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Types of AA Meetings

12 Steps & 12 Traditions: 12 Step and Traditions AA programs in Mississippi offer essential support for individuals on their journey to recovery. AA Meetings offer a welcoming environment for individuals and their loved ones through the journey of recovery.

Big Book: Mississippi clients frequently seek inspiration in the Big Book in AA meetings. The Big Book is a collection of stories about real people who overcame alcohol use disorder.

Closed: In Mississippi, closed AA meetings are only available to AA members and people who recognize they have an alcohol addiction and want to seek help. The discussions are informal in nature and everyone is invited to share their personal reflections, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Daily Reflections: Daily Reflections is an AA text that compiles insight, experience, and encouragement from various members. Selected contents may be topics of discussions in AA meetings. Members can also adapt reflections into their daily activities.

Discussion: In Mississippi, AA discussion meetings are focused on one specific aspect of alcoholism and recovery. Leaders may find inspiration in an AA text, such as the AA Grapevine. They’ll share their reflections first and then others can participate in the group conversation.

Living Sober: AA centers may have selected sessions set aside for Living Sober discussions. This text is secular in nature, and focuses on practical ways that members have used to stay sober one day at a time.

Men: AA chapters in Mississippi provide no-cost 12 Step Programs for members impacted by alcohol use disorder. Select meetings may be reserved only for men and provide a space for men of all ages to discuss their health and recovery.

Open: In Mississippi, open AA meetings allow all interested community members to come together and learn more about what AA entails and how its recovery model works. In addition to individuals seeking support for alcohol addiction, this may include nonalcoholic friends, family members, and loved ones of AA members.

Speaker: Speakers are often included in Mississippi AA programs. Audiences can be inspired by speakers’ messages through humor, charm, raw emotions, and faith.

Step Meeting: In Mississippi, AA programs include step meetings for members. Group members converse about their experience in certain stages of the 12 Step Program, compare these experiences with each other, and make plans for ways to better their recovery.

Women: Women’s AA meetings in Mississippi are peer support group meetings for women who are affected by alcohol addiction. Open to all women at no charge, including women with alcohol addiction and those who have loved ones with alcoholism, these meetings follow a 12-step recovery program.