Meetings
Something can happen in a meeting that is difficult to describe. Someone tells the truth. Others recognize it. No one tries to fix it. Whatever opens in that moment—call it connection, call it grace, call it love—it is what we are here for.
Egos Anonymous meetings are new. There is no set template and no requirement other than the desire to live with less self-will. If you feel called to start one, you can. Let us know so we can add you to the meeting list on the Reach Out page.
Starting a Meeting
A meeting can be as simple as two or three people and a willingness to show up consistently. You do not need formal training or permission. Use the suggested format as a starting point and adapt it to what serves your group.
Meetings may be held in person or online. Both are valid.
The Twelve Traditions
The Twelve Traditions help Egos Anonymous remain healthy as a fellowship. While the Twelve Steps guide personal recovery, the Traditions guide how we relate to one another—protecting unity, humility, and our shared purpose.
They are not rules, but principles shaped by experience. The Traditions help keep the program from being driven by control, authority, or personal agendas, and remind us to place the well-being of the group above individual preferences.
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon unity.
For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving Reality as it may express itself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to live with less self-will.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or Egos Anonymous as a whole.
Each group has but one primary purpose: to carry its message to those who are exhausted from trying to run life alone.
An Egos Anonymous group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the EA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
Every Egos Anonymous group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
Egos Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
Egos Anonymous, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
Egos Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the EA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion. We encourage anonymity but do not require it.
Anonymity and humility are the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. There are no leaders in Egos Anonymous, only members.
Egos Anonymous is an independent Twelve Step program. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. The Twelve Step framework draws on the traditions developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, acknowledged here with gratitude. The Twelve Traditions are adapted from the Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous and are not endorsed by AA World Services.