The Recovery Bridge Community's mission is to assist you in maintaining your spiritual condition by providing high-quality flexibly-scheduled recovery program meetings that are easy to attend from any telephone anywhere in the world.
About Us at The Recovery Bridge Community
In late March 2005 a few members of the San Francisco A.A. fellowship began investigating the feasibility of holding A.A. meetings on the phone using teleconference telephone technology: the project was soon named The Recovery Bridge Community, or just Recovery Bridge. As the project evolved, Recovery Bridge became a recovery-related community or club that rents space to 30-minute A.A. meetings 24x7 (yes, that's 48 30-minute A.A. meetings a day - 7 days a week - 365 days of the year) over teleconference telephone lines; around the clock and around the world in American English. Secretary-lead meetings are held less frequently.
Here's some background: one of the founders of Recovery Bridge works as a Management Consultant, and Business and Personal Coach, and in those roles he participates in many teleconference calls. The way in which he signs-up for and attends these teleconference calls provided us with the model and inspiration to offer A.A. and/or other recovery meetings over the phone.
To attend any of these teleconference calls, some are called teleclasses, only takes a simple and easy four (4) steps.
1. Use an internet search engine, like Google or Yahoo, to search for a topic you are interested in (e.g., A.A. Meetings or Alcoholics Anonymous or Sobriety), and then logon to the web site that offers the training or discussion that interests you.
2. On the web site, find the meeting or training schedule and look over the schedule list to decide which teleclass or conference call both (a) fits your schedule and (b) fulfills what you want to learn or discuss, and then choose how you will pay for the teleclass (usually through PayPal or a similar online shopping cart or payment processing system).
3. In response to your request, you will then receive an e-mail from the web site confirming your enrollment in the teleconference/teleclass. The confirmation e-mail includes the phone number that you will call when the time for the teleconference/teleclass arrives. [NOTE: The phone number is usually in an area code different from the one in which you reside so long distance charges apply when you call from your home or office phone but we have learned that cell phone service includes unlimited long distance calling within the U.S. The complicating factor here is that cell phone service can be noisy and erratic, so we usually choose to pay the long distance telephone charge.]
4. At the scheduled time for the teleclass or conference call, call the area code and telephone number that was provided in the e-mail, and you are immediately connected to the call. At the end of the call, just hang-up like any other telephone call. End of story ... Very easy!
So, we looked into whether A.A. meetings could be provided in the same way. The cost of providing meetings over teleconference bridge lines and through a web site are low. With what we see, here in the San Francisco Bay Area as the seemingly universal use of cell phones and the increased use of teleconferencing and video conferencing, offering A.A. meetings over a teleconference bridge line seems like an inevitable next step in making recovery meetings more available and convenient.
We ask you to take a look at the web site (http://www.RecoveryBridge.org) that we have put together to announce that Recovery Bridge Resources-a non-profit organization, is "OPEN" to serve the national and worldwide recovery community. Recovery Bridge will begin holding Monday-Friday meetings on Monday May 16, 2005 at 8:00AM Pacific Time.
We invite you to attend any or all of the meetings listed: http://www.RecoveryBridge.org
And, we encourage you to send me your comments, observations, suggestions and recommendations for improvement.
Warm Regards,
The Founders of Recovery Bridge
Rich Guard
Executive Director
Contact Us
Recovery Bridge
Services
2443 Fillmore Street #341
San Francisco, CA 94115-1814
(415) 440-3562
Board of Directors Chairman: Open Chairperson@RecoveryBridge.org
Board of Directors Members: Open BoardMembers@RecoveryBridge.org
Executive Director: Rich Guard ExecDirector@RecoveryBridge.org
Administration Director: Jane LeMay AdminDirector@RecoveryBridge.org
Virtual Assistant: Open RBVA@RecoveryBridge.org
Privacy and Anonymity
Your privacy and anonymity are held in sacred trust by us at Recovery Bridge. As a statement of our principles and our values, we (those who administer Recovery Bridge) will never use, lend or sell your contact information (name, e-mail address, or phone number) or any other information that you entrust us with to any other organization. Recovery Bridge upholds the Twelfth Tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous, which states that "anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities."
The Recovery Bridge Community
2443 Fillmore Street #341
San Francisco, CA 94115-1814
(415) 440-3562
Copyright 2005 The Recovery Bridge Community