Topic: The Nuts and Bolts of Sponsorhip -Tim M from London

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

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Today we have Tim M from London speaking in Berlin at the Friendly Circle Group on the topic of The Nuts and Bolts of Sponsorship in May of 2022 on Zoom. If you are interested in hearing more about this topic from Tim. A few months ago I posted a workshop he did called "How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps" In it he breaks it down by going through each step individually, it was originally created over a period of months and I consolidated the 17 parts down to three 5ish hour podcast episodes. Search "How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps" on your podcast player or you can find them on my website at this link https://scast.us/sponsor Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: Friends in Recovery Roundup Rally held in Durban South Africa on April 28-29 Details: This event is live and on Zoom. Our group started on Zoom during Covid and this will be our 1st in person event. So we are very excited. https://scast.us/fir AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format. We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting
0:16.4	by visiting silvercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual
0:21.8	basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. My name is Tim, I'm our colleague,
0:29.0	thank you for being here. Well, I'm an our colleague, that's my main credential for being here.
0:36.8	I've been sober since 24th of July 1993. I've sold a few hundred people. I've talked to many
0:48.0	hundreds, not thousands more. Frankly, I think most of the people we sponsor wouldn't call us
0:56.5	their sponsors. We don't think of ourselves as their sponsors. But if I take input from someone,
1:04.8	that's really what I'm doing. I'm taking sponsorship from them, whether it's a live person,
1:10.3	a piece of literature, a tape, some of the best sponsorship I've had is from tapes. You can't
1:19.4	answer back, you can't argue, you just have to do what they say. Now, if you're very, very brave,
1:29.4	you can go on Facebook and you can join one of those lovely big book groups on Facebook. If you
1:36.7	like an argument, go on to one of those and ask the question, where does it say sponsorship in
1:44.8	the big book? It's not in the first 164 pet and you're going to have the most almighty argument. If
1:50.1	you've got poor blind personality disorder, you'll love it. You go in somewhere, ask an innocent
1:55.1	question, get your popcorn and just sit back while everyone argues about it. I don't care whether
2:01.1	it's in the big book. It helped me. Now, the fact is, it's like forgiveness, forgiveness isn't
2:06.8	technically in there on pages 66 and 67, which are the forgiveness passages. When you look up forgiveness
2:15.4	in the Oxford forgive in the Oxford English dictionary, certainly the diffusion dictionary,
2:21.0	the lexico, it says to forgive is to stop being angry. There we go, to stop being angry. What is
2:29.4	page 66 and 67 about? It's about stopping being angry. The fact that word forgiveness isn't in there
2:36.7	is irrelevant. The content is the content that matters not the terminology. The word sponsor is not
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