AL-ANON

WORKSHOP
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12 STEPS
 Orientation

Open with the Serenity Prayer

Rules to Observe:

Be punctual
2. Do not miss (maximum number of absences=2. It is the responsibility of the
I will check the homework and do it.
3. Do the homework (if someone comes without doing it, it will be canceled)
meeting
4. If we leave the group, it is suggested to explain the reason to your
companions.
5. Have a sponsor who has worked the 12 steps.
6. Bring a small notebook to use it as an index, notebook
large and pens in blue, red, and green.
7. Obtain the Blue Book of AA, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Traditions of AA and Pathways of Recovery of Al-Anon.
All necessary items for the workshop exercises.
8. Write down everything we can so that we can use it later as
reference.
9. If you are absent (due to an emergency), call a colleague to
to excuse us and ask for the homework.
10. Do the homework in advance and with care
11. Do not cut corners in tasks, apply 100%, being the
homework time followed, without interruptions.
12. Do not refute us, nor interrupt us.
13. Maintain anonymity.
14. The duration of the workshop will be 30 weeks; This period could
to extend depending on the evolution of the group.
15.Attend an Al-Anon meeting at least once a week.

WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM THIS WORKSHOP?

Close with the Serenity Prayer.

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 Week 1

First Step

Read the 1st Step in the AA Twelve Steps book. Also the 1st.
Al-Anon Recovery Path Steps.

Exercises:

Answer the following questions

If I had...... I would be very happy

If they did.........I would be very happy.

Write about the things we truly wanted and received;

Not the things we wanted and did not receive.

TASK

Write a story that includes everything I did when I discovered

that had problems with my personal relationships.

Return the thought to the first memory of childhood.

From then on, write up to the present.

Next week: share the feelings that came out and to which
conclusion we reached as a result of this exercise.

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 Week 2

Second Step
Objective:
Learning to trust in God
Recognize that it is our Higher Power
Eliminate the reasons why we do not trust him.

Read the 2nd Step of the Twelve Steps of AA and the 2nd Step of
Al-Anon Recovery Pathways.

Exercise:

1. Make a list of the characteristics that my must have

Higher Power to be able to fully trust in Him.

2. Make a second list of the factors that are affecting me

preventing from trusting in my Higher Power.

3. Visualize what my Higher Power is.

TASK:
Read the 1st Step of the AA Twelve Steps book. Write
about the effect that compulsion has had on you through
the years.

Look up the definition of COMPULSION in the dictionary and

CONTROL.

Next week: Share these exercises.

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 Week 3

Third Step
Objective:

To make a decision in life, there always needs to be a witness.

Read the 3rd Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the 3rd Step of
Al-Anon Recovery Paths.

Exercises:

The following exercise must be done in front of a witness.

Read on page 59 of the blue AA book, second paragraph, 'The prayer

of the Third Step" (on PDF page 34, 6th paragraph). Read the sentence several
times until you understand it. When you feel that you understood it well,
write the sentence in your own words.

2. Select a person to serve as a witness and tell them the prayer.

that you wrote feeling it with all your heart. Kneel before
this person and tell him the prayer you have written to God.

3. Watch the movie 'Field of Dreams', pay attention to the Faith of the
protagonist Kevin Costner.

TASK:
Reread the 1st Step of the Twelve Steps of AA. Find the relationship of the
1st. Step with the following:

a) Progressive nature of the disease.

b) Need to not pressure a person until they are ready.
c) What is the exact nature of our illness.
d) How do you apply each of these concepts (a, b, c).

Next Week: comment on the reading of the steps, the movie and
share the experience of prayer.

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 59
HOW IT WORKS

plans and in our projects. We are becoming increasingly interested

in realizing what we could contribute to
life. As we feel a power flowing within us
new, that we enjoy mental tranquility, that we discover
that we could face life satisfactorily, that we arrived
to be aware of His Presence, we begin to lose
our fear of today, tomorrow, or the future. We were reborn.

We were now at the Third Step. Many of us were

we said to our Creator, as we conceive Him: 'God, I...
ofrezco a Ti para que obres en mí y hagas conmigo Tu voluntad.
Deliver me from my difficulties and may the victory over them be the
testimony for those whom I helped of Your Power, Your Love
and in the way that You want us to live. That I may always do
Your Will. We thought carefully before taking this step,
making sure that we were ready to do it; that
we could finally abandon ourselves completely to Him.

