How to become and to BE a sponsor.

2. How it Works1 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

3. Goals Motivate You to choose a Sponsor Encourage You to becomea Sponsor Develop a Better Understanding of What a Sponsor Does 2 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

4. Agenda Outline Do I have a Sponsor? Why do I resist getting or using a Sponsor? TemporaryvsPermanent Sponsorship What does a Sponsor Do? 3.5 Tips on Sponsorship Suggestions on doing the Steps 3 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

5. Myth of Sisyphus 4 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

6. Temporaryvs Permanent Sponsorship Answers Questions, Explains the Program Introduces us to People Gets us started on the Steps Stays in constant contact (phone or email) Encourages us to attend meetings May become a Permanent Sponsor, although many don’t. 5 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

7. Why have a Sponsor? Even when you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there -Will Rogers The Elevator to Recovery is ‘out of order.’ You’ll just have to take the Steps. -Rhonda Gates 6 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

8. What does a Sponsor Do? Serves as a Guide Serves by Example Is available by phone, visit or email Does not pretend to know all the answers Works the Program, has a Sponsor Avoids taking other’s Inventory Shares Experience, Strength and Hope Is Honest at all cost 7 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

9. What Does a Sponsor Not Do Give Medical or Legal Advice Attempt to Control our Lives Encourage an Unhealthy Dependence Be a Therapist Be Our Banker Take advantage of a Sponsee (p15) 8 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

10. Guidelines for Choosing a Primary Sponsor Has what we want Lives in the solution Walks the talk Has a sponsor Emphasizes the Steps 9 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

11. Guidelines for Choosing a Primary Sponsor Gender is the same as ours Has more time in recovery than we do Has worked more Steps than we have Is available for telephone calls and meetings Emphasizes spiritual aspect of the program 10 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

12. The Old Approach: No Sponsor 11 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

13. The New Approach: TeamWork 12 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

14. Tip #1: Getting or Becoming a Sponsor is not a life-time commitment It is a working relationship that works as long as you work it 13 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

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16. Tip #2 Never ask a sponsor or sponsee to do something you would not do yourself 15 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

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18. Sponsor Training 12 Step Sponsorship: How it Works 17 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

19. Tip # 3 Don’t take on a load you cannot carry Remember: We carry the Message, Not the Person 18 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

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29. Tip # 3.5 “You know you are doing it right when you don’t give a shit.” He who will remain Anonymous 28 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

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32. Sponsorship “You know you are doing it right when you don’t give a shit.” 31 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

33. Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow. -Swedish Proverb We can do what I cannot do -Anonymous It takes two to speak the truth. One to speak and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau 32 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works

34. Recovery Sayings… I have to let go of the right to be right I must lay down the weapons of self in order to pick up the tools of the program “I have an inferiority complex but it isn’t a very good one.” We are damaged but not broken. An addict is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. 33 Sponsorship: What it is and How it works