In relation to step 4 and personal inventory i see script awareness as taking a deeper look at self.  A lot of ones script is out of awareness and therefore personal inventory can only really be engaged with at a certain  level. This is not a problem but its really amazing at what can be discovered about the self after a more deeper analysis.  This can reinforce further understanding and compassion about the decision one has made and then help to let go of old stuff that holds people back.  Script is a life-plan and directed towards a pay-off.  It is like a young child that writes their own drama, this process is decisional but not in a way of deliberate thinking which we associate with adult cognitive awareness.  The earliest decisions result from feelings and are made before words.  Therefore our reality testing as adults is influenced by script decisions from the past governed by feelings.  Here we see how individuals are compulsively driven by feelings that are out of their awareness which can result in pay-offs that can be difficult and not always productive. In grown up life we interpret reality in our own frame of reference that holds many messages about the self.  The inner child can compensate for feelings of powerlessness by imagination and magical thinking.  This relates to early attachment and our whole need for dependence and with this we as children naturally feel powerless because we are.  Therefore, the script can be written by our early experiences on self. With this our early personal inventory is also relevant as these decisions are based on the messages we give to ourselves from our needs, urges, experiences, rejections, attachments and traumas.  The work of Erikson, Piaget, Daniel Stern are really useful in the investigation of child development.  To get a feel of what it means for you as an adult to get near what it was like as a child with the potential and inevitable hostilities that had to be experienced.  D Stern “The inter-subjective world of the infant”.  All of these are relevant to the decisions we have made about ourselves.  Therefore all of this is relevant to our personal inventory.