{"id":51,"date":"2026-08-18T19:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:48:25","slug":"start-a-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"Start a Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What is a meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meeting is two or more people gathered together to share their experience, strength and hope with each other. A meeting may call itself a Co-Anon Family Group when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Its primary purpose is to help the family members and friends of someone who is addicted to cocaine and all other mind-altering substances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The only requirement for membership is that there is a problem with cocaine and other mind-altering substances in a family member or friend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is fully self-supporting.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has no outside affiliation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Its public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has no opinions on outside issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who can start a meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tradition 3 &#8211; The only requirement for membership is that there is a problem with cocaine or other mind-altering substance in a family member or friend. The family and friends, when gathered together for mutual help, may call themselves a Co-Anon Family Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-Anon Family Groups is a growing fellowship in South Africa and we would like to encourage and help anyone to start a meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All we ask is you follow the guidelines,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=45\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"45\">Steps<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=47\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"47\">Traditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information on setting up a meeting is available via the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/co-anon.org\/startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Co-Anon WSO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please email us\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@co-anon.org.uk\">info@co-anonsouthafrica.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a meeting? A meeting is two or more people gathered together to share their experience, strength and hope with each other. A meeting may call itself a Co-Anon Family Group when: Who can start a meeting? Tradition 3 &#8211; The only requirement for membership is that there is a problem with cocaine or &#8230; <a title=\"Start a Meeting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/?page_id=51\" aria-label=\"Read more about Start a Meeting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co-anonsouthafrica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}