ICSAA Phoenix 2026

Recovery of Connection: What AA Got Right

Presented at the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA), Phoenix, Arizona, November 13, 2026

Title slide: Recovery of Connection, What AA Got Right, by John Aher, presented at ICSAA 2026 in Phoenix, shown with the covers of Recovery of Connection and What Does ‘The Mind’ Mean?

Why did some of it actually change me, and some of it just seemed to keep me busy? What was doing the real work? And what was I missing?

This presentation follows those three questions into what the science of the embodied, relational mind tells us about how recovery works in the rooms, and why the theology was never the part carrying the weight.

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Presentation slides (PDF)Available November 13th

Handout, with sources and further reading (PDF)Available November 13th

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