Neither AA nor Northern New Jersey Intergroup endorse Zoom.
#Aa zoom meetings now free
It is free for anyone who simply wants to attend meetings. Zoom is an online application used to create video & telephone conferences. Video conferences provide for the communication of our common problem and solution in the same way that we are used to except we are physically separated. Are these normal AA meetings, or is something different about "Virtual AA"?.Participating in Online/Virtual Meetings Frequently Asked Questions: Use your best judgment as you decide to attend Online Meetings. Northern New Jersey Intergroup wants to provide the best information about meetings as we can.
#Aa zoom meetings now full
Online Meeting List Alternately, on our Meeting Finder, some of our Groups/Meetings use this icon:īe mindful of the implications this resource places on your anonymity, understand that your full face image and your personal phone number will be displayed and could be recorded unless you take specific steps to avoid it.įor more information please review relevant documents provided by AA World Services. This method of communication for many of us is a brave new world. It is for this reason that we have decided to provide information about Online Meetings. Technology provides a way to continue our effort to carry the message and share the blessings of recovery. We are faced with the reality that it is challenging to meet face to face at this time. While many members find this time after the meeting valuable, it is up to you if you want to stay and socialize.“Frequent contact with newcomers and with each other is the bright spot of our lives.”
Some may introduce themselves to you and offer their help or share their experiences getting sober. People gather and talk, and there is a social air in the room once the meeting is over. Many meetings close with members joining in a moment of silence followed by a prayer, or perhaps by reciting the Responsibility Statement or other A.A. as a valuable privacy principle for new and longtime members might be read. Many meetings begin with a reading from the Big Book - frequently a portion of Chapter 5 (“How It Works”) or Chapter 3 (“More About Alcoholism”).
It isn’t mandatory to identify yourself but it might be helpful if you are attending your first meeting. attending the meeting who would like to introduce themselves. The chair will often ask if there are any people new to A.A. Some call for a moment of silence and/or recite the Serenity Prayer. The chair usually opens the meeting with the A.A. These same formats may be applied to group meetings on the Big Book or the Twelve Traditions. Many groups make it a practice to read aloud pertinent material from the Big Book or Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions at the beginning of the meeting. Step, Tradition or Big Book. Because the Twelve Steps are the foundation of personal recovery in A.A., many groups devote one or more meetings a week to the study of each Step in rotation some discuss two or three Steps at a time. (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. Discussion. Whether closed or open, an A.A.
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