All Addictions
12-Step Study
Workshop
12-Step Study
Workshop
2/28/2024 0 Comments Recording For February 27, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Feb. 27, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 76. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiii (13), last paragraph "In this ongoing process..." to top of page xiv (14) ending "...what blocks us from ourselves." 1. Do you have somebody in your life you can be 100 percent honest with? 2. Find a place in your home you feel comfortable. Make it your own prayer corner. Have your Quiet Time consistently. 3. Look up "ongoing." Look up "process." 4. Can you say that you're looking at your life as a half-full glass? If not, what's going on with you? Do you need to forgive somebody in order to let go of self-pity? Do you need to go to somebody right now and just talk things out so you can let go of self-pity? 5. a) Is there any self-pity in your emotions right now about anything? Write about it. b) Write a "Dear God" letter, asking God for an action plan on how you can deal with self-pity in a healthy, recovered way with emotional sobriety. And c) What has been your experience in overcoming self-pity? 6. Take these paragraphs read today and write about them. (Page reference is noted above). 7. What blocks you from the usefulness today to other people and your Higher Power? 8. What blocks us from ourselves? (end)
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2/21/2024 0 Comments Recording For February, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Feb. 20, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 75. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiii (13), 4th paragraph "I went to Hazelden..." to end of the page, "self-pity." 1. Reread Page 75 of "As Bill Sees It." (Copy is attached to this email). Where are you with your fears about financial security? When you go into fear about finances, what do you do about it? 2. Reread Drop The Rock Page 13 (xiii) paragraph four, "I went to Hazelden..." and write about it. 3. The program is asking us to go where we've not gone before. Are you willing? 4. Look at your past: Who has God sent you for help? Do a timeline of the people coming into your life to help you. 5. Write about situations in your life where you have had lessened fear about something, diminished anger, fewer resentments, and genuine self-esteem instead of self-pity. Write a current happening with each of these four, or more than one instance of them. Note: Page 75 of "As Bill Sees It" is attached as a document, "P75Bill.jpeg" (end) 2/14/2024 0 Comments Recording For February 13, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Feb. 13, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 74. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xiii (13), paragraph "One morning." Also refer to page 101 on character defects and program principles. 1. Turn to page 101, go to Quiet Time, and ask God how God wants you to deal with this list and the 3x5 cards. One method is to write the character defect on one side and the program principle on the other with an Action Plan. 2. Write out the Seventh Step Prayer on a 3x5 card or diary, or print it out. Have this with you in Quiet Time each day. 3. What does the AA Twelve and Twelve book call the basic ingredient of all humility? Re-read "One morning" paragraph on page 13 and answer. 4. What is your definition of "sick and tired?" 5. What are you "sick and tired" of now? (end) 2/7/2024 0 Comments Notes From February 6, 2024Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Feb. 6, 2024)
There is no recording for today's meeting. To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 73. Workshop text: As part of Step 6, continuing the book "Drop The Rock," page xii "Mike shares his experience" to "What did these things ever do for you?" midway down on the next page, xiii. 1. What does it mean to you to be entirely ready to have God remove all defects of character? And what does it mean to have the AA promise of spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection? How does that lay in your heart? 2. Give a recent example in your life of spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. 3. What is for you the "best possible attitude" you can take in starting this book? After all these years in recovery, how do you feel that this book is now telling us that 6 and 7 is a lifetime job? 4. Referring to page 101, make 3x5 cards if you hadn't done this already. Put each defect and any major points on one side of each card, and the corresponding program principle on the other side. Share the cards with your buddy group. 5. Answer the two questions on page xiii: a) Why are you holding on to these things? b) What did these things ever do for you? (end) Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study Workshop (Jan. 30, 2024)
To participate live each Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. EST, call 1-267-807-9601, pin code 714744988# The website address for this Tuesday workshop is www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com There you will also find workshop recordings and handouts. To receive the questions by this email for the Tuesday All Addictions Big Book Step Study each week directly, go to 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com. Scroll to the message screen to insert your information. If you are already a member and want a buddy for accountability during the step work, email Debbie: [email protected] To listen to the recording online for this Tuesday's workshop, visit the website. Or use the call back telephone number to listen to the recording: 641-715-3900 pin 95666# (available for a week). Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. On the website, you'll also find Thursday’s literature workshop, live at 8 a.m. EST, studying the book "Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the AA Message Reached the World." This group uses the same conference line: 1- 267 - 807 - 9601 and the same pin number 714744988# Listen anytime to the most recent recording of this Thursday's literature workshop: 1 -641 -715-3900 Pin 298913# Big Book literature suggestion: The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text + Big Book dictionaries and for AA 12 x 12. Also on the website: Trust and Rely Workshop (Steps 10, 11 & 12) To hear recordings of this call: 641-715-3900, pin 97200# Summary of Steps 1, 2 & 3 Part 1 - pin 235934# Part 2 - pin 578290# Big Book All Addictions workshop members' contact list is updated regularly. Please contact with additions, changes or deletions: Email forelight1@gmail.com Donations for the upkeep and management of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 558 Brockton, MA 02303 Buddy Groups: Currently, there are two open buddy groups, Tuesday at 7 a.m. ET and Friday Noon ET. All members are welcome to create or join any open buddy groups. By telephone conference call, buddy groups are for reading the written work. (716) 427-1337 code 587213. Tuesday 7 a.m ET group contact is Lorraine, (248) 752-7484. Friday Noon ET group contact is Mary Kay, (650) 279-3391. Call about possible time adjustments on holidays. This Week's Soul Work: Opening reading: Book “As Bill Sees It" page 72. Workshop text: Beginning book "Drop The Rock," preface and introduction to page xii ending at "Mike shares his experience..." 1. Upon reading the introduction, what's your first impression? What came to mind? 2. Are you on the boat or are you swimming? 3. Who do you have in your life saying to you, "Swim, swim, drop the rock?" 4. Is there anything around your neck causing you to sink? 5. When you're vaguely aware of something around your neck, what are your steps to figuring out what it is? 6. Do you have a group or belong to a group so that if you're in a bad way, you have the support? 7. Do you have any of these today: Resentments, fear, dishonesty, self-pity, intolerance, anger? Do an inventory, write about them, and share. 8. Describe the last time you let go of something and how good it felt. What did you do to let go of it and how did it feel afterward? 9. Who are you cheering for and applauding? 10. Who are you looking at in life that's swimming, maybe going under, and what are you doing for them? Are you being an encourager? (end) |
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Our live phone meetings are every Tuesday at 8:00 AM EST. The phone number for these live meetings is (712) 775-7031, and the meeting ID number is 714744988#.
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You can listen to our recorded meetings at (641) 715-3900, pin 95666# for our Tuesday Big Book Step Study workshop. You can also hear our Thursday Big Book Study recordings at (641) 715-3900, pin 298913#. These meetings can be accessed at any time.
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