Twelve Step Meetings

T. K. Twelve Step Meetings On 8/26/2009 I attended an Alcoholic Anonymous meeting located at Rainbow Fellowship, 143 South California in Stockton. The meeting lasted an hour from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The experience was positive and very educational. Before attendance the meeting, my perception of what the meeting would be like was different from the authentic event. Prior to attending the meeting, I was pretty anxious active what the meeting was handout to be like. I had pictured the the great unwashed attending the meeting to be unkempt, poorly dressed, street speaker system drunks who were forced to be there by the court or family that have disowned them. I pictured the room to be filthy, disorganized, and olfactory perception of alcohol. I was definitely surprised how wrong my expectation was compared to the real reality of the people attending. The people attending the meeting were gelid from what I had pictured. For one, people that attended the meeting were not only forced to be there but wanted to be there to help themselves as wellspring as others with their sobriety. They were well dressed, friendly, and welcoming to the visitor that was attending. The meeting was mostly attended by men rather than women. The room where the meeting was held was different than I pictured.

It was clean, organized, and the walls were covered with educational materials to facilitate in helping the find alcoholics. The back of the wall displayed the Twelve Steps Principles, accompanied by the Twelve Traditions that AA attendees abides by. The AA meeting began with a group leader who was referred to as the secretary. The meeting started with a prayer, followed by a extremitys providing instructions of the meeting to the attendees, and then the reading began. Each member read a passage from the book which was referred to as the medium-large Book. After members finished reading the passage, they would summarize what was read and how it relates to what is going on in their lives. I also observed out front speakers... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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