Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners & Refresher Class Sessions Prepared by Mike & Kathy L, West Orange, NJ Revision 1.0 May 5, For additional copies visit http://back.to/aabasics on the Internet ____________________________________________________________________________________ 59 Session #4 – The Four Absolutes and Steps 10, 11, & 12 Session #4 – The Four Absolutes and Steps 10, 11, & 12 My name is __________ and I’m an alcoholic. Before we begin, let’s have a moment of silence to invite the God of our own understanding into our hearts and ask for an open mind and the willingness to have anew experience followed by the Serenity Prayer”… During this session we’ll be covering the daily tools for living the Big Book suggests we use once we begin to make amends and restitution. In the past three sessions we’ve covered the directions in the Big Book for taking the first nine steps of Alcoholic Anonymous and have taken Steps through 8 together as a group. Last session we took Steps 6 & 7 together, we covered the detailed instructions in the Big Book on how to complete our 9 th Step Amends, and then worked on our 8 th Step Amends lists during the break. Can I have a show of hands of those people that have completed the first Steps and are willing to begin making amends Take a count If you don’t have the willingness to make amends to some people, pray until it comes. In the meantime, start making the easier amends immediately. As we seethe results of making amends to the easier people on our lists God will give us the Power and the willingness to proceed with the more difficult names. Don’t fall into the drunk trap of not proceeding with Step 9 until you’re ready to face everyone on your list. That’s simply an excuse for not moving forward. And remember, we agreed at the beginning to go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. Well, in this case any lengths means completing our amends. If there are no questions about Steps 8 & 9 we will proceed to the directions for daily living the Big Book outlines for us in the rest of the steps. But before we begin Steps 10 and 11, we’d like to introduce you to additional principles our founders used for daily spiritual living. These are called the:
