Or can anyone offer a good unofficial 12 step workbook. At the time of writing the big book, women were viewed as less than rather than equal to or, in many cases, superior to. Big book study guide these three workbooks feature information to reinforce important points in the book a program for you and include exercises for selfexamination and disclosure. In this book, you will find the traditional wording of the 12 steps together with an original approach.
Each step is presented with suggested discussion items, reading and writing assignments. This workbook has been developed to serve as a suggested yearlong resource for working the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous. The proactive twelve steps 12 steps workbook by serge prengel. A month is devoted to each of the steps, and there are assignments for team members between each of the weekly meetings. Following the subsequent extensive growth of twelve step programs for other addictive and dysfunctional behaviors, many additional books were written and recordings and videos were produced. Aa double covers also available customized with name and date. We wish to look squarely at the unhappiness this has caused others and ourselves. Steps by the big book is a nocharge website for people in recovery from alcohol and drugs and other addictions who wish to study the 12 steps of alcoholics. This is the beginning of our yearlong study of the 12 steps of alcoho lics anonymous. These step study guides and worksheets have been used by thousands of aas, nas, alanons, oa overeaters, cas, gas and other 12 step recovery program members that use the 12 steps as instructed in the book, alcoholics.
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Our workbook companion to alcoholics anonymous 12 steps of recovery from alcoholism and addiction is called steps by the big book. Questions and answers from the alcoholics anonymous big book. Known as the big book, it is in its fourth edition and is widely circulated through out the world. Guide is your syllabus throughout your 12step course using the idiots guide. Everything contained in these sheets is directly from the big book alcoholics anonymous, there is no opinion, just fact. This, the newcomer thinks, is just about the last straw. The primary purpose of this site is to carry the message contained within the big book of alcoholics anonymous. By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Downloadable group workbook companion to the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous aa, for adults who desire information on alcoholism and addiction recovery. Al kohallek goes stepping new 5th edition al kohallek goes twelve stepping out of print al kohallek takes another journey into the twelve steps and twelve traditions. You will need idiots guide as you go through steps 1 3.
Download pamphlets and handouts to use in big book group sessions our workbook companion to alcoholics anonymous 12 steps of recovery from alcoholism and addiction is called steps by the big book. We provide this study guide based on personal experience to help those following aas 12 steps as outlined in the original big book, alcoholics anonymous aa. To show other alcoholics precisely how we have recovered. It was written in 1939 and the terminology was different then. Our origins are the students of the big book group, which has met in woodland hills, california since december of 1985. Twelve steps to recovery workbook for sexual addiction. The following is a suggested format for a big book step study meeting with emphasis on the fourth step.
It also uses words that the meanings have changed, literally, and this changes the meanings of the underlying concept of the lessons the book is meant to deliver also, the big book is a text book, although written more like a novel, isnt meant to be. Step two is specifically designed for the mental obsession. Read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions. It simply is a workbook that helps you with the textbook aa big book you can.
An active journey through the 12 steps schwartz, aron on. Mindfulness is the fundamental tool offered for practice. Oxford group principles and practices some twentyeight ideas that impacted on the a. We continue to take inventory as in step four and continue to make amends if we harm anyone as in steps eight and nine. The first book written to cover the 12 step program was titled alcoholics anonymous, affectionately known as the big book by program members. The big book bunch 12 step workbook we are the big book bunch group of alcoholics anonymous. We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if. Critique of chapter 5 of the big book step 4 aa agnostica.
The sponsorship guide is your syllabus throughout your 12step course using the idiots guide. Experience the big book is a guided, detailed study of the aa big book and 12 steps, by dr. Big book page 5, line 1 step 5failure to make confession. The 164 and more book, ebook, and web site are all concordances which display passages from the big book alcoholics anonymous, the twelve steps and twelve traditions, and the a. I work my steps out of an na workbook and big book the na workbook is excellent. Chris raymer, aa big book, ca speaker, talks about carrying the message to the addict that still suffers. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions. You will need the big book of alcoholics anonymous large print or hard. For me, and for many other aa members who have used the. By no means can his book be used to replace aas big book, the 12 and 12 or any other aspect of aa. The result of taking the 12 steps of alcoholics anonymous is a spiritual awakening. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to. Choose leather or vinyl for hardcover, paperback and mini alcoholics anonymous big book in up to different 11 colors. The big books approach to step 4, with its masculine focus is not only less helpful to women than it should be, it is probably harmful.
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Stepwork downloads bba formats you will need the big book of alcoholics anonymous large print or hard cover recommended and the big book awakening workbook. The big book holds within it the central thesis and ideas of alcohol anonymous and the 12 step approach. Recovery book covers galore and more at recovery world. The only exception to the big books instruction is a 5th column, whereby we. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps this spiritual awakening, this gift, is the first of our three primary goals of this workbook. New al kohallek is learning to communicate using the traditions a love story.
The big book of alcoholics anonymous the world famous eye. This twelve step workbook guide substitutes terms and phrases related to alcoholism to include any actingout or obsessivecompulsive addiction patterns such as, drugs and all mind altering. The book is based on the 12 steps, intertwining recovery ideas with the buddhist teachings. The only exception to the big books instruction is a 5th column, whereby we identify what we can do differently in the future. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Edas steps are based on the twelve steps of alcoholics anonymous aa. Shop all available double aa book covers for aa big book and 12 steps and 12 traditions together. Twelvestep guide to using the alcoholics anonymous big book. Below, are the idiots guides for the addictionissue you are addressing.
The twelve steps used in the life recovery workbook have been adapted with permission from the twelve steps of alcoholics anonymous. Its these 12 steps, these seven chapters, a mere 103 pages which, when we allow them, change the course of our lives. Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and more concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either alcoholics. Excerpted from taking step twelve by the big book bunch. I went through all 12 steps using that workbook, and although i found that many of the.
Big book sponsorship guide 3 you are going to become a sponsor. Early on, people in this program didnt have a lot of problems with the fellowship like we. Love 2nd spiritual gift one of the most common human needs is love. Clear discussions of each step and probing questions offer us a guide to personal insight and reflection. Many of us feel that we have two primary textbooks in aa, this one and of course the book titled alcoholicsanonymous, called by many the big book. Going through the big book of alcoholics anonymous can sometimes be a struggle. Steps by the big book free sbbb workbook for the 12.