1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends
upon CoDA unity.
2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority: a
loving Higher Power as expressed to our group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants; they do not govern.
3. The only requirement for membership in CoDA is a desire for
healthy and loving relationships.
4. Each group should remain autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or CoDA as a whole.
5. Each group has but one primary purpose: to carry its message to
other codependents who still suffer.
6. A CoDA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the CoDA name
to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money,
property, and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim.
7. Every CoDA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
8. Co-Dependents Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but
our service centers may employ special workers.
9. CoDA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. CoDA has no opinion on outside issues; hence, the CoDA 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, and films.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever
reminding us to place principles before personalities.
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