Workshop: Tim M - How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps 1-7 (Part 1 of 3) 6 hrs
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format. |
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| 0:22.4 | We hope you enjoyed the podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | Have a great day. |
| 0:27.2 | So my name's Tim. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm an alcoholic. |
| 0:29.4 | I haven't prepared this in the sort of traditional sense of doing an outline or something. |
| 0:34.1 | I just thought I'd have to wing it. |
| 0:35.5 | And so hopefully that will work. |
| 0:37.3 | So it's not necessarily going to be very linear. |
| 0:41.3 | Before we get on to step one, though, you've got to make sure they're ready for step one. |
| 0:47.9 | It's no good launching into step one unless you've got someone that knows what they're in for. |
| 0:53.8 | And the thing is with saying, well, how do you get someone to step one? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, it's almost like the question, how long is a piece of string? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, it depends how long the piece of string is. |
| 1:06.0 | It depends on so many different factors. |
| 1:09.0 | There are so many different types of people who've got |
| 1:11.3 | so many different types of experience. So I'm going to outline a few different types of person. |
| 1:18.7 | It won't be exhausted, but it'll cover some of the main bases. So the first one is someone |
| 1:23.9 | who is completely new to recovery, completely new to AA. |
| 1:28.3 | As Margaret Atwood said, doesn't know that, doesn't know they're from a hole in the ground |
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