THE PROGRAMME OF RECOVERY
Twelve Steps.
A path to explore together.
The Steps are at the heart of AA’s programme. Read them here, then explore them with a sponsor or experienced member.
Honesty
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Explore Step 1 →Hope
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Explore Step 2 →Willingness
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Explore Step 3 →Taking stock
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Explore Step 4 →Sharing honestly
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Explore Step 5 →Readiness
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Explore Step 6 →Humility
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Explore Step 7 →Responsibility
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Explore Step 8 →Making amends
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Explore Step 9 →Daily practice
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Explore Step 10 →Quiet connection
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.
Explore Step 11 →Helping others
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.
Explore Step 12 →The Twelve Steps © Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Transcribed from the supplied poster. View the original poster
