Twelve Steps
Which step is the first step to include talk of a higher power?
Step 2
There are both men and women specific meetings. True or False
True
What is the full title of the original "Big Book"?
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism
Fill in the blanks:
"The first ________gets you _________. "
drink & drunk."
What was the organization that inspired a lot of AA's ideals and methods?
The Oxford Group
What does personal recovery depend on?
Our common welfare. Personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
She provided secretarial services to Bill W. while he wrote the Big Book.
Ruth Hock
"Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact God as we understood him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
Step 11.
How many sections are in the Big Book?
4
This prayer was seen in an obituary and brought to Bill W's attention by a member named Jack C. and immediately adopted for its relevance to recovery.
The Serenity Prayer.
The city where A.A. got it's start.
Akron, Ohio
Fully self supporting
Tradition 7
Every A.A. group ought to be fully self supporting, declining outside contributions.
She wrote "Women Suffer Too".
Marty Mann
How many steps does the 12 Steps of AA begin with "We"?
1
Brick and mortar.
A reference to in-person meetings.
The answer to all my problems today.
"Acceptance is__________.
Acceptance.
"Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today."
The "12 & 12" refers to which text?
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
This is the non-conference approved study guide to the Big Book.
The Little Red Book.
"To carry it's message to the alcoholic who still suffers".
Tradition 5.
Each group has but one primary purpose-to carry our message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
The Alcoholic Squad
Oxford Group women who opened their homes for meetings and supported members.
How many of the 12 Steps of AA have the word alcohol or alcoholic in them?
2
What does it mean to say some AA meetings are "closed" or "open"?
Closed indicates only alcoholics attend, whereas open invites anyone to attend
Why is the Alcoholics Anonymous book nicknamed "The Big Book"?
They picked the cheapest, thickest paper the printer had, and requested that each page be printed with unusually large margins surrounding the text. This made for an unusually large book.
The 12 Steps are for the alcoholic, the 12 Traditions are for the group and the 12 _______ are for the fellowship as a whole.
Concepts.
The Twelve Concepts of AA
Concept I: Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
Concept II: The General Service Conference of A.A. has become, for nearly every practical purpose, the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole Society in its world affairs.
Concept III: To insure effective leadership, we should endow each element of A.A. —the Conference, the General Service Board and its service corporations, staffs, committees, and executives—with a traditional "Right of Decision."
Concept IV: At all responsible levels, we ought to maintain a traditional "Right of Participation," allowing a voting representation in reasonable proportion to the responsibility that each must discharge.
Concept V: Throughout our structure, a traditional "Right of Appeal" ought to prevail, so that minority opinion will be heard and personal grievances receive careful consideration.
Concept Vl: The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board.
Concept Vll: The Charter and Bylaws of the General Service Board are legal instruments, empowering the trustees to manage and conduct world service affairs. The Conference Charter is not a legal document; it relies upon tradition and the A.A. purse for final effectiveness.
Concept VIII: The trustees are the principal planners and administrators of overall policy and finance. They have custodial oversight of the separately incorporated and constantly active services, exercising this through their ability to elect all the directors of these entities.
Concept IX: Good service leadership at all levels is indispensable for our future functioning and safety. Primary world service leadership, once exercised by the founders, must necessarily be assumed by the trustees.
Concept X: Every service responsibility should be matched by an equal service authority, with the scope of such authority well defined.
Concept Xl: The trustees should always have the best possible committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs, and consultants. Composition, qualifications, induction procedures, and rights and duties will always be matters of serious concern.
Concept Xll: The Conference shall observe the spirit of A.A. tradition, taking care that it never becomes the seat of perilous wealth or power; that sufficient operating funds and reserve be its prudent financial principle; that it place none of its members in a position of unqualified authority over others; that it reach all important decisions by discussion, vote, and, whenever possible, by substantial unanimity; that its actions never be personally punitive nor an incitement to public controversy; that it never perform acts of government, and that, like the Society it serves, it will always remain democratic in thought and action.
June 10, 1935
When was A.A. founded?
Attraction rather than promotion.
Tradition 11
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion, we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
This collection was created by four women and two men June 1944.
The Grapevine Magazine.
How many steps were there originally in A.A.?
6 Steps
1935 Akron, Ohio
The first meeting between Bill W and Dr. Bob.
164 Pages.
The beginning of the Big Book.
It has not been changed since 1939.
AA members approaching new members for romance or dates is sometimes referred to as....
"Thirteenth-stepping"
What are the only two sins in AA?
To interfere with the growth of another human being, and the second is to interfere with one's own growth.
The only requirement.
Traditionp
The only requirement for A.A. membership is the desire to stop drinking.
She is known as the "Mother of A.A.".
Henrietta Seiberling.
She arranged the first meeting between Bill W. & Dr. Bob in 1935.
It's the step humorously referred to inside A.A. for getting to the meeting.
Step 0
The Name of one of the first institutions to allow AA meetings to come into their facility
Rockland State Hospital
The year the Big Book was first published.
1939
This is the year that the first woman joined AA.
1937
He received the millionth copy of the Big Book.
Richard Nixon.
The difference between The 12 Steps and The 12 Principles.
The 12 Steps is for personal recovery.
The 12 Principles is for group unity.
She became known as the alcoholics "Angel of Hope".
Sister Ignatia.
She was a nun and nurse belonging to the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine and worked with Dr. Bob in caring for those suffering from alcoholism.