We are trying a new place.  The Churchill.  See details below.

 

 

   

This will be a two-course "Lite Luncheon."


The Luncheon Society
 welcomes

Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson

 

Author

Gratitude and Trust

Six Affirmations that will Change Your Life


Paul Williams

Oscar, Grammy, and Golden Globe Winning Hall of Fame songwriter

President of the American Society o Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)

Graduate of UCLA Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certification

Served on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

 

Tracey Jackson

Screenwriter, Journalist, and blogger

Confessions of a Shopaholic, The End of the Line

Author, Why 50 is not the new 30

Blogs on TraceyJacksononline.com 

 

Join us for a wonderful conversation how recovery can be used in our daily lives. 

You don't have to hit rock bottom first. 

 

Wednesday September 24, 2014

 

 

The Churchill

8384 W 3rd St

West Hollywood, CA

12:00 PM

$45

   

 

LA Luncheon Society 

 
 
This is a fantastic book and the luncheon will be a kick.  

 

Do join us. To RSVP; bob.mcbarton@comcast.net

 

Best,

 

Bob McBarton

Chief Conversationalist 

The Luncheon Society

 

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#140You: Something Needs To Change And It's Probably Me
Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson
Something Needs To Change And It's Probably Me


 

Oscar- and Grammy-winning songwriter Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Successful screenwriter and author Tracey Jackson is not.


 

Together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life (Blue Rider Press / September 2014), applying the principles of the recovery movement to help countless individuals who are not addicts yet seek effective help with their difficulties - credit card debt, anger issues, a victim mentality - and pain. Williams and Jackson have designed a new, positive program, based on Six Affirmations of Personal Freedom, to guide you toward conquering your vices, addressing personal dysfunction, and starting to brighten the darkest moods, to find contentment and happiness.


Williams, the multi-award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of sobriety. Jackson, a well-known TV and film writer-and veteran of many years of traditional therapy-though never an alcohol or drug abuser, has struggled with other negative behaviors to numb her pain such as men, cigarettes, and over-spending. Jackson realized that many of the tenets of Williams's program could apply to her and in Gratitude and Trust, the authors answer the questions: What happens to those who face vexing problems yet are not full-blown addicts? Are there any lessons to be learned from the foundational and time-tested principles of the recovery movement?


Whether you're tethered to your phone or you use food for comfort; whether you're a perfectionist and can't let things go or are too afraid to fail to even try; whether you can only find intimacy online or you've been involved in a string of nasty relationships-the first step toward feeling better about yourself and your life is the realization that you are what's standing in your way. Williams and Jackson's Six Affirmations of Personal Freedom include:


Something Needs to Change, and it's Probably Me

  • I Don't Know How to Do This But Something Inside Me Does
  • I Will Learn From My Mistakes and Not Defend Them
  • I Will Make Right the Wrongs I've Done Wherever Possible
  • I Will Examine My Behavior on a Daily Basis
  • I will live in Love and Service. Gratitude and Trust.
  • Together these affirmations make up a set of tools to break bad habits by recognizing the behavior
Only one question-are you in?

 

The Lunch

The Luncheon Society gathering with Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson will take place in San Francisco on Wednesday September 24, 2014.  The lunch will begin at 12:00 pm and will run for about 90 minutes.

 

The Restaurant (A New Place)

The luncheon will take place at The Churchill in West Hollywood. We will be meeting in their private room.  The restaurant is located on  8384 W 3rd St.  FOr those of you with long memories this restaurant used to be La Terza, one of our old haunts. The phone number is (323) 655-8384  The website is  http://www.the-churchill.com/ 

 

Map

http://mapq.st/7-cwJR9tg3  

  

The Price.

Like in all TLS events, we basically split the check. Based on conversations with the restaurant, the cost for this gathering will be $45. Cash is preferred. You can bring along a friend if you'd like.

 

Where to Park.

There will be valet parking.

 

Books

Paul and Tracey will graciously sign copies of his book

 

Cancellations

Sometimes, as they say in the movies, life intercedes. If you wish to attend but have a change in plans, please let me know 72 hours prior so that I can inform the restaurant.

 

Dining Choices

We are building out the two course menu for the event.  Please let us know of any special dietary requests.

 

Biography.


 

Paul Williams is an Oscar-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe-winning Hall of Fame songwriter ("Rainbow Connection," "Evergreen," and "We've Only Just Begun"). Winner of a 2014 album of the year Grammy as a collaborator on Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" and President of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), he is a major public force in the recovery movement, a graduate of UCLA's Drug and Alcohol Counseling Certification Program, and has served as a member of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Board of Directors. He was a founding board member and counselor for the Musicians Assistance Program (MAP), now the treatment wing of MusiCares. He has been a passionate public advocate for the recovery movement for the past twenty-four years.


 

Tracey Jackson
wrote the films "Confessions of a Shopaholic," "The Guru," and "The Other End of the Line," among others. She has also written twelve TV pilots, and created the series "Babes" for Fox TV. Tracey wrote, directed, and starred in the controversial documentary "Lucky Ducks," which can be seen on Amazon, Journeyman Docs, and pay for view. Her first book, Between a Rock and Hot Place: Why Fifty is Not the New Thirty, came out in 2011 and was optioned for a TV movie by Lifetime. Tracey blogs on www.traceyjacksononline.com, and has blogged for Huffington Post, WOWOWOW, Society for Drug Free America, Tiny Buddha, and various other sites.


 
 

 The Luncheon Society

is a series of private luncheons and dinners that take place in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan, and Boston.  We essentially split the costs of gathering and we meet in groups of 20-25 people. Discussions center on politics, art, science, film, culture, and whatever else is on our mind. Think of us as "Adult Drop in Daycare." We've been around since 1997 and we're purposely understated. These gatherings takes place around a large table, where you interact with the main guest and conversation becomes end result.  There are no rules, very little structure, and the gatherings happen when they happen. Join us when you can.

 

Hope you can join us.

 

Bob McBarton 

bob.mcbarton@comcast.net

The Luncheon Society

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