12 Step Programs Flashcards
What is Step 1?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 2?
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step 3?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is Step 4?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 5?
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step 6?
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
What is Step 7?
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step 8?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is Step 9?
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Step 10?
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step 11?
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.
What is Step 12?
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.
Who started AA?
Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
When and where was AA started?
Akron, Ohio in 1935
