(A Guide for Leading Beginners Meetings is available from G.S.O.) Beginners meetings may also follow a discussion format, or focus on Steps One, Two and Three. Speaker meetings often are open meetings.īeginners. Usually led by a group member who has been sober awhile, these are sessions to help newcomers. Speaker. One or more members selected beforehand 'share' - as described in the Big Book - telling 'what we were like, what happened, and what we are like now.' Depending on the meeting's general guidelines (determined by the 'group conscience'), some groups prefer that members who speak have a minimum period of continuous sobriety. literature, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book), Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, As Bill Sees It, Daily Reflections, and from AA Grapevine. Background for many topic meetings derives from A.A. member serving as “leader” or “chair” opens the meeting using that group’s format, and selects a topic for discussion. We will miss you but encourage you to look for another meeting if you are in need of a meeting today.Discussion. Whether closed or open, an A.A. 'Due to heavy loadshedding in the host country we may be unable to host this meeting from time to time (loadshedding = The South African energy crisis, most notably manifesting in the form of successive rounds of loadshedding, is an ongoing period of widespread national level rolling blackouts as electricity supply falls behind electricity demand, threatening to destabilize the national power grid).

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