Chapel Hill – Carrboro/Common Peril Group

Types of AA Meetings

12 Steps & 12 Traditions: North Carolina's AA programs provide a dedicated and comprehensive environment for individuals in recovery. The 12 Steps and Traditions allow individuals to focus on their sobriety as they are surrounded by peers, mentors, and family members. Meeting are open to all and are flexible and regular.

Closed: Closed AA meetings in North Carolina are only open to AA members and individuals who realize they have a drinking problem and want to take steps toward recovery. Leaders will facilitate the informal discussion and newcomers will have the opportunity to ask questions.

Discussion: In North Carolina, AA discussion meetings focus on one specific subject related to alcohol addiction and recovery. Leaders will open by sharing the topic, which often comes from an AA text, such as the Big Book. Then, others can join in and add their own insights.

Literature: Literature-led AA meetings in North Carolina are support group meetings for people who are affected by alcoholism, including those suffering from alcohol addiction and those who have loved ones addicted to alcohol. Free for all to attend, these 12-step meetings study AA literature such as the Big Book of AA, AA workbooks, and other writings by AA founders and leaders.

Speaker: North Carolina AA centers frequently invite motivational speakers to build members’ resilience against relapse. By using humor, charm, faith, and reason, speakers inspire participants to maintain sobriety.

Step Meeting: AA chapters use step meetings as part of the recovery process in North Carolina. In a step meeting, participants read from Twelve Steps and discuss how the passages relate to their own progress. These lessons can strengthen their resilience.