A person admitted to our blog looking for how does one member of Alcoholics Anonymous. In the brochure " AA Group... Where it all begins " is explained in the following terms:
"How is a member of an AA group?
" The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking "(Tradition Three). So, do not require any formal request to join a group. As we are members of AA if we say, we are members of a group if we say it - and if we keep coming back.
What is an AA group?
As is clearly expressed in the long form of the Third Tradition: "Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. So we can not reject anyone who wants to recover. Nor ought AA membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an AA group, provided that as a group they have no other affiliation. "The Sixth
Guarantee Twelfth concept is a broader explanation of what which is a group of AA:
• no penalties are imposed for failing to adapt to the principles of AA,
• no dues or fees, only voluntary contributions;
• no member can be expelled from AA-is the free choice of each of his membership;
• each AA group can manage its internal affairs, just as you should refrain of acts detrimental to AA as a whole and finally
• Each group of alcoholics who come together for purposes of achieving or maintaining sobriety can be considered an AA group, provided that as a group, they have no other objective or other affiliation. "
Some AA meet as focus groups - men, women, youth, doctors, gay or otherwise. If all members are alcoholics, and if they keep the door open for every alcoholic to seek help, whatever your profession, sex, age, etc., And if they meet the other details that define a group of AA can be called a group. "
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| Dr. Bob and Bill W., the first two members of AA, co-founders of the movement. |
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