSunday 25 August9:00am

RECORDING STORE HOURS:Friday 23 August6:00pmSaturday 24 August9:00amSunday 25 August9:00am

HOSPITALITY ROOM:Friday 23 August6:00pmSaturday 24 August8:00amSunday 25 August8:00am

LOCATION

Flatiron Room

Flatiron Room

Flatiron Room

Union Square Room

Union Square Room

Union Square Room

Columbus Room

Columbus Room

Columbus Room

Lenox Hill Room

Lenox Hill Room

Lenox Hill Room

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LOCATION

Flatiron Room

Flatiron Room

Flatiron Room

Union Square Room

Union Square Room

Union Square Room

Columbus Room

Columbus Room

Columbus Room

Lenox Hill Room

Lenox Hill Room

Lenox Hill Room

INFORMATIONTICKETED EVENTS:Friday 23 August - COMEDY SHOW9:30-11:00pm

Friday 23 August - DANCE WITH DJ DB9:00pm

Saturday 24 August - CONCERT w/ Melba Moore & Joe Battan10:00pm

FREE EVENTS:Saturday 24 August - DANCE8:00-10:00pm

Saturday 24 August - DANCE11:30pm-1:00am

LOCATION

Empire East Room

Empire East-West Room

Metropoltian Ballroom

Father Duffy Plaza,TIMES SQUARE

46th-47th StreetsBetween 7th Ave & Bdwy

Empire East-West Room

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11:30pm

PROGRAMFRIDAY 23 AUGUST 2019

ROOM

Gramercy

4:00-5:30pm

Metropolitan

7:00-9:00pm

Murray Hill

9:30-11:00pm

Empire East

9:30-11:00pm

Empire West

11:30pm-1:00am

TOPIC

The Impossible Dream

OPENING MEETING

Vincent R, Brooklyn;

Christine R, Staten Island

(Country Recognition)

Spanish Meeting: (Love or Lust?)

COMEDY w/ Laffaholics

DANCE W/ DJ DB

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PROGRAMFRIDAY 23 AUGUST 2019

ROOM

Central Park East

10:00-11:30pm

Central Park West

10:00-11:30pm

Bowery Room

10:00-11:30pm

Metro West

10:00-11:30pm

TOPIC

Beginner’s Meeting(Surrender to Win)

Relationships Meeting

Youth in Recovery(Is my Age a Reservation?)

St. Mark's Place- Revisited

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PROGRAMSATURDAY 24 AUGUST 2019

ROOM

Murray Hill

9:00-5:00pm

Sutton Place

12:00-2:00pm

Metro West

9:30-am-2:30pm

9:00-10:00am

10:00-11:00am

11:00am-12:00pm

12:00pm-1:00pm

1:00pm-2:30pm

TOPIC

Nar-Anon

Auction

12-Step Speaker SlamSteps 1, 2, 3 (Recognizing the Miracle)

Steps 4- 5 (Sex, Lies, and Alibis)

Steps 6, 7, 8 (Life on God’s Terms)

Steps 9-10 (Trusting the Process) Steps 11-12: (Prayer and Purpose)

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ROOM

Gramercy

9:00-10:30am

Bowery

10:00-11:15am

Empire West

10:00-11:15am

Central Park West

10:00-11:15am

Gramercy

10:45am-12:15pm

TOPIC

MAT / DRT Workshop

Addresses the subjects of Medically Assisted Treatment and Drug Replacement Therapy, topics that are one of the current NA World Service Issue Discussion Topics.

Parenting in Recovery

International Meeting (We All Belong)

No Fruit W/out the Labor

Spiritual Principle a Day Workshop

Reviews and provides opportunity to comment on the current World Services

literature book project Spiritual Principle a Day book.

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ROOM

Bowery

11:30am-12:45pm

Empire

11:30am-12:45pm

Central Park West

11:30am-12:45pm

Central Park East

11:30am-12:45pm

Gramercy

12:30-2:00pm

Bowery

1:00-2:30pm

TOPIC

Why Me? Why Not Me?

East Coast – West Coast Oldtimers

Sponsorship (My Guide, Not My God)

Spiritual Preparation: Moving W/out the Ball

NAWS Fellowship Development Update

Interactive presentation by World Board members providing information and

updates about fellowship development worldwide.

The Journey Continues

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ROOM

Empire West

1:00-2:30pmpm

Central Park West

1:00-2:30pm

Gramercy

2:30-3:50pm

Empire East

3:00-4:30pm

Empire West

3:00-4:30pm

Bowery

3:00-4:30pm

TOPIC

Recovery and Relapse

Illness in Recovery

PR Workshop

Presentation and discussion of best practices developed and used for PI and

PR service in NA.

Men’s Meeting

Women’s Meeting

Self Acceptance: Who Am I?

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ROOM

Metro West

3:00-4:30

Gramercy

4:10-5:30pm

Murray Hill

5:30pm-midnight

Metropolitan Ballroom

6:00-8:00pm

TOPIC

The Battle Plan

1. Avoiding Landmines

2. You Can’t Fight What You Can’t See

3. The War Room

H&I Workshop

Will expand upon the purpose, structure and best practices of H&I service in NA.

Experience, Strength, & Hope (open sharing)

MAIN MEETING

Cynthia Z, CA(State Recognition, Cleantime

Countdown)

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ROOM

Times Square

Father Duffy Plaza

8:00-10:00pm


10:00pm-1:00am

Empire East-West

11:30pm-1:00am

Central Park West

10:00-11:30pm

Central Park East

10:00-11:30pm

Bowery

10:00-11:30pm

Gramercy

10:00-11:30pm

TOPIC

DANCE

CONCERT

DANCE

Unity is a Must

The Beauty of the Traditions

LGBTQ+: (Unapologetically Me)

Hitting Bottoms in Recovery

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PROGRAMSUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019

ROOM

Lenox Hill Room

8:00-11:00am


10:00am

TOPIC

Alternative Merchandise

CLOSING MEETINGRichard A, FL

(Area Recognition)

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NAMES & TELEPHONE NUMBERS

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WHAT IS THE NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS PROGRAM?

NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recover-ing addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. We suggest that you keep an open mind and give yourself a break. Our program is a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them in our daily lives. The most important thing about them is that they work.

There are no strings attached to NA. We are not affiliated with any other organizations. We have no initiation fees or dues, no pledges to sign, no promises to make to anyone. We are not connected with any political, religious, or law en-forcement groups, and are under no surveillance at any time. Anyone may join us regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion.

We are not interested in what or how much you used or who your connections were, what you have done in the past, how much or how little you have, but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help. The newcomer is the most important person at any meeting, because we can only keep what we have by giving it away. We have learned from our group experience that those who keep coming to our meetings regularly stay clean.

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THE TWELVE TRADITIONS OF NA

We keep what we have only with vigilance, and just as freedom for the individual comes from the Twelve Steps, so freedom for the group springs from our Traditions. As long as the ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart, all will be well.

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on NA 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 are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

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

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or NA as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry the message to the addict who still suffers.

6. An NA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the NA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, prop-erty, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

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

8. Narcotics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9. NA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10. Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promo-tion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever re-minding us to place principles before personalities.

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TAKE MY WILL AND MY LIFE,GUIDE ME IN MY RECOVERY,

SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE.

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