AA Meetings Forestville, MD

Below is a comprehensive directory of AA meetings in Forestville, Maryland.

The closest AA meeting to you is 5.92 miles away and meets on Friday at 1:00:00 PM.

If you can't find a meeting close to you at the time you're looking for, we recommend checking out nearby towns including: District Heights, Ritchie, Walker Mill, and Morningside.

Additional local resources: Forestville NA Meetings | Forestville 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 a person seeking sobriety to come in and ask for help. These AA Meetings in Forestville, MD will help them build a support system to live a sober life. You will be invited in by your peers that have all lived and survived from addiction. Their ability to maintain their sobriety is reliant on helping others and giving back to others the support that was given to them.

Selecting An AA Meeting in Forestville, MD

There are a a lot of different AA meetings in Forestville, MD. Before selecting 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 AA Meeting is open to anyone who wishes 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 Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting is only for those who have a desire to get sober. Friends and family are not able to attend these meetings.

Big Book Meeting - At Big Book meetings, a member will typically 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 journey, strength, and hope with fellow members of AA. The speaker may or may not talk through the duration of the meeting 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 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 typically focuses on a specific step or 2 per meeting. This can involve a speaker lead discussion about a particular step, literature reading, and could be followed by a discussion about the step(s).

Meditation Meeting - A Meditation Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting can involve internal contemplation for a portion of the meeting or even the whole time. The meditation may be guided and then followed by a discussion.

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 could be followed by a dialogue.

Since each Forestville 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 Forestville that do not. We recommend contacting the local AA intergroup to get more information on AA Meetings in Forestville, MD, or navigating to aa.org to find out more information.

How to Get The Most From an AA Meeting in Forestville, MD

In order to benefit the most from your first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting you should remain open minded. We all had an idea of what these meeting were and generally it is the same misconception. The most beneficial thing I was told was to sit down, shut up, listen to the message, and graciously ask for help. No matter the type of meeting meeting, that one thing that will always be present is the message of recovering from hopelessness. The process of recovering from that hopeless state is in asking for help from another person suffering from alcohol addiction which you will find in any meeting you choose to start with.