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11/30/2017 0 Comments Recording For November 30, 2017(week 307) 30 November 2017 12 Sep Study Big Book All Addictions Workshop
Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost and upkeep of the website. Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 There will be meetings over the Christmas holidays on Thursday 21 & 28 December. Big Book: Chapter 7: Working with Others (page 90) When you discover a prospect for Alcoholics Anonymous, find out all you can about him. If he does not want to stop drinking, don’t waste time trying to persuade him. You may spoil a later opportunity. This advice is given for his family also. They should be patient, realizing they are dealing with a sick person. Q1. Write out what the above paragraph means to you. Q2. How is enabling different from what is being described in this paragraph? What is the definition of enabling? Write out an enabling experience you have had Q3. When I work with others kindness, respect and courtesy need to be my uppermost goal. How am I doing with that? Q4. Write on how kindness and courteousness can slide into enabling. Q5. When you first came in did you treat your sponsees the way you would want to be treated? Are you treating them differently now after six years in the Big Book study? Q6. Are you a pushover? Or do you have healthy boundaries with sponsees and the intimate people in your life? Q7. Do you have accountability people that are encouragers, kind and courteous but will tell you the truth whether or not it is what want you to hear? If not, why not? Q8. In the last two weeks have you been in fear and is it like Miracle Grow for your character defects? How did you handle your fear? Did you take your fear to Quiet Time, God, accountability and make an action plan? Q9. Underline the following sentence on page 90 para 2: ‘You need this information to put yourself in his place, to see how you would like him to approach you if the tables were turned.’ These important words form your foundation: Ends
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11/23/2017 0 Comments Recording For November 23, 2017(week 306) 23 November 2017 12 Sep Study Big Book All Addictions Workshop
To hear the recordings (inc. Tuesday 8am EST meeting reading to the end of the Big Book) visit the website at: http://www.12StepStudyWorkshop.weebly.com and click on ‘Recordings’ . Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost and upkeep of the website. Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 There will be a meeting on Thanksgiving and over Christmas holidays on Thursday 21 & 28 December. Big Book: Chapter 7: Working with Others (page 89) soul work Life will take on new meaning. To watch people recover, to see them help others to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it. Frequent contact with newcomers and each other is the bright spot of our lives. Q1. How do you feel about working with others? Do you see it as something you have to do to keep your sobriety? Or do you really love doing it? Frequent contact with newcomers and each other others is the bright spot in our lives. Q2. Is it the bright spot in your life? What was the last contact you had with a newcomer? What is the most meaningful contact you have had in the recovery rooms? Q3. Are you excited to watch people recover and go on to help others? Q4 Are you wiling to buy a couple of pocket Big Books and give them to newcomers. And give out your name and phone number? Q5. It happens that because of your own drinking/eating/co-dependence experience you can be uniquely useful to other addicts. Write on this. Q6. So co-operate; never criticize. What this mean? Q7. To be helpful is our only aim. Is that true for you? Q8. How willing are you to go out of your comfort zone to help a newcomer? Ends 11/16/2017 0 Comments Recording For November 16, 2017(week 305) 16 November 2017 12 Step Study Big Book All Addictions Workshop
To hear the recordings (inc. Tuesday 8am EST meeting reading to the end of the Big Book) visit the website at: http://www.12StepStudyWorkshop.weebly.com and click on ‘Recordings’ . Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost and upkeep of the website. Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 There will be a meeting on Thanksgiving and over Christmas holidays on Thursday 21 & 28 December. soul work If you want a study buddy just be persistent going down through the phone list. Big Book page 80. Chapter 7: Working with Others ‘Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works when other activities fail. This is our twelfth suggestion. Carry this message to other alcoholics! You can help when no one else can. You can secure their confidence when others fail. Remember they are very ill. Q1a) Do you think working with others is important? b) Write one of the best experiences you have had in working with somebody. c) What was one of the most uncomfortable unsuccessful experiences working with somebody? What was it that made it so difficult? Try to look at your part. It may be true they weren’t ready and somehow you knew yet pushed pulled, prodded anyway. Q2. What have you found works well in keeping a healthy sponsor/sponsee relationship? As a starting point list some quality about yourself that has worked well for you being a sponsor and being a sponsee. Q3. Are you being 100 percent honest about 100 percent of your life? Q4. Do you believe that working with others works when other activities fail? Q5. What are some of the ways you can carry the message? Q6 Have you been carrying a hopeful positive message? Q7. Write out your positive message. Keep it in your Big Book and when asked to speak you already have the outline. Do this writing before the group ends. You will then have the privilege of sharing it on the Thursday morning group. Q8. Do you understand that you can help where no-one else can? Q9. Lying is self-abusive. Write on your experience strength and hope of this. ends 11/9/2017 0 Comments Recording For November 9, 2017(week 304) 9 November 2017 12-Step Big Book All Addictions Workshop
