Geelong Traditions and Concepts Sunday 

Members from Geelong Traditions and Concepts Sunday share on Tradition One and Concept One.

Geelong Traditions and Concepts meet at 7.30pm on Sundays at St Luke's Uniting Church in Highton. This is a hybrid meeting – members can attend in person or online via Zoom.

The meeting's format is that the group looks at the long form of one of the 12 traditions and 12 concepts each week. Every 13th week, the group discusses an AA Service Manual Guideline or workshop a conference topic. 

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Tradition One 

Each member of Alcoholics Anonymous is but a small part of a great whole. A.A. must continue to live or most of us will surely die. Hence our common welfare comes first. But individual welfare follows close afterward.

Tradition One questions (taken from The Grapevine)

 1. Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person? Am I sometimes divisive? Do I ever gossip or take another member’s inventory? 

2. Am I a peacemaker? Or do I foster arguments with statements such as “just for the sake of discussion”? 

3. Am I gentle with those who rub me the wrong way, or am I sometimes abrasive? 

4. Do I make competitive AA remarks, such as comparing one group with another or contrasting AA in one place with AA in another? 

5. Do I ever put down some AA activities for not participating in this or that aspect of AA? 

6. Am I informed about AA as a whole? Do I support AA as a whole in every way I can, or just the parts that I understand and approve of? 

7. Am I as considerate of AA members as I want them to be of me? 

8. Do I spout platitudes about love while indulging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility? 

Concept One

Final responsibility and ultimate authority for A.A. world services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship. 

Concept One questions

1. Does our group have a general service representative (GSR)? Do we feel that our home group is part of A.A. as a whole and do our group’s decisions and actions reflect that? 

2. Do we hold regular group conscience meetings encouraging everyone to participate? Do we pass that conscience on to the district, area, or the local intergroup meetings? 

3. Is the “collective conscience” of Alcoholics Anonymous at work in my home group? In my area? 

4. Where do we fit in the upside-down triangle of A.A.? 

5. Are we willing to do what it takes to insure that our democracy of world service will work under all conditions?