Chapter: Working With Others

From Alcoholics Anonymous — 1955 Second Edition by Wilson, Bill & Smith, Dr. Bob
Chapter Seven gives detailed practical guidance on the Twelfth Step — carrying the message to another alcoholic. It teaches that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics, and provides instruction on approaching prospects and their families.
Big Book, Working With Others, p. 89-103

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Big Book, Working With Others, p. 89
Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics
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Big Book, Working With Others, p. 90-92

How to approach a prospect through the family and initial contact

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Telling your own story and presenting the spiritual remedy

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Don't crowd the prospect; plant the seed and leave the result to God

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Helping financially and otherwise — but not creating dependency

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Big Book, Working With Others, p. 102
We meet these conditions every day... we are careful never to show intolerance or hatred of drinking as an institution
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