Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Meetings

General Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Meeting Information

With 1,000’s of SAA 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 Sex Addicts 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 SAA meetings are still being held on the same day and time as before, but have transitioned to an online platform like Zoom. Sex Addicts Anonymous is a twelve-step program for people who want to stop their addictive sexual behavior. While SAA groups do not affiliate themselves with any particular religion, Sex Addicts Anonymous to is a community of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction and help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency.

Types of Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Meeting Meetings

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

• Topic/Discussion SAA 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 SAA Meetings: These meetings are led by a veteran member who has been in Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) 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 Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA), or it may be more of a question-and-answer type format.
• Speaker SAA Meetings: SAA members who have been sober for a minimum period of time may be chosen beforehand to share their past experiences and how working through “The Program,” as NA’s 12 Steps and Traditions may be referred to, has helped them get to where they are today. These NA meetings are often open to the public, many are recorded, so you can listen to your favorite Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Speakers any time you want.
• Book, Step, Tradition or Literature SAA Meetings: A reading from various SAA Literature is read, shared on and worked through during the meeting. These SAA meetings are usually held in a rotation as the SAA Steps, Traditions, Book or Literature are worked through. Individuals may use workbooks and texts during the SAA meeting or for homework assignments.

People can attend as many Sex Addicts 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 SAA home group which they attend regularly. This is usually a meeting you relate to, that has people who are benefiting from the meeting and Sex Addicts Anonymous program. They generally take a commitment at their SAA home group and hold themselves and others accountable for attending.

How is a Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Meeting Meeting Conducted?

Sex Addicts Anonymous membership is open to people with problems related to food including, but not limited to, compulsive Sex Addicts, who want to overcome their sexual addiction and help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency. People do not have to do anything prior to attending an SAA meeting; they can just show up. Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting attendance is kept confidential, and individuals are welcome to attend as many different SAA meetings as they desire. SAA meetings are typically an hour, but there are also many longer meetings and some shorter in duration.

Typical Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) Meeting Meeting Format

Individual Sex Addicts Anonymous groups may differ slightly in the way they run Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings, but in general, a typical format for an SAA 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 Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) 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 SAA group sustains itself
• Closing, most likely with an SAA reading and a closing prayer

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

Those who have been in Sex Addicts Anonymous for a long period of time may become a “sponsor” for newer SAA members. A sponsor is a more veteran member of the SAA group, who has gone through the same difficulty you may be facing, has taken the 12-steps of the SAA program, knows the literature and will guide you through the 12 steps of Sex Addicts Anonymous to help with your success. SAA 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. SAA 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. SAA sponsors may meet or check-in with their sponsees regularly, and lifelong relationships may be formed.

Sex Addicts Anonymous groups are safe environments, where individuals are surrounded by others with the same goal to recover from sexual addiction or dependency. These SAA 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 Sex Addicts Anonymous may not be able to as easily.

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