We have a new website. To hear the recordings (inc. Tuesday 8am EST meeting reading to the end of the Big Book) visit the website at: http://www.12StepStudyWorkshop.weebly.com and click on ‘Recordings’ . Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost and upkeep of the website. Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 There will be a meeting on Thanksgiving and over the Christmas holidays on Thursday 21 & 28 December. Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: Spiritual Experience Appendix II page 399-400 THE terms "spiritual experience" and "spiritual awakening" are used many times in this book which, upon careful reading, shows that the personality change sufficient to bring about recovery from alcoholism has manifested itself among us in many different forms. Yet it is true that our first printing gave many readers the impression that these personality changes, or religious experiences, must be in the nature of sudden and spectacular upheavals. Happily for everyone, this conclusion is erroneous. In the first few chapters a number of sudden revolutionary changes are described. Though it was not our intention to create such an impression, many alcoholics have nevertheless concluded that in order to recover they must acquire an immediate and overwhelming "God-consciousness" followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook. Among our rapidly growing membership of thousands of alcoholics such transformations, though frequent, are by no means the rule. Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the "educational variety" because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone. What often takes place in a few months could seldom have been accomplished by years of self discipline. With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves. Most of us think this awareness of a Power greater than ourselves the essence of spiritual experience. Our more religious members call it "God-consciousness." Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial. We find that no one need have difficulty with the spiritual side of the program. Willingness, honesty and open mindedness are the essentials of recovery. But these are indispensable. Soul work Look up: spiritual, experience, awakening, manifesting, form, erroneous. Q1. Write about the personality change you have seen in yourself from when we started step one five years ago. Q2. Has your change been sufficient enough to bring about recovery from alcoholism? Q3. Has the form of your spiritual experience changed since you first started? Q4a) What does God consciousness mean to you? b) Do you have it and if so, describe it. c) If not, ask yourself am I afraid of having a God consciousness and of what I would turn into? Am I afraid I won’ t like or know myself and people won’t like me? Q5. Do you compare your recovery with that of others? If so, why do you think you do that. What purpose does it serve? Q6. If you have had a profound alteration give an example of a recent reaction to life that you know you would not have had before. Q7. Have you tapped into that inner resource to go up and over an issue? Q8. The biggest banner in AA used to be ‘But For the Grace of God.’ What does that mean to you now, five years after starting this workshop? Write this down: The self-discipline of recovery comes in the form of admitting I need a relationship with God. That is the self-discipline which comes from being humble. If you stay humble and know that but for the grace of God you are sober you don’t even need self-discipline as you will willingly do the tools and help others because you have so much gratitude. The willingness to admit you need God takes a lot of self-discipline. The ego wants you to start thinking YOU are doing it, a human doing rather than a human being. Willingness, honesty and open-mindedness. Stephanie has never seen anyone recover who did not have these. ends 11/2/2017 0 Comments Recording For November 2, 2017(week 303) 2 November 2017 12-Step Big Book All Addictions Workshop
We have a new website! To hear the recordings (inc. Tuesday 8am EST meeting reading to the end of the Big Book) visit the website at: http://www.12StepStudyWorkshop.weebly.com and click on ‘Recordings’ . Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Open Study Buddy group on Sundays 11-12am EST. 319 527 3511 pin no. 587213# Donations towards the cost and upkeep of the website. Please send via Pay Pal on the website or send a check to: Stephanie Whiting P O Box 531 North Pembroke MA 02358 AA 12x 12 Page 181-3 Tradition 11 ‘Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.’ Soul work Q1. Are you willing to stay humble and be one among many to help a newcomer or do you have to be the centre of the circle? Can you let the principles, the steps and traditions do the work and not to have to have you in the middle of everything? Q2 Are you doing your Quiet Time with the right attitude such as asking ‘God what is Your will, Your action plan for me today? So I can be the best sober person and attract my loved ones, my group members and be attractive to them.’ Q3a). What happens when someone asks you for help? Does your ego pump up or do you genuinely think: ‘I can help them.’ Or if you realise someone else would be better suited or you are tight for time do you say this? Are you able to not promote yourself so you do not have too much on your plate. b) Or are you not filing your plate enough and know you have to be out there? Q4. Why is Tradition 11 so important? Step 12 ‘Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.’ In preparation for next week’s workshop on Step 12, re-read the chapter entitled: ‘The Spiritual Experience’ at the back of AA’s Big Book. Q5a) Have you had a spiritual experience? How did it come about? Was it the result of working the steps or some other way? Write about how you found God. Q6a) Look up the definition of: ‘trying’. b) What does it mean to try to help others? c) And to try to put God as the most important relationship in your sobriety and your life? Q7a) Look up the definition of: ‘practical’. b) What is your practical experience of what works? Ends |
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