12 Steps of AA
The Benefits of an
AA Program
Provides bonding opportunities
Allows a sense
of community
Many AA programs focus on one condition
STEP ONE
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
STEP TWO
Came to believe that a Power greater
than ourselves could restore
us to sanity.
STEP THREE
Made a decision to turn our will and
our lives over to the care of God as
we understood Him.
STEP FOUR
Made a searching and fearless moral
inventory of ourselves.
STEP FIVE
Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to
another human being the exact
nature of our wrongs.
STEP SIX
Were entirely ready to have God remove
all these defects of character.
STEP SEVEN
Humbly asked Him to remove
our shortcomings.
STEP EIGHT
Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make
amends to them all.
STEP NINE
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to
do so would injure them or others.
STEP TEN
Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong,
promptly admitted it.
STEP ELEVEN
Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with
God, as we understood Him.
STEP TWELVE
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.