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Together we recover.

The Deal AA Men’s Group meets twice a week and with one purpose: to provide a space for alcoholics to learn not just how to stop drinking, but how to stay stopped. 

The meeting is attended week in and week out by members with decades of experience in working with alcoholics in need. We, after all, were all once alcoholics in need ourselves.

Where to start?
Start here

Together we recover.

The Deal Men’s Group meets twice a week and with one purpose: to provide a space for alcoholics to learn not just how to stop drinking, but how to stay stopped. 

The meeting is attended week in and week out by members with decades of experience in working with alcoholics in need. We, after all, were all once alcoholics in need ourselves.

It is our pleasure, privilege, and obligation to give freely only that which was given freely to us: a simple twelve step program, and the encouragement and guidance to best carry it out.

Where to start?
Start here
It is our  
pleasure 
privilege 
obligation  
to give freely only that which was given freely to us:

a simple twelve step program, and the encouragement and guidance to best carry it out.

One step at a time

What to do now?

Recovery can be overwhelming. You don’t have to go it alone. Below is a step by step guide to getting started.

1. Am I an alcoholic?

Take the test.

2. Come to a meeting

All information regarding The Deal’s weekly meeting arrangements, plus a handful of links to some other great meetings worth checking out.

3. Reach out

If you have further queries regarding meetings, transport, access, anonymity, or anything else, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Resources for alcoholics

Doing the work

Listen to our experience

We at the Deal Men’s Group are sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers from all walks of life. We record and share our experience, strength, and hope so that others might, in identifying with a common problem, share in a solution that promises recovery.

Newcomer resources

We have produced three simple and succinct booklets for alcoholics to use in conjunction with our primary text, Alcoholics Anonymous (‘the big book’.)
These booklets are a wonderful way for you and your sponsor to track your progress through the 12 step process.

Get your Big Book

‘Alcoholics Anonymous’ (the ‘Big Book’) is our basic text. It contains the 12 step program, copious amounts of information about what it means to be an alcoholic, and a litany of personal accounts written by alcoholics who have recovered from an otherwise hopeless state.

Frequently asked questions

We members of Alcoholics Anonymous are fellowship of people who have lost the ability to control our drinking. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. Our meetings are designed to introduce newcomers to the 12-step program as outlined in our primary text ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’, and to share our experience, strength, and hope with each other. We also use our meetings to support one another, and to offer experiences to each other of how the twelve steps are working in our lives. We have also been known to spend a fair bit of time laughing, drinking coffee, and making lifelong connections.

An AA meeting may take one of several forms, but at any meeting you will find alcoholics talking about what drinking did to their lives and personalities, what actions they took to recover, and how they are living their lives today.  

AA’s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.

A sponsor is a member of AA who has recovered from alcoholism through the AA 12 Step Program of Recovery.

To maintain our recovery, we take other alcoholics through the 12 Step Program as our sponsors did with us when we asked for help.

  • Attend regular AA meetings 
  • Find a home group 
  • Find a sponsor 
  • Get a service commitment
  • Stay connected and plugged into other AA members via phone calls.
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Experience, strength and hope.

We share our experience, strength, and hope for three vital reasons:

  1. To give others the opportunity to identify as alcoholics
  2. To describe our own experience of twelve step recovery
  3. To demonstrate and reflect upon the changes we’ve experienced


The Deal Men’s group runs a weekly study of The Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book. Two members take us through the program step-by-step, and recordings of these book studies are available here.

Big Book Study Meetings

General Shares & Guest Speakers

AA History

I alone must decide to do this, but I cannot do it alone

Fellowship

The friendships, bonds, support and camaraderie that we have within this fellowship are incredible and available to you too!

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Campout

‘The Deal Men’s Group goes camping three times a year in regional areas of Victoria. Click through for more information on our next campout.’
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VICYPAA

Victorian Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous (VICYPAA) is a committee of young-at-heart alcoholics who organise events throughout the year. VICYPAA is also responsible for organising a convention, which attracts alcoholics from far and wide. Find out how to get involved here. All are welcome!
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Other AA Groups

Our group has strong ties to other great recovery focused AA meetings. Click to found out when they meet.
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Am I an alcoholic?

The results of this test are to be used as a guide only—there is no questionnaire that can accurately determine on its own whether or not you’re an alcoholic.

1. Have you ever decided to stop drinking for a week or so, but only lasted for a couple of days?

Most of us in AA made all kinds of promises to ourselves and to our families. We could not keep them. Then we came to AA. AA said: “Just try not to drink today.” (If you do not drink today, you cannot get drunk today.)

No
No

2. Do you wish people would mind their own business about your drinking– stop telling you what to do?

In AA we do not tell anyone to do anything. We just talk about our own drinking, the trouble we got into, and how we stopped. We will be glad to help you, if you want us to.

No
No

3. Have you ever switched from one kind of drink to another in the hope that this would keep you from getting drunk?

We tried all kinds of ways. We made our drinks weak. Or just drank beer. Or we did not drink cocktails. Or only drank on weekends. You name it, we tried it. But if we drank anything with alcohol in it, we usually got drunk eventually.

No
No

4. Have you had to have an eye-opener upon awakening during the past year?

Do you need a drink to get started, or to stop shaking? This is a pretty sure sign that you are not drinking “socially.”

No
No

5. Do you envy people who can drink without getting into trouble?

At one time or another, most of us have wondered why we were not like most people, who really can take it or leave it.

No
No

6. Have you had problems connected with drinking during the past year?

Be honest! Doctors say that if you have a problem with alcohol and keep on drinking, it will get worse – never better. Eventually, you will die, or end up in an institution for the rest of your life. The only hope is to stop drinking.

No
No

7. Has your drinking caused trouble at home?

Before we came into AA, most of us said that it was the people or problems at home that made us drink. We could not see that our drinking just made everything worse. It never solved problems anywhere or anytime.

No
No

8. Do you ever try to get “extra” drinks at a party because you do not get enough?

Most of us used to have a “few” before we started out if we thought it was going to be that kind of party. And if drinks were not served fast enough, we would go someplace else to get more.

No
No

9. Do you tell yourself you can stop drinking any time you want to, even though you keep getting drunk when you don’t mean to?

Many of us kidded ourselves into thinking that we drank because we wanted to. After we came into AA, we found out that once we started to drink, we couldn’t stop.

No
No

10. Have you missed days of work or school because of drinking?

Many of us admit now that we “called in sick” lots of times when the truth was that we were hung-over or on a drunk.

No
No

11. Do you have “blackouts”?

A “blackout” is when we have been drinking for hours or days which we cannot remember. When we came to AA, we found out that this is a pretty sure sign of alcoholic drinking.

No
No

12. Have you ever felt that your life would be better if you did not drink?

Many of us started to drink because drinking made life seem better, at least for a while. By the time we got into AA, we felt trapped. We were drinking to live and living to drink. We were sick and tired of being sick and tired.

No
No

Did you answer YES four or more times?

If so, you are probably in trouble with alcohol. We say this because thousands of people in AA have said so for many years. They found out the truth about themselves – the hard way. But again, only you can decide whether you think AA is for you. Try to keep an open mind on the subject. 

If the answer is YES, we will be glad to show you how we stopped drinking ourselves. AA does not promise to solve your life’s problems. But we can show you how we are learning to live without drinking “one day at a time”. And when we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became much more manageable.

Get in contact

You are on click away from starting your recovery. You can reach out via:

Phone call
Phone call

or

If you prefer, you can drop us a line and we will contact you ASAP.