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16th July 2023- CoDA ONLINE Sponsorship Workshop

Working the Steps in CoDA: exploring different sponsorship approaches.

In need of service
We need people to:
– prepare the script
– be host, co-host,
– give chairs

Without support, we will have to rely on US teams, who have just started running Sponsorship workshops 

CoDA UK Sponsorship Committee will host a Zoom Sponsorship workshop

Sunday 16th July 2023, 4-6pm UK time (8-10am Pacific time) (doors open half an hour before)

  • Are you looking for a sponsor?
  • Are you wondering if you’re ready to be a sponsor?
  • Are you looking for new sponsees?

This workshop will have shares on being a sponsor, sponsee and co-sponsoring. It is an introduction to the various ways of sponsorship, not necessarily the place where you will find a sponsor. People will share how they found a sponsor. You have to do your part. Finding a sponsor is an active process within Recovery. We have to investigate our own route to acquiring a sponsor through attending weekly meetings, doing service in a home group and joining WhatsApp groups (see below).

This event will be limited to the first 100 people who log-in. No registration is needed.

These workshops have not to date exceeded the maximum number of participants, so you should be able to join easily. The link below will be valid on the day.

The meeting will open at 3.30 for a 4.00 start.

  • 4.00 – Start all the readings
  • 4:15 – Shares on being a sponsor/co-sponsor  (2 shares), Shares on being a sponsee (2 shares)
  • 4:55 – 5.05 – 10 minute comfort break. 
  • 5.05 – Sharing time
  • 5.55 – Close of workshop
  • 6.00 – Open for discussion, outreach offers, requests & questions till 6.30

To make the most of this interactive workshop we suggest that you join using a laptop, desktop or tablet device with your video on so we can all see each other, see the readings and have access to the chat box.

Please remember you can save the materials in the chat box by clicking on the three dots to the right at the bottom of chat. Choose “save chat”. Text document saved in your documents folder. Separate folder called Zoom.

NB: WE ARE SEEKING FELLOWS TO SHARE AS BELOW

  • 4.15pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.25pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.35pm Chair on Being a sponsee (10 minutes)
  • 4.45pm Chair on Being a co-sponsor (10 minutes)

If you’re willing to do a Chair, please email sponsorship@codauk.org by Jan 7th.

Dates for 2023

  • Saturday 14th October 2023 4-6pm *In need of service* 

Topic: Quarterly Sponsorship Workshop
Time: Sunday July 16th, 2023 16:00 London

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 873 1053 7470
Passcode: Traditions

If you are dialling in on a phone, please use Passcode: 4065603071
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kes4NVI4qX

P.S. We encourage you to read the “Sponsorship: What’s in it for me” booklet before attending which you can purchase from codaliterature.co.uk.

If you want more information

This is the script for the workshop: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/108T5UZzJFnH1eG-fzwjbq194Ec3j3iGR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114565587872001819077&rtpof=true&sd=true

Web page on Sponsorship:
https://coda.org/outreach/connecting-members/sponsorship/
https://coda.org/outreach/supporting-members/working-the-twelve-steps/step-study-group/

Read Chapter 5 in the Coda Blue Book.

Sponsorship Brochure:
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Sponsorship%20Brochure.pdf

Resources for Sponsors:
http://outreach.coda.org/index.cfm/connecting-members/sponsorship/resources-for-sponsors/

Working the Steps in a Group v4
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Working%20the%20Steps%20in%20a%20Group%20v4.pdf

Safeguarding Policy
http://coda-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

Safeguarding:
https://codauk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

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15th April 2023- *POSTPONED* CoDA ONLINE Sponsorship Workshop

Working the Steps in CoDA: exploring different sponsorship approaches.

Postponed – in need of service
We need people to:
– prepare the script
– be host, co-host,
– give chairs

Without support, we will have to rely on US teams, who have just started running Sponsorship workshops 

CoDA UK Sponsorship Committee will host a Zoom Sponsorship workshop

Saturday 15th April 2023, 4-6pm UK time (8-10am Pacific time) (doors open half an hour before)

  • Are you looking for a sponsor?
  • Are you wondering if you’re ready to be a sponsor?
  • Are you looking for new sponsees?

This workshop will have shares on being a sponsor, sponsee and co-sponsoring. It is an introduction to the various ways of sponsorship, not necessarily the place where you will find a sponsor. People will share how they found a sponsor. You have to do your part. Finding a sponsor is an active process within Recovery. We have to investigate our own route to acquiring a sponsor through attending weekly meetings, doing service in a home group and joining WhatsApp groups (see below).

This event will be limited to the first 100 people who log-in. No registration is needed.

These workshops have not to date exceeded the maximum number of participants, so you should be able to join easily. The link below will be valid on the day.

The meeting will open at 3.30 for a 4.00 start.