We find it very convenient to take this spiritual step with

an understanding person, just like our wife
best friend or our spiritual advisor. But it is better
to meet with God alone, than with someone who perhaps does not
understand. The words were, of course, completely
optional, as long as we expressed the idea without any
reservation. This was just the beginning, but when it was done
honored and humbly, one immediately felt an effect on
sometimes very big.

Then we set out on a course of action.

vigorous in which the first step consists of a cleaning
staff of our house, which many of us never
we had tried. Although our decision was a step
fundamental and decisive, its permanent effect could not be
much less than being followed immediately by a
energy effort to face the things that were in
we, who were being hindered and to detach ourselves from

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 Week 4
FOURTH STEP
Objective:

Knowing oneself
Read the 4th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the 4th Step of
Paths of Recovery of Al-Anon.

Exercises:

Sit continuously for 3 to 5 hours, at least 3 hours. Divide my life

in 3 periods. For example, 'If I am 30 years old, then divide it into 3 periods of 10 years.'
each one". This week we will work only on the first period.

Return to the first memory and regarding that memory write

the following:
What happened?
b) Who was involved?
c) How did I feel?

2. Leave 2 lines between events, in case something has been forgotten.

3. Write with a blue ink pen.

4. If during that time you feel too much emotion, take a

small break and then continue.

5. What is not remembered is not important. But if something is remembered,

Write it down, even if you feel shame or fear in doing so.

TASK:

Write about the fatal nature of our illness as it is referred to

the last paragraph of the 1st Step of the AA Twelve Steps book. Include
how the nature of the illness has shortened their life or affected them.

Next Week: Share about the first period.

Obtain the following book, but do not read it:

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Autor: Emmet Fox

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 Week 5

Second Period of the Fourth Step

Write the Second period of the 4th Step, in the same way
what we wrote the first period.

TASK:

Read the 2nd Chapter 'There is a Solution' from The Big Book
AA or Blue Book.

1. Write about the importance of discipline in my life.

2. What role has discipline or the lack of it played in my life?

her?

Next week: Share about the second period of the 4th.

Step.

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 Week 6
Third Period of the 4th Step

Write the third period of the 4th step in the same way as
we write the first and the second period.

TASK:

Read chapter 3 of the AA Blue Book: 'Something More About'

Alcoholism (in PDF 'Alcoholism').

Write about the following quote: 'Deceiving others is almost

always based on the deception of ourselves.

1. Write about the relationship that this quote has with our
own history of controllers.

2. What things did we do in the past out of our confusion about

to control, which reaffirms this quote.

Next Week: Share the third period of the 4th Step

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 Week 7
Continuation of the 4th Step
Entregar la Lista de definiciones de Virtudes y Defectos de Carácter.

Exercises:

Read the definitions several times to be able to understand them well.

2. Go back to the three periods of the 4th step and write with a pen.
red, on the edge of the paper, the defects we identified in
each event. Then we return to the same events and
also in the margin of the paper, with a red pen, let's make a
slash/ and let's write down the virtues that correspond to each
event.
If there is no defect in the event, write only the virtue.

3. At the end of the task of defects and virtues, add the amount.
total number of events that have been written.

4. Calculate the percentage of defects and virtues that we have:

amount of virtues
% of virtues = x 100
number of events

number of defects
% of defects = x 100
number of events

TASK:
Read the 1st Step of the AA Twelve Steps book

Look for the definition in the dictionary of at least 5 words.

that have great meaning for you.

