12 Step Groups12 Step Groups; Understanding the steps by grouping them together12 Step Literature12 Step Literature provides essential reading, needed to: understand the 12-step programme12 Step MeetingsWhat happens in 12 step meetings?Discovery Of The 12 StepsRead the history of the discovery of the 12-steps, a programme that has been adopted as a Step 1We admitted we were powerless over _______ - that our lives had become unmanageable.Step 10Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.Step 11Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we underStep 12Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this messStep 2Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.Step 3Step 3. What is Step Three of the Twelve Steps of Recovery?Step 4Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.Step 5Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongsStep 6Were entirely ready to have God remove all all these defects of character.Step 7Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.Step 8Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them allStep 9Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
The 12-step programme originated from Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 steps for recovery from Alcoholism.
The Original 12 Step Recovery Programme
Alcoholics Anonymous
At the core of this programme are:
- The 12 Steps of recovery
- The 12 Traditions of the unity of recovery groups. Tradition 3 states that the only requirement for membership of a 12 step group is a desire to stop a behaviour that is causing problems.
- The 12 Concepts of World Service for the very survival of Alcoholics Anonymous
Other 12 Step Recovery Programmes
There are hundreds of different 12 step programmes worldwide.
These are some of the 12 step programmes described on this website:
There are many other 12 step programmes. For example: