PROGRAM

Select ▶ for more detail • Select ▼ to hide details

Registration: 3rd Floor Foyer

Friday: 12 noon-6:30pm & 9pm-11:30pm
Saturday: 8am-6:30pm
Sunday: Pre-registration for TACNA 23 – 8:00 am – 10:00am

Responsibility Statement

We need to remember that our personal conduct is a direct reflection of our program, and our behavior may be the first and last impression that the public has of Narcotics Anonymous. Please keep this in mind and enjoy your weekend of celebrating recovery at TACNA.

Clarity Statement

In Narcotics Anonymous we are presented with a dilemma. When NA members identify themselves as addicts and alcoholics, the clarity of the NA message is blurred. To speak in this manner suggests that there are two diseases, that one drug is separate from the rest, requiring special recognition.  Narcotics anonymous makes no distinction between drugs. Our identification as addicts is all-inclusive, which allows us to concentrate on our similarities, not our differences.

Media Statement 

“Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personality anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.” (Basic Text, 6th edition, Page 75.)

This Tradition protects the membership and reputation of Narcotics Anonymous. We do not disclose last names, nor appear in the media as members of Narcotics Anonymous. If members of the press approach you, please direct them to Convention Information.

The 12 Steps of Narcotics Anonymous
  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.
The 12 Traditions of Narcotics Anonymous
  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, property 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. NA 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 promotion; 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 reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Just For Today

JUST FOR TODAY my thoughts will be on my recovery, living and enjoying life without the use of drugs.

JUST FOR TODAY I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery.

JUST FOR TODAY I will have a program. I will try to follow it to the best of my ability.

 JUST FOR TODAY through NA, I will try to get a better perspective on my life.

JUST FOR TODAY I will be unafraid. My thoughts will be on my new associations, people who are not using and who have found a new way of life. So long as I follow that way, I have nothing to fear.

Hospitality: Marriott Ballroom V-VII (4th Floor)

Friday: 12 noon- 11pm
Saturday: 6am-11pm
Sunday: 6am- 11:00am

Merchandise: Chesapeake I & II (4th Floor)

Friday: 3pm- 7pm & 9:30pm- Midnight
Saturday: 9am-7pm & 9:30pm- Midnight
Sunday: 9am- 1pm

Game Room

James I-III (4th Floor 24hrs)

Program Highlights

Reserved seating for the disabled/hearing impaired and Convention Committee is available for all Main meetings.

Marathon Meetings

Yorktown, Shangri-La, Franklin/2nd Floor

 Friday 3:30 pm – Sunday 6:00 am

Speaker Check-In

All Speakers & Chairpersons must check in at the Program Table located in the foyer by Registration.

PROGRAM

FRIDAY 2/27

3:00-4:15pmSteps 1-3 Norfolk 1 
 Traditions 1-3 Norfolk II 
 “Feel, Deal, Heal” Hampton Roads VI 
 “One Disease, Many Symptoms” Hampton Roads III 
4:30-5:45pmSteps 4-5 Norfolk 1 
 Traditions 4-5 Norfolk II 
 “Choosing Forgiveness” Hampton Roads VI 
 “From Isolation to Connection” Hampton Roads III 
6:00-7:00pm“The Power of Being Understood” Norfolk I 
7:30pm-9:00pmFriday Night Speaker Hampton Roads Ballroom 
9:45-11:00pm“Living These Principles, Being Our Message” Hampton Roads 1 
9:3pm-12midnightFashion Show (Free with Registration)   Norfolk III 
10-2:00amKaraoke Norfolk V-VI 
10:00pm-2:00amDance Marriott Ballroom 4th Floor 
SATURDAY 3/28    
8:00am-9:00amDowntown Morning Walk  Meet @ the Registration Area (3rd Floor)
9:30am-10:45amSteps 6-7 Hampton Roads I 
 Traditions 7-9 Hampton Roads III 
 “Love Is An Action Word” Norfolk I  
 “Life After Loss” Norfolk V 
11:00am-12:15pmSteps 8-9 Hampton Roads I 
 Traditions 10-12 Hampton Roads III 
 Newcomer Rap Norfolk I 
 “Aging In Recovery:  Then and Now” Norfolk V 
12:30-1:45pmSteps 10-12 Hampton Roads I 
 Concepts- “Service work Saves Lives” Hampton Roads III 
 “If You Can Do It, I Can Too” Hampton Roads VI 
 “Hugs Are For Healing” Hampton Roads VIII 
2:00pm3:15pmWomen’s Rap Hampton Roads IV-V 
 Men’s Rap Norfolk III 
3:30pm-4:45pm“Getting in the Center of Our Symbol” Norfolk I 
 “Unity In Our Diversity” Norfolk III 
 “Healing Together:  The Sponsorship Journey” Hampton Roads 1 
 “Self-Acceptance is Greater Than Your Approval” Hampton Roads III 
5:00pm-6:15pm“From Fear to Faith” Norfolk II 
7:00pm-8:15pmClean Time/State Countdown Hampton Roads Ballroom 
8:30pm—10:00pmSaturday Night Speaker Hampton Roads Ballroom 
10:30pm-12:00amCOMEDY SHOW (Ticketed Event) Norfolk III 
10:00pm-2:00amKaraoke Norfolk V-VI 
10pm-2:00amDance Marriott Ballroom 
SUNDAY 3/1    
7am-8:00amYOGA Hampton Roads III 
8:00am-10:00amPre-Registration TACNA 23 3rd Floor Registration 
10:15am-11:30amCLOSING SPEAKER Hampton Roads Ballroom 

Floor Plan

©  2026 Tidewater Area Convention of Narcotics Anonymous. Built using WordPress and the Mesmerize Theme