Next Week: Share the number of defects and virtues

found

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 LIST OF DEFINITIONS OF VIRTUES AND CHARACTER DEFECTS

Belonging to character and behavior from the point of

view of the good and the bad and ethics. The moral of the story; Ex.:
MORAL the teaching of the story, the reason for what happens in the story, the
real message of the story, the reason for behavior, feelings
and thoughts that appear in the story.
The willingness to convert with the law of good when one is being
tempted to deviate from one's own conviction of what is good. Moral
specific, by excellence, developed through difficulty and the
conflict when facing temptation. Often, virtue is
VIRTUE considered to be of greater value or simply good since
It requires strength and character to behave better than one is.
tempted to behave. Simply, to be good (never
temporarily) requires neither character nor effort as there is no
conflict.
The quality or ability to be moderate, calm, to have control over
TEMPERANCE yes oneself. Not drinking, using drugs, or reacting when one is
tempted.
The quality of being economically careful, frugal. Discretion.
PRUDENCE
To be considered.
To align one's behavior with the principles of good as it is
apply to yourself. Adhere to the truth of the facts;
JUSTICE
impartial interpretation of what is due and worthy.
Reasonable, honest, fair.
The power of the mind to know, confront, or endure pain and
FORTRESS adversity. The quality of passively enduring with courage.
determination to continue when it is difficult.
Practical dependence on a person, thing, or statement.
FE Trust (like in a friend). Action taken due to the
hope or belief.
The belief or desire with some expectation of obtaining something.
HOPE
To wish.
Love. Being prepared to overlook faults. Benevolence
CHARITY spiritual. Attitude and behavior that demonstrates affection and
interest.
AVARIACIA Wanting or wishing for something that is reluctant to be earned.
Excessive appetite for anything. Wanting more than what is.
SUGAR
beneficial for you.
Laziness Not inclined to make an effort. Usually idle. Postpone.
Improper or disordered sense of self-importance.
PRIDE Deviation from the truth about oneself (believing that one is better
or worse)
LUST Passionate, chaotic, obsessive desire for anything.
Resentful, hostile, and selfish aversion to someone having and enjoying.
ENVY something that you do not have. To desire something that another has, combined
with the conviction that that person does not deserve it.
Violent feeling of dislike, passionately vengeful.
IRA
Sudden strong emotional dislike towards someone or something.

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 Week 8
Continuation of the 4th Step
Objective:

To work with the 4 instincts that were given to us by God.

Material Security: house, clothing, food, money, jewelry, etc.

Emotional Security: someone or a group of people who love us

in a way that we can appreciate, love, and be loved.

Sexual Security: being able to have a partner to express oneself

our sexuality in a way that we can appreciate.

4. Social Security: having a sense of purpose or making a difference

the contribution to society and the world.

Exercises:

Go back to step 4 again and start from the beginning, with a green pen,
identify in each event which instinct we are using or abusing.

After finishing the exercise, answer the following questions:

Why am I the way I am?
What makes me function?
What makes me do what I do?
4. What makes me think the way I think?

TASK:
Calculate what percentage of each instinct we use or abuse:

amount of each instinct

% of instinct = x 100
number of events

THE IDEAL - A balance between the 4 instincts would equal a Good

Self-esteem

Next Week: share the exercises

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 Week 9
INFORMATION

There are 3 ways to change the values:

Change the group (friendships) where one operates.

2) Ask for permission. E.g.: "When I need to take it away

something about the place where he/she works, asking for permission to do so.

3) Request information and help from a professional who is in that

field, or correct the problem through literature.

WORK ABOUT FEARS

Fear is an emotion given by God and is designed to protect

our person. There is an appropriate moment to feel fear. Fear
it is appropriate when it protects my person. When I use it to protect my
personality, fear is inappropriate.

Examples of inappropriate fears: abandonment, failure, etc.

Exercises:

1) Make a list of the inappropriate fears they have nowadays.

2) After finishing the list, apply ONLY ONE OF THE

NEXT QUESTIONS about each of your fears:

a) What do I have that I could lose, if I didn't feel this fear?

b) What I want, that I couldn't achieve, if I didn't feel this

fear?

c) What do I not want, that I could have, if I didn't feel this fear?

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 Week 10
5TH STEP - Part I
The person we give the 5th step to has to be
available for at least 3 hours.

Objective:

Most of our lives we have spent blaming the

others. Many of those times we have done what we have
dear and yet we continue blaming others, and the
The truth is that we always get our way. We do
those things because we want to do it. That is what we are.
If it has always been someone else's fault, there is no chance for
change. Now we realize that this is not the case.

Read the 5th Step of the Twelve Steps of AA and the 5th Step
of Al-Anon Recovery Paths.

Exercises:
1) Sit quietly and without interruptions. Read our
history from the beginning; and event by event tell us to
ourselves: "That's the way I am." "That's how it is"
as I am.” (this is to admit to ourselves).

2) Let a day pass and do the same, but allowing for

our Higher Power. “Lord, my God, I admit that this
I am.

Next week: share about this exercise

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 Week 11
5TH STEP – Part II
Objective:

The purpose of taking the 5th step is to come to accept ourselves as

we are, to become transparent before another person and expose everything
what we have found about ourselves.

Exercises:

1) Share verbally with another person about everything

events. Let go of the event that caused us the most first.
shame or embarrassment and then the rest.

If they forgot about an event, meet again with the

person.

