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Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 8
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Step 12
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
Step 1
Meetings of this type are unrestricted to alcoholics and their families and to anyone interested in solving a personal drinking problem or helping someone else to solve such a problem.
Open Meetings
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2
These principles were reduced to writing by the founders and early members. They were accepted and endorsed by the membership as a whole at the International Convention of A.A., at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950.
Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Step 3
Originally published in 1939, this is the “book of experience” from which the Fellowship derived its name. It contains an analysis of the principles which led to the sobriety of the earliest members, together with a representative cross section of members’ personal stories.
The Big Book
Published in 1953, this book contains a detailed interpretation of principles of personal recovery and group survival by Bill W., co-founder of the Fellowship.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Step 6
This is a somewhat less than secret code for an AA meeting or a member of AA
“Friend of Bill” or “Friends of Bill W.”
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 9
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Step 5
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Step 7
These meetings are limited to alcoholics. They provide an opportunity for members to share with one another on problems related to drinking patterns and attempts to achieve stable sobriety.
Closed Meetings
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Step 11
A fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
Alcoholics Anonymous
The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World
Pass it on
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 10
This book added new personal-experience material, but retained the opening, explanatory chapters, unchanged.
The Second Edition
Requirement for membership of AA
Desire to stop drinking
Published in 1980, this biography of A.A.’s co-founder also includes pioneer members’ recollections of early A.A. in the Midwest.
Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers
2 million
Two operating bodies of AA
A.A. worldwide services & AA Grapevine, Inc.