AA-Meetings in Amsterdam and Around

SOME INFORMATION ON AA-MEETINGS IN GENERAL

ACCESSIBILITY MEETINGS

On our website we list Fysical (F2F), Online (usually ZOOM) as Hybrid meetings (F2F + Online).

For meetings outside our region (Amsterdam & Surroundings) we refer to

aa-meetings-rotterdam-rijnmond.nl
www.aa-nederland.nl
www.aa-netherlands.org
A.A. Continental Europe

We are not responsible for possible mistakes / incompletenesses at these websites.

For most meetings is stated whether they are Open or Closed. Should this not be the case we advise you to contact the group concerned. If that doesn't work out and the meeting in question turns out to be Closed it is possible that, when the meeting starts, non-alcoholics are requested to leave.

OPEN/CLOSED MEETINGS

The purpose of every A.A. meetings, as described in the A.A. PREAMBLE, is for A.A. members to "share their experience, strength and hope with eachother to solve their common problem and to help others to recover from alcoholism."
Toward this end, A.A. groups have both open and closed meetings.

CLOSED MEETINGS are for A.A. members only, or for those who have a drinking problem and “have a desire to stop drinking.” Everyone who thinks he/she may have a problem with his/her drinking is welcome to attend a Closed meeting.

OPEN MEETINGS are also available to anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of recovery from alcoholism. Non-alcoholics may attend Open meetings as observers.

"The A.A. Group...Where It All Begins", p. 11, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.

OUR TWELVE TRADITIONS

Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

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