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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 that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Central Group
- Address: 238 N Mead St, Wichita, KS 67202
- Meets daily at noon, open speaker meetings
The Triangle Group
- Address: 939 N Main St, Wichita, KS 67203
- Meets Mondays at 8 pm, closed men’s meetings
- Meets Wednesdays at 6 pm, closed women’s meetings
The Jayhawk Group
- Address: 1810 W Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67203
- Meets Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:30 pm, open speaker meetings
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 toward positive personal growth and change across Kansas.
- Admit powerlessness over alcohol and that lives have become unmanageable.
- Come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity.
- Make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand Him.
- Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- Become entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly ask Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Make a list of all persons we had harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
- Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
- Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, carry this message to alcoholics, and practice these principles in all our affairs.
Getting Started with AA in Kansas
Use the meeting search on wfmh.org to find local meetings in your area. Both in-person and online/virtual meetings are available in most places across the state.
Attending Your First Local AA Meeting
Kansas has both open and closed AA meetings:
- Open meetings: Anyone can attend, including non-alcoholics. These focus on introducing newcomers to AA.
- Closed meetings: Only those with a desire to stop drinking may attend. These involve more sharing by members.
When attending your first local AA meeting:
- Arrive early and introduce yourself as a new member of the local AA community. This will help you meet supportive peers right away.
- Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. There is no pressure to share before you are ready.
You may receive welcome keychain tags marking sobriety milestones:
- 30 days
- 60 days
- 90 days
- 6 months
- 9 months
- 1 year
- 18 months
- Years 2-50
The most important things are attending regularly, participating at your own pace, not drinking between meetings, and finding a sponsor to help guide your sobriety journey.