3) It can take from 3 to 6 hours. Take a break every hour and

media and then continue. Do not set expectations on what
what is going to happen with the other person. Don't stop saying anything.
intentionally.

People to do the 5th Step with:

1) It must be a person from Al-Anon.

They cannot be your godmother or godfather.
3) It cannot be a person of the opposite sex.
4) He cannot be a clergyman.
5) He cannot be a behavioral professional.
It can't be anyone from this group.

Next week: share about the 5th Step. Call the

person with whom we took the 5th step and to thank them.

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 Week 12
6TH STEP

Read the 6th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the 6th Step.
of Al-Anon's Paths to Recovery.

Objective:

From now on, do not talk to anyone about what

we are doing in the workshop. ABOLISH THE
PRESUMPTION.

Exercises:

This exercise will last 3 weeks.

1st Week:

1) On 4 different days of this week, do something good or

pleasurable for another person, but the person does not know it,
don't let them notice.

2) Write down the 4 events of the week.

Next week: share about the exercise.

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 Week 13
PROCRASTINATION
(Postpone, defer)

Exercises:

2nd Week

1) Continue doing something good for another person for 4

different days of the week.

2) Escribir los 4 eventos de la semana

3) Once a day do something small that we hadn't done.

made if we don't set our minds to it. E.g.: ironing (for those who don't)
I like to iron), pick up the shoes (for those who leave them lying around),
etc.

4) Write down the small tasks.

Next week: share about the exercise

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 Week 14

WORKING ON PROCRASTINATION

Exercises:

Keep working with procrastination.

Next week: share about the exercise

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 Week 15
7 MO STEP
Starting next week, we are going to start doing a
hour, once a week, a recreation (something that never
we have done before). Preferably with another person, outside
from home and in public.

Read the 7th Step of the Twelve Steps book of AA and the
7th Step of Al-Anon Recovery Paths.

Read the 10th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the
10th Step of Al-Anon Recovery Path.

Objective:
Start practicing the 10th step this week. Do it.
a daily inventory and admitting our faults at the moment
to recognize them.

Exercises:

Every night before going to bed, answer the following

written questions (inventory):

1) What did I do today that I respect myself for?

What did I do today for someone else?
3) What did I notice today that brought me joy and what did not
has nothing to do with me?
What bothered me today?
What do I have to be thankful for today?

If something bothers us for 2 or 3 days, do something. If not

we can do nothing to change it, accept it.

Next week: share about the inventory, the 7th step and the
10th month. Step.

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 Week 16

11th STEP
Read the 11th step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the
11th Step of Al-Anon Recovery Paths.

Objective:

Starting this week we are going to begin to do

Meditation.

Exercises:

Once a day, choose 20 minutes, and in a room to

alone (without interruptions), sitting on a chair with
support, if it has arms better, with the legs together and the
arms resting on the legs. Put on a watch
in front of us. Close your eyes and focus on the
breathing. Inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth.
Relax all parts of the body and mentally travel to
a nice place, where we feel good. Imagine that
our Higher Power is with us. Let the
ideas come and do not block them. If they start coming in,
problems to the mind, to concentrate again on the
breathing. (It's much better if you play music from
meditation. Ex.: '11 Steps Prayer & Meditation' by
Bradshaw.

2) Continue with the recreation.

3) Inventory.

Procrastination.

Meditation.

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Next week: share about all these exercises.

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 Week 17

VISUALIZATION
Objective:
Think of a small thing that bothers us. That is nothing.
neither at home nor at work. Something that happens quite often.
and that bothers us. Something that is not personal. E.g.: seeing the street
dirty with papers, making a long line at the bank,
supermarket, congested traffic, etc.

Exercises:

1) Write down a single thing that bothers us. One day during the
spend 10 minutes in a meditation position and
visualize the discomfort, and instead of visualizing a reaction of
nuisance, visualize a reaction that does not bother us. If the
visualizing takes you less than 10 minutes, start over the
exercise and repeat it until reaching 10 minutes. Do it a
day, let a day go by without doing it, and repeat it the next day
with the same annoyance.
The next time we face the annoyance, write which one.
it was our reaction.
OUR REACTIONS ARE DIRECTLY RELATED
WITH OUR ATTITUDES.

Recreation.

Inventory.

Procrastination

5) Meditation (20 minutes)

Next week: sharing about these exercises

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 Week 18

Objective:

Watch the movie 'The Empire Strikes Back' (2nd part of 'Stars')
(Wars) and pay attention to the character "Yoda."

