General Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Meeting Information

With 1000’s of SA meetings being held every day, it’s easy for you to find local live meetings and online meetings with people from your local community in attendance. If you are in a treatment center, they will have meetings and may also provide transportation to and from meetings. Many meetings have childcare, to ensure mothers and fathers can attend meetings also.

Meetings for Sexaholics Anonymous and are most often held in public places like churches, community centers, club houses and parks. During the COVID pandemic, many of your local SA meetings are still being held on the same day and time as before, but have transitioned to an online platform like Zoom. Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover.. While SA groups do not affiliate themselves with any particular religion, Sexaholics Anonymous is a fellowship with a solution to the problems of lust, sex, and pornography addiction!

Types of Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Meeting Meetings

As a general rule, there are two standard types of Sexaholics Anonymous meetings: open meetings and closed meetings. Open and closed Sexaholics Anonymous meetings often follow various formats including:

• Topic/Discussion SA Meetings: Possibly the most common meeting format, the chairperson or leader of the meeting will choose a topic to discuss during the meeting. These meetings may be open or closed.
• Beginner SA Meetings: These meetings are led by a veteran member who has been in Sexaholics Anonymous for a long period of time and may follow a variety of formats (discussion, topic, book, literature, step, etc.), while focusing on the first three of the 12 Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous, or it may be more of a question-and-answer type format.
• Speaker SA Meetings: SA members who have successfully participated in the fellowship period of time may be chosen beforehand to share their past experiences and how working through “The Program,” as SA’s 12 Steps and Traditions may be referred to, has helped them get to where they are today. These SA meetings are often open to the public, many are recorded, so you can listen to your favorite Sexaholics Anonymous Speakers any time you want.
• Book, Step, Tradition or Literature SA Meetings: A reading from various SA Literature is read, shared on and worked through during the meeting. These SA meetings are usually held in a rotation as the SA Steps, Traditions, Book or Literature are worked through. Individuals may use workbooks and texts during the SA meeting or for homework assignments.

People can attend as many Sexaholics Anonymous meetings as the want and are often encouraged to attend a number of meetings until they find a meeting or set of meetings they like and that have people attending who they can relate to. People are encouraged to find an NA home group which they attend regularly. This is usually a meeting you relate to, that has people who are benefiting from the meeting and Sexaholics Anonymous program. They generally take a commitment at their SA home group and hold themselves and others accountable for attending.

How is a Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Meeting Meeting Conducted?

Sexaholics Anonymous membership is open to people with problems related problems of lust, sex, and pornography addiction!. People do not have to do anything prior to attending an SA meeting; they can just show up. Sexaholics Anonymous meeting attendance is kept confidential, and individuals are welcome to attend as many different SA  meetings as they desire. Sexaholics Anonymous meetings are typically an hour, but there are also many longer meetings and some shorter in duration.

Typical Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Meeting Meeting Format

Individual Sexaholics Anonymous groups may differ slightly in the way they run Sexaholics Anonymous meetings, but in general, a typical format for an SA meeting is as follows:

• Welcome and opening
• Moment of silence and recitation of the Serenity Prayer
• Explanation of 12-Steps, expectation of confidentiality, and reiteration of openness to all and no cost for membership
• Reading from the Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) Literature
• Introductions around the room (first name only, though no one is required to speak)
• Introduction of the speaker or facilitator of the meeting
• Discussion
• Announcements
• Passing of the collection plate, donations are not required although this is how the SA group sustains itself
• Closing, most likely with a Sexaholics Anonymous reading and a closing prayer

As Sexaholics Anonymous meetings are meant to be a fellowship, there is also often coffee and refreshments at some point either before, during, or after the SA meeting for networking and socializing. SA members may choose to volunteer at SA meetings as coffee makers, greeters, literature distributor, or they can get more involved volunteering as the SA group’s secretary, SA treasurer, SA chairperson, etc.

Those who have been in Sexaholics Anonymous for a long period of time may become a “sponsor” for newer SA members. A sponsor is a more veteran member of the SA group, who has gone through the same difficulty you may be facing, has taken the 12-steps of the SA program, knows the literature and will guide you through the 12 steps of Sexaholics Anonymous to help with your success. SA sponsors also offer encouragement around the clock, helping to provide in-the-moment support and guidance when needed, and introduce you to other Recovery Resources. SA sponsors are often available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, usually by phone, to help sponsees get through potentially difficult situations, temptations, or triggering events. SA sponsors may meet or check-in with their sponsees regularly, and lifelong relationships may be formed.

Sexaholics Anonymous groups are safe environments, where individuals are surrounded by others with the same goal to recover from problems of lust, sex, and pornography addiction!. These SA meetings can provide individuals with a network of peers who can understand and empathize with each other in ways that others who are not in Sexaholics Anonymous may not be able to as easily.

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