The Steps
Big Book or Basic Text?
What type of meeting?
Prayers
Other 12-Step Programs
100
"Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanageable."
What is step 1?
100
"These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all."
What is the Big Book? (Page xxvi)
100
A meeting that is open to anyone interested in AA or NA, regardless of whether or not they feel they might have a problem.
What is an open meeting?
100
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
What is the serenity prayer?
100
Program for compulsive gamblers.
What is Gamblers Anonymous?
200
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
What is step 4?
200
"Our reaction to drugs is what makes us addicts, not how much we use."
What is the Basic Text?
200
Attendance is limited to persons who have a desire to stop drinking and/or using.
What is a closed meeting?
200
"God, I offer myself to Thee To build with me & to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy love & Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always."
What is the AA 3rd step prayer?
200
Program for friends and family of alcoholics/addicts.
What is Al-Anon?
300
"Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
What is step 2?
300
"Selfishness-self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles."
What is the Big Book? (Page 65)
300
Attendance is limited to men only.
What is a men's stag (or a men's meeting)?
300
"I am now willing that You should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that You now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to You and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do Your bidding."
What is the AA 7th step prayer?
300
Program for prescription drug addiction.
What is Pills Anonymous?
400
"Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character."
What is step 6?
400
"Living this program gives us a relationship with a power greater than ourselves, corrects defects and leads us to help others."
What is the Basic Text? (Page 12)
400
One member of the program shares their story for most (or all) of the meeting.
What is a speaker meeting?
400
"Take my will and my life, guide me in my recovery, show me how to live."
What is the NA 3rd step prayer?
400
Program for food-related problems/compulsions.
What is Overeaters Anonymous?
500
"Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
What is step 8?
500
"There is the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game."
What is the Big Book? (Page 23)
500
A meeting that focuses on 12-step literature.
What is a book (or basic text) study?
500
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace! That where there is hatred, I may bring love. That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness. That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. That where there is error, I may bring truth..."
What is the Saint Francis prayer?
500
Program for people who have trouble maintaining boundaries in relationships.
What is CODA?
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