Os 3 Legados – Al-Anon

The 3 Legacy

Recovery through the 12 Steps
Studying these steps is essential to progressing in the Al-Anon program.
The principles they express are universal, applicable to everyone, whatever their personal beliefs.
In Al-Anon, we strive for an ever-deepening understanding of these Steps, and we pray for wisdom to apply them in our lives.

We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol – that we had lost control of our lives.
We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
We made the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
We made a thorough and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
We admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our defects.
We were completely ready for God to remove all these character defects.
We humbly ask You to remove our imperfections.
We made a list of all the people we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
We continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, we promptly admitted it.
We sought, through prayer and meditation, to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the strength to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening through these Steps, we sought to carry this message to others and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

12 Traditions

Unity through Traditions

The following traditions keep us together. They guide groups in their relationships with other groups, with AA, and with the world around us.

They recommend Group attitudes regarding leadership, membership requirements, money, property, public relations and anonymity.

The traditions evolved from the experiences of AA groups as they tried to solve their problems of living and working together. Al-Anon has adopted these guidelines for its groups, and over the years they have proven to be reliable and sensible. Although these are only suggestions, the unity of Al-Anon and even its survival depend on adherence to these principles.

The 12 Traditions

Our common welfare must come first; the personal progress of the greatest number of members depends on unity.
For our Group purpose there is only one authority – a loving God who can manifest Himself in our Group consciousness. Our leaders are only trusted servants; they do not govern.
Relatives of alcoholics, when they come together to help one another, may call themselves an Al-Anon Family Group, provided that as a Group they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership is that there be an alcohol problem in a relative or friend.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting another group, or Al-Anon, or AA as a whole.
Each Al-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help family members of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the 12 Steps of AA ourselves, by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic family members, and by welcoming and providing comfort to family members of alcoholics.
Our Al-Anon Family Groups should never endorse, finance, or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual purpose. Although a separate entity, we should always cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
Each Group must be completely self-sufficient, refusing contributions from outside.
Al-Anon's 12th Step work must always remain non-professional, but our service centers may employ skilled workers.
Our Groups, as such, should never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Al-Anon Family Groups do not express opinions on outside issues, so our name should never be involved in public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction, not promotion; we must always maintain personal anonymity in print, radio, television, and film. We must protect the anonymity of all AA members with the utmost care.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, reminding us to always place principles above personalities.

The 12 Concepts

Os Doze Passos e Tradições são orientações para o crescimento pessoal e unidade de Grupo. Os Doze Conceitos são uma orientação para o serviço. Eles mostram como o trabalho do Passo Doze pode ser feito em larga escala e como os membros do Escritório de Serviços Gerais podem se relacionar uns com os outros e com os Grupos, através da Conferência de Serviços Gerais, para divulgar a mensagem do Al-Anon no mundo todo.

Final responsibility and authority for Al-Anon's worldwide services rests with the Al-Anon Groups.
Al-Anon Family Groups delegate complete administrative and operational authority to their Conference and service units.
O Direito de Decisão propicia a liderança efetiva.
Participation is the key to harmony.
Os Direitos de Apelação e Petição protegem as minorias e garantem que elas sejam ouvidas.
A Conferência reconhece a responsabilidade administrativa primordial dos Custódios.
Os Custódios têm direitos legais, enquanto os direitos da conferência são tradicionais.
A Junta de Custódios delega plena autoridade de administração rotineira da sede do Al-Anon a seus comitês executivos.
Boa liderança pessoal em todos os níveis de serviço é uma necessidade. No campo de serviços mundiais, a Junta de Custódios assume a liderança principal.
A responsabilidade de serviço é balanceada por autoridade de serviço cuidadosamente definida, evitando dupla administração.
O Escritório de Serviços Mundiais é composto por comitês permanentes, executivos e membros do quadro de funcionários.
A base espiritual dos Serviços Mundiais Al-Anon está contida nas Garantias Gerais da Conferência, artigo 12 da Ata de Constituição.

As Garantias Gerais da Conferência

Em todos os seus procedimentos Conferência de Serviços Gerais observará o espírito das Doze Tradições:

Que somente suficientes fundos operacionais, incluindo uma ampla reserva, seja o seu prudente princípio financeiro;

Que nenhum membro da Conferência seja colocado em posição de autoridade absoluta sobre outros membros;

Que todas as decisões sejam tomadas por meio de discussão, votação e, sempre que possível por unanimidade;

Que nenhuma ação da Conferência seja pessoalmente punitiva, nem uma incitação à controvérsia pública;

Que, embora a Conferência preste serviço ao Al-Anon, jamais venha a exercer qualquer ação autoritária e que, da mesma forma que os Grupos Familiares Al-Anon aos quais ela presta serviço, permaneça sempre democrática em pensamento e ação.