Welcome to Burbank Saturday Morning AFG

10am Pacific Time

Join our meeting to hear and share experience, strength and hope. Together we seek to create a safe space for recovery from the effects of alcoholism or other addictions in a relative or friend.  

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Burbank Saturday Morning AFG was formed more than 30 years ago, with meetings held in person at the Little White Chapel in Burbank, CA.  The meeting became digital during the COVID pandemic and remains active online today.  Though still associated with Southern California, participants now come from all over the world.

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The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Al-Anon

Twelve Steps

Because of their proven power and worth, A.A.’s Twelve Steps
have been adopted almost word for word by Al‑Anon. They represent
a way of life appealing to all people of goodwill, of any religious
faith or of none. Note the power of the very words.

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had
    become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore
    us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of
    God as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the
    exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to
    make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except
    when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
    promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
    contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
    of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
    tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles
    in all our affairs.

Twelve Traditions

The Traditions that follow bind us together in unity. They guide
the groups in their relations with other groups, with A.A., and the
outside world. They recommend group attitudes toward leadership,
membership, money, property, public relations, and anonymity.

The Traditions evolved from the experience of A.A. groups in trying
to solve their problems of living and working together. Al‑Anon
adopted these group guidelines and over the years has found them
sound and wise. Although they are only suggestions, Al‑Anon’s
unity and perhaps even its survival are dependent on adherence to
these principles.

  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the
    greatest number depends upon unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one authority—a loving God as
    He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but
    trusted servants—they do not govern.
  3. The relatives of alcoholics, when gathered together for mutual aid,
    may call themselves an Al‑Anon Family Group, provided that, as a
    group, they have no other affiliation. The only requirement for membership
    is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend.
  4. Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting another
    group or Al‑Anon or AA as a whole.
  5. Each Al‑Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of
    alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves,
    by encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives, and by
    welcoming and giving comfort to families of alcoholics.
  6. Our Family Groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to
    any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige
    divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate
    entity, we should always co-operate with Alcoholics Anonymous.
  7. Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Al‑Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional,
    but our service centers may employ special workers.
  9. Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
    service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
    serve.
  10. The Al‑Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence
    our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. 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 TV. We need guard with special care the
    anonymity of all AA members.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding
    us to place principles above personalities.