The Twelve Traditions of Co-Dependents Anonymous©
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- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends
upon CoDA unity.
- For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority:
a loving Higher Power as expressed to our group conscience. Our leaders are
but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for membership in CoDA is a desire for
healthy and loving relationships.
- Each group should remain autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or CoDA as a whole.
- Each group has but one primary purpose: to carry its message
to other codependents who still suffer.
- A CoDA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the CoDA
name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money,
property, and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
- Every CoDA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
- Co-Dependents Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional,
but our service centers may employ special workers.
- CoDA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
- CoDA has no opinion on outside issues; hence, the CoDA 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, and films.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
* The Twelve Traditions are reprinted and adapted
with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint
and adapt this material does not mean that AA has reviewed or approved the content
of this publication, nor that AA agrees with the views expressed herein. AA
is a program of recovery from alcoholism only - use of the Twelve Traditions
in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after AA, but
which address other problems, does not imply otherwise.
CoDA Fellowship Service Manual / Page 8
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