Honesty: In working the 1st Step, when we “admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable,” we had at last found the courage to face the truth and tell it; we were practicing the principle of HONESTY.
What does honesty mean to our group? Why is it important?
How can we see honesty at work in our group and amongst our members?
How well does our group embody and/or adhere to the principle of honesty?
Are our trusted servants honest? Are our members honest?
Can members be honest about their concerns, especially in business meetings?
Hope: In working the 2nd Step, when we “came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity,” we were practicing the principle of HOPE.
What does hope mean to our group and why is it important?
What can we do to encourage the principle of hope to flourish in our group?
How well does our group embody the principle of hope?
Do we provide hope to members?
What else could our group do to bring the principle of hope to our fellowship?
Faith: In working the 3rd Step, when we “made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God,” we were practicing the principle of FAITH.
What does faith mean to our group and why is it important?
How can we see faith at work in our fellowship?
What can we do to encourage the principle of faith to flourish in our group?
How well does our group embody the principle of Faith?
Courage: In working the 4th Step, when we “made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves,” we were practicing the principle of COURAGE.
What does courage mean to our group? Why is it important?
How does our group embody the principles of courage?
Do we demonstrate courage to members?
Do members have courage to share in meetings?
What can we do to better support prayer and courage in our group?
Are there other ways to support the principle of courage?
Integrity: In working the 5th Step, when we “admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs,” we were practicing the principle of INTEGRITY.
What does integrity mean to our group?
What are ways we see integrity at work?
Do our group’s trusted servants embody integrity? Do our members?
If not, how can our trusted servants and members better embody integrity in our group?
Willingness: In working the 6th Step, when we “were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character,” we were practicing the principle of WILLINGNESS.
What does willingness mean to our group?
How is willingness seen at work in our group?
Do our Trusted Servants model willingness?
Are members willing to be of service in both “tedious” roles, e.g. tech support, or kitchen clean-up for in-person meetings, and other types of service roles, such as Secretary/Chairperson?
Humility: In working the 7th Step, when we “humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings,” we were practicing the principle of HUMILITY.
What does humility mean to our group?
How can we see humility at work in our group?
How has showing humility and placing principles before personalities helped our meeting?
How does humility, or a lack thereof, affect our ability to carry the message? Attract and retain newcomers?
How does humility help our group to place “principles before personalities” and why is that important?
Are there ways members and Trusted Servants could both better embody the principle of humility?
Love and Forgiveness: In working the 8th Step, when we “made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all,” we were practicing the principles of LOVE and FORGIVENESS.
What do love and forgiveness mean to our group?
How can we see love and forgiveness at work in our group?
Are there ways we could better support the principles of love and forgiveness? How so?
Why is having love and forgiveness important to our group and our primary purpose of carrying the message of recovery?
Justice: In working the 9th Step, when we “made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others,” we were practicing the principle of JUSTICE.
What does justice mean to our group?
How can we see justice or amends at work in our group?
Do members make amends to one another when appropriate?
How can we encourage justice and amends in our group, and why is it important to do so?
Perseverance: In working the 10th Step, when we “continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it,” we were practicing the principle of PERSEVERANCE.
What does perseverance mean to our group? Why is it important?
How can we see perseverance at work in our group?
Are there ways we can encourage or otherwise facilitate the principle of perseverance in our Group?
Spiritual Awareness: In working the 11th Step, when we “sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out,” we were practicing the principle of SPIRITUAL AWARENESS.
What does spiritual awareness mean to our group? Why is it important to us?
How can we see spiritual awareness at work in our group?
Are there ways we can encourage spiritual awareness in our group, since MA is a spiritual program?
Service: In working the 12th Step, when “having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to marijuana addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs,” we were practicing the principle of SERVICE.
What does service mean to our group and why is it important?
Do we have strong “Service Sponsorship” in our group to encourage members to be of service by learning from the outgoing trusted servant?
Do trusted servants burn out and stop attending the meeting or stop being of service once their commitments end (or before they end?) Why? How can we prevent this?
Do we encourage sponsorship in our group? How? How can we better encourage this form of service in our fellowship? Do we provide any support to our sponsors?
Some districts have a sponsors meeting for sponsors to share about their experiences being sponsors and seek support from other sponsors.
Do our group’s members stick around and continue to serve, or do they leave our group once they’ve been sober for a while?
If they leave MA after being sober a while, why do you think this is? What do you think can be done to encourage longer time members to stay in MA and value service and giving back to MA where they got sober by attending meetings, sharing, taking service roles at all levels, sponsorship and service sponsorship, outreach to newcomers and more?
How can we encourage the principle of service in our group?
