Program's Tools

The Al-Anon program offers a range of tools that can help us.

As we continue to attend meetings, we learn that it is possible to let go of old companions like failure, shame, and guilt. In time we can make progress, but we can only make it “One Day at a Time”.

The Al-Anon tools help us realize that the ability to start over is always within our reach, and that there’s always more hope than we may have thought.

The Legacie

  • The Steps show us how to love ourselves,

  • The Traditions show us how to love others,

  • The Concepts show us how to love the world we live in.

The Legacies

The slogans

The Slogans are reminders that help us cope with different situations.

Slogans serve as gentle, calming reminders that our circumstances might not be as impossible or, as desperate as they at first appear.

These concise expressions of wisdom offer quick reassurance that we really are able to cope with whatever life brings, prompting us to take constructive action and to treat ourselves and others with compassion and respect

  • But for the Grace of God
  • Easy Does It
  • First Thing First
  • How Important Is It ?
  • Just for Today
  • Keep an Open Mind
  • Keep Coming Back
  • Keep It Simple
  • Let Go and Let God
  • Let It Begin with Me
  • Listen and Learn
  • Live and Let Live
  • One Day at a Time
  • Progress Not Perfection
  • Think
  • Together We Can Make It

The Serenity Prayer

God



Grant me the Serenity



To accept the things I cannot change



Courage to change the things I can


And the Wisdom to know the difference…

AL-ANON Declaration

Let it begin with me

When anyone anywhere reaches out for help,

let the hand of Al-Anon and

Alateen always be there
and — let it begin with me