How to Start a Meeting
- Before registering the meeting, you need to:
- Set Day, Time and Start Date of Your Meeting. Please note that after the meeting is started, the date and time can only be changed with a group conscience vote at a business meeting
- Type of Meeting – Speaker, Open Discussion, Steps, Literature etc
- Name the Meeting
- Description of the meeting. Note: if you want better meeting attendance, put more time into your meeting description
- Announcement for the CAFAA Website
- Indicate who will be your Dashboarder
- Indicate who will be your Chair
- Indicate who will be your General Service Representative (GSR). This person must have 60 days off caffeine and be willing to attend monthly Central Service Committee (CSC) meetings to represent your group. The GSR commitment is one year. The CSC meetings are on the 1st Sunday of the month at 3pm Eastern. They run for 1.5 hours.
- Create a meeting script/format. Contact CAFAA, and we will give you a link to sample scripts which you can use info@caffeineaddictsanonymous.
org
- Register the meeting with CAFAA
- Email info@caffeineaddictsanonymous.
org. Please note that any submissions with incorrect capitalization, grammar, or spelling mistakes will not be accepted - Be prepared to attend the CSC meeting to answer any questions the CSC might have about your meeting
- Email info@caffeineaddictsanonymous.
- Get the word out
- During the announcement section of meetings, announce your new meeting. It’s a good idea to announce at least a week in advance.
- Spread the word about the meeting via texts and outreach calls — consider asking members if they’d like to do service with you (chair, dashboarder, etc.)
Thank you for doing service and supporting other caffeine addicts to live a caffeine free life!