The Gamblers Anonymous Unity Program is a framework for the well-being of
individual groups and the Fellowship as a whole. The Unity Program is outlined
in 12 steps and is meant to insure the continuity and perpetuity of Gamblers
Anonymous.
In order to maintain the Fellowship for present and future members, both
individual and groups follow the proven concepts upon which the Unity Program
is based. The essence of this program is in the preservation of common
welfare. Members understand that what is best for the group is best for the
individual.
The Unity Program serves to protect the Fellowship from disruption. Members
work together under the principles of unity in order to preserve and perpetuate
the opportunity for themselves and other compulsive gamblers to recover and
grow within the Fellowship
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 organized; but we may
create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they
serve.
- Gamblers Anonymous had 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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