How to start a CA meeting
How to start a CA meeting
Want to start a new CA meeting? We will help you by sending you an initial free package of pamphlets (brochures), badges and Big Book. You can download a starter kit with other meeting materials (for printing) that you need below. Once you have registered, you will also receive an email address that the group uses to receive invitations to area meetings and the like. You will receive instructions on how to log in to the email address in an email from the meeting admin when you have registered.
Fill out the form and download the content you need below. Further down the page you will find some start-a-meeting tips!
Please note that it may take up to 48 hours for us to confirm. Do you have questions about starting a meeting? Email mote@ca-sweden.se.
Registration new meeting
Start kit for new meetings
When you start a meeting, you will receive free badges, pamphlets and Big Book sent to the address you provide in the form above. You can also download the starter kit below.
The start kit includes the following:
All readings
Meeting manual
Agenda for group service meetings
You also get:
CA's 12 Steps & 12 Traditions
Service manual for GSR and Treasurer
Sign "CA Meeting here"
Swish sign template
Poster template A4
Flyer template A5
Information letter to local authorities, organisations and businesses
Tips for starting a CA meeting!
1. Find a venue
Where are there similar meetings today? Check out where associations or other twelve-step groups have their meetings today. In your community there may be local managers who can be helpful. Please consult within the fellowship, often there's a member with more information on where there may be a venue that suit our purpose.
2. Find willingness to service
It takes very few people to start a meeting, two are enough if there is a willingness to be of service. It will usually be more fun and become a busy meeting if you are a service group with lots of members. Go to other meetings, post on CA's website or in other channels that you are looking for members to be of service.
3. Reach out
Set up posters, put flyers in waiting rooms, visit other meetings, publish an annonuncement on ca sweden.se. There are many ways to announce new meetings.
If you are in an area of Sweden where H&I is not established, contact them for a plan to visit local hospitals and institutions. You can reach CA's H&I committee by emailing s.o.i@ca-sweden.se.
Order flyers, posters and stickers ➔
4. Be patient
Starting a meeting is easy, it then takes patience to wait for the meeting to grow. If you live in a smaller town, there may be few people to attract. If you live in a larger city, there may be other meetings that occur at the same time. But it's important to be patient and not give up just because there are few members in the beginning.
A lot of the meetings that today attract 30+ people per meeting were initially small and fragile.