Safety
Emotional and psychological safety come first. You will be encouraged to care for yourself throughout.
Community update
Meetings are forming.
Survivors Anonymous is building the fellowship, meeting safeguards and organiser support before the first rooms open.
A private email list will open once clear storage and deletion rules are in place.
Reading about trauma-informed peer support and meeting boundaries may bring up strong feelings. You can pause whenever you need.
How the future rooms will feel
Future meetings will welcome
you exactly as you are.
You will choose how you take part, how much you share and when you feel ready to speak. Your experience will remain yours to understand.
“Just being here is enough.”
The meeting model
Each meeting will follow a calm, predictable rhythm.
The details may grow through practice, while the familiar sequence will help people know what comes next.
- 01
You arrive in your own way
You will be able to choose a place that feels comfortable, sit near an exit, turn your camera off online, or leave at any time.
- 02
The group opens with shared readings
The readings will explain the purpose, boundaries and values of the space.
- 03
You choose whether to share
People will speak from their own experience, and listening quietly will be a complete way to participate.
- 04
The meeting closes with grounding
A grounding reminder will help people prepare to leave the room and carry forward what feels useful.
Bring a room together
You can begin a meeting with a practical, shared plan.
The starter pack brings the published preamble, opening, newcomer welcome, closing, values and a 75-minute meeting structure into one place.
It also covers facilitation, privacy, accessibility, cultural safety, current support information and the small preparations that help a room feel predictable.
Open the meeting starter packIf it is your first meeting
You can take time
to learn the room.
You may feel unsure, overwhelmed, curious, numb—or several things at once. Every one of those responses is welcome.
You can observe, learn the rhythm of the room and build trust before deciding what you would like to share.
The newcomer will be the most important person in the room. When people share, the structure will be simple: what it was like, what happened, and what it is like now.
What will hold the room
Eight guiding values
will shape every meeting.
Choice
You will choose what you share, how you take part and what feels right, with quiet listening welcomed as a complete way to participate.
Respect
Every person’s experience and process will be treated with dignity. People will listen fully and allow each speaker to finish.
Open-mindedness
Each person’s story and coping responses will be met with curiosity, context and care.
Confidentiality
What is shared in the room will stay in the room, creating a foundation for trust.
Shared experience
People will speak from their own lives and share what helped them rather than prescribe what someone else should do.
Compassion
The room will invite care, patience and context for ourselves and each other.
Accountability
People will take responsibility for their conduct and use compassion as a foundation for change.
Clear boundaries create safer rooms
Every meeting will protect
choice, dignity and safety.
- Each story will be received as valid in its own context.
- People will speak from personal experience and offer support through attentive listening.
- Every person will choose what to disclose and how to approach forgiveness, repair or contact.
- Professional services will remain available for therapy, crisis support, medical care and legal advice.
Cultural safety and connection to Country
Culture, kinship, community and Country can all be part of recovery.
Each meeting will begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the Country where people gather.
Participants will be welcome to name the cultural context that matters to them and choose the support that feels culturally safe. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can call 13YARN on 13 92 76 for free and confidential crisis support from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander crisis supporter, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you already attend another fellowship
This pathway can sit alongside AA or NA.
The book grew from a gap between spaces that understood addiction and spaces that understood trauma, because some people need both conversations.
If AA or NA is part of your recovery, you can continue using those rooms while exploring the trauma-informed language in this pathway, with each fellowship supporting a different part of your recovery.
Care before community
Choose the support that matches today.
If you are in immediate danger, feel unable to stay safe, or need urgent specialist support, crisis and specialist services can help now. Go to Get help now.
Begin with understanding