Alanon
12 Traditions
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These guidelines are the means of promoting harmony and growth in Al-Anon groups and in the world-wide fellowship of Al-Anon as a whole. Our group experience suggests that our unity depends upon our adherence to these Traditions.
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| 1. | Our common welfare should come first. Personal progress for the greatest
number should depend upon unity.
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| 2. | For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God
as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern.
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| 3. | The relatives of alcoholics, we 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.
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| 4. | Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another
group or Al-Anon or AA as a whole.
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| 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,
by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives, and by welcoming
and giving comfort to the families of alcoholics.
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| 6. | Our Al-Anon 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 cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
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| 7. | Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside
contributions.
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| 8. | Al-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever nonprofessional, but our
service centers may employ special workers.
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| 9. | Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
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| 10. | The Al-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our
name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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| 11. | Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press,
radio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA
members.
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| 12. | Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities. | |
Reprinted with permission from the Al-Anon/Alateen Service Manual
(P-24/27), © 2000, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.
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