My open group observation was of the Lake Area Club, Back to Basic meeting. This is an open meeting, meaning anyone can go. The meeting runs from 8pm to 9pm every Tuesday night. There were two facilitators to the group. In the beginning the leaders told us that we would be reading from the Big-Book and would be studying the steps, but not only studying the steps, we would be takin the steps. The population the group targeted was anyone that was dealing with a compulsive behavior, including codependency. The group was educational in type it ran one day a week for four weeks, starting over again the first week of the month, all twelve steps were covered, from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This group used a small textbook, or workbook
