Sponsorship

Carrying the message one alcoholic to another: choosing, using, and being a sponsor.

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  1. Sponsorship and taking offence14 October 2026
  2. Elf on the shelf20 September 2026
  3. Offended13 September 2026
  4. Sponsorship and detachment7 September 2026
  5. Obligation22 August 2026
  6. Sponsorship15 July 2026
  7. Honesty14 July 2026
  8. Helping others27 June 2026
  9. Choosing a sponsor25 June 2026
  10. Scaffolding15 June 2026
  11. No decisions30 May 2026
  12. Guide not guru9 January 2026
  13. Anything31 December 2025
  14. Alert30 November 2025
  15. Domination19 November 2025
  16. Check-up7 November 2025
  17. Application26 October 2025
  18. High chair10 October 2025
  19. Detachment20 August 2025
  20. 64 tips on helping others3 July 2025
  21. Look to yourself24 June 2025
  22. What's sponsorship for once the Steps have been done?23 June 2025
  23. Straightening the crooked16 May 2025
  24. Simplicity7 May 2025
  25. Scrambled7 May 2025
  26. Sponsorship not sponsor5 April 2025
  27. Meekness = teachableness27 March 2025
  28. Spree26 February 2025
  29. Talking to oneself12 February 2025
  30. Troubles galore6 February 2025
  31. Cannot or will not15 November 2024
  32. Levelling of pride11 August 2024
  33. Eat your dinner31 May 2024
  34. Open wide24 May 2024
  35. Desire3 May 2024
  36. An action shot of real-life sponsorship4 January 2024
  37. A talk on Step Twelve ...10 December 2023
  38. The three elements of the foundation28 October 2023
  39. Help me ... or else16 September 2023
  40. Business is business16 September 2023
  41. Not fired, not dumped27 August 2023
  42. Step buddies etc.9 August 2023
  43. First things first12 July 2023
  44. Two bad questions and one good12 July 2023
  45. Grr8 July 2023
  46. The innocent question30 May 2023
  47. Agreement29 May 2023
  48. How to avoid being sponsored effectively #314 April 2023
  49. How to tell a story30 March 2023
  50. ‘The victim of cruelty, violence, and deprivation.’ (ODAT, 26 February)26 February 2023
  51. Boxing Day26 December 2022
  52. Am I in the solution?11 October 2022
  53. Mental ill-health30 September 2022
  54. 'My sponsor is killing newcomers'29 September 2022
  55. It ain't personal28 September 2022
  56. Sponsorship in a nutshell27 September 2022
  57. Asking for help27 September 2022
  58. Put your hand up for sponsorship24 September 2022
  59. Loving sponsorship13 September 2022
  60. How-am-I-doing checklist13 September 2022
  61. Who you gonna call?9 September 2022
  62. A good model for sponsorship interactions20 August 2022
  63. Yes but9 August 2022
  64. Being sponsorable31 July 2022
  65. Dealing with The Four Rs29 July 2022
  66. 'Yes, but ...'18 July 2022
  67. Balky McBalkface16 July 2022
  68. Being helped is hard!22 June 2022
  69. How to be helped22 June 2022
  70. Asking questions of a sponsor or other advisor12 May 2022
  71. How to be helped12 May 2022
  72. I hate my sponsor!27 April 2022
  73. Circuses and surrender13 April 2022
  74. Sponsorship & authority1 April 2022
  75. Q: I don't call my sponsor much. Is that a problem?14 March 2022
  76. The supplier or the supplied?17 February 2022
  77. Where angels fear to tread2 January 2022
  78. You'd better be further ahead26 November 2021
  79. Nice sponsors7 November 2021
  80. Sponsorship: Honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness5 November 2021
  81. Calling a sponsor - Protocol27 October 2021
  82. Give it to 'em straight18 October 2021
  83. Am I dependent?18 September 2021
  84. Rowing18 September 2021
  85. What do we pay these people for?!18 September 2021
  86. Here and there26 August 2021
  87. The frame of reference24 August 2021
  88. Restoration to sanity24 August 2021
  89. Fancy a lift?24 August 2021
  90. Bogeyman24 August 2021
  91. Bad Dad; good Dad24 August 2021
  92. Bananas24 August 2021
  93. Cucumbers, courgettes*, and truncheons24 August 2021
  94. What is honesty?24 August 2021
  95. Is morality part of the programme?24 August 2021
  96. Personal chef, or chef training other chefs?27 June 2021
  97. Q: When should someone start sponsoring?27 May 2021
