12
Concepts of Alanon
| The Twelve Steps and Traditions are guides for
personal growth and unity. The Twelve Concepts are guides for service. The
show how Twelfth Step work can be done on a broad scale and how members of a
World Service Office can relate to each other and to the groups, through a
World Service Conference, to spread Al-Anon's message world-wide.
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| 1. | The ultimate responsibility and authority for Al-Anon world
services belongs to the Al-Anon groups.
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| 2. | The Al-Anon Family Groups have delegated complete
administrative and operational authority to their Conference and its service
arms.
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| 3. | The Right of Decision makes effective leadership possible.
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| 4. | Participation is the key to harmony.
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| 5. | The Rights of Appeal and Petition protect minorities and
assure that they are heard.
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| 6. | The Conference acknowledges the primary administrative
responsibility of the Trustees.
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| 7. | The Trustees have legal rights while rights of the
Conference are traditional.
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| 8. | The board of Trustees delegates full authority for routine
management of the Al-Anon Headquarters to its executive committees.
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| 9. | Good personal leadership at all service levels is a
necessity. In the field of world service the Board of Trustees assumes the
primary leadership.
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| 10. | Service responsibility is balanced by carefully defined
service authority and double-headed management is avoided.
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| 11. | The World Service Office is composed of standing committees,
executives and staff members.
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| 12. | The spiritual foundation for Al-Anon's world service is contained in the General Warranties of the conference, Article 12 of the Charter. | |
General Warranties
| In all its proceedings the World Service
Conference of Al-Anon shall observe the spirit of the Traditions:
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| 1. | that only sufficient operating funds, including an ample
reserve, be its prudent financial principle;
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| 2. | that no Conference member shall be placed in unqualified
authority over other members;
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| 3. | that all decisions be reached by discussion, vote and
whenever possible, the unanimity;
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| 4. | that no Conference action ever be personally punitive or
an incitement of public controversy;
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| 5. | that though the Conference serves Al-Anon, it shall never perform any act of government and that, like the fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups which it serves, it shall always remain democratic in thought and action. | |
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