The Galano Club

The Galano Club: The Galano Club provides facilities for meetings, conferences, and communications between groups and service organizations of 12-step programs.

About Galano

The Galano Club, Inc. was founded March 1, 1982. It is a registered 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation in the State of Georgia and has been granted tax -exempt status by the State and Federal governments. The Galano Club, Inc. has no affiliation with Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon or any other 12 Step Program.

We provide facilities for meetings, conferences, and communications between groups and service organizations of 12-step programs. Primarily, we offer space where groups may hold meetings. Each group pays rent to the club for use of meeting space. Membership in The Galano Club is independent of membership in any group that uses the club’s facilities for their meetings.

The Galano Club is a community and your membership helps support the clubhouse and its activities for the recovery community.

How 12-Step Groups Work

From wiki-pedia…

A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles (accepted by members as ‘spiritual principles,’ based on the approved literature) outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939. The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs.

As summarized by the American Psychological Association, the process involves the following:

• admitting that one cannot control one’s addiction or compulsion;
• recognizing a higher power that can give strength;
• examining past errors with the help of a sponsor (experienced member);
• making amends for these errors;
• learning to live a new life with a new code of behavior;
• helping others who suffer from the same addictions or compulsions.

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Well, attending tonights meeting was a disaster; yet not a disaster. 

Did find out they do have a 12 step program for those of us agnostic or atheist;  by accident actually. 

Will come back to this blog entry later and expand on the experience.