Meeting topics
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Meeting topics
Good day to you all!
I am chairing a couple of meetings this month and am trying to figure out what the topics are going to be. I was thinking that we could talk about meetings we have gone to and what the topics were and if they helped us out.
The topics I have found helpful this past week are:
Isolation --- this was a great topic and got ALOT of group interaction
Balance --- how do we balance "real" life and recovery
Topics that we NOT helpful
Bad language -- this idiot in a meeting brought up this topic. IMHO it is NOT a meeting topic, but don't get me started.
Have a great day!
I am chairing a couple of meetings this month and am trying to figure out what the topics are going to be. I was thinking that we could talk about meetings we have gone to and what the topics were and if they helped us out.
The topics I have found helpful this past week are:
Isolation --- this was a great topic and got ALOT of group interaction
Balance --- how do we balance "real" life and recovery
Topics that we NOT helpful
Bad language -- this idiot in a meeting brought up this topic. IMHO it is NOT a meeting topic, but don't get me started.
Have a great day!
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how about tradition one?
heres the long form, from the big book...
1. Each part of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. AA must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows closely afterward.
heres the long form, from the big book...
1. Each part of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. AA must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows closely afterward.
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When was the last time members of your group talked about working with others or how to help the new people that come to your group? When was the last time that the Steps 1, 2 or 3 were a topic? What about inventories and how working one helps in any situation? How about the lengths we go to stay sober? How about what does humility mean and how does the member apply humility? What about surrender?
My Sponsor taught me that repetition of the basics was never out of style and is always the best guide for chairing service.
Please forgive me, but language in a meeting is important to me. I live in a society that does not accept my profanity. If I am a new creature, would not my language be new as well. Something to think on. Good thread!
r
My Sponsor taught me that repetition of the basics was never out of style and is always the best guide for chairing service.
Please forgive me, but language in a meeting is important to me. I live in a society that does not accept my profanity. If I am a new creature, would not my language be new as well. Something to think on. Good thread!
r
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Surrender ... important for me right now ... some good references in Daily Reflections
One of the best meetings I have chaired was during this time of the year ... from the bottom of page 100 to the top of page 102 --- "Assuming we are spiritually fit ... "
Bad language could easily be tied into a meeting on Steps 6 and 7 ... those ugly character defects ...
One of the best meetings I have chaired was during this time of the year ... from the bottom of page 100 to the top of page 102 --- "Assuming we are spiritually fit ... "
Bad language could easily be tied into a meeting on Steps 6 and 7 ... those ugly character defects ...
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I too do not like alot of bad language. Especially when people cuss God in one sentence and praise Him in the next.
Here is my gripe though. We had a guy coming back from a bad relapse. He was introduced by a friend. He looked awful. You could tell he was hurting both mentally and physically.
AFTER he is introduced an oldtimer, who does not regularly attend that meeting brings up the topic of language.
I personally think that is a topic for a group conscious meeting.
It was uncomfortable. And I really felt badly for the guy coming back in.
Well, I guess I did get carried away with talking about that here when I was not going to.
Anyhoo, Thank you all for you input.
Here is my gripe though. We had a guy coming back from a bad relapse. He was introduced by a friend. He looked awful. You could tell he was hurting both mentally and physically.
AFTER he is introduced an oldtimer, who does not regularly attend that meeting brings up the topic of language.
I personally think that is a topic for a group conscious meeting.
It was uncomfortable. And I really felt badly for the guy coming back in.
Well, I guess I did get carried away with talking about that here when I was not going to.
Anyhoo, Thank you all for you input.
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Gave the idiot what the idiot wants. lol
Hell i curse at freanken god all the damn freanken time.
I say F&^$# U god you ck sucking bassture piece of sheit. !!!!!
No lighting , no judgements, no shame , no guilt.
it was begining of a beautiful relationship....
all fualts profit melted away....the damning god of my understaning
went to shiet....
