Sponsorship

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

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