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- Our common
welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.R.T.S.
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.R.T.S. membership is a desire to identify
and express our creativity.
- Each group
should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups
or A.R.T.S. as a whole.
- Each group
has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the artist
who still suffers.
- An A.R.T.S.
group ought never endorse, finance, or lend its name to any
related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money,
property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
- Every
A.R.T.S. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
- A.R.T.S.
should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers
may employ special workers.
- A.R.T.S.,
as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- A.R.T.S.
has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.R.T.S. 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.
Adapted from the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Reprinted by permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services,
Inc. Steps copyright © 1939 by A.A. World Services, Inc.
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