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 maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, film, and digital media.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
