Step Work

The How it Works Global step sheets for those working the Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Step Program

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The Introduction to the How It Works Program of Recovery
“We admitted we were powerless over alcoholism
that our lives had become unmanageable.”

The Principle is Honesty
Readings for Step One
The Doctors Opinion (Pages xxv-xxxii)
Chapter 2, There is a Solution (Pages 17-29)
Chapter 3, More About Alcoholism (Pages 30-43)
Spiritual Experience (Pages 567-568)
“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”

The Principle is Hope
Readings for Step Two
Chapter 4, We Agnostics (Pages 44 - 57)
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over
to the care of God as we understood Him.”

The Principle is Faith
Reading for Step 3
Chapter 5, How It Works pt (Pages 58-64)
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”

The Principle is Courage
Reading for Step 4
Chapter 5, How it Works pt (Pages 64-71)
“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”

The Principle is Integrity
“We are entirely ready to have God remove
all these defects of character.”

The Principle is Willingness
“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”

The Principle is Humility
“Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
and became willing to make amends to them all.”

The Principle is Brotherly Love
“Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
except when to do so would injure them or others.”

The Principle is Justice
“Continued to take personal inventory
and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”

The Principle is Perseverance
Reading for Steps 10,11 & 12
Chapter 6, Into Action (Pages 84-88)
Chapter 7, Working With Others (Pages 89-103)
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us
and the power to carry that out.”
The Principle is Spiritual Awareness
Reading for Steps 10,11 & 12
Chapter 6, Into Action (Pages 84-88)
Chapter 7, Working With Others (Pages 89-103)
“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.”
The Principle is Service
Reading for Steps 10,11 & 12
Chapter 6, Into Action (Pages 84-88)
Chapter 7, Working With Others (Pages 89-103)