For the first time...i felt peace rushed over me. A loving god
of my understanding showed up.
hell i can hate f^%$$k god right now...
i want a damn HP to be a strong and all power that aint going to
get hung up on 4 letters words.lol
I honor and repect my HP.
what??? god won't understand where am coming from or what?
The last I check...my god wasn't an idiot..lol
Find you're freabken loving god
well ya know..F-it is the short form serinety prayer.
In the heat of the moment..I'm incline to say F-it more
and just drop it...instead of praying...
and people wanna preach to me about being appropriate.lol
it's principles before personilties.
okay if it's going to give him a heart attack...
LOVE is a four letter word..lol
you know want the hell is love to people.
tell people you love'em and screw'em over and pray to god and be all
damn holly..then piont out that a 4 letter word is adbrasive or some shiet.
Hell i curse at freanken god all the damn freanken time.
I say F&^$# U god you ck sucking bassture piece of sheit. !!!!!
No lighting , no judgements, no shame , no guilt.
it was begining of a beautiful relationship....
all fualts profit melted away....the damning god of my understaning
went to shiet....
For the first time...i felt peace rushed over me. A loving god
of my understanding showed up.
hell i can hate f^%$$k god right now...
i want a damn HP to be a strong and all power that aint going to
get hung up on 4 letters words.lol
I honor and repect my HP.
what??? god won't understand where am coming from or what?
The last I check...my god wasn't an idiot..lol
Find you're freabken loving god
well ya know..F-it is the short form serinety prayer.
In the heat of the moment..I'm incline to say F-it more
and just drop it...instead of praying...
and people wanna preach to me about being appropriate.lol
it's principles before personilties.
okay if it's going to give him a heart attack...
LOVE is a four letter word..lol
you know want the hell is love to people.
tell people you love'em and screw'em over and pray to god and be all
damn holly..then piont out that a 4 letter word is adbrasive or some shiet.
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gratitude or responsibility are my two old standby`s
but today I have added a third,my favorite
I call it the keyring topic
I pull out my keyring.
I say (as I look thru my keys where they can see them)
when I first got to AA,I had a keyring with 3 small keys
---honesty,openmindedness and willingness,and just a little bit of those.
over time,you AA`s gave me many other keys to soberiety.
just a few of my keys are
(feel free to share about your key(s) and encourage others to tell how they use their keys)
prayer
a sponser
one day at a time
the steps
meetings
sponsering others
the traditions
and today my keyring is full of keys.
I use them and some of them are worn more than others.
what are some of the keys to your soberiety when you was new?How about today after you have been sober a while?
Share your keys to soberiety.....
and I remind everyone that
the keys are not going to work unless I use them
this usually gets a good discussion meeting going on because everyone usually comes up with a few different things but we all have a lot in common.It covers a lot of AA topics and lets the person choose.It puts a variety in the meeting.
and when you reach in your pocklet/purse and pull out your keys,you are sometimes reminded of your keys to soberiety...
give it a try....I love how it works...good luck.
Tommy
but today I have added a third,my favorite
I call it the keyring topic
I pull out my keyring.
I say (as I look thru my keys where they can see them)
when I first got to AA,I had a keyring with 3 small keys
---honesty,openmindedness and willingness,and just a little bit of those.
over time,you AA`s gave me many other keys to soberiety.
just a few of my keys are
(feel free to share about your key(s) and encourage others to tell how they use their keys)
prayer
a sponser
one day at a time
the steps
meetings
sponsering others
the traditions
and today my keyring is full of keys.
I use them and some of them are worn more than others.
what are some of the keys to your soberiety when you was new?How about today after you have been sober a while?
Share your keys to soberiety.....
and I remind everyone that
the keys are not going to work unless I use them
this usually gets a good discussion meeting going on because everyone usually comes up with a few different things but we all have a lot in common.It covers a lot of AA topics and lets the person choose.It puts a variety in the meeting.
and when you reach in your pocklet/purse and pull out your keys,you are sometimes reminded of your keys to soberiety...
give it a try....I love how it works...good luck.
Tommy
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