We’re talking about the nitty gritty of navigating life
Join us for a conversation about finding our way without pretense. Our aim is to support you in navigating your own path, hearing and abiding by your conscience. We’re interested in uncovering and exploring what works and what’s empowering – the really practical stuff. We bring you our Citizen Twelve Steps, inspired by the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Our Steps are for ANYONE – no alcoholism or any other condition required. This approach is intended to deliver the best of what’s at the heart of the AA steps without what we see as the unnecessary barriers that make them less than accessible to non-alcoholics (and atheists and others). Our understanding is that the AA founders intended that their approach be available to anyone, not just alcoholics.
Here are our Citizen Twelve Steps:
- Accept we have limited power and that attempting to manage our lives does not solve all our problems
- Come to trust there is another way to live
- Surrender how we live to what we trust to guide us
- Take searching and fearless moral inventory of our errors
- Share the exact nature of our wrongs
- Prepare to let go of our injurious behaviours
- Do what it takes to live without injurious behaviours
- List everyone we have harmed and prepare to amend all harm
- Amend our wrongs as fully as possible without doing further damage
- Continue to review our conduct and respond accordingly
- Do what is needed to deepen our surrender
- Strive to support others interested in this way of living and to practice these principles in all of our affairs
This is the disclaimer Alcoholics Anonymous requested that we provide:
The Citizen Twelve Steps were inspired by the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and are not an adaptation. Rather, they were created specifically for Citizen Twelve and should not be construed otherwise. A.A. is a program concerned only with recovery from alcoholism and is not affiliated with Citizen Twelve.
