AA Meetings Watkins, IA

Monday AA Meetings in Watkins

Tuesday AA Meetings in Watkins

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Wednesday AA Meetings in Watkins

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Saturday AA Meetings in Watkins

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If you can't find a meeting close to you at the time you're looking for, we recommend checking out nearby towns including: Norway, Blairstown, West Amana, and High Amana

Additional local resources: Watkins NA Meetings | Watkins Al-Anon Meetings

What is an AA Meeting?

An Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting is a place to spread a message of strength, hope and courage to other alcoholics. This is a safe place for an addict wanting to get sober to come in and ask for help. These Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Watkins, Iowa will help them build a support network to live a sober life. You will be invited in by your peers that have all lived and survived from alcoholism. Their survival of maintaining a sober life is reliant on helping others and giving back to others the gift that they received.

Selecting A meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Watkins, Iowa

There are a a lot of different AA meetings in Watkins, Iowa. Before choosing the meeting that you are going to attend, it is important to know the different types of AA meetings and who can attend each one.

Open Meeting of AA – An Open AA Meeting is open to anyone who wants to attend. You do not have to be an alcoholic to go to an open AA Meeting. Friends, family, and children can attend these meetings.

Closed Meeting of AA – A Closed meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous is only for those who have a desire to get sober. It is not open to friends or family.

Big Book Meeting – At Big Book meetings, a member will typically read out of the Big Book and then encourage its members to discuss the meeting.

Speaker Meeting – At an AA speaker meeting, a member of AA will tell their story and share their experience, strength, and hope with fellow members of AA. The speaker may or may not take up all of the time and can often be followed by a discussion amongst the members.

AA Literature Meeting – A literature meeting typically involves reading from one of the AA approved pieces of literature and can often be followed by a discussion amongst the members or a speaker about the literature of topic.

Step Study – An AA step study traditionally focuses on a specific step or 2 per meeting. This can involve a speaker lead discussion about a particular step, literature reading, and might be followed by a discussion about the step(s).

Meditation Meeting – A meditation meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous can involve deep reflection for a portion of the meeting or even the entire meeting. The meditation may be guided and is sometimes followed by an open conversation.

Traditions AA Meeting – One or more of the AA traditions will be discussed in extensively. This can be done with a speaker, literature lead, and might be followed by a discussion.

Because each Watkins AA meeting is autonomous, they are able to run each meeting as they see fit. Some meeting formats may vary and you can also find AA meetings in Watkins that do not. We recommend contacting the local AA intergroup to get more information on AA Meetings in Watkins, Iowa, or navigating to aa.org to locate more information.

How to Get The Most From a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Watkins, Iowa

The best way to get the most out of your first AA meeting you should remain open minded. We all had an idea of what these meeting were and generally it is the same misconception. The best advice I ever got was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and modestly ask for help. At any meeting, there will be the same message of recovering from a hopeless state of mind. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another alcoholic which you will find in any AA meeting you choose to start with.