All Addictions
12-Step Study
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12-Step Study
Workshop
4/23/2019 0 Comments Recording For April 23, 201912 Step All Addictions Big Book Study Workshop (Week 33)
April 23, 2019 Our website is: www.12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com To listen to the recording online and for these questions: https://12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com/12-step-study-workshop Call back number: 641 715 3900 pin no. 95666# (available for a week) Press 2 to rewind. Press 3 to fast forward 30 seconds. Press 8 to pause. Thursdays literature workshop at 8am EST. To hear the recording: 641 715 3900 pin no. 298913# The Anonymous Press (800) 800 4398 anonpress.org publishes a Big Book study version with a blank sheet opposite each page of text. And dictionaries specifically for the Big Book and AA 12 x 12. Soul work and members’ list: To receive the questions each week: 12stepstudyworkshop.weebly.com Scroll down to the bottom of the website's home page where there is space to write your name and email address and ask for a buddy. If you are already a member and want a buddy, email Debbie: [email protected]. Donations for the upkeep of the website: Stephanie Whiting PO Box 531, North Pembroke MA 02358 Open study buddy groups are for reading your written answers to our soul work each week. There are currently two groups, and you are welcome to form more. Everyone is welcome to attend open study buddy groups. Our two open study buddy groups use the SAME NUMBER AND CODE. 1. Open Study Buddy Group: Sundays 11 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. 2. Open Study Buddy Group: Tuesdays 6:30 a.m. EST (319) 527-3511 code 587213. Soul work this week: Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Reference: Bill's Story, page 11, "But my friend..." to page 12, "Nothing more was required of me to make my beginning." Definitions: Miracle, antipathy, vestiges, prejudice Workshop group question: Q: What's your definition of a miracle? Has your idea of miracles changed? Have you experienced a miracle in your own life or someone else's? Buddy questions: 1. Can you make the same statement that, "God had done for him what he could not do for himself?" 2. Can you say your human will failed you? 3. Have you admitted complete defeat? 4. What is your action plan around complete defeat? 5. Have you been raised from the dead of addiction? 6. Would you say your life is better than life you've ever known? 7. Have you found yourself in Bill's situation sitting across from Ebby? 8. Paragraph 5, page, 11, "That floored me." Has your idea of miracles been drastically revised? 9. Are you on different footing? Do your roots grasp new soil, of a complete triangle, living day in, day out, in community with others and God being your Supreme Being? 10. Do you have a personal God? 11. Does having a personal God create animosity in you? 12. Are you resisting having a thought of a personal God to help you in your sobriety? 13. If you accept your powerlessness, how are you going to move? Write out a description to illustrate your powerlessness over _____________. 14. "Despite the living example of my friend..." page 12. Write about how we are now seeing Bill's fear, doubt and insecurity coming in saying, "you don't want to believe in God." 15. "I have since talked with scores of men who felt the same way," page 12. Are you one of those people? 16. Why don't you choose your own conception of God? 17. "I stood in the sunlight at last," page 12. What does that sentence mean? When did you have that awakening? What does it describe to you? 18. Are you willing to believe in a power greater than yourself? 19. Can you just be willing to believe? Group workshop question: See above. END
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