  • 4.00 – Start all the readings
  • 4:15 – Shares on being a sponsor/co-sponsor  (2 shares), Shares on being a sponsee (2 shares)
  • 4:55 – 5.05 – 10 minute comfort break. 
  • 5.05 – Sharing time
  • 5.55 – Close of workshop
  • 6.00 – Open for discussion, outreach offers, requests & questions till 6.30

To make the most of this interactive workshop we suggest that you join using a laptop, desktop or tablet device with your video on so we can all see each other, see the readings and have access to the chat box.

Please remember you can save the materials in the chat box by clicking on the three dots to the right at the bottom of chat. Choose “save chat”. Text document saved in your documents folder. Separate folder called Zoom.

NB: WE ARE SEEKING FELLOWS TO SHARE AS BELOW

  • 4.15pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.25pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.35pm Chair on Being a sponsee (10 minutes)
  • 4.45pm Chair on Being a co-sponsor (10 minutes)

If you’re willing to do a Chair, please email sponsorship@codauk.org by Jan 7th.

Dates for 2023

  • Saturday 15th April 2023 4-6pm *Postponed – in need of service*
  • Sunday 16th July 2023 4-6pm *Postponed – in need of service*
  • Saturday 14th October 2023 4-6pm *Postponed – in need of service* 

Topic: Quarterly Sponsorship Workshop
Time: Saturday April 15th, 2023 16:00 London

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 873 1053 7470
Passcode: Traditions

If you are dialling in on a phone, please use Passcode: 4065603071
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kes4NVI4qX

P.S. We encourage you to read the “Sponsorship: What’s in it for me” booklet before attending which you can purchase from codaliterature.co.uk.

If you want more information

This is the script for the workshop: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/108T5UZzJFnH1eG-fzwjbq194Ec3j3iGR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114565587872001819077&rtpof=true&sd=true

Web page on Sponsorship:
https://coda.org/outreach/connecting-members/sponsorship/
https://coda.org/outreach/supporting-members/working-the-twelve-steps/step-study-group/

Read Chapter 5 in the Coda Blue Book.

Sponsorship Brochure:
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Sponsorship%20Brochure.pdf

Resources for Sponsors:
http://outreach.coda.org/index.cfm/connecting-members/sponsorship/resources-for-sponsors/

Working the Steps in a Group v4
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Working%20the%20Steps%20in%20a%20Group%20v4.pdf

Safeguarding Policy
http://coda-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

Safeguarding:
https://codauk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

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22nd Jan 2023- CoDA ONLINE Sponsorship Workshop

Working the Steps in CoDA: exploring different sponsorship approaches.

CoDA UK Sponsorship Committee will host a Zoom Sponsorship workshop

Sunday 22nd January 2023, 4-6pm UK time (8-10am Pacific time) (doors open half an hour before)

  • Are you looking for a sponsor?
  • Are you wondering if you’re ready to be a sponsor?
  • Are you looking for new sponsees?

This workshop will have shares on being a sponsor, sponsee and co-sponsoring. It is an introduction to the various ways of sponsorship, not necessarily the place where you will find a sponsor. People will share how they found a sponsor. You have to do your part. Finding a sponsor is an active process within Recovery. We have to investigate our own route to acquiring a sponsor through attending weekly meetings, doing service in a home group and joining WhatsApp groups (see below).

This event will be limited to the first 100 people who log-in. No registration is needed.

These workshops have not to date exceeded the maximum number of participants, so you should be able to join easily. The link below will be valid on the day.

The meeting will open at 3.30 for a 4.00 start.

  • 4.00 – Start all the readings
  • 4:15 – Shares on being a sponsor/co-sponsor  (2 shares), Shares on being a sponsee (2 shares)
  • 4:55 – 5.05 – 10 minute comfort break. 
  • 5.05 – Sharing time
  • 5.55 – Close of workshop
  • 6.00 – Open for discussion, outreach offers, requests & questions till 6.30

To make the most of this interactive workshop we suggest that you join using a laptop, desktop or tablet device with your video on so we can all see each other, see the readings and have access to the chat box.

Please remember you can save the materials in the chat box by clicking on the three dots to the right at the bottom of chat. Choose “save chat”. Text document saved in your documents folder. Separate folder called Zoom.

NB: WE ARE SEEKING FELLOWS TO SHARE AS BELOW

  • 4.15pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.25pm Chair on Being a sponsor (10 minutes)
  • 4.35pm Chair on Being a sponsee (10 minutes)
  • 4.45pm Chair on Being a co-sponsor (10 minutes)

If you’re willing to do a Chair, please email sponsorship@codauk.org by Jan 7th.

Dates for 2023

  • Saturday 15th April 2023 4-6pm
  • Sunday 16th July 2023 4-6pm 
  • Saturday 14th October 2023 4-6pm 

Topic: Quarterly Sponsorship Workshop
Time: Sunday Jan 22, 2023 16:00 London

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 873 1053 7470
Passcode: Traditions

If you are dialling in on a phone, please use Passcode: 4065603071
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kes4NVI4qX

P.S. We encourage you to read the “Sponsorship: What’s in it for me” booklet before attending which you can purchase from codaliterature.co.uk.

