Fr. Joe Pereira Founder Managing Trustee of Kripa Foundation has introduced NA meetings open at the Kripa Centre in Anjuna Goa. These meetings has been introduced with the support of local NA fellowship recoveries seeking to be be away from using.This is an open meeting and will be held every Saturdayat 6 pm. A notification has been received from NA World Services affirming the presence of the NA Group at Kripa Goa.Anjuna,
Newsdesk
Who
can be a member?
If an addict
wants to be a member of Narcotics Anonymous, all that addict needs is a desire
to stop using.
Our Third Tradition ensures that. Whether an individual NA member chooses to
be a member of a
particular group as well is entirely up to that individual. Access to the
meetings of some
NA groups is restricted by factors beyond the control of these groups—
national border-crossing
laws, for instance, or prison security regulations. However, these
groups themselves do not bar any NA member
from joining them.
What
is an NA group?
When two or more
addicts come together to help each other stay clean, they may form a
Narcotics
Anonymous group. Here are six points1 based
on our traditions which describe an
NA group:
1. All members of
a group are drug addicts, and all drug addicts are eligible for
membership.
2. As a group,
they are self-supporting.
3. As a group,
their single goal is to help drug addicts recover through application of the
Twelve Steps of
Narcotics Anonymous.
4. As a group,
they have no affiliation outside Narcotics Anonymous.
5. As a group,
they express no opinion on outside issues.
6. As a group,
their public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion.
In stating the
six points that differentiate an NA group from other kinds of groups, we place
greater emphasis
on drug addiction than almost anywhere else in our
service literature.
What is an
NA Group?
Introduction
Narcotics
Anonymous groups are self-governing (the Twelve Traditions use the word
autonomous).
The group may conduct its own affairs in whatever way seems fit
to its members,
provided the
group’s actions do not adversely affect other groups or the entire NA
Fellowship.
So what we offer
here is not a “rule book” but the shared experience of how many of our
groups have met
with success in conducting meetings and tending to business. Newer members
may find this
booklet helps them understand who does what to keep the group going and how
to help. For more
experienced members, it may lend some perspective to their group
involvement. But
no matter how much information we pack into this booklet, you’re still going
to find that the
best source of guidance for your group is in your group itself.
There are many
ways of doing things in Narcotics Anonymous. And just as all of us have our
own individual
personalities, so will your group develop its own identity, its own way of
doing
things, and its
own special knack for carrying the NA message. That’s the way it should be. In
NA we encourage
unity, not uniformity.
This booklet does
not even attempt to say everything that could be said about operating an
NA group. What
you’ll find here are some brief answers to a few very basic questions: What is
an NA group? How
does the work get done? What kinds of meetings can a group have? When
problems arise,
how are they solved? We hope this booklet proves useful as your group seeks to
fulfill its primary purpose: to carry the message to the addict who
still suffers
Submitted and collage by
Newsdesk
