Program

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Registration: 3rd Floor Foyer

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

Speaker Check-in: All Speakers & Chairpersons must check in at the Program Table located in the 3rd Floor Foyer by Registration.

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- Midnight
Saturday: 6am-12 midnight
Sunday: 6am- 10:00am

Merchandise: Chesapeake I & II (4th Floor)

Friday: 12 noon- 6:30pm & 9:30pm- Midnight
Saturday: 9am-6:30pm & 9:30pm- Midnight
Sunday: 9am- 1pm

Marathon Meetings: Friday 3:30pm – Sunday 6:00am – Yorktown, Shangri-La, Franklin (2nd Floor)

Friday Schedule
3:00-4:15pmThere’s No Safe Amount of Clean TimeNorfolk II (1st Floor)
3:00-4:15pmNewcomer RapNorfolk III
3:00-4:15pmThere Are Some MUST in NANorfolk V
3:00-4:15pmSetting BoundariesNorfolk VI
4:30-5:45pmSteps 1-3Norfolk II
4:30-5:45pmTraditions 1-3Norfolk III
4:30-5:45pmMeeting Makers Make ItNorfolk V
4:30-5:45pmSpiritual NOT Religious ProgramNorfolk VI
7:30-9:00pmOpening Speaker
SHARON R. (NY)		Hampton Roads
Ballroom (3rd Floor)
9:30-10:45pmWhen Ideas of Fun ChangeNorfolk I
9:30-10:45pmBeing Alone to Being Deeply ConnectedNorfolk IV
9:30-10:45pmGetting Out of Our Own WayNorfolk V
10:00pm-2:00amDanceMarriott I-IV (4th Floor)
Saturday Schedule
9:30-10:45amSteps 4-5Hampton Roads I (3rd Floor)
9:30-10:45amTraditions 4-5Hampton Roads III
9:30-10:45amEmotional and Spiritual CrisisHampton Roads V
9:30-10:45amGrief Has No Time LimitHampton Roads VII
11:00-12:15pmSteps 6-7Hampton Roads I
11:00-12:15pmTraditions 6-7Hampton Roads III
11:00-12:15pmForgive & Get Set FreeHampton Roads V
11:00-12:15pmSponsorship (We Need Each Other)Hampton Roads VII
12:30-1:45pmSteps 8-9Hampton Roads I
12:30-1:45pmTraditions 8-9Hampton Roads III
12:30-1:45pmPain is Inevitable/Misery is OptionalHampton Roads V
12:30-1:45pmOne Promise Many GiftsHampton Roads VII
2:00-3:15pmWomen’s Rap
“This Girl Is on Fire”		Hampton Roads IV
2:00-3:15pmMen’s Rap
“Boys to Men”		Norfolk III (1st Floor)
3:30-4:45pmSteps 10-12Hampton Roads I (3rd Floor)
3:30-4:45pmTraditions 10-12Hampton Roads III
3:30-4:45pmRegardless of Age, Race, Sexual IdentityHampton Roads V
3:30-4:45pmThe Power of LoveHampton Roads VII
6:45pmDoors Open for Main Speaker MeetingHampton Roads Ballroom
7:15-8:30pmClean Time CountdownHampton Roads Ballroom
8:30-9:30pmMain Speaker
VASHTI S. (PA)		Hampton Roads Ballroom
10:00-11:15pmHonesty is the AntidoteNorfolk I (1st Floor)
10:00-11:15pmSwitching AddictionsNorfolk IV
10:00-11:15pmSuffering in SilenceNorfolk V
10:00-2:00amKARAOKE/DANCEMarriott Ballroom (4th Floor)
Sunday Schedule
8:00-10:00amPRE-REGISTRATION
TACNA XXII (CASH ONLY)		3RD FLOOR FOYER
10:30-12 noonClosing Speaker
GREG H. (MD)		Hampton Roads Ballroom

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