All Addictions
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12-Step Study
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1/25/2018 0 Comments Recording For January 25, 2018(week 315) 25 January 2018
12 Step 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# Tuesdays 8am EST studying the end chapters of the Big Book 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 If you are new to the workshop (or not receiving the questions) please email and phone Sue W *HS Ruddock on 434 987 4346 [email protected] From last week: If you think this programme is not about having a spiritual experience, meditate and then write on the third step prayer (p. 63 in the Big Book) every day for a month. Step Twelve: ‘Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.’ Big Book Chapter 7: Working With Others top of page 96 : ‘Do not be discouraged if your prospect does not respond at once. Search out another alcoholic and try again. You are sure to find someone desperate enough to accept with eagerness what you offer. We find it a waste of time to keep chasing a man who cannot or will not work with you. If you leave such a person alone he may soon become convinced that he cannot recover by himself. To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy. One of our Fellowship failed entirely with his first half dozen prospects. He often says that if he had continued to work on them he might have deprived many others, who have since recovered, of their chance. Q1. Know when to ‘hold and when to fold.’ How does that expression relate to the above paragraph? 96:2 Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man. He has read this volume and says he is prepared to go through with the Twelve Steps of the program of recovery. Having had the experience yourself, you can give him much practical advice. Let him know you are available if he wishes to make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else. above the word ‘advice’ write ‘suggestion’. Q2. If you met somebody at a 12th step meeting and learned of their need, what would you do? Be honest. Q3. Reflect back on what people gave to you when you came in. Write as much as you can - basically a big essay on gratitude going back to your beginnings. Q4. Write on the expression: ‘Play it forward.’ What does it mean to you in 12th step recovery and in your life? Q5. Can you tell the difference between carrying someone on your back and the delicate balance of walking side by side with them? Ends
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1/18/2018 0 Comments Recording for January 18, 2018(week 314) 18 January 2018
12 Step 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# Tuesdays 8am EST studying the end chapters of the Big Book 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 If you are new to the workshop (or not receiving the questions) please email and phone Sue W *HS Ruddock on 434 987 4346 [email protected] Step Twelve: ‘Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.’ Big Book Chapter 7: Working With Others page 94 last paragraph: ‘If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience. We have no monopoly on God; we merely have an approach that worked with us. But point out that we alcoholics have much in common and that you would like, in any case, to be friendly. Let it go at that.’ If any of you have questions about sponsoring, e-mail them to Stephanie and she will answer them. [email protected] Soulwork Be an encourager. Stephanie finds one of the most helpful things she says is: I understand that does not work for you. How can I be a help to you to find something that works? Definition of a spiritual experience: when we have freedom from the bondage of self. Q1. Do you have a God and do you know it is not you? Q2. Have you had an incident this past week where you knew God was it and you were not God. And an incident where you forgot and and tried to play God in your own or someone else’s life? If he thinks he can do the job in some other way, or prefers some other spiritual approach, encourage him to follow his own conscience. Q3. Write on this. How do you handle it? Are you an encourager? Give an example of when someone wanted to do something another way from that which you suggested. Did you drop them or encourage them? Q4. What if they prefer some other spiritual approach? Or they have the same concept of God as you do, but they prefer looking at God differently? Are you going to be an encourage or say: I cannot work with you? Q5. How encouraging are you to all the people in your life - not just your sponsees but group members, people at work, family, friends, etc? How much of an encourager are you to yourself? Q6. Are you afraid of people working a different program or are you accepting? Are you even happy for them that they do a different program? Q7. Take the whole paragraph, break it down and see where you are at. Ends 1/11/2018 0 Comments Recording For January 11, 2018(week 313) 11 January 2018 12 Step Study All Addictions Big Book 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 If you are new to the workshop (or not receiving the questions) please email and phone Sue W *HS Ruddock on 434 987 4346 [email protected] Step 12 BB Ch. 7 - Working With Others - p.95: 1 -3 "Never talk down to an alcoholic from any moral or spiritual hilltop." Q1. (a) Have you ever had anybody talk down to you from any moral or spiritual hilltop? (b) How did it end up? Did you want to stay and continue to talk with them? (c) And, have you ever talked down to an alcoholic from a moral or spiritual hilltop? Q2. (a) Where are you on a humility scale? (b) Where are you when you think about how many years you've been in sobriety: Is your humility scale number going down or do you live every day knowing it is by the Grace of God that you are sober? (c) Look back and see how you got into recovery. If I am to find God, the desire must come from within. Q3. (a) Write on this; what does this mean to you? (b)Have you found that desire? Or is it because Stephanie has pounded away at this idea every Thursday in the workshop? Q4. (a)Write on this: If you want to find God, God does not hide. (b) How does that help me sponsor others? (c) How can I let other people know that if they really want to find God, God does not hide - and the desire will come from within? Ends Remember: "You will be most successful with alcoholics if you do not exhibit any passion for crusade or reform." ( BB p. 95:1 mid-paragraph) Just meet them where they're at. And, meet yourself where you're at. 1/6/2018 0 Comments Recording for January 4, 2018(week 312) 4 January 2018 12 Step Study All Addictions Big Book 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 If you are new to the workshop (or not receiving the questions) please email and phone Sue W *HS Ruddock on 434 987 4346 [email protected] Today's reading: Step Twelve Big Book Chapter 7: Working With Others page 94 starting at line 3: ‘Outline the program of action, explaining how you made a self-appraisal, how you straightened out your past and why you are not endeavoring to be helpful to him…’ soulwork Stephanie suggests this sentence should be in bold: ‘It is important for him to realize that your attempt to pass this on to him plays a vital part in your own recovery.’ ‘Suggest how important it is that he place the welfare of other people ahead of his own.’ Q1.How are you doing with that? Give an example of the last time you put the welfare of someone ahead of your own. And an example of when you did not. Recovery needs to be lived 24/7. Q2. Last week where could you have improved living recovery? And an example of where you lived out recovery in your life. Q3. Do you know what a miracle it is when one person decides they want sobriety? Q4. Have you made a friend in the people that you have tried to help? Q5 Are you wiling to do anything to help the still suffering addict? Ends |
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