Submit a New Online Meeting – Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous
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Submit a New Online Meeting

If you have an AA group that meets digitally — via phone, chat, video conference, etc — please share participation information with us, so we can include it in the Online AA directory.

Please provide Group meeting time(s) day(s) and local time zone, and any relevant Zoom/Skype Meeting URL/ID/Password. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required. 

Your listing will not appear immediately. Please allow time for it to be reviewed.

In case you need help with the form or have other requests for the PAC committee please use this link: Contact Us    

Please read the Meeting Directory Guidelines before submitting your meetings, and request any edits to an existing meeting through the Update Meeting Directory form. 

Meeting Submission Form

e.g. “AA Big Book Cover-to-Cover”
Meeting descriptions may not be longer than 750 characters. General overview of meeting: eg. “A daily telephone meeting that focuses on reading and discussing the AA Big Book, cover-to-cover. Open to all; everyone is welcome to attend. Meets at 8pm EST daily, 7 days a week, duration “
Please submit the Full “Clickable” Link (enter N/A for other meeting formats)
If your meeting/conference requires an access code or participant ID, include that here (e.g. “687118144#”)
If your meeting is available via phone dial-in, include those details here (eg “1-415-762-9988”).
eg. USA EST, Europe Central CET, Asia JST, etc
If your group conducts both Open and Closed meetings, select the “Open” radio button below and describe your Closed meetings under “Description.” Alternatively, submit your closed meetings separately. Check all that apply.
Check all that apply.

Group Contact Information

If you have a group web-site and want to provide a link (e.g. https://aafriends.webs.com/), don’t forget to add “https://” at the beginning of the URL. If your group does not have a website, please leave this section blank.
Please provide a public email address for your meeting – anything other than your name or business.
The city/state in which your meeting is originally located. Example: Minneapolis/MN or Cairo/Egypt

Organizer / Chair Information

The following is for Online Intergroup internal use only and will not appear on the public pages of the web site. You must provide at least a Primary Contact name and email address. We suggest that you provide an alternate name and email address as well. Periodic update inquiries that go unanswered for 7 days will cause your entry to be deactivated. After 30 days, your entry will be deleted.
Any online AA group or meeting may be listed in the Directory provided that it subscribes to the Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous, using the Meeting Submission Form. Meeting submissions will be reviewed and filtered based on the guidelines below by the Policies and Admissions Committee (PAC).

The Online Intergroup does not list:

Face-to-face AA meetings (visit “How to Find AA Meetings” at AA World Services, Inc.).
Digital recording, “daily readings,” or “social networking” sites or blogs (see, for example, “General Social Networking Web Sites” in the publication AA Guidelines Internet).
Non-AA web site and email list providers. However, if your online meeting is hosted by a provider such as Google, Zoom, etc.; submissions will be considered if the description is about the AA meeting and not about the provider. Likewise, the group or meeting name should not contain the provider’s name.
Meetings that appear to be conducted by an organization or by individuals who are not AA members; for example, commercial sites that have created “meetings” for the purpose of attracting traffic to their sites. Only AA members may conduct AA meetings.
Groups or meetings calling themselves “AA” but that participate in “affiliate programs”; that is, they receive income from ad placement (or from any non-AA source). “An AA group ought never go into business.”

For an overview of how the Traditions apply to groups, see the pamphlet “The AA Group … Where it all begins.” In brief:

all group members are alcoholics (or have a desire to stop drinking) and the group is willing to “open the door to all alcoholics who seek help, regardless of profession, gender, or other distinction” (“The AA Group,” p. 15)
the group is fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions
the group has no other affiliation
the group does not endorse outside enterprises
the group has no opinion on outside issues
the group maintains the anonymity of its members (no full names or photos of members in public view)

From page 22 of the pamphlet “The AA Group” (copyright AAWS, Inc.; reprinted with permission):

“Even the appearance of being linked to any organization, club, political or religious institution needs to be avoided.

“Therefore, an AA group that meets in a correctional or treatment facility or a church [or on a non-AA web site, chat server, etc.] can take care not to use the institution’s name, but to call itself something quite different. This makes it clear that the AA group is not affiliated with the hospital, church, prison, treatment facility, or whatever, but simply rents space there for meetings.

“Our AA group conscience, as voiced by the General Service Conference, has recommended that ‘family’ meetings, ‘double trouble’ and ‘alcohol and pill’ meetings not be listed in our AA directories. The use of the word ‘family’ might also invite confusion with Al-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship entirely separate from AA.

“The primary purpose of any AA group is to carry the AA message to alcoholics. Experience with alcohol is one thing all AA members have in common. It is misleading to hint or give the impression that AA solves other problems or knows what to do about addiction to drugs.

“It has also been recommended by the AA Conference that no AA group be named after any actual person, living or dead, AA or non-AA. This is one way we can ‘place principles before personalities.’”

“Hot Links” to Web Sites

The Online Intergroup provides “hot links” (hyperlinks) to web sites along with this disclaimer:

“The group URL links are now active to facilitate connecting to the listed groups.
These URL links do not constitute or indicate review, endorsement, or approval of the Online Intergroup. “

Keeping the Directories Current

The Online Intergroup Web Committee attempts to keep its directories current. However, we must rely on information supplied by the meetings and groups. In addition, we do periodic “roll call” updates to ensure correct listing information and contacts.

The only way the meeting directories can remain current is with your help.

We urge you to think of the newcomer when you view the directory listings. Imagine him or her, full of hope, following instructions and rushing off to a real-time meeting site or sending off an email to one of the contacts or mailing list managers in the directory. Then imagine their seeing a “site not found” page or receiving a “mail delivery failure” message, or no response whatsoever.

Even one instance of the above is too many.

Here’s what you can do to help:

Take a look at your group’s or meeting’s listing in the OIAA directory. Is it current? If not, let the web committee know.
Whether you have one or a hundred email contacts listed, a visitor is most likely to contact the first name on the list. Is that person still a contact? If not, let us know.
People go on vacation, get ill, etc. Please inform your contacts that if they are not available to respond to inquiries, we can easily substitute another contact temporarily … to ensure the newcomer has someone to talk to.

Thank you for your help,
The Online Intergroup Web Committee