Exercises:

Recreation.

Inventory.

Meditation.

Movie

5) Procrastination.

6) Visualization.

Next week: share about these exercises

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 Week 19

Objective:

"Negative feedback" - Negative Opinion. E.g.: if a person does

something that bothers, say it with love and assertively.
After having said it (constructive criticism), do not wait or not
I cared about the other person's reaction, or how they took it. It can.
be something that bothers you about someone from some time ago.

Exercises:

Recreation.

Inventory.

Meditation.

4) Procrastination

5) Negative feedback.

6) Visualization.

Next week: share about these exercises.

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 Week 20

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

1st Chapter

Objective:

Blaming others for the discomfort we feel is the easiest way

Short. Accept or give another alternative to the discomfort we feel,
it is correct. From now on, we will take
responsibility and making a purpose for ourselves.

Exercises:

Visualization

2) Make a list of the 10 things that annoy us the most

3) Read the 1st Chapter of the book The Sermon on the Mount.

Recreation.

5) Inventory.

Meditation.

Procrastination.

Next week: share about these exercises.

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 Week 21
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
3rd Chapter

Objective:

Start working on the discomfort number 10 through the

visualization. Remove the annoyance from the list only when the
we can face without it bothering us.

After finishing with the 10 discomforts, start with 10 more. If any

it continues to bother you, to work on it again.

Exercises:

Annoyance no.10.

Negative Feedback

3) Read chapter 3 of the book The Sermon on the Mount.

Recreation

Procrastination

6) Inventory

Meditation

8) Watch the movie 'The Karate Kid' part 1. Pay attention to the
Chinese instructor, old karate master.

Next week: share about these exercises.

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 Week 22

8th. STEP
Read the 8th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the 8th Step of
Al-Anon Recovery Pathways.

Definitions:

Harm and Injury: it is a great damage. Something that has harmed and left
a lasting impression on another person. Something strong, powerful.

There are two types of damage: 1) Emotional damage

Economic damage

Exercises:

1) Make a list of the economic damages we have caused. For example:

theft at work, another person, etc.

2) Make another list of the emotional damages we have caused. E.g.:

children, spouses, etc. It does not matter if the person is alive or dead.

3) Read chapter 4 of the book The Sermon on the Mount.

Recreation

Inventory

Meditation

Procrastination

8) Annoyance no.9.

9) Visualization.

Next week: share about these exercises

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 Week 23
9th STEP
Read the 9th Step from the AA Twelve Steps book and the 9th Step from Pathways of
Al-Anon Recovery.

Exercises:
1) Meet with your godmother or godfather and review the list, and leave the things that really
they have caused harm.

2) Economic damage. Buy a notebook and write one person on each page.
company to whom we owe money. Make an estimate of the money owed to
each one. Add the total amount of money owed and according to the situation
economic situation we have, to decide on a monthly payment to repair these damages.
Divide the total debts by the number of debtors. e.g.: church, league against the
cancer, such and such bank, such and such credit card, someone we borrowed from, etc. Go
reducing debts monthly until they are settled. If you win the lottery or you receive
a good unexpected money, settle the debts in a single payment. If you lose your job
stop the payments, but continue them as soon as you get a new job.

3) Emotional damage. For the people on the list who are deceased, find a
a person of their own sex who feels lonely, insecure, isolated, and is a godmother or
godfather of this person for a year. For the last person on their list (in their
name) donate an hour a week to a charity. E.g.: visit hospitals,
orphanages, etc. Any service work to the community. For the children that
they live away from home and outside the city, communicate with them at least once a
months. For the children who still live at home, double the quality and the time you give them
we dedicate, and write it for 6 months in a notebook (this is repairing the damage)
committed). For the spouses on the list, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF REASON,
not to say NO for a year.

4) Talk to the godmother or godfather, the alternatives we are going to take for each
person on the list.

5) Never tell anyone that we are making repairs. This is growth.

of character.

The important thing is to start even if it takes us a long time.

Next week:
1) Discuss with the godmother what we are going to do and write it down.
Meditation
Procrastination
4) Inventory
Recreation
6) Negative feedback
Annoyance No.8, visualization
Read chapter 5 of the Sermon on the Mount
9) Watch the movie 'Flat Liners' by Julia Roberts and Keefer Sutherland. Pay attention to the
concept of repair.

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 Week 24
REPAIRS

Start making the repairs that they already have.

noted down and making plans for those that are missing.

