AA TWELVE STEPS
This Step involves making a spiritual choice that affects every Step afterward.
What is Step Three?
This guideline encourages members to speak from personal experience without directing or correcting others.
What is avoiding crosstalk?
This early chapter emphasizes that the AA solution rests on shared experience rather than theory.
What is “There Is a Solution”?
This U.S. city is recognized as the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is Akron, Ohio?
This city was among the first to establish an AA central office for group coordination.
What is New York City?
This Step requires courage to examine how fear, resentment, and dishonesty shaped our behavior.
What is Step Four?
Many meetings begin or end with this simple expression of acceptance and steadiness.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This chapter speaks directly to those who hesitate at spiritual ideas or struggle with belief.
What is “We Agnostics”?
This early supporter believed AA should survive on spiritual principles rather than large donations.
Who is John D. Rockefeller Jr.?
The first known AA meeting in a correctional facility took place in this decade.
What are the 1940s?
This Step teaches humility by asking for help with the traits that cause harm.
What is Step Seven?
This role helps create a welcoming environment by greeting people as they arrive.
What is the greeter?
This chapter outlines a practical system for living in spiritual alignment, not just avoiding alcohol.
What is “Into Action”?
The book that became known simply as “the Big Book” was first printed in this year.
What is 1939?
The first European AA meeting was held in this city following postwar expansion.
What is London?
This Step provides emotional relief by revealing long-held secrets safely.
What is Step Five?
Maintaining anonymity in meetings helps ensure this essential spiritual atmosphere.
What is equality?
This chapter addresses how the alcoholic family can heal and grow once recovery begins.
What is “The Family Afterward”?
This spiritual movement heavily influenced AA’s early principles and practices.
What is the Oxford Group?
One of the earliest AA “clubhouses” to operate around the clock opened in this capital city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This Step helps us contribute to the wellbeing of others rather than focusing solely on ourselves.
What is Step Twelve?
The practice of rotation—changing service roles regularly—protects groups from this danger.
What is accumulating power or ego?
This concept is described as placing us “in a position of neutrality, safe and protected.”
What is recovered mental state through Steps Ten and Eleven?
The symbol of a circle surrounding a triangle represents these three AA principles.
What are unity, service, and recovery?
The first alcoholics to achieve sobriety in AA without meeting either founder were from this state.
What is Maryland?