I know what I have to do in order to establish a group at my school but I have never been to an Al-anon meeting. I need to know what I would have to do to meet thier requirements.
2007-01-27 04:12:11 · 4 answers · asked by tigerlily23 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I can not find a local Al-non meeting.
2007-01-27 04:39:37 · update #1
Why would I want to start one if I did not belong there. I overly qualify honey you have no idea.
2007-01-27 04:40:37 · update #2
If you get in touch with the headquarters of A.A. they will send you a package with all the info you nneed to hold your first meeting.All you really need is a nutral place to hold it. It's not recomended to use our homes. I started an S.I.A. group simply because I really needed one. The first week we had 15, the second week we had 50 ! And 15 years later that group is still going strong ! I find that old timers will join your group often to keep doing their 12th. step of helping others. Good Luck !
2007-01-27 04:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by Clover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go online and contact Al-anon. First you should probably attend a few meetings to see how they are conducted and what is expected of you. It requires planning and what you can do is find some others who are currently in a group and start by getting their phone number finding a sponsor, and getting active in another group first. I don't think that starting a group without having ever attended a meeting is a very good idea. How would you even know whether or not this would be something that could work for you. Maybe think about just working as a support group with others that are dealing with the disease of alcoholism through codependence. Find a facilitator who will help. I just would try and join another group for now as what you are proposing is a rather large undertaking for one person who has no experience. I personally don't think this would be doable at this point.
2007-01-27 04:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You neeed to go to an Al-anon meeting and see how the meetings are run. You should also contact your local Al-Anon intergroup office and they can tell you how to go about starting a group. But why would you want to start an Al-Anon meeting unless you are an Al-Anon member and/or need to be in meetings. They are held by actual members and won't appreciate it very much if you don't belong there and just wanted to start a meeting. It would be like a non-alcoholic trying to start an AA group. It just doesn't work that way. But more power to you if you are a member or do belong in the meetings.
2007-01-27 04:26:18 · answer #3 · answered by JenJen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to find out would be to contact Al Anon, they will help you and give you all the training and info you need; Its quite involved and you cant just "open up", there are sorts of technicalities you will need to deal with.
Anyway Al Anon should be your first contact point;
2007-01-27 04:16:05 · answer #4 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