AA Meetings Beach Park, IL

Monday AA Meetings in Beach Park

Tuesday AA Meetings in Beach Park

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Wednesday AA Meetings in Beach Park

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Thursday AA Meetings in Beach Park

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Friday AA Meetings in Beach Park

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Saturday AA Meetings in Beach Park

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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: Zion, Wadsworth, Waukegan, and Winthrop Harbor

Additional local resources: Beach Park NA Meetings | Beach Park Al-Anon Meetings

What is an AA Meeting?

An AA Meeting is a place to spread a message of strength, hope and courage to other alcoholics. This is a safe place for a person seeking sobriety to come in and ask for help. These meetings in Beach Park, Illinois will help them build a support system to live a sober life. You will be welcomed 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 was given to them.

Selecting An Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting in Beach Park, Illinois

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

Open Meeting of AA – An Open Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting is open to anyone who wants to attend. You do not have to have an drinking problem to go to an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. 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 usually read out of the Big Book and follow the reading with a discussion amongst its members.

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 talk through the duration of the meeting and members are often encouraged to share their thoughts before wrapping up.

AA Literature Meeting – A literature meeting usually involves reading from one of the AA approved pieces of literature and an sometimes they open the floor to discussion at the end or a speaker about the literature of topic.

Step Study – An AA step study usually 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 Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting can involve meditation for a portion of the meeting or even the entire meeting. The meditation may be guided and is sometimes followed by an open discussion.

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

Since each Beach Park AA meeting is autonomous, they are able to run each meeting as they see fit. Variation of meeting formats is common and you can also find AA meetings in Beach Park that do not. We recommend reaching out to the local AA intergroup to acquire more information on AA Meetings in Beach Park, Illinois, or navigating to aa.org to find out more information.

How to Get The Most From an AA Meeting in Beach Park, Illinois

The most successful members of AA have found success through going more for the program than just attending meetings. For alcoholics who are attending their first AA meeting and really want to get sober, we suggest following the suggestions of the AA members that have been a part of AA for a while.

It is smart to reach your hand out and accept help. Part of staying sober is helping the newcomers of AA in Beach Park live a sober life, so people are going to be want to help you get sober too. Raise your hand, introduce who you are, admit that you need help.