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Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:41 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
For groups planning sponsorship activity ...

For groups planning sponsorship activity

How does sponsorship help a group?

The primary purpose of an A.A. group is to carry the message of the recovery program to alcoholics who want and ask...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:40 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
How should a sponsor deal with slips? It...

How should a sponsor deal with slips?

It can be most discouraging to work with a newcomer who gets sober for a period, then has a relapse, or slip, and starts drinking again. This can be a...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:39 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
How can a sponsor handle an over dependent...

How can a sponsor handle an over dependent newcomer?

In the first days of sobriety, a newcomer is sometimes so bewildered and frightened - or so mentally fuzzy and physically weak - that he or...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:38 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
Should a sponsor lend money to a newcomer? ...

Should a sponsor lend money to a newcomer?

This is, of course, a matter of individual judgment and decision. Involved in it is the basic fact that A.A. has a single purpose: to help alcoholics...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:37 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
How can a sponsor work with an alcoholics family?...

How can a sponsor work with an alcoholics family?

The sponsor can explain the A.A. program to a wife, husband, or relative, and point out that most members have found it easier to five a fife...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:36 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
Should a sponsor recommend hospitalization? ...

Should a sponsor recommend hospitalization?

Though increasing numbers of newcomers are reaching A.A. immediately after leaving a hospital or a treatment center, the majority (from 50% to 75%,...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:36 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
Is there any one best way of sponsoring a...

Is there any one best way of sponsoring a newcomer?

The answer is no. All members are free to approach sponsorship as their own individual experiences and personalities may suggest. Some sponsors...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:35 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
What does a sponsor do? A sponsor does...

What does a sponsor do?

A sponsor does everything possible, within the limits of personal experience and knowledge, to help the newcomer get sober and stay sober through the A.A. program:
...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:34 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
How should a sponsor be chosen? The process...

How should a sponsor be chosen?

The process of matching newcomer and sponsor is as informal as everything else in A.A. Often, the new person simply approaches a more experienced member who seems...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:33 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
Background ALCOHOLOICS ANONYMOUS began with...

Background

ALCOHOLOICS ANONYMOUS began with sponsorship. When Bill W., only a few months sober, was stricken with a powerful urge to drink, this thought came to him: "You need another alcoholic...
Forum: Sponsors and Sponsees Help Forum 10-01-2013, 12:32 PM
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Posted By MajestyJo
What is the Role of Sponsorship?

What is the Role of Sponsorship?"

(from the Alcoholics Anonymous, pamphlet; "Questions & Answers on Sponsorship")

While the following article was written by Alcoholic Anonymous for alcoholics,...
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