AA
When was AA founded?
What is 1935?
What step is: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1?
What tradition is: The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking?
What is tradition #3?
This is the second-largest 12-step organization, and was founded in 1953.
What is NA?
The Principle Honesty is associated with what step?
What is Step 1? The first step in AA is about admitting your powerlessness, which boils down to a level of honesty that many addicts haven’t reached until now.
What town was AA founded in?
Akron, OH
What step is: "Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.”
What is Step 8?
What tradition is: Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers?
What is tradition #5?
This program was founded by 3 woman in 1960 and has developed its own literature along with using the Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
What is Overeaters Anonymous?
The Principle Surrender is associated with what step?
What is Step 3? Step 3 involves putting yourself at the mercy of this higher power and moving forward.
Who are the founders of AA?
Dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson
What step is: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs?
What is Step 5?
What tradition is: Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity?
What is tradition #1?
Formed in early 1971, the original group disbanded and meetings were not consistently held again until 1976. In 2009, there were 512 groups meeting worldwide. The group members committed to a rigorous twelve-step approach to prevent incurring further unsecured debt.
What is Debtors Anonymous?
The Principle Courage is associate with what step?
What is Step 4? Step 4, which involves documenting every mistake you’ve ever made, is clearly tied to courage.
AA's program stems from tenets of what religious sect that sought to reproduce the practice of first century Christianity?
What is the Oxford Group?
What step is: 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.
What is step 12?
What is tradition: Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole?
What is tradition #4?
This program was formed in Los Angeles in 1982 by the late Johnny Segal and several others. Seagal worked in the film industry and saw a number of people who had difficulty finding help with this substance.
What is Cocaine Anonymous? CO-Anon
The Principle Love is associated with what step?
What is step 8? Love is empathy and compassion, and Step 8 asks you to make a list of everyone you’ve wronged in your journey to where you are now.
What was Bill Wilson's occupation?
What is stock broker and/or entrepreneur?
What step is: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others?
What is Step 9?
What tradition is: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities?
What tradition is #12?
Founded in 1957, this fellowship was founded by an alcoholic who used his experience in AA as the foundation in forming the group as a 12-step program.
What is Gamblers Anonymous? (Gam-Anon)
The Principle Service is associated with what step?
What is step 12? The final Step of AA is to pay it forward.