Our group experience suggests that the unity of the Nar-Anon Family Groups depends upon our adherence to these traditions
1. Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number
depends on unity.
2. For our group purposes there is but one authority — a loving God as He may
express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants —
they do not govern.
3. The relatives of addicts, when gathered for mutual aid, may call themselves a NarAnon Family Group, provided that as a group, they have no other affiliation. The
only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of addiction in a relative
or friend.
4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other Nar-Anon
Family Groups, or NA as a whole.
5. Each Nar-Anon Family Group has but one purpose; to help families of addicts. We
do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of Nar-Anon, by encouraging and
understanding our addicted relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to
families of addicts.
6. Our Family Groups ought never to endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary
spiritual aim; but although a separate entity, we should always cooperate with
Narcotics Anonymous.
7. Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8. Nar-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service
centers may employ special workers.
9. Our groups, as such ought never to be organized, but we may create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10. The Nar-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our 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, films, internet and
other forms of mass media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all
NA members.
12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place
principles above personalities.