As the term suggests, meetings of this type are open to alcoholics and their families and to anyone interested in solving a personal drinking problem or helping someone to solve such a problem.
Most open meetings follow a more or less set pattern, a chairperson describes the AA program briefly for the benefit of any newcomers who relate their personal drinking histories and may give their personal interpretation of AA and BOAF.
Guests at this BOAF meeting are reminded that any opinions or interpretations they may hear are solely those of the speaker involved. All members are free to interpret the recovery program in their own terms, but none can speak for BOAF or for AA as a whole.
