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Most members arrange to attend at least one meeting a week. They may feel that is enough to satisfy their personal need for contact with the program through a local group. Others attend a meeting nearly every day, in areas where such opportunities are available.
An A.A. meeting may take one of several forms, but at any meeting you will find alcoholics talking about what drinking did to their lives and personalities, what actions they took to help themselves, and how they are living their lives today.
A.A. meetings are held in-person, online, or on the telephone. The members of each meeting decide when, where, and how often they will meet. In-person meetings happen in a variety of places where a room can be rented. Meetings occur in places such as: office buildings. churches.
The Conference, comprising about 93 delegates from A.A. areas, the 21 trustees on the board, General Service Office staff members, and others, meets for several days each year. The Conference is exclusively a consultative service agency. It has no authority to regulate or govern the Fellowship.
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- What Is A Closed Aa Meeting?
- Open Aa Meetings
- Beginners’ Aa Meetings
- Aa Meetings For Men, Women Or Mostly Gay
- Aa Big Book Study
- 12 & 12 Aa Meetings
- Aa Discussions Meetings
- Aa Speaker Meetings
Closed meetings are only for those who identify as alcoholics.If you’re on a court card or attending to placate a family member but you aren’t sure whether you are alcoholic you shouldn’t attend a closed meeting. It’s common at closed meetings for everybody to introduce themselves in turn, and identify as an alcoholic in turn. If you cannot identif...
Many AA meetings are open to the public. Sometimes friends or family of alcoholics also attend. At times people studying to be therapists attend, and frequently if the meeting is smaller there are all-around introductions and those who are not alcoholic identify as visitors. These meetings are crucial to welcome people who aren’t sure they’re alcoh...
AA Beginners’ meetings are for people who are new and maybe don’t understand what the AA program is all about yet. These meetings are usually chaired by an AA member with at least a year of continuous sobriety, and other members with multiple days sober also attend in order to be available to help newcomers. There are all kinds of beginners meeting...
Everywhere you go there are AA meetings where only women or men are allowed. You will also find many meetings that are gay, and some gay men’s meetings. This is to create safety when sharing about gender-specific issues. For instance, a member may be going through a heartbreaking divorce or having a problem in their marriage or another romantic rel...
Big Book studies are where the group reads a section of the book Alcoholics Anonymous together and people share about their understanding of the passage. In these shares, members usually relate the reading to their own life experience. These meetings are a great way to gain a deeper understanding of what the book means and how others relate to it.
In a 12 & 12 meeting the group takes turns sharing about one step or tradition as found in the AA book, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The format is to read out of the book, then whoever wants to share can. Like Big Book studies, these meetings are a great way to gain insight into others’ understanding of Alcoholics Anonymous and how they appl...
These open discussion meetings invariably focus on a topic picked by the leader for the meeting. Usually there’s a list of topics such as Gratitude, Serenity, Resentments, Hope, or people can share about whatever’s on their mind, even if it’s off-topic. Frequently at these meetings, a person who is relatively new is asked to lead. What the leader d...
Speaker meetings are where there is a guest speaker who talks to the group. The speaker is invariably somebody with a few years or even decades sober. The best AA speakers are often really funny. You may find yourself leaving the speaker meeting with the feeling that you just enjoyed a standup comedy act. Many people in recovery have a dark sense o...
Meetings. For members to “share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.”
Jun 30, 2022 · Read frequently asked questions and answers about the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12-step program and how to find an AA meeting near you.
