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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (SHORT FORM)
1. We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
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2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
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3. We decide to put our wills and our lives in the care of God, as we conceive him.
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4. Without fear we made a thorough moral inventory of ourselves.
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5. We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our shortcomings.
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6. We were entirely willing to let God free us from all these character defects.
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7. We humbly ask him to free us from our defects.
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8. We made a list of all those people whom we had offended and were willing to repair the damage we caused them.
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9. We directly repaired the damage caused to as many as possible, except when doing so implied harm to them or to others.
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10. We continued to take our personal inventory and when we were wrong we immediately admitted it.
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11. We seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we conceive him, asking him only to let us know his will for us and give us the strength to fulfill it.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we try to carry this message to other alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Here is the file for you to download the short version of the 12 Steps of AA
THE TWELVE TRADITIONS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (SHORT FORM)
1. Our common welfare must come first; personal recovery depends on AA unity
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority: a loving God as expressed in our group conscience. Our leaders are nothing more than trusted servants. They do not rule.
3. The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4. Each group must be autonomous, except in matters that affect other groups or Alcoholics Anonymous, considered as a whole.
5. Each group has only one primary objective: to carry the message to the alcoholic who is still suffering.
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6. An AA group should never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any entity
related or outside company, to prevent problems of money, property and prestige from diverting us from our primary objective.
7. Every AA group should be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. AA will never be professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9. AA as such should never be organized; but we can create service boards or committees that are directly accountable to those they serve.
10. AA has no opinion on matters outside its activities; therefore, his name should never be mixed up in public controversy.
11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we always need to maintain our personal anonymity before the press, the radio and the cinema.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, always reminding us to put principles before personalities.
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