Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings in Minnesota

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 they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

AA Meetings in Minneapolis

• Monday 8:00 pm (Discussion)
• Tuesday 8:00 pm (Step Meeting)
• Wednesday 8:00 pm (Big Book Study)

AA Meetings in St. Paul

• Monday 7:00 pm (Open Speaker Meeting)
• Friday 8:00 pm (Closed Meeting for Alcoholics Only)

AA Meetings in Duluth

• Daily at noon (Discussion)
• Saturday 7:30 pm (Candlelight Meeting)

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.

The 12 steps are:

• Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
• Step 2: We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
• Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
• Step 4: We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
• Step 5: We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
• Step 6: We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
• Step 7: We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
• Step 8: We made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
• Step 9: We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when doing so would injure them or others.
• Step 10: We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
• Step 11: We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
• Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Getting Started with AA in Minnesota

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 Minnesota.

Attending Your First Local AA Meeting

There are two main types of AA meetings in Minnesota:

Arrive 10-15 minutes early and introduce yourself as a new local member. Share your experiences if you feel comfortable. You’ll likely receive welcome keychain tags at your first meeting to mark milestones in your sobriety journey:

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