How do I become a sober sponser for AA?!
How do I become a sober sponser for AA?
I want to help others......
Answers:
To be a sponsor, you need to be an alcoholic who stopped drinking and stays that way using the AA program. There is no set amount of time sober required, but most people say a year or more.
"AA Sponsorship . . . Its Opportunities and Its Responsibilities.":
http://alcohol411.info/aa%20sponsorship%...
You can hear "How I Sponsor" by Clancy I. at:
http://www.aaprimarypurpose.org/sponsors...
I imagine you would have to become a regular at the local AA meetings, and get to know the people involved and earn their trust. It is a very laudable thing you do and I sincerely wish you the best of luck........
hi im dave and im an alcoholic , there are other ways to help alcoholics , like volenterring at an intergroup office answering phones ,making 12step calls ect. but the best way to help is to go to meetings and share your expierence , strength and hope with other alcoholics . someone at those meetings might relate to your testomony and ask you to sponsor them .
It's nice you want to help others. You did not mention if you are an alcoholic yourself.
The reason AA can attract drinkers is because we all lived and did the stuff that drinkers are ashamed of. If you did not go through the puking, the quesitionable sex stuff, the various scraping around to drink, being a sponser in AA is not the thing to try. Drinkers can sense a phony book learned person, who has not been there.
Also sponsorship should be men sponsoring men, and women sponsoring women. The thirteenth step is a sure way to send somone or 2 flying out of AA.
Non AA's can volunteer at detoxes, or attend open AA meetings and see what opportunities present themselves.