Workshop: Tim M - How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps 8-11 (Part 2 of 3) 4 hrs

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🗓️ 9 July 2022

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How To Sponsor Someone Through Steps 8-11 (Part 2 of 3) 4 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 few 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. I originally posted the topic: Games We Play With Sponsors and many of you emailed asking for the entire series, sorry it took so long but there was a lot of editing to do. If any of you want all 3 episodes as a single file email me and Ill send you a link to download it. 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. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
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0:28.9	To set the time for the meeting, I will read an extract from Chapter 1 Bill Story, pages
0:33.5	7 and 8 of the big book. They did not need to tell me, I knew and almost
0:39.7	welcomed the idea. It was a devastating blow to my pride, who had thought so well of myself
0:47.0	and my abilities. My capacity to amount obstacles was cornered at last. Now I was to plunge into
0:54.2	the dark, joining the endless procession of socks who had gone on before. I thought of
0:59.8	my poor wife. There had been much happiness after all. What would I not give to make
1:06.4	amends? But that was over now. And the topic of tonight's meeting is working step
1:13.9	8 with a sponsor, and Tim will share anything between 30 and 45 minutes on the topic,
1:20.4	to which the floor will be open for questions rather than the typical sharing. And with that,
1:25.2	I will now hand over to Tim. Hello everyone, Tim and our colleague. So step 8, the book
1:35.2	is slightly tricky here, because when you get to step 8, it says, by the way, you've
1:42.9	already got your list. You've already got your list. It says, you made it when you
1:52.3	took step 4. Well, I mean, in the same sense that, you know, well, if you want to write
2:00.0	a letter, all the letters are already in the alphabet, you just have to put them in the
2:04.9	right order. It's a bit like, I would step 8, yeah, you've done the list, but it's
2:09.8	step 4 covers an awful lot of other material as well. So I think the best way to do this
2:18.9	is to treat step 8 as a completely new exercise. You can't do a step 9 off the material and
2:25.9	step 4, you just can't do it. It needs to be all the extraneous material needs to be stripped
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