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Workshop: Tim M - How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps 1-7 (Part 1 of 3) 6 hrs

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 358 minutes

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Workshop: Tim M - How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps 1-7 (Part 1 of 3) 6 hrs Tim M does an impressive job leading this workshop that was held over 17 sessions on the topic of: How To Sponsor Someone Through The Steps. I have broken these down into 3 parts to go up over 3 days. Tim takes the lead for the first 45 min of each session, after that he takes questions from the participants. Recorded from the end of July to the middle of November in 2021, also a quick thanks to Tim for his help in getting these out to you. This was recorded over zoom so the audio quality is very good, however there are a couple of zoom dropouts. There was also good deal of dead air during the Q & A, I have gone through all the audio removing a much of that as possible along with balancing the audio levels. Since this has multiple sessions on each episode I added a very brief click track between the sessions to help you differentiate them. To download the written material Tim refers to CLICK HERE Part 1: Steps 1-7 ( Six Hours ) Steps 1-3 each get an hour, Step 4 gets 2 hours and then Tim covers steps 5-7 in the last hour. Part 2: Steps 8-11 (Four Hours) Each Step is covered for about an hour Part 3: Step 12 and Two Additional Topics (Seven Hours) Step 12 is covered over 5 hours and then we move into two additional topics: Sponsoring Relapsing Sponsees and Games We Play With Sponsors each of those are about an hour and those two may not be in the correct sequence but it seemed the best place to put them. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Sober Cast has 3000+ 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.

0:12.8

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

0:21.8

basket.

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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