Back Room Group Inventory - Traditions & Concepts Checklist
A.A. Group Inventory Quiz
Welcome to the A.A. Group Inventory Quiz! This quiz is designed to help your home group reflect on its practices, traditions, and overall effectiveness as a part of Alcoholics Anonymous. Assess how well your group adheres to the principles and traditions that ensure a healthy, supportive environment for all members.
- Evaluate your group's understanding of A.A.'s traditions
- Encourage open dialogue and foster a sense of community
- Help identify areas for improvement and growth
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?
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Does our group have a general service representative (G.S.R.)?
Yes
No
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?
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Do we have an understanding of the history of the General Service Conference (the “Conference”)?
Extremely familiar
Very familiar
Somewhat familiar
Not so familiar
Not at all familiar
Is our group meeting its wider Seventh Tradition responsibilities?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we trust our trusted servants — G.S.R., Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Coffee-Maker, etc.
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we understand the spiritual principles underlying the “Right of Participation”?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we encourage the minority opinion, the “Right of Appeal,” to be heard at our home group?
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Has our group experienced the “tyranny of the majority” or the “tyranny of the minority”?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Does our group understand the importance of all points of view being heard before a vote is taken?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we act responsibly regarding the “power of the purse”?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do we discuss how we can best strengthen the composition and leadership of our future trusted servants?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we recognize the need for group officers?
Yes
No
Do we sometimes give a position to someone “because it would be good for them”?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do I set a positive leadership example?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do we practice rotation in all our service positions?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do we try to reach important decisions by thorough discussion, vote and, where possible, substantial unanimity?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
As guardians of A.A.’s traditions, are we ever justified in being personally punitive?
Yes
No
Am I in my group a healing, mending, integrating person, or am I divisive? What about gossip and taking other members’ inventories?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Am I gentle with those who rub me the wrong way, or am I abrasive?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I criticize or do I trust and support my group officers, AA committees, and office workers? Newcomers? Old-timers?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I let language, religion (or lack of it), race, education, age, or other such things interfere with my carrying the message?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
In my mind, do I prejudge some new AA members as losers?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Is there some kind of alcoholic whom I privately do not want in my AA group?
Yes
No
Do I set myself up as a judge of whether a newcomer is sincere or phony?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Am I willing to help a newcomer go to any lengths—his lengths, not mine—to stay sober?
Yes
No
Do I insist that there are only a few right ways of doing things in AA?
Yes
No
Do I help my group in every way I can to fulfill our primary purpose?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I ever cop out by saying, “I’m not a group, so this or that Tradition doesn’t apply to me”?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Are all the officers and members of our local club for AAs familiar with “Guidelines on Clubs” (which is available free from GSO)?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Honestly now, do I do all I can to help AA (my group, my central office, my GSO) remain self-supporting?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Could I put a little more into the basket on behalf of the new guy who can't afford it yet? How generous was I when tanked in a barroom?
Yes
No
Is my own behavior accurately described by the Traditions?
A great deal
A lot
A moderate amount
A little
None at all
Do I try to sound in AA like an expert on alcoholism? On recovery? On medicine? On sociology? On AA itself? On psychology? On spiritual matters? Or, heaven help me, even on humility?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I still try to boss things in AA?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I resist formal aspects of AA because I fear them as authoritative?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I ever give the impression that there really is an “AA opinion” on Antabuse? Tranquilizers? Doctors? Psychiatrists? Churches? Hospitals? Jails? Alcohol? The federal or state government? Legalizing marijuana? Vitamins? Al-Anon? Alateen?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Can I honestly share my own personal experience concerning any of those without giving the impression I am stating the “AA opinion”?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Do I sometimes promote AA so fanatically that I make it seem unattractive?
Always
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
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