NEWCOMERS CHAIRING MEETINGS
Good morning everyone! I wanted to get some opinions about newcomers being given the opportunity to serve by chairing meetings. I feel this will give them a sense of belonging and responsibility in...
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Sounds like a resonalbe question. I'd like to hear from others about that, also. I'm not real "up" on AA history, but how much time did the founders have to have to chair? I would suppose that a chair...
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In our home group we let them chair at 30 days, so that way they get at ease with talking about thier problems and giving them a sense of responsibilty. We also offer them others service work to help...
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My former home group, as a result of a group conscience, had a bit of a "thing" about only allowing those with a year of sobriety the opportunity to chair. The only problem was, the group changed over...
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I dunno what the rules are up here... when I was in Memphis, my homegroup's group conscience was you had to have 3 months sober to chair a meeting... and generally when you hit 3 months, most sponsors...
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Valentin~ Nice to see you again. Hope all is well. Huggs~Tessa
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One of the great things about AA is there are no rules- each group gets to decide how to run their own meeting! Personally, I think the fewer "rules" the better! If we had membership requirements I...
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Our group usually wants a person to have 90 days to chair. We have 3 meetings a week and the chairperson does it for a week I chaired my first meeting when I had about 60 days. It was a beginners...
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It's interesting - from talking to others in other locations, I've found that the meaning of "chairing" differs. Around here, chairing a meeting means taking the commitment for usually 3 or 6 months,...
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Annie, back home, we signed a sheet saying what day we wanted to chair the meeting. We passed around a new sheet every month. We had 2 meetings a day, 7 days a week, someone different chaired each...
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Our group has five meetings a week. In the group the chair is the chair for six months unless they are the Traditions Meeting chair then it's twelve. 90 days to speak, 6 months to chair. It's like...
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I got sober in Pa. 23 years ago. The groups I attened had rules as follows. Big Book Meetings 1 year to chair Step Meetings 1 year to chair All other meetings 90 days
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Good Mornin. Chairing a meeting here means the leader that particular meeting only and we do not have any time limits as long as your not drinking. There are some meetings here that have requirements...
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Experience is the best teacher. Our newcomer agreed to chair 3 months ago for the month of August, but has been in and out. He didn't show up for most meetings and when he did come, he left early. No...
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If his bravado was in the bottle then he's just not ready. Like I already posted, I started chairing out of pure orneryness. It'll come to him in time, just let himknow that nobody begrudges him not...
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I first chaired when I was four months sober, with my sponsor to my left and my co-sponsor to my right. They were both there every week, we went out to supper before the meeting and to coffee...
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