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The Twelve Traditions of S-Ateen
The Twelve
Traditions are guidelines for the life of individual S-Ateen
groups and for S-Ateen as a whole. These principles
arose from the experience of S-Ateen groups and
other long-established Twelve-Step programs. They are the means
by which S-Ateen maintains its unity and relates to
the world around it.
The
Twelve Traditions of S-Ateen
- Our common welfare
should come first; personal progress for the greatest number
depends upon unity.
- For our group
purpose there is but one authority a loving God as He may
express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants - they do not govern.
- The teenage
relatives of sexaholics, when gathered together for mutual
aid, may call themselves an S-Ateen Group,
provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.
The only requirement for membership is that there be a
problem of sexaholism in a relative or friend.
- Each group should be
autonomous, except in matters affecting S-Ateen
groups or S-Anon or SA as a whole.
- Each S-Ateen
Group has but one purpose: to help other young people who
have been affected by the sexaholism of a family member or
friend. We do this by practicing the Twelve
Steps of S-Ateen, by encouraging and
understanding the members of our family, and by welcoming
and giving comfort to the families and friends of sexaholics.
- S-Ateen,
being a part of S-Anon Family Groups, ought
never endorse, finance, or lend our name to any outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige
divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a
separate entity, we should always cooperate with Sexaholics
Anonymous.
- Every group ought to
be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- S-Ateen
Twelfth-Step work should remain forever non-professional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
- Our groups, as such,
ought never be organized; but we may create service boards
or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- The S-Ateen
Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name
ought never be drawn into public controversy.
- Our public relations
policy is based on attraction rather than promotion, we need
always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press,
radio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity
of all S-Ateen, S-Anon and SA
members.
- Anonymity is the
spiritual foundation of all our Traditions ever reminding us
to place principles above personalities.
(The Twelve Traditions reprinted and adapted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint and adapt the Steps and Traditions does not mean that AA is affiliated with this program. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism - use of this material in connection with programs which are patterned after AA, but which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.)
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