Sponsorship

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

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