AA TWELVE STEPS
According to the Big Book, this Step is where we “began to get results” if we were honest and thorough.
What is Step Five?
Tradition Five says every AA group has but one primary purpose, which is to do what?
What is carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers?
This doctor wrote the Big Book’s introductory essay describing alcoholism as a “phenomenon of craving.”
What is The Doctor’s Opinion by Dr. Silkworth?
This Oxford Group principle directly influenced AA’s emphasis on self-examination and confession.
What is the practice of moral inventory and sharing?
This event in 1940 marked the first time AA gained national attention from a wealthy philanthropist.
What is the Rockefeller dinner?
This Step introduces the principle of restitution by making “direct amends wherever possible.”
What is Step Nine?
This Tradition states that AA should remain forever nonprofessional but may employ special workers.
What is Tradition Eight?
This chapter discusses alcoholics who struggle with belief in God.
What is “We Agnostics”?
This hospital in New York City is where Bill W. had his final detox and spiritual experience.
What is Towns Hospital?
This was the first AA service office, opened to answer letters from alcoholics seeking help.
What is the New York AA office (future GSO)?
The 12&12 says this Step brings us to the “essence of the whole AA program: humility.”
What is Step Seven?
This portion of many meetings is dedicated to AA literature rather than discussion or open sharing.
What is a literature or Big Book study?
The Big Book says resentment “destroys more alcoholics than anything else” and does what to us?
What is blocks us from the sunlight of the Spirit?
John D. Rockefeller Jr. indirectly aided AA by hosting this important dinner in 1940.
What is the Rockefeller dinner to raise awareness of AA (but no money)?
This was the first documented AA group formed inside a prison.
What is the San Quentin prison group (or similar early 1940s prison group)?
This Step is where the Big Book says we must lose “prejudice, even against organized religion.”
What is Step Two?
This aspect of meetings teaches humility — it’s the reason no one speaks for AA as a whole.
What is anonymity or Tradition Eleven?
The Big Book states alcoholics suffer from “a hopeless condition of…” what two areas?
What is mind and body?
This country was the first to publish AA literature outside North America.
What is England (UK)?
This was the first time leadership was formally transferred from the founders to the fellowship.
What is the 1955 St. Louis International Convention?
This Step states that our “real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and mankind.”
What is Step Twelve?
This phrase describes the idea that AA spreads not by promotion, but by demonstrating spiritual recovery.
What is “attraction rather than promotion”?
In “There Is a Solution,” the Big Book says we must “completely give ourselves to this program” or else what?
What is we will not recover?
This organization was the first institution outside AA to officially endorse or recommend the program.
What is the American Public Health Association or AMA?
This printed paragraph in the Big Book was the first place the phrase “God could and would if He were sought” appeared.
What is Chapter 4, We Agnostics?