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Step Four “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” C REATION gave us instincts for a purpose. Without them we wouldn’t be complete human beings. If men and women didn’t exert themselves to be secure in their persons, made no effort to harvest food or construct shelter, there would be no survival.
It is in this Fourth Step that you begin to discover your values– what you consider right and wrong, functional and dysfunctional behavior–and how you live up to your standards. 3. This inventory is about who you are now, not who you were when you were drinking and taking drugs.
There are four sections to the Fourth Step, each with a corresponding worksheet you may fill out. The basic process is to read the section, then fill out the worksheet. Feel free to make copies of a worksheet if more space is needed. 1. Resentments. 2. Fears. 3. Sex Conduct. 4. Harm Done to Others. 1. Resentments.
A free 4th step worksheet for AA, NA and other 12 step programs. Step 4 worksheet includes questions in PDF or DOC format and is free to print or download.
Before tackling the inventory problem in detail, let’s have a closer look at what the basic problem is. Simple ex-amples like the following take on a world of meaning when we think about them. Suppose a person places sex desire ahead of everything else.
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” This workshop covers the Fourth Step of the Alcoholics Anonymous program. We carefully follow the detailed instructions for taking inventory as given on pages 64 to 71 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
In our Fourth Step inventories we will discover, for the most part, that our troubles were of our OWN making. We will see how we played a part in every resentment and fear we’ve ever had and how our conduct has harmed others.
