{"id":54,"date":"2014-08-09T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanon.mystaging.online\/wordpress\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2015-05-06T21:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:19:26","slug":"the-twelve-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanon.mystaging.online\/en\/the-twelve-steps\/the-twelve-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twelve Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

These guidelines are means of promoting harmony and growth in Al-Anon groups and in the worldwide fellowship of Al-Anon as a whole. Our group experience suggests that our unity depends upon our adherence to these Traditions.<\/p>\n

Twelve Traditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.<\/li>\n
  2. For our group purpose there is but one authority\u2014a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants\u2014they do not govern.<\/li>\n
  3. The relatives of alcoholics, when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves an Al-Anon Family Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend.<\/li>\n
  4. Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another group or Al-Anon or AA as a whole.<\/li>\n
  5. Each Al-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the twelve Steps of AA ourselves<\/em>, by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics.<\/li>\n
  6. Our Family Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we should always co-operate with Alcoholics Anonymous.<\/li>\n
  7. Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.<\/li>\n
  8. Al-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.<\/li>\n
  9. Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.<\/li>\n
  10. The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.<\/li>\n
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, and TV. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA members.<\/li>\n
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a9 Al-Anon’s Twelve Traditions, copyright 1996 by Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    These guidelines are means of promoting harmony and growth in Al-Anon groups and in the worldwide fellowship of Al-Anon as a whole. Our group experience suggests that our unity depends upon our adherence to these Traditions. Twelve Traditions Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity. 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