Workshop: Sponsorship - How I Sponsor - Part 3 of 3

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dick M, sober since 1965 leads this three part workshop on sponsorship. Part Three: How I Sponsor. This was recorded at an unknown time and event. There is some Q & A at the end and you cannot hear the questions but the answers make most of the questions evident. Part 3 of 3. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Event List: https://scast.us/event Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? 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 2700+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker Meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.2	Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
0:28.5	My name is Dick B.
0:29.3	And I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.4	Hi, everybody.
0:31.9	But for the grace of God and the actions of AA and sponsorship, I've been sober since September
0:35.9	the 15th, 1965, and I'm very pleased
0:38.3	about that.
0:43.3	I am, this evening of what I want to do is to, very briefly, I'm going to talk about how I sponsor,
0:52.3	and that doesn't mean it's supposed to be how you're supposed to sponsor or how anybody else
0:57.5	sponsors, nor is it all of how I do it, nor is it exactly how I do it, nor is it anything.
1:06.2	So what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk for a while and hope that you're able
1:11.2	to pick up some ideas that perhaps might work for you and might work with the people that
1:16.1	you sponsor and perhaps you may not.
1:19.9	This evening has been a tremendous example of group conscience at work.
1:25.7	It came out to nothing.
1:31.0	But that's okay because it started with nothing.
1:33.4	So, you know, and it ended up that way. And I think groups that are run by Good King still work the best, you know,
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