{"id":581,"date":"2020-04-18T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pleasanthillaa.com\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:53:31","slug":"twelve-traditions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pleasanthillaa.com\/index.php\/welcome-to-pleasant-hill-aa\/resources\/twelve-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority \u2013 a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Each group has but one primary purpose \u2013 to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">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.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Copyright \u00a9 A.A. 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