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Welcome

AL-ANON is a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics. We meet together — virtually or in person — to solve our common problems and to share our experience, strength, and hope with one another. The only requirement for membership is to be personally affected by someone else’s drinking.

Please join us along this remarkable path to recovery from the effects of the family disease of alcoholism. You are not alone.

Insights into Al-Anon

The sidebar menu of this same name will guide you to the New To Al-Anon? section of our website, which is also a valuable resource for those of us who have been in the program for some time.

Anonymity is a founding principle of Al-Anon. Everything that is shared between members, and everything that is seen and heard within a meeting setting, is treated as confidential.

Al-Anon is a volunteer organization so, without Service, our meetings would soon disappear. There are many ways to be of service in Al-Anon, and all of them greatly enhance our experience of the program and our lives.

Sponsorship — an essential tool of the program — is also a form of service. A sponsor is someone we choose to guide us through the Twelve Steps and who comes to know and safeguard our whole story. It is a deeply trusting relationship between equals.

Temporary Service Sponsorship may be provided by a predecessor in the service position we just accepted. A more permanent service sponsor guides us through Al-Anon’s Twelve Traditions and Twelve Concepts of Service and prepares us to expand our Al-Anon service from the Group level to the District and/or Area levels.

Al-Anon’s Three Legacies encompass Recovery through the Steps, Unity through the Traditions, and Service through the Concepts. A greater understanding of the Legacies deepens our program and aids us in applying the Al-Anon principles in all our affairs.

The Insights into Al-Anon section of our website also provides guidelines for Sharing at Meetings, offers a sampling of Slogans & Acronyms as well as alliterations and other sayings that serve as helpful program tools, and includes suggested ways of more effectively Working the Program.

Al-Anon Meetings

Regular attendance at several weekly Al-Anon meetings where we feel safe plays a vital role in our success as we work the Al-Anon program. This is where we learn that we are not alone, that others have the same or similar problems, and that it is truly possible to know serenity. At meetings, we learn about the literature that is unique to Al-Anon and how we can incorporate this abundant resource into our lives. Meetings are also where we find our sponsors and our program friends, where we discover the gifts of service, and where we soon find ourselves sharing our own experience, strength, and hope. Please join us!

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most Al-Anon meetings in Marin County are being held virtually. A few are being held in person or as hybrid meetings. For a current list of District 11 Al-Anon meetings, please visit our Meetings page or click on the Current Meetings List button below.

This meeting list is designed for two-sided printing

and can be folded in two places to create

a pamphlet or a handy bookmark.

Please compare each meeting on our

downloadable/printable list with its

corresponding webpage. If there is an

interactive map on that individual

meeting’s page, then at least a portion

of the meeting is in person; otherwise,

it is strictly virtual.