TRADITION ELEVEN

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.

AA wishes to publicize its principles and its works but not its individual members. It is a denial of self-seeking and a personal ambition has no place in AA. Each member becomes an active guardian of fellowship.

AA fellows should ask the following questions to themselves regarding this tradition:

1. Do I sometimes promote AA so fanatically that I make it seem unattractive?
2. Am I always careful to keep the confidences reposed in me as an AA member?
3. Am I careful about throwing AA names around – even within the Fellowship?
4. Am I ashamed of being a recovered, or recovering, alcoholic?
5. What would AA be like if we were not guided by the ideas in Tradition Eleven? Where would I be?
6. Is my sobriety attractive enough that a sick drunk would want such a quality for him?