STEP TWELVE
1. Step 12 begins “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps…” Describe your
understanding of the meaning of a “spiritual awakening.” Do you believe you have had one? How
has it affected your recovery?
2. Read Step Twelve in the Twelve and Twelve.
3. Read Pages 196 and 263 in As Bill Sees It. Discuss the idea that the basic antidote for fear is a
spiritual awakening.
4. Read Page 449 in the 3rd edition of the Big Book or Page 417 in the 4 th edition “Acceptance is the
answer to all of our problems.” Discuss how your view of “acceptance” has changed.
5. Read Pages 3, 5, 163 in As Bill Sees It. Write about how working the steps is changing your
behavior.
6. Compare how you handle feelings of “restlessness and discontent” now with how you handled
those feelings before working the steps.
7. Read Chapter Seven in the Big Book, “Working with Others. Discuss how you are working with
others now.
8. Describe what you believe is appropriate behavior for you to in “extending the hand of AA.”
Does it reconcile with our tradition of attraction rather than promotion?
9. Now that you have worked all 12 steps, discuss how you are learning to practice the principles of
of the program of AA in all your affairs.”
10. Write on why you need to continue to guard against HALT (hungry, angry, lonely and tired).
11. Discuss living in the solution, rather than the problem. How does acceptance help you live in the
solution?
12. Write on the concept that to be vital, faith must be accompanied by unselfish action. How has
your present recovery given testimony to this concept?
13. Discuss how our stories are not of success but of pain and suffering changed with God’s grace into
spiritual progress.
