Seekers Anonymous Suggested Welcome

We welcome you to our Seekers Anonymous meeting and hope you will find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. We, too, have felt frustrated and insecure, but in Seekers Anonymous we discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us to find contentment and even happiness.

We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that lead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to place our problems in their true perspective, we find that they lose their power to dominate our thoughts and our lives.

Our living situation is bound to improve as we apply the Seekers Anonymous ideas. Without such spiritual help, living with our problems can be too much for us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we become irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.

The Seekers Anonymous program is based on the Twelve Steps (adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous) which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to our lives along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving interchange of help among members and daily reading of Twelve Step literature make us ready to receive the priceless gift of serenity.

Seekers Anonymous is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the group meeting and member to member, must be held in confidence. Only in this way can we feel free to say what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we help one another in Seekers Anonymous.

Our meeting lasts for 1½ hours. During this time, we come together for mutual help. We come to learn the Seekers Anonymous program. We request that all present refrain from gossip, dominance, venting rage and aggression, discussions of religion, treatment centers, self-help programs, counseling, cross talk, and the use or mention of materials other than twelve-step conference approved literature. Please remember that in Seekers Anonymous we try to keep the focus on ourselves, not on those whose behavior bothers us.

For those not familiar with cross talk, we define it as interrupting someone while they are sharing, having private conversations, making comments about another person’s sharing, or giving advice to another person based on what they have shared. We find that this type of cross talk inhibits the deeply personal and safe experiences that we all need in Seekers Anonymous.