What does AFG stand for in Al-Anon?

Al-Anon Family Groups
Al-Anon Family Groups is a spiritual fellowship, not a religious one.

What is an Al-Anon closed meeting?

Families and Friends only (Closed meeting): A meeting that is available for Al‑Anon members and prospective members only. Anyone who has been affected by someone else’s drinking is welcome.

Is there an app for Al-Anon meetings?

The official mobile app of the Al-Anon Family Groups is designed to provide an easy way for anyone affected by someone else’s drinking to find hope and help, whether they can attend a face-to-face meeting or not. – An opportunity to subscribe to a daily dose of Al-Anon members’ experience, strength, and hope.

How can Al-Anon help me?

But Al‑Anon can help you learn how to cope with the challenges of someone else’s drinking. It may be that you could help matters by changing some of your own behaviors that make things worse. Al‑Anon members come to understand problem drinking as a family illness that affects everyone in the family.

What is a qualifier in Al-Anon?

What is a Qualifier? Most people attend Al-Anon because they have a “qualifier” in their lives (someone who makes them eligible to attend). A qualifier can be your spouse, your mother, your daughter, a co-worker, a friend… The meetings are open and welcoming and are usually held in the same location as AA meetings.

What does BB mean in AA?

Big Book
These meetings center around topics pulled from A.A. conference-approved literature (Lit), including the Big Book (BB), the unofficial name for Alcoholics Anonymous, and the 12&12 (TT), the unofficial name for Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

What is a closed meeting called?

: a meeting or a portion of a meeting closed to all but members The board will meet in closed session to discuss the issue.

How do I get into executive session?

To go into executive session a member must make a motion, it needs a second and is debatable. It takes a majority vote to adopt. If the members vote to go into executive session, all nonmembers must leave the room until the board votes to end executive session.

Does Al-Anon have zoom meetings?

Electronic Meetings Electronic Al-Anon meetings are held online and over the phone. Electronic meeting formats include: Phone, Email, Chat, Blog, Bulletin Board, Instant Messaging (Skype, WhatsApp, Discord, etc.), Web Conferencing (Zoom, WebEx, etc.) and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.).

Is Al-Anon app free?

While there is no charge for groups to meet in the Al‑Anon Family Groups mobile app, members are encouraged to support it through individual seventh tradition contributions.

What is an idea behind Al-Anon?

Al‑Anon is self‑supporting through its own voluntary contributions. Al‑Anon has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps, by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics, and by giving understanding and encouragement to the alcoholic.

What to expect at Al Anon meeting?

What to Expect. At an alanon meeting, a member usually gives a short talk on one of the twelve steps and how it applies to his or her life. This is usually a member who has been involved with the program for some time. After the talk, other members have the opportunity to share.

What is the goal of Al Anon?

Al-Anon’s primary purpose is to help families and friends of alcoholics, rather than stopping alcoholism in others or assisting with interventions.

What is an Al-Anon meeting?

Al-Anon Meetings. Al-Anon is a mutual support group of peers who share their experience in applying the Al-Anon principles to problems related to the effects of a problem drinker in their lives.

What is Al Anon/Alateen?

Alateen, a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, is a fellowship of young people (mostly teenagers) whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking whether they are in your life drinking or not. By attending Alateen, teenagers meet other teenagers with similar situations. Alateen is not a religious program and there are no fees or dues to belong to it.