I keep hearing the term twelve step call. What is that? Is is ok to ask for someone to come talk to me. I am new to AA and can't drive right now. I have been to a meeting but only understood a little of what was being said. So I would just like to talk to one or two individuals so I can understand.
2006-11-08 08:29:07 · 3 answers · asked by autumn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
A twelve step call is "carrying the message".
It's a very important part of AA, create more AA members. Doesn't make any difference whether or not AA is appropriate or not, gotta swell the ranks!
It's called proselytizing. They wouldn't want you doing 12th step call yet, you haven't been thoroughly indoctrinated yet. AA is bad religion, and it doesn't work for the VAST majority (95%) of people who go there.
2006-11-08 10:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by raysny 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It's probably simply one of the phone calls to other members that 12-steppers frequently demand. That is, they will tell you to make a phone call every day to someone else in the program. Ostensibly, this is so you will maintain contact with those who can help you and so when you really have a problem, you'll be in the habit of picking up the phone.
What is REALLY is, however, is a way to keep you in contact with the brainwashing of the group and a way for other members to proselytize. If you have an option, run far and fast in the opposite direction from 12-step "help." It's not likely you will ever "understand" what's going on in meetings, because it doesn't really make any sense. They talk in clichés that actually have no meaning for anyone anymore...it's just overused chanting to make people feel like they are "in the know" and part of a group.
I suggest you find your own group...your family, friends, a therapist, a book group, WHATEVER. Find healthy people to hang around with who focus their lives on something other than their problems/diseases/mistakes. If you're being forced to attend AA meetings, take a book or some knitting so you can do something useful with your time.
2006-11-09 00:56:38 · answer #2 · answered by CuteWriter 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The 12 Steps of A.A.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. 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 power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
2006-11-08 08:34:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