5th friday night SPARKLE step SPEAKER format
Good evening, my name is (your name here) and I am a member of Al-Anon.
Will you join me in a moment of silence, followed by the Serenity Prayer?
God grant me the serenity
To accept things I cannot change
The courrage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference.
We welcome you to the “United in Recovery” Al-Anon Family Group and hope you will find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as perhaps few others can. We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Anon we discover that no situation is really hopeless and that it is possible for us to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that lead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to place our problem in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to dominate our thoughts and our lives. The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the Al-Anon ideas. Without such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most of us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we become irritable and unreasonable without knowing it. The Al-Anon program is based on the Twelve Steps (adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous), which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to our lives, along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving interchange of help among members and daily reading of Al-Anon literature thus make us ready to receive the priceless gift of serenity. Anonymity is an important principle of the Al-Anon program. Everything that is said here, in the group meeting and member-to-member, must be held in confidence. Only in this way can we feel free to say what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another in Al-Anon
The “United in Recovery” Al-Anon group believes that as our own qualifiers we too suffer from the disease of alcoholism. We believe the emotional sobriety we seek, called serenity, is found in the 12 steps. Remember: easy does it but do it..................., we welcome all comers to our meeting, but if you wish to share, we ask that you Identify as Al-Anon only in the spirit of singleness of purpose. I will turn the meeting over to our secretary for announcements.
Secretary: The United in recovery Al-Anon Group meets 4 nights a week on Tuesday Through Friday nights at 6:30 Pacific time, 9:30 Eastern time. · If you would like a clickable reminder of our meeting in email, Just Private chat me your email address and I will see that you get them. Let’s thank our leader ________, I know they will do a great job. The meeting is open 15 minutes prior and after the meeting.
7th Traditon: our 7th tradition states that we have no dues or fees, but we do support al-anon world service. We post a link in the chat and hope you will contribute generously.
https://al-anon.org/contributions/member/
Leader: We ask that you please keep yourself on mute unless sharing. To honor our practice of anonymity and privacy, please be mindful of your environment and what is broadcast on your screen & speakers. Do we have any newcomers to our meeting tonight? If so, please introduce yourself by your first name so we can get to know you.
As this is the 5th Friday of this month, I will speak for 20 minutes and will speak on the step of the month After the lead, Open sharing on the step of will be limited to 3 minutes, the timer will give a reminder with 1 minute remaining by saying “1 minute” and at the end with the word “time” Is someone willing to be our timer tonight? Thank you. The timer will unmute themselves to give the one minute and final time announcements. Please respect the timer as this is an hour-long meeting.
LEADER speaks for up to 20 minutes
After the leader is finished
SECRETARY: We are now OPEN FOR SHARING.” I will pick the first person to share and since this is a tag meeting, you can pick the next person to share after your three minutes are up, no raised hands, and if you don't know who has shared, look in the chat, the secretary usually has a list in there. If you are open to share, please have your camera on, and if you are picking please try to pick someone that looks alert.
Leader: Thank you to all those who have shared and those who serve at this meeting. Please stay after with us in our virtual coffee shop after the meeting, For a fun game of sparkle. Make sure you have a snackie.
In closing, I would like to say that the opinions expressed here were strictly those of the person who gave them. Take what you liked and leave the rest. The things you heard were spoken in confidence and should be treated as confidential. Keep them within the walls of this zoom and the confines of your mind. A few special words to those of you who haven’t been with us long: Whatever your problems, there are those among us who have had them, too. If you try to keep an open mind, you will find help. You will come to realize that there is no situation too difficult to be bettered and no unhappiness too great to be lessened. We aren’t perfect. The welcome we give you may not show the warmth we have in our hearts for you. After a while, you’ll discover that though you may not like all of us, you’ll love us in a very special way - the same way we already love you. Talk to each other, reason things out with someone else, let the understanding, love, and peace of the program grow in you one day at a time. Will all who care to join me in closing with the Serenity Prayer?
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
