The AA saying "in the rooms, or around the rooms" captures a crucial distinction between two fundamentally different approaches to recovery participation—active engagement in recovery work versus passive attendance without meaningful involvement. This principle recognizes that physical presence at meetings and recovery events, while necessary, is insufficient for creating the transformation that recovery requires.

This self-assessment is designed to help you examine whether you are currently "in the rooms" doing active recovery work or "around the rooms" attending passively without deep engagement. It explores your level of participation, willingness to be vulnerable, commitment to personal change, and integration of recovery principles into daily life.

The assessment examines not just meeting attendance but the quality and depth of your recovery engagement across all dimensions of recovery work.