Traditions Meeting
Welcome to the Traditions Study Recordings page! Starting in October 2024, we embarked on a 13-week journey exploring meaningful traditions, featuring a different speaker each week. Each session includes an in-depth discussion, offering rich insights and diverse perspectives on the traditions that shape our lives and communities.
Here, you can access all the recordings from this enlightening series, allowing you to revisit or catch up on any sessions you may have missed. Dive into the conversations and discover the wisdom shared by our expert speakers.
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INTRODUCTION
Friday, Oct. 4th
Introduction to the Traditions and their history.
TRADITION 1
Friday, Oct. 11th
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity.
TRADITION 2
Friday, Oct. 18th
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.
TRADITION 3
Friday, Oct. 25th
The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking.
TRADITION 4
Friday, Nov. 1st
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
TRADITION 5
Friday, Nov. 8th
Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
TRADITION 6
Friday, Nov. 15th
An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
TRADITION 7
Friday, Nov. 22nd
Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
TRADITION 8
Friday, Nov. 29th
Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
TRADITION 9
Friday, Dec. 6th
AA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
TRADITION 10
Friday, Dec. 13th
Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
TRADITION 11
Friday, Dec. 20th
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.
TRADITION 12
Friday, Dec. 27th
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.