Sponsoring & Step Study Resources
This page was developed as a repository for the sponsorship and OA 12 step study resources that were mentioned in the How to Sponsor Series of Workshops that ran for 12 weeks beginning in January, 2011. In addition to the resources listed, we hope to have recordings of each session available in the near future.
If you sponsor or are sponsored and you have a resource you’d like listed, please send the file (.doc, .docx or .pdf preferred) and a brief description to oameetings@hotmail.com with the Subject: Sponsorship Resource.
You can also leave information and comments with your insight and advice on how you sponsor, how you’ve been sponsored, what’s been effective for you or questions you might have about sponsorship. This is not a forum for non-OA approved methods or materials so check before you post anything. The comment section is moderated and we reserve the right to refuse contributions if we judge them to be inappropriate or outside the guidelines established by OA WSO.
Sponsorship Resources
The following list are tools and resources suggested by Sponsoring Workshop attendees. Feel free to submit your own!
- OABigBook.info – this site is an amazing repository of Big Book forms as well as a book length step study and a podcast of a Big Book Study. It’s based on The Big Book Comes Alive in OA Weekend Workshops.
- Thirty Questions – In Sunday’s meeting on Step One, several people mentioned the 30 questions were a powerful tool for guiding sponsorees through the first three steps of OA’s 12 Steps.
- Sponsoring Through the Twelve Steps (available from the OA Bookstore)
Offers experience, strength and hope for sponsors who are guiding their sponsees through the Twelve Steps of Overeaters Anonymous. Includes recommended readings and thought-provoking questions. - A Guide for Sponsors (available from the OA Bookstore)
Whether you are sponsoring for the first time or the twentieth time, this pamphlet offers guidance and support for the vital role you play. Answers questions on why, when and how to be a sponsor. Appendix lists “30 Questions to Ask Newcomers.” - Sponsorship Kit (available from the OA Bookstore)
Packet of inspiring and helpful information for sponsors includes Tools of Recovery pamphlet, A Guide for Sponsors pamphlet; Sponsoring Through the Twelve Steps (Formerly A Guide to the Twelve Steps for You and Your Sponsor); and “Working with Others” article from A Step Ahead. - 4th Step Sponsorship Forms – the following forms are based on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. There are 3 interactive forms which you can download and complete on your computer or print out and complete by hand. There’s also an instruction guide to provide guidance for completing the forms.
- Step Four Outline and Suggestions for Completing Forms
- Resentments Form – The BIG BOOK’S Way to Be Rid of Resentment
- Fears Form – The BIG BOOK’S Way of Removing Fears
- Sex Conduct Inventory – The BIG BOOK’S Way to “Sensibly Overhaul” Our Own Sex Conduct
- Been Slipping and Sliding? A Reading and Writing Tool – Use these 30 questions if you want to stop “slipping and sliding” in your program or if you want to recommit to your OA program. Source: OA.org.
- Schematic Outline of the first 103 pages of the Big Book – Think of this document as the CliffsNote to Alcoholics Anonymous’ Big Book.
- Step 8 and 9 List (Interactive) – use this form in conjunction with your 4th Step Inventory forms (see above for downloads).
- Step11 Prayers and Meditation – great guides for praying and meditation to begin and end your day in recovery.