This version created in March 2023 from the online PDF at
SHARE. Some edits. Includes at back the shorter APPENDIX II
from the website AAAGNOSTICA.
WE
AGNOSTICS MEETING FORMAT
SUNDAY
8 PM (PT) - SHARE CENTER, CULVER CITY
WELCOME
Welcome everyone. This is the regular Sunday Meeting of the We Agnostics group of Alcoholics Anonymous.
My name is (MY NAME) and I am an alcoholic. (Pause) Are there any other alcoholics here tonight?
AA PREAMBLE
and women who share their experience,
strength and hope with each other that they
may solve their common problem and
help others to recover from alcoholism.
is a desire to stop drinking.
fees for AA membership ; we are self
supporting
through our own contributions.
politics, organization or institution ;
does not wish to engage in any controversy,
neither endorses nor opposes any causes.
help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
We will now go around the room and around the ZOOM call and introduce our selves.
#1 - If you are at this meeting for the FIRST
TIME, feel free to share where you are from.
For example, I’m Mary, I’m an alcoholic,
from Chicago.
#2 - If you are counting days in early
recovery, and would like to share that, feel free to. For example, I’m Bob, I’m an alcoholic, and
today is Day 15.
You can share your approach to spirituality or your
rejection of it.
We neither oppose any religion nor endorse it.
We neither endorse atheism nor oppose it.
We just want to assure each person here that
anyone may achieve
Recovery in AA without being forced to accept
someone else’s beliefs
Or deny their own.
At the end of this meeting, there is no
closing prayer.
We will count to 3 and repeat the AA RESPONSIBILITY
PLEDGE,
Which will be in the Chat.
READING
Tonight
(NAME) has volunteered to read it.
BIRTHDAYS
Does
anyone have a milestone like 30, 60, or 90 days in the past week?
Does anyone have an AA Birthday this week?
LEADER
(OPTIONAL: ZOOM BOMBER) (Often we have many new people who find this meeting through apps. This is a wonderful thing and everyone is welcome. Please note that we do have a strict protocol if someone is disruptive and they will be very quickly removed.)
RIGHT AFTER THE SPEAKER: SHARING "TIPS".
At this meeting, we may call on those who
raise there hands and those who do not. But if you don’t want to share, that’s
fine.
No cross talk, which means questioning
or arguing with or criticizing another person.
Each person will please limit your share to 5 minutes. One person shares and then stops. The next person shares and then stops, and so
on.
OUR
TIME HAS RUN OUT
NEXT
PAGE….
OUR TIME HAS RUN OUT
Our time has run out. We will now have 7th
tradition. There are no dues of fees
for AA membership. But we hope you can
help support AA. Online, you can donate to support this meeting
and the SHARE SELF HELP CENTER where we meet.
AA ANNOUNCEMENTS
CLOSING
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SHORTER VERSION OF APPENDIX 2
In AA’s Big Book, the terms “spiritual experience” and “spiritual awakening” are used many times. In the first few chapters of the book, alcoholics who recovered through sudden revolutionary changes are described.
But careful reading of the whole book shows that a
personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism can take
place in many different forms.
Sudden changes leading to sobriety can occur, but are by no
means the rule.
Most of our experiences are much less dramatic, and our
experience with sobriety usually develops over a period of time.
Often friends of the newcomer are aware of a difference,
long before the newcomer is. The new member of AA starts to realize that a
profound alteration takes place in their day to day reactions to life; that
such a change could hardly have been brought about by the newcomer alone.
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Some members find that they have tapped an unsuspected
inner resource which they identify with their own concept of a Power greater
than themselves. But other members of AA recover without any kind
of belief in a higher power or other spiritual concepts.
Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable
of honestly facing their problems in the light of our experience can
recover, provided their mind is not closed to all spiritual concepts. One can only be defeated by an attitude
of intolerance or belligerent denial.
We find that no one need
have difficulty with the spirituality of the program. The essentials of recovery
are willingness, honesty and open mindedness and these have proven to be
significantly helpful.
“There is a principal
which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments,
and which cannot fail to keep a person in everlasting ignorance – that
principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
From AAGNOSTICA, abridged
https://aaagnostica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Appendix-II.pdf
Additional edits 4/2023, We Agnostics Sunday Culver City.