  98. 'I can't believe it's not sponsorship'23 March 2021
  99. What do we pay these people for?25 February 2021
  100. Step 12: How do you take someone through the Steps?9 September 2020
  101. Sponsorship: Making the most of it18 June 2020
  102. Trusting one's sponsor1 June 2020
  103. Sharing the message with anyone who cares to listen25 May 2020
  104. Taking Al-Anons etc. through the Big Book24 May 2020
  105. Sponsorship: what works and what does not work18 December 2019
  106. Calling a sponsor with a problem24 July 2019
  107. Being sponsorable11 October 2018
  108. What do we pay these people for? Oh ...29 August 2018
  109. Sponsoring and relapse3 August 2018
  110. Full measures vs half measures8 July 2018
  111. Is it OK if I don't ...?7 July 2018
  112. Sponsor's magic eight ball6 July 2018
  113. Role of a sponsor8 June 2018
  114. We admitted that our lives had become unmanageable7 March 2018
  115. Who is the CEO?2 March 2018
  116. Suggestions13 February 2018
  117. When do you call your sponsor?30 November 2017
  118. Playing the long game19 August 2017
  119. Connection31 July 2017
  120. But you don't understand!8 April 2017
  121. 'Strong sponsorship'4 April 2017
  122. Responsibility3 April 2017
  123. How to find people to work with30 March 2017
  124. There is no problem27 March 2017
  125. What is a sponsor?9 March 2017
  126. Step Twelve, carrying the message: a review6 March 2017
  127. Wild self-abandonment19 December 2016
  128. How many ways are there to work the steps? Are worksheets OK?31 October 2016
  129. How to practise these principles in all your affairs31 October 2016
  130. What is the role of a sponsor after the individual has been through the AA programme?21 October 2016
  131. To the man with the hammer17 September 2016
  132. Sponsor-reliance or God reliance?10 August 2016
  133. Any lengths?5 July 2016
  134. Having a tough time emotionally3 May 2016
  135. Don't like your local meeting?27 February 2016
  136. Principles and rules13 January 2016
  137. The games people play and the mistakes people make2 January 2016
  138. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age: When AA Comes of Age21 October 2015
  139. Questions and answers on Tradition X10 October 2015
  140. Is a sponsor a friend?1 September 2015
  141. Write it down1 September 2015
  142. Sponsor-jumping and method-jumping5 August 2015
  143. Whom are the people you're talking to talking to?3 August 2015
  144. 'I've done all the Steps and I'm still self-centred and neurotic'25 June 2015
  145. Discussion, debate, and controversy24 June 2015
  146. What to look for from a sponsor15 May 2015
  147. Scheduling10 May 2015
  148. Defects and corrective measures in sponsorship4 April 2015
  149. Get a life20 February 2015
  150. Victimhood and responsibility20 January 2015
  151. CONCEPT XII28 November 2014
  152. Going to unfamiliar meetings14 November 2014
  153. Dealing with relapsing sponsees31 July 2014
  154. Is it in the Book?12 July 2014
  155. Sponsorship—do I just listen to my sponsor, or can I listen to other people too? What does the Big Book say?4 June 2013
  156. Some experience on sponsorship: bakers, trees, and hunger19 May 2013
  157. Are we sheep?17 April 2013
  158. Concept IX7 April 2013
  159. Young people and AA5 January 2013
  160. Can my sponsor tell me what to do in my life outside AA?21 November 2012
  161. Stopping drinking for ever20 April 2012
  162. Without or within10 April 2012
  163. Service keeps you sober17 February 2012
  164. Page 89 thoughts2 December 2011
  165. Jim vs the pamphlet8 November 2011
  166. The ego's excuses for not working with others3 October 2011
  167. Suggestions and musts19 June 2011
  168. Some sponsorship principles (thanks to Jim W.)16 June 2011
  169. Effective sponsorship and ineffective sponsorship24 April 2011
  170. The cardinal error of the recovered alcoholic16 February 2011
  171. Emergency pack: triangle check-list + resentment-/fear-/guilt- & shame-busters9 January 2011
  172. Splinters, Rabbit Holes, and Wonderland3 April 2010
  173. First Floor, Powerlessness, Unmanageability, Going Up!27 February 2010