We are excited that you want to start a meeting in your area!  We recommend attending a few of the online MARA meetings prior to starting your own.  Please contact us with any questions about in-person, online, or hybrid meetings!  Here is a recommendation for getting your meeting together:​

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• Secure a location or plan an online meeting.  Zoom is the preferred app to use for your online meeting.

• Order the MARA book from Amazon.com - Medication-Assisted Recovery Anonymous

• Read over this handy Meeting Format guide to help formulate your meeting style. 

  • Download the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions 

  • Download slides of the Preamble and Closing for your group to read together.

• Send us the details of your meeting: day, time, location and best contact name and number! We will post it on our website.

• Download the tri-fold brochure for your in-person meetings.

• Consider providing refreshments for in-person meetings.  Any donations taken up should go back into the meeting to cover the cost of space rental or other various group needs.

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Desire tokens are available in our store!  We do not count clean time, but recognize that every person desires to live a safe lifestyle today.  

 

We believe the meeting format will allow the groups to have consistency around the world.  Walking into a new meeting is challenging, but having certainty that the MARA format is the same can be comforting.

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If you would like to talk through the details, let us know.  

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