FOURTH STEP GROUPS:
Making a Spiritual Life Inventory
“We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
When: two separate groups.
1. Thursdays beginning January 6, 2010 from 3-4:30
2. Sundays beginning January 9, 2010 from 3-4:30.
Will continue for six to eight weeks, with the opportunity to continue if group conscience would like to continue working on Step Four longer and in more detail.
Where: Token III Club on Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY.
Who: Any interested person in Al-Anon, AA or otherwise interested.
Format: Introduction to:
- The nature of our Al-Anon/relationships disease, and of our “symptoms” as inventoried in Step Four.
- Standard Methods: both groups will deal with all four components.
Ø Life Story
Ø Four Column Spreadsheet (standard, derived from AA and practiced in Al-Anon)
Ø Blueprint for Progress (Al-Anon guide to doing a 4th Step)
Ø Fear and Sexual Inventories
o The format of the Thursday group will be focused primarily on the Four Column method: for person who have never done a Fourth Step in columns, or would like to do it again, and it has been requested by current group members to show how to use the Four Column method specifically for current life issues as they are attached to past experiences (grief work).
o The format of the Sunday group will be focused primarily on the Blueprint for Progress – especially how to answer the questions and use it vast resources.
(Participants may attend either or both groups, as they are interested and available. The current room will allow for about 10-12 persons each group. Other arrangements may be possible if we exceed the comfort level of the room.)
Leader: Will Wass
How to sign up:
Email me at wwass12@aol.com or call 499-0581. Please leave contact information so you can be reached in the event of changes. Also, messages can be sent and received through Facebook. A list will also be posted at the Token III Club.
Group contribution will be given to the Club for use of the room. No other costs for the group. For Sunday Group especially, will need a copy of Al-Anon’s Blueprint for Progress.
(These groups are a continuation/extension of Spiritual Maintenance Groups begun in 2008 using Al-Anon Twelve Steps, and the Spiritual Maintenance groups will continue when the Fourth Step group is completed.)
First Assignments:
1. Read some literature that introduces the principles of Step Four: Al-Anon’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Paths To Recovery , The Courage to Change (from index in the back), and/or any other literature about Step Four.
2. Make a list of important persons in your life, from birth to present : parents, siblings, other family, friends, teachers, supervisors, other authority persons, romantic friends and partners, God, etc……
3. Make a list of institutions that have directly or directly affected your life.
4. Make a list of persons with whom you have significant individual memories: e.g. clerks at stores or institutions, acquaintances at school and otherwise, co-workers, etc …..
