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Lead Speaker Share
- Opening: Introduce yourself.
- Share what we used to be like. Tell an effective "war story" and win the newcomer's confidence.
- Share what happened. How you hit bottom, reached a turning point, found that jumping off place, that moment of clarity, how you found and worked a solution.
- Share what we are like today. Talk about the promises fulfilled, how life has taken on new meaning, how we have found the fellowship we crave.
- Closing your talk. Your signature sign-off
Opening Your Share
1. Introduce yourself
2. Tell humorous analogy or short story
3. Cite a Big Book quote
What WE used to be like
How should we tell our “war story?”
1. Tell them (newcomers) enough about your drinking (using, acting-out)
habits, symptoms, and experiences to encourage them to speak of
themselves.
2. Tell them how baffled you were, how you finally learned that you were sick.
3. Give them an account of the struggles (failed strategies) you made to stop.
4. Show them (newcomers) how the mental twist (how my mind lies to me)
which leads to the first drink (drug, act) of the spree.
(A.A. 4th ed. p. 91-92).
What Happened?
1. Tell him exactly what happened to you. Stress the spiritual
feature freely. (AA. 4th ed. p. 93)
2. Describe your last “bottom”...that “jumping off place, that
turning point, that moment of clarity.”
3. Talk about how you found your sponsor?
4. Share your experience of attending meetings and how and
when you started your step work.
5. Share about service work you’ve done?
Signature Sign-off
Close with...
1. a short story
2. an analogy
3. BigBook Quote
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