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- Big Book Sponsorship
- It’s not about being sponsored—its about sponsoring others that is a predictor for permanent recovery
- Confessions of a Big Book Sponsor
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- The Missing Piece: The Spiritual Malady
- AA Sponsorship Styles
- Clarifying Questions for Relapsers
- The Big Book’s Answer to Relapse Prevention
- How FAST should the newcomer be taken through the Twelve Steps?
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- Back to Basics Recovery Model
- How we let the Therapeutic/Treatment Industry WATER-DOWN the 12 Step Recovery Program
- Twelfth-Step References, Techniques, Tips, & Sponsorship Tools in the Big Book
- Gresham’s Law and Alcoholics Anonymous by Tom P., Jr.
- Parable of the Sower: The Challenges of Sponsorship
- Step Five and the properly appointed authority
- Studying the Steps is not the same as taking the Steps!
- Twelve Step Sponsorship…Its Opportunities and Its Responsibilities.
- Co-dependence and 12 Step Recovery
- Big Book Sponsorship versus Therapy
- Working with Others – Sponsorship or Co-dependency?
- Working with Other Addicts
- Big Book Study
- Newcomers, How do you read your Big Book?
- Who are the Muckers in AA and CA?
- Big Book Highlights
- Essentials of Recovery
- Relapse was unthinkable…How did it happened?
- The Big Book Study Movement is outside of the Structure of Alcoholics Anonymous In Ireland.
- We are now at Step Three
- Step Four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Beware these ‘recovery logs’ for they lack the necessary power to recover.
- Format for Eleventh Step Guidance Meeting
- How to find God’s plan for your life…the art of two-way prayer
- Stinkin’ Thinkin’
- The Cake Recipe
- The Myth of A.A. Identification: The Jay-Walker Story, A Case for Using the Big Book for Any and All Addictions
- This is a selfish program
- How do you know if you are having a spiritual experience?
- Prayers from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
- The Allergy of the Body and the Obession of the Mind
- Alcoholics Anonymous archivist, author conducts sessions here
- Working with Others
- AA History
- The History of Alcoholics Anonymous Beginners Classes: A Speech by Wally P.
- The Early History of ‘How It Works’ by Wally P.
- Minneapolis alcoholic recovery rates from the 1943 – 1945 indicates that 75% of its members are successful at staying sober!
- Sponsorship…Lessons from the Old-timers
- A Brief History of Chips/Keytags, Medallions, & Sobriety Birthdays – Principles or Personalities?
- A.A. Pioneer, Clarence H. Snyder was the first to initiate ‘Big Book’ sponsorship
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the First Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Second Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Sixth Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Third Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Fifth Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Fourth Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Seventh Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Eighth Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…On the Nineth Step
- A.A. Oldtimers…on the Tenth Step…
- A.A. Oldtimes…On the Eleventh Step…
- A.A. Oldtimes…On the Twelveth Step…
- “Here are the steps we took” by Clarence Snyder
- ‘Get Honest With Yourself, Pray,’ Alcoholics Anonymous Advise
- A Prescription for Sobriety
- A.A.’s “Prince of All Twelfth-Steppers” — Dr. Bob
- Are you trying carrying the message?
- Do We Make Too Much of Anniversaries?
- On Simplicity, of Faith, of Living, of Outlook
- Sponsorship: A Dying Art… Chicago Group Suggests A Revival Is Overdue
- Surrender by Tom P. Jr.
- Taking Inventory – A.A. Grapevine, January 1955, Vol. 11 No. 8
- The history behind reading The Lord’s Prayer at 12 Step meetings
- What is the history behind AA’s Responsibility Statement?
- What was early A.A. was really like?
- Working with Others: How the oldtimers worked with others the 1940’s
- AA Myths, Misconceptions, and Outright Fabrications
- A.A. Myths: The Myth of Sponsorship
- MYTHS IN AA
- A.A. Myths: The Myth of “Don’t make any major decisions for the first year in recovery”
- A.A. Myths: The Myth of Going to Meetings: Why ‘Meeting Makers Don’t Always Make It’
- AA Myths: The Myth that Bill wished he could have changed “rarely” to “never.”
