Doze tradições

Origens

Vários dos princípios do que se tornaria se tornaria doze tradições de AA foram expressos pela primeira vez no prefácio da primeira edição do Big Book of Alcoólicos Anônimos em 1939. Em 1944, o número de grupos AA cresceu junto com o número de letras sendo enviadas para A sede da AA em Nova York, perguntando como lidar com disputas causadas por questões como publicidade, religião e finanças. Em 1946, o co -fundador da AA, Bill Wilson, formulou mais claramente as idéias básicas para as doze tradições diretamente de tal correspondência com grupos (através do método de consciência do grupo), estabelecendo diretrizes sobre como grupos e membros devem interagir entre si, o público e a AA como como um todo. As tradições foram publicadas pela primeira vez em abril de 1946 AA Grapevine sob o título doze pontos para garantir nosso futuro e foram formalmente adotadas na primeira convenção internacional da AA em 1950. O livro de Wilson sobre o assunto, doze degraus e doze tradições, foi publicado em abril de 1953 .

As doze tradições de alcoólatras anônimos

Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.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.The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.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.Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.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.Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

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Nosso A.A. A experiência nos ensinou que:

Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority — a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.Our membership ought to include all who suffer from alcoholism. Hence we may refuse none who wish to recover. Nor ought A.A. membership ever depend upon money or conformity. Any two or three alcoholics gathered together for sobriety may call themselves an A.A. group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience. But when its plans concern the welfare of neighboring groups also, those groups ought to be consulted. And no group, regional committee, or individual should ever take any action that might greatly affect A.A. as a whole without conferring with the trustees of the General Service Board. On such issues our common welfare is paramount.Each Alcoholics Anonymous group ought to be a spiritual entity having but one primary purpose — that of carrying its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.Problems of money, property, and authority may easily divert us from our primary spiritual aim. We think, therefore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facilities ought not to use the A.A. name. Their management should be the sole responsibility of those people who financially support them. For clubs, A.A. managers are usually preferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside A.A. — and medically supervised. While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such cooperation ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, actual or implied. An A.A. group can bind itself to no one.The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members. We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is unwise. Then too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose. Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money, and authority.Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional. We define professionalism as the occupation of counseling alcoholics for fees or hire. But we may employ alcoholics where they are going to perform those services for which we may otherwise have to engage nonalcoholics. Such special services may be well recompensed. But our usual A.A. "12 Step" work is never to be paid for.Each A.A. group needs the least possible organization. Rotating leadership is the best. The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and the groups of a large metropolitan area their central or intergroup committee, which often employs a full-time secretary. The trustees of the General Service Board are, in effect, our A.A. General Service Committee. They are the custodians of our A.A. Tradition and the receivers of voluntary A.A. contributions by which we maintain our A.A. General Service Office at New York. They are authorized by the groups to handle our over-all public relations and they guarantee the integrity of our principal newspaper, the A.A. Grapevine. All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in A.A. are but trusted and experienced servants of the whole. They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern. Universal respect is the key to their usefulness.No A.A. group or member should ever, in such a way as to implicate A.A., express any opinion on outside controversial issues — particularly those of politics, alcohol reform, or sectarian religion. The Alcoholics Anonymous groups oppose no one. Concerning such matters they can express no views whatever.Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.And finally, we of Alcoholics Anonymous believe that the principle of anonymity has an immense spiritual significance. It reminds us that we are to place principles before personalities; that we are actually to practice a genuine humility. This to the end that our great blessings may never spoil us; that we shall forever live in thankful contemplation of Him who presides over us all.

As tradições em outros programas de doze etapas

Outros programas de doze etapas fazem pequenas alterações nas doze tradições originais usadas em alcoólatras anônimos e oferecem interpretações específicas para seus programas. As doze tradições de narcóticos anônimos (NA), o segundo maior programa de doze etapas, são como afirmado (somente formato curto) com todas as instâncias de AA substituídas por Na, a palavra alcoólatra substituída pela palavra viciada e a palavra Beber substituído pela palavra usando. Na publicou seus funcionários: como e por que seu próprio estudo das doze tradições.

A maconha anônimo fez mudanças semelhantes para adaptar as tradições ao uso da maconha e deu um passo adiante ao eliminar pronomes masculinos em referência a Deus. Isso é paralelo a redação dos doze passos de Ma. As etapas e as tradições da MA são listadas e expandidas no texto de Ma, a vida com esperança.

Singularidade de propósito

A singularidade de propósito de AA é um princípio derivado da quinta tradição de alcoólatras anônimos, "cada grupo tem apenas um objetivo principal - levar sua mensagem ao alcoólatra que ainda sofre". Outros grupos substituem a palavra alcoólatra pela característica de identificação de sua comunhão ou reformulam -a para ter um significado semelhante. Por exemplo, na maconha anônimo, esse membro seria um viciado em maconha, enquanto em narcóticos anônimos, o membro seria um viciado. O princípio é baseado na filosofia de que aqueles que compartilham desejos físicos comuns e obsessões mentais podem entender e ajudar aqueles que estão lutando com seus vícios específicos. O fundador anônimo do Alcoólicos, Bill Wilson, escreveu em fevereiro de 1958 AA Grapevine que

Não podemos dar uma associação de AA a narcóticos não alcoólicos. Mas, como qualquer outra pessoa, eles devem poder participar de certas reuniões abertas de AA, desde que, é claro, que os próprios grupos estejam dispostos. Mas eles devem se abster de se chamar grupos de AA. Parece não haver razão para que vários AAs não possam se unir, se desejarem, com um grupo de viciados retos para resolver o álcool e o problema de drogas juntos. Mas, obviamente, um grupo de "duplo propósito" não deve insistir em que seja chamado de grupo AA, nem deve usar o nome AA em seu título. O contingente "viciado em linha reta" também não deve ser levado a acreditar que eles se tornaram membros da AA em razão de tal associação. Certamente, há todas as boas razões para que os AAs se unam a grupos "externos", trabalhando no problema do narcótico, desde que as tradições de anonimato e "sem endossos" sejam respeitadas.

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