Meeting Script

Meeting Script 

Super Helpful access to a lot of the literature and meeting materials: https://ma-phone.org/meeting-readings

https://www.madistrict27.org/readings

(In light of Zoom intrusions, please see: https://marijuana-anonymous.org/wp-content/uploads/Keeping-our-Meetings-Safe-from-Zoom-Bombers.pdf )

Chair Person:

Welcome to One Share At a Time our open meeting of Marijuana Anonymous.

My name is _____ and I’m a marijuana addict.

Can we please have a moment of silence for those still suffering inside and outside of these rooms.

(Silence)

Serenity Prayer : Higher power (of your understanding) grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference

The Preamble

Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share our experience, strength, and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from marijuana addiction.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana. There are no dues or fees for membership. We are self-supporting through our own contributions. MA is not affiliated with any religious or secular institution or organization and has no opinion on any outside controversies or causes. Our primary purpose is to stay free of marijuana and to help the marijuana addict who still suffers achieve the same freedom. We can do this by practicing our suggested Twelve Steps of recovery and by being guided as a group by our Twelve Traditions. The tradition of the month is _____. (During first week, please read all 12 traditions).

The Traditions

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon MA unity.

2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority, a loving God whose expression may come through in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using marijuana.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or MA as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose, to carry its message to the marijuana addict who still suffers.

6. MA groups ought never endorse, finance, or lend the MA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7. Every MA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8. Marijuana Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9. MA, as such, ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10. Marijuana Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the MA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based upon attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, film, and other public media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all fellow MA members.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Meeting Preamble

• Are there any newcomers who would like to introduce themselves?

• Is anybody celebrating a birthday today or since their last meeting? Or anybody COUNTING days?

(PAUSE)

• Are there any business-related announcements?  

A half hour Business Meeting is held after the LAST meeting of the month. If you would like to be of service in any way for this meeting please attend. 

• Can somebody please read Who is a Marijuana Addict? 

• Can somebody read the Dangers of Cross Addiction?

Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps of Recovery founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12 Step Recovery program works!

• Can somebody please read How it Works or "The 12 Steps of MA"?

Meeting

READING

Our One Share at a Time created a group conscience that sharing with each other is a fundamental building block of recovery and therefore resolved to begin each meeting with a reading from Living Every Day With Hope.  

Open the LEDWH link above to the reading of the day. Ask for volunteers to read. 

SHARING

Who would like to be our spiritual time-keeper today? (Thank the person who volunteers) It would be appreciated if the timekeeper could give a one minute notification via screen share. 

Please keep your shares to 4 minutes (adjust depending on the number of people). When the time keeper notifies you that your time is up, please wrap up quickly. Please keep your microphone muted when not sharing. If a share has ended and nobody is up, you can also un-mute your microphone and start.

So everyone feels comfortable and safe while sharing, please remember this is a non-crosstalk meeting. Cross talk is defined as giving direct advice or addressing an individual directly. Cross talk can also include interrupting the person who is speaking or asking them a question unexpectedly. Feel free to ask questions and talk to each other after the meeting, but during the meeting please stick to your experience, strength and hope in recovery. As we learn from each other, let’s be mindful of each other.

We are now ready for your shares. Who would like to share first? (End of sharing at 11:55 / 2:55)

CLOSING

Are there any burning desires or anybody who wants to say hello to feel a part of the meeting today?

7TH TRADITION

(Please read and/or copy/paste the following in the chat box during the meeting)

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7th TRADITION 

http://paypal.me/madistrict27

PayPal: @madistrict27

While this meeting has no dues or fees, we are proudly self-supporting through our own contributions.

Please enter “One Share At A Time Saturday or Tuesday” - the group name - in the COMMENTS box when making a 7th tradition donation to District 27 (link above).

Due to transaction fees, fewer donations of larger amounts are more cost effective. Please consider including the transaction fee with your donation.

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Would somebody like to read “Promises”? (Or Our Awakening) 

Promises or A.A. Promises

(Relapse promises at the bottom of this screen) 

CLOSING

In closing, we 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 room and the confines of your mind.

Talk to each other, reason things out with someone else but let there be no gossip or criticism of one another. Instead, let the understanding, love and peace of the program grow in you one day at a time.

Please join me for the We version of the Serenity Prayer to close our meeting

Higher power, 

grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can and wisdom to know the difference.

Keep coming back! 

It works, if you work it. 

So, work it. 

You are worth it!

And live it and love it and love yourselves! 

***The promises of relapse (modified from the AA promises)***

The relapse promises

If we dive head-long into a relapse, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. 

We are going to know a new pain and fresh misery. 

We will regret our actions and feel as though we have lost control. 

We will comprehend the words addiction & insanity and we will know self-loathing. 

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see that we can still sink further and experience more pain. 

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will re-appear. 

We will lose interest in our fellows and gain interest in selfish things. 

Self-seeking will be our way of life. 

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will return. 

We will intuitively know how to sabotage our lives and the lives of those we care about. 

We will suddenly realize that we are doing for ourselves what even our enemies would not wish upon us. 

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. 

We witness them frequently and we see the results - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we give in to them.