How to start a CA meeting

Do you want to start a new CA meeting? We will help you by sending you a free initial package of pamphlets (leaflets), trays and Big Book. You will 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 will use to receive invitations to area meetings and similar. Instructions on how to log in to the email address will be sent to you 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.