What is the 10th tradition of Narcotics Anonymous?
10. Narcotics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the NA name ought never be drawn into public controversy. 11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
Who invented the 12 Steps?
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) originated the idea for the 12-Step model in 1938, when founder Bill Wilson wrote out the ideas that had been developing through his experience with and vision of alcoholism.
What is the 6th tradition of NA?
TRADITION SIX. “An N.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the N.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.”
What is the fifth tradition in NA?
First, our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion: in our Fifth Tradition we are told what the message is that we have to share with the world outside NA. “Our attraction is that we are successes in our own right. As groups gathered together we offer recovery.
What are the 36 principles?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Who founded AA?
Bill W.
Bob Smith
Alcoholics Anonymous/Founders
What is the first rule of AA?
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What are the AA traditions?
History of the Traditions Our thanks to Arthur S. Each of AA’s three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service are grounded upon a foundation of spiritual principles. Each Step, Tradition and Concept is, of itself, a “principle” (i.e. a rule of personal conduct).
What is the history of traditions?
Earl T played a prominent role in the development of both the long and short form of the Traditions. Bill W was called by Barry L (who would later author Living Sober) from the 41stSt clubhouse. Bill persuaded the group to take in a black man who was an ex-convict with bleach-blond hair, wearing women’s clothing and makeup.
What is tradition 3 on the AA calendar?
On the AA calendar of “year two” the spirit of Tradition 3 emerged. A member asked to be admitted who frankly described himself to the “oldest” member as “the victim of another addiction even worse stigmatized than alcoholism.” The “addiction” was “sex deviate.”
Where did tradition 8 come from?
This later formed the basis for Tradition 8. 1945 April, Earl T, founder of AA in Chicago (whose Big Book Story is He Sold Himself Short) suggested to Bill W that he codify the Traditions and write essays on them in the Grapevine. (AACOA 22, 203, GTBT 54-55, 77, SM S8, PIO 306, LOH 20-24).