1. We admitted we were inadequate or maladjusted to life.
2. We firmly resolved to get well and co-operated with the help that we needed.
3. We surrendered to the healing power of a wise and loving God.
   
4. We made personal inventory and accepted ourselves.
5. We made moral inventory and cleaned out our hearts.
6. We endured until cured.
   
7. We took care and control of our bodies.
   
8. We learned to think by reason rather than by feelings and imagination.
9. We trained our wills to govern our feelings.
   
10. We took our responsible and caring place in society.
11. We grew daily closer to maturity.
12. We carried GROW’s hopeful healing and transforming message to others in similar need.
    

The essential GROW Program is summarised in the 12 Steps of Personal GROWth. These steps take us from disorder in varying degrees to a kind of ideal order that is necessary for personal development. They are the accumulated experience of many Recoverers and GROWers recorded and developed since the first meeting in Australia in 1957.

There is a basic order and harmony in the 12 Steps – a sort of logical sequence – but it is not an absolute thing where you complete one and then go on to the next. You are doing them a little bit at a time, with perhaps special attention to the particularly relevant one.