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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: Taking a Newcomer Through the Steps - Part 3 of 5 (Chris R. Charlie P. Katie P.)

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This is part three of a five part workshop led by Charlie P along with his wife Katie and also Chris R, they are presenting a workshop on Taking a Newcomer Through the Steps, from the perspective of doing it with a sense of urgency. They do some Q&A at the end of the session and the questions were impossible to hear, I have removed all the dead space and they do a very good job of repeating the question before answering. This was recorded at the London Ontario Primary Purpose Group in Canada in 2014, someone had emailed me asking about a slightly later version of this workshop, that reminded me I had this on my list to use...so here it is. The event itself is 8 recordings not 5, the first three are the speakers each telling their stories for about 40 min. I am going to combine those speaks into one episode and upload that the day after the actual workshop concludes, in reality the workshop opened with those. If you are anywhere near Atlanta Georgia on the weekend of 3/22 the Atlanta Mens Workshop is taking place, its a twice a year event going since 1982. Details: https://scast.us/amw If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events (link fixed) Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 2500+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in

0:11.2

podcast format.

0:12.2

We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,

0:15.0

please help us be self-supporting by visiting

0:17.0

sobercast.com, look for the donate link

0:20.0

and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.

0:22.0

We hope you enjoyed the podcast.

0:23.7

Have a great day.

0:24.7

We got a lot of ground to cover.

0:29.5

And I just didn't stand up here and joke around all afternoon, but we got heavy, heavy stuff to cover.

0:36.0

And we've done one, two, and three this morning.

0:40.0

And you know, that thing about three, it's's funny when I talked about the big book taking a big

0:46.7

right turn on page 60 I missed it for 17 years I talked about this a little bit last night, but if I take a guy right from

0:57.0

Are you willing to believe to let's get down on our knees and do the third step prayer, I can wind up working a program based on

1:04.7

abstinence from alcohol and you know where the whole deal is about not drinking and

1:10.2

I miss this whole piece that's not really very important except for that what Katie talks about it lays out the root of our problem.

1:17.0

You know, the whole basis of the rest of our work and what we're going to do.

1:21.0

It was big news to me that the problem in alcoholism wasn't

1:24.8

alcohol. Somebody with the problem with alcohol can just stop drinking, but a problem with

1:30.0

alcoholism is, it turns out it's all driven by this selfishness and self-centered

1:36.0

which is at the root of my problem and it says above everything we have to be

1:42.0

rid of this selfishness.

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