Our 12-Step Program
We offer a 12-Step individualized program of recovery. Here is what to expect:
Webster Place offers a serene, restorative community where individuals can seek recovery, based on a 12-Step model, and/or an individualized program to meet their specific needs.
Are we exclusively a 12-Step program?
No. Webster Place Recovery Center's (WPRC) program is primarily focused on the 12 Steps according to Big Book of AA but is also a multifaceted program that respects individual needs. The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions are a foundation and guideline for living and we integrate them into the daily recovery process. We work with every resident on their individual issues from a holistic view of physical, mental and spiritual issues. Our program enhancements and journaling as well as groups and informal peer and coach discussions provide residents with a framework to examine their own physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, spirituality and other issues. We are not, however, staffed with psychologists, psychiatrists or MDs and encourage residents to seek and/or continue professional help if needed. Many residents choose to do this while at WPRC as part of aftercare. We also encourage participation in local AA and NA meetings to help with transition to life after Webster Place Recovery Center as WPRC Alumni.
The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are listed below as suggestions for how many have found recovery possible on a daily basis. A form of these steps have been adapted to and adopted by a number of programs since AA published them (including Narcotics Anonymous).
These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:
1. Admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Download a graphic guide to the 4th Step.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
