Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Colorado

What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

AA Meetings in Denver

• Monday – Friday: 12 pm (open)
• Tuesday: 5:30 pm (closed men’s meeting)
• Friday: 8 pm (open speaker meeting)

AA Meetings in Boulder

• Monday: 5:30 pm (open)
• Wednesday: 12 pm (closed)
• Saturday: 10 am (closed women’s meeting)

AA Meetings in Colorado Springs

• Monday: 6 pm (open)
• Thursday: 7 pm (open)
• Sunday: 6 pm (open)

The 12 Steps of AA

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) outlines a 12-step program to help members achieve and maintain sobriety. The steps aim to motivate members to make positive changes in their lives by:

1. Admitting powerlessness over alcohol and recognizing that lives have become unmanageable.
2. Coming to believe in a Power greater than oneself that can restore sanity.
3. Making the decision to turn one’s will and life over to the care of this Higher Power.
4. Conducting a searching and fearless moral inventory of oneself.
5. Admitting to this Higher Power, to oneself, and to another human being the exact nature of wrongs.
6. Becoming entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
7. Humbly ask this Higher Power to remove shortcomings.
8. Making a list of all persons harmed and becoming willing to make amends.
9. Making direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continuing to take personal inventory and promptly admitting when wrong.
11. Seeking through prayer and meditation to improve conscious contact with this Higher Power as it is understood, praying only for knowledge of its will and the power to carry that out.
12. Carrying this message to other alcoholics and practicing these principles in all affairs.

Getting Started with AA in Colorado

Use the meeting search on wfmh.org to find local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings in your area of Colorado. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across the state.

Attending Your First Local AA Meeting

There are two main types of AA meetings in Colorado:

Arrive about 15 minutes early to your first meeting and introduce yourself to others as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. You’ll likely receive welcome keychain tags marking sobriety milestones:

• 30 days
• 60 days
• 90 days
• 6 months
• 9 months
• 1 year
• 18 months