discussion topics for AA meeting
 

Hello all. Can anyone point me to a good (long) list of discussion topics for AA meetings? I'm especially interested in topics for beginner meetings.

I've found the material on the AA website as well as at the Grapevine.

I guess I'm being lazy and am hoping someone has a really good list of topics they would be willing to post here or email me.

Maybe we could just create the list here? Off the top of my head, here's what I come up with:

Honesty
Hope
Trust/faith
Responsibility
Asking for help
Acceptance
Gratitude
Home group
Getting a sponsor
Working the Steps
Change
Spirituality
Our liquor was but a symptom

Higher Power
Patience
Humility
Making amends
Surrender
Defeat
Fear
Restless, irritable and discontent
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
A new freedom and a new happiness
Happy, joyous and free
Defects of character
Right sizing
Love and tolerance
Good will toward all
Life on life’s terms
One day at a time

Powerless over alcohol
Unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge
Listening
Power greater than you
Defiance
Reliance
Mentally ill
A faith that works
The care of God
God as we understand Him
Egotism
Self-centeredness
Suffering

Controlled drinking
Resentments
Self-pity
Serenity
Courage to change

Had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thought
Self-will run riot
Anger
Exact nature of our wrongs
Admitting one's defects
Willingness
Entirely ready

I've thrown these out and got nothing but blank faces... :(

Discuss your direct experience with:
the 4th Dimension
Being Reborn


We don't do many "pick a topic" meetings 'round here. Just about every table is literature based - heh......the comments aren't necessarily but it's a start ;)

The WORST tables I've ever been to have had these topics:
who's got a problem to discuss?
and my personal least-favorite: Relationships (lol... here's a table of ppl who are powerless and can't manage their own lives but they're looking to give advice to someone on how to run their relationship-- that one kills me)

Justification
Humility as a way of life
Good intentions
Spiritual values
Honest, tolerance and true love
Self-sufficiency
Retreat into alcoholism
Peace of mind
Hitting bottom
Peace, partnership and brotherhood
Willing to make amends
Pride
Emotional hangover

Quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument
Radical change in our outlook
Courtesy, kindness, justice, and love
"Not my will, but Thine, be done"
Honest regret for harms done
The blessings we have received

Prayer
Seeking guidance
Self-examination
Forgiveness
Constructive imagination
Perseverance
Quit fighting
Spiritual bankruptcy
Into action
Helping others
Carrying the message
Grandiosity
Sincere desire to stop drinking
Fatal and incurable illness
Alcohol as a poison
Return to drinking
Unmanageable
Compulsive drinking

Calm in the face of disturbance
Patience, humility and peace
Stream of goodness in the world
Love, joy and happiness
Making a better world
Constant effort
Healing
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired

Elimination of self-centeredness
Honest, pure, unselfish and loving
Would you like to be right or happy?
"I came for my drinking and stayed for my thinking."
"Sobriety is its own reward."
"The first drink gets you drunk. "
Keep an open mind."
"Where ever you go, there you are!"
Living in the present
"Expectations are resentments waiting to happen."
"It's ok to look back just don't stare"
Powerless but not helpless
My best thinking got me here
Living in the solution

I like The Jaywalker story, but it's literature based (BB).

Gosh...:)
Looks like you have found many already
Good to know you are chairing meetings.

For Beginners meetings....many groups I know
have voted to rotate...Steps 1-2 and 3

Then back to Step 1.

Topics I would have liked
How to drink like a cool dude.
How to drink and hide it without her having a sixth sense.
How to drink and remember it.
How not to make a weekend last 7 days

One of the best newcomer meeting I've been to recently was experiences of powerless with a drink and powerless without.
Sounds like you got a good list going there buddy.
Steps 1.2.3.is what I see most here in uk.

Relationships

Literature based topics for meetings
 

Hey all.
so what is the simplest way to look up a phrase or word, 2 words, to find the reading to go with it for use as topic for chairing a meeting?
I have topics. Not having best of luck finding the reading to go with it!!!
Thank you!

AA Alcoholics Big Book Search

I used this search tool a lot in the past
you could google big book search and find some more

funny old thread

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