If you want more information

This is the script for the workshop: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/108T5UZzJFnH1eG-fzwjbq194Ec3j3iGR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114565587872001819077&rtpof=true&sd=true

Web page on Sponsorship:
https://coda.org/outreach/connecting-members/sponsorship/
https://coda.org/outreach/supporting-members/working-the-twelve-steps/step-study-group/

Read Chapter 5 in the Coda Blue Book.

Sponsorship Brochure:
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Sponsorship%20Brochure.pdf

Resources for Sponsors:
http://outreach.coda.org/index.cfm/connecting-members/sponsorship/resources-for-sponsors/

Working the Steps in a Group v4
http://coda.org/default/assets/File/Literature/Working%20the%20Steps%20in%20a%20Group%20v4.pdf

Safeguarding Policy
http://coda-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

Safeguarding:
https://codauk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Fellowship-meeting-Safeguarding-Policy-Aug-2019.docx

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Sponsorship Ideas

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We are looking for CoDA groups/individuals to provide ideas/feedback on what has worked for them which we can share (anonymously) at our Sponsorship Workshop in London or via our Zoom Workshop.

We would also welcome suggestions on how we can move sponsorship forward in the UK. Is there something you would like us to try? All suggestions/ideas are welcome. Our email is: sponsorship@codauk.org

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Sponsorship Shout Out

If you are a sponsor looking for sponsees, then we would appreciate it if you could contact sponsorship@codauk.org. There are always lots of sponsees looking for sponsors and we can put you in touch with each other.

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Working Steps 1, 2, 3

CoDA has produced a new thirty question tool to aid newcomers to begin working steps 1, 2, and 3.
Thirty Questions – Getting Started working the steps as easy as 123

See also CoDA – authored guide to working the steps as a group

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Step Study groups

Step Study groups are groups of codependents working through the Twelve Steps (and often the Twelve Traditions) in a structured format, usually outside of a regular meeting.Step Study groups often have the same objectives as co-sponsors, but with more people, and members often make contact outside the group. Please see the Step Study Group section of the ORG for information and details on starting a Step Study Group. It is recommended that members do have sponsors outside of the Step Study Group, but the group work often inspires the desire to “go to all lengths” to find a sponsor.

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Co-Sponsoring

Co-sponsoring occurs when two CoDA members sponsor each other. Co-sponsors meet or call regularly to share what they are learning about the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. They share experience, strength, and hope equally, growing in their own way and at their own pace.

As in all sponsor relationships, the recovery goal in CoDA co-sponsorship is to have a mutually beneficial relationship. Working the Steps, changing our behavior, and growing spiritually frees us from advising, controlling, and rescuing.

Co-sponsors may choose to have another CoDA member guide them, especially through difficult situations or when they get stuck.  Sometimes co-sponsorship is a good model for sponsorship when utilized in conjunction with a Step-Study Group.

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Sponsor-Sponsee

The place to begin the search for a sponsor is often in your home group or local meetings. Some meetings offer a list of CoDA members willing to be sponsors (but many members who are eager and qualified to be sponsors are not on the list). Over a period of time we listen to these people when they share, perhaps spending some time with them after the meetings. It may take time to get to know someone well enough to consider them for a sponsor. It is important to remember that no sponsor is “perfect”, as our program teaches us that all people are “perfectly imperfect” human beings.

We may find ourselves in a group in which there are no members willing or able to sponsor. In this case we can travel to another CoDA group in the area or perhaps a regional CoDA event. Other options are to attend a phone or online meeting and try to find someone there with whom you identify.

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Workshop materials

Did you know that the Sponsorship Workshop which takes place 4 times a year in London has been designed for groups to pick up and deliver wherever they are?

All the materials are available in the script; you will just need a couple of people to help with service. The Sponsorship Committee members are happy to assist and guide you. The workshop has also been held online temporarily and more details will be added on this soon.

Freely available to all CoDA members
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Sponsorship Service

Are you willing to do a 10 minute Chair, giving your experience strength and hope (ESH) working the steps as a Sponsor, being Sponsored, working in a Step Group, as a Co-Sponsor?

Are you willing to do service to support the workshop? Opportunities for Service on the day:

  • Giving 10 minute chair
  • Being Chair Finder
  • Reading Script
  • Booking person to contact venue and secure place
  • Treasurer
  • Literature person (purchase it and sell it at the meeting)
  • Spiritual Timekeeper 
  • Door keeper, 
  • Greeter
  • Newcomers rep
  • Zoom host and co-hosts
  • Experienced coda member for each breakout room

The proposed script of the zoom version of the workshop is held at: 

Proposed Sponsorship script

You can follow that link and post comments on the document. 

We organize ourselves through a service committee, and we meet before the workshop to go through the script to see if it can be improved, and incorporate comments and suggestions. And decide who is going to do what.

If you would like to do a service position, or join the service committee, please email sponsorship@codauk.org