- That Ain’t in the Big Book!
- Fellowship
- What happend? Meetings have gone from “rarely have we seen a person fail” to “seldom do we see a person recover!”
- The Death of a 12 Step Group…An Obituary on What Went Wrong?
- Beware: Hard Drinkers & Fakers Inside!
- The Price of Just Don’t Drink and Go To Meetings! or Why Meeting Makers Don’t Make It!
- The story of a chronic relapsing alcoholic addict who fell into a hole and how he found his way out of a seemingly hopeless situation
- Understanding the difference between the REAL alcoholic or addict and the Hard drinker or user
- ‘If I had heard all this GOD-talk when I first came into these rooms, I never would have come back!’
- Addict Identification or Group Discrimination?
- From the Bleating Deacon’s Corner: My Ideal Group
- How do you take your recovery — Conversion, Meetings, or Treatment?
- Newcomers: Watch out for the Time-Bullies!
- Open “Disgusting” Meetings
- Recovered versus Recovering — What’s your position?
- Sobriety Statistics, 12 Step Recovery Rates
- The Principle of Anonymity – Some thoughts from the A.A. oldtimers
- Top Ten Reasons To Run From Alcoholics Anonymous
- When at a A.A. meeting, how do you introduce yourself?
- When I am asked to be the guest speaker at a meeting, How should I tell my story?
- Yesterday I lost the battle, and Today I relapsed, and Tomorrow I will again use again, and again…
- Open Discussion? Open Disgusting!
- Twelve Traditions: Group Conscience or Mob Rule
- Elder Statesmen versus the Bleeding (Bleating) Deacons
- How The Activity of Fundraising Conflicts with Tradition
- Is it OK to use non-conference approved literature in meetings?
- Property and Prestige
- The Care and Nurture of the Trusted Servant
- The Twelve Traditions — Short Form
- Tradition Four: Group Autonomy OR Intergroup/Area Tyranny?
- Tradition One: A Pathway to Unity
- Tradition Two: Group Conscience or Mob Rule?
- Tradition Two: The Principle of Rotation
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- Preface
- Forward to First Edition
- Forward to Second Edition
- The Doctor’s Opinion
- Chapter 1: Bill’s Story
- Chapter 2: There Is A Solution
- Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism
- Chapter 4: We Agnostics
- Chapter 5: How It Works
- Chapter 6: Into Action
- Chapter 7: Working With Others
- Chapter 8: To Wives
- Chapter 9: The Family Afterward
- Chapter 10: To Employers
- Chapter 11: A Vision For You
- Personal Stories From The First Edition: THE DOCTOR’S NIGHTMARE
- Spiritual Experience
- Speakers
- Cameron F.
- ‘Trust God, Clean House and Help Others’ Speaker, Kim C. (A.A. and C.A. Keynotes)
- Jermaine T. (Los Angeles, California)
- Listen to Joe and Charlie talk about the original 12 Step format
- Part 1: Chris Raymer, AA Big Book, CA speaker, talks about carrying the message to the addict that still suffers
- Part 2: Chris Raymer, AA Big Book, CA speaker, talk about carrying the message to the addict that still suffers
- Hear renowned addiction speaker, Mark Houston from Texas, a recovered alcoholic/addict, speak on 12 step spirituality — living in the spirit.
- Listen to Wally P. talk about AA key concepts to sponsorship in the 1940s
- Big Book Speaker, Cameron F. at the Sunday Morning Men’s Meeting of AA, Toronto, ON
- Hear recovered addict and Big Book Mucker, Cameron F. outline the AA Big Book program of action to the AA and CA newcomer
- AA member, Brett B. outlines the Step 4 sex inventory instructions
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