Below are PDFs and Documents that can be used to support your local group to evaluate how well it is fulfilling their primary purpose.

The AA Group…where it all begins– a pamphlet

AA Group Inventory Information– Many groups periodically hold a “group inventory meeting” to evaluate how well they are fulfilling their primary purpose: to help alcoholics recover through A.A.’s suggested Twelve Steps of recovery. Some groups take inventory by examining our Twelve Traditions, one at a time, to determine how well they are living up to these principles. Groups interested in taking regular inventory will find a review of the Tenth Step helpful. The following questions, compiled from A.A. shared experience, may be useful in arriving at an informed group conscience. 

Group Inventory Workshop Recording- SA Central CA workshop recorded on 6-25-16 at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, CA. You can download digital copies of the documents mentioned in the first share by clicking HERE.

Group Inventory Questions– from Modesto, comprehensive list compiled from 4 sources

The SA Home Group– a pamphlet

  • What Is an SA Home Group?
  • Do I Have to Join a ‘Home’ Group?
  • The Home Group is a Spiritual Entity
  • Common SA Home Group Issues
  • What is my Role in the Group?
  • Group Business Meetings
  • Essay Newsletter
  • Service in the Group

Practical Guidelines for Recovery– a 13 page pamphlet

Read an Excerpt:

Practical Guidelines for Group Recovery

There are times when groups need recovery. This is simply a fact of life. The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are to group recovery what they are to individual recovery. It takes time and mutual effort to incorporate these principles into group life, just as it takes time and effort to incorporate them into our personal attitudes and behavior.

The following suggested guidelines are offered to foster group recovery by helping newcomers get a positive start, encouraging sponsorship, reducing slipping, and supporting long-term recovery. These guidelines have been worked out in real situations where significant turnarounds have been experienced. The emphasize the solution over the problem.

Regardless of how any of these guidelines may be tried, group recovery does not come about unless there is some significant individual recovery within the group. More specifically, it seems that for there to be group recovery, there must be at least one member in the group who is undergoing the spiritual awakening this program promises. There must be a point of contact within the group where the fire can be kindled. The best principles, beliefs, and techniques in the world cannot do what only God can do through such awakening individuals. With such personal awakenings taking place, then certain practical guidelines can help facilitate group recovery.

What can we do to keep our groups centered on a positive sobriety? Here are some suggestions that various groups have hammered out on the anvil of experience and found to work…

 

Group Inventory Worksheet– Grapevine

A group is not an inanimate thing. You hear references made to “the spirit of this group….” A group has personality and so groups differ one from another as do individuals. Some groups do well, others do poorly. Some groups flourish for a while and then go into a decline. Some groups fail, close down and cease to hold meetings. Why?
If an individual should take inventory even if he is doing well, why not the group? If things are not progressing satisfactorily, then an inventory is particularly in order.
How does a group take inventory? Much in the same manner as an individual. It should probably be done at a closed meeting. The leader might have pencil and paper and some prepared questions. The group then, through its members present, should review its assets and liabilities — not just the financial items. Though these too, might be included. Emphasis should be given to the overall job being done, to an examination of how the group is executing its responsibility.

Why Working the Steps is Important– a pamphlet

Many sexaholics are highly visual

This brochure is an attempt to provide a visual explanation of the importance and benefit of actually working the 12 Steps of Sexaholics Anonymous

Its purpose is to help demystify the 12 Steps and make them more understandable

The Spirituality of Service– a Pamphlet

  • Service on behalf of the Fellowship is recovery in action.
  • Benefits of Service
  • The Twelve Steps and service
  • Leadership through a spiritual lens
  • Love is the key
  • Through carrying the message in service, we see the words of the Third Step Prayer become real as victory over our defects bears witness to those we would help of God’s great Power, Love, and Way of Life