About the Program
The 12 Step Program is a proven recovery process for addiction and personal transformation. It supports honesty, humility, reflection, and service while helping participants rebuild life through a supportive community.
1. We admitted powerlessness
We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Belief in a greater Power
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Decision to surrender
We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Moral inventory
We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitting our wrongs
We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Readiness for change
We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asking for help
We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. List of those harmed
We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Making direct amends
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued personal inventory
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Prayer and meditation
We 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.
12. Carrying the message
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.