THE
UNITY PROGRAM
In order to maintain unity our experience has shown that:
- Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends
upon group unity.
- Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
- The only requirement for Gamblers Anonymous membership is a
desire to stop gambling.
- Each group should be self-governing except in matters affecting
other groups or Gamblers Anonymous as a whole.
- Gamblers Anonymous has but one primary purpose - to carry its
message to the compulsive gambler who still suffers.
- Gamblers Anonymous ought never endorse, finance or lend the
Gamblers Anonymous name to any related facility or outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us
from our primary purpose.
- Every Gamblers Anonymous Group ought to be fully
self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
- Gamblers Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
- Gamblers Anonymous, as such, ought never be or organized; but we
may create service boards or committees directly responsible to
those they serve.
- Gamblers Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the
Gamblers Anonymous name ought never be drawn into public
controversy.
- Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than
promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level
of press, radio, films and television.
- Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of the Gamblers Anonymous
program, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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