Inventory

Recreation

Procrastination

Negative feedback

6) Disturbance no.7, visualization

Meditation

Read chapter 6 of the Sermon on the Mount.

9) Offer to be a godmother or godfather to someone new

of some group.

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 Week 25

10th step
Objective:

The daily inventory helps us feel better about our day.

With practice, it helps us change our daily attitudes.

Exercises:

1) Visualize discomfort No.6.

Negative feedback

3) Continue making the repairs

4) Read chapter 7 of the book The Sermon on the Mount

Recreation

6) Inventory

Procrastination

Meditation

9) Read the 10th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the
10th Step of Al-Anon Recovery Pathways.

Next week: share about these exercises

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 Week 26
11th STEP
Objective:

The path of spirituality narrows as

We are working with him. When he decides to do something, do it.
without proclaiming it.
THINK - DECIDE - ACT

Exercises:

1) Read the 11th Step of the AA Twelve Steps book and the
11th Step of Al-Anon Recovery Pathways. In the
AA book look for the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Read the sentence every day several times during the day.
until memorizing it.

Meditation

3) Inventory

Recreation

5) Procrastination

6) Visualize discomfort no.5

7) Negative feedback

8) Read the chapter of the Our Father from the book The Sermon of
Mount.

9) Continue with the repairs

Next week: share about these exercises.

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 Week 27
12th STEP
Objective:

Start working on interpersonal relationships.

There are two types of relationships:
Casuals. People who know each other superficially, do not share.
intimate things, etc.
2) Close ones. Relationships with family or close friends. Friends
close friends are almost always of the same sex. They share things
intimate, etc.

Exercises:
In the coming year, cultivate 2 close friendships. People in whom
we can trust, that we can share our intimacies with them.
(For unmarried people, they should not enter in
no relationship for a year, after completing the workshop)

For married people, they must do everything in their power to

to heal their intimate relationship with their partner, in the coming year. The reason for
this is that if we have done everything possible to heal a relationship, and
this one doesn't work, so we can leave it without feeling guilty.

We have been experts in building walls of bricks of disappointment.

When we started to take down brick by brick and proved
integrity, the other person will start to do the same.
If we are fulfilling our 4 basic instincts: Material Security,
Seguridad Emocional,Seguridad SexualySeguridad Social,
so we have emotional balance. When more balance
the more honest we can be emotionally.

4) When seeking an intimate relationship, look for compatibility for it.

less in 3 of the basic instincts, before going to bed. In 6
One must know if the person is compatible with oneself or not.

5) Read the 12th Step from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12th Step.
from Al-Anon's Paths of Recovery.

6) Visualize discomfort no.4.

7) Read chapter 2 of The Sermon on the Mount.

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 Meditation.

Inventory.

Procrastination.

Recreation

Negative feedback

13) Continue with the repairs

Next week: share about these exercises.

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 Week 28
THE PRINCIPLES
1ST STEP - HONESTY
2ND. STEP - HOPE
3rd. STEP - FAITH
4TH STEP - COURAGE
5TH STEP - INTEGRITY
6TH STEP - WILL
7MO. STEP - HUMILITY
8VO. STEP - BROTHERLY LOVE
9NO. STEP - DISCIPLINE
10MO. STEP - PERSEVERANCE
11TH STEP - AWARENESS
12VO STEP - SERVICE

Objective:

Each of these principles work together. When the

working together makes us whole people,
spiritual.

Exercises:

To follow spiritual progress, for the next 2 years the

tasks will be:
Inventory
Meditation

The other tasks are for the rest of our lives:

Cultivating friendships
Recreation
3) Discomforts
Visualization
Procrastination
Negative feedback

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1) If we put in the effort in this phase of our development, we
we will surprise you with the results before reaching the halfway point of
path.

We are going to experience a new freedom and a new happiness.

3) We will not lament the past nor wish to close the

door that leads us to him.

4) We will understand the meaning of the word serenity.

we will know peace.

5) No matter how low we have fallen, we will perceive how

our experience can benefit others.

That feeling of uselessness and pity will disappear.

ourselves.

We will lose interest in selfish things and we will be interested in

in our companions.

Personal ambition will fade away.

9) Our attitude and our point of view on life

they will change.

We will lose our fear of people and economic insecurity.

11) Intuitively we will know how to handle situations that we previously

despaired.

Suddenly we will understand that God is doing for

we what we could not do for ourselves.

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