Sure… but only if they’ve done the BBA step work. If they have not, then it is recommended that you find a step partner to guide you through the work who understands what they are doing. You do not have to get rid of your current sponsor, but you do have to find someone who has already done the work to take you through the work.
It usually takes 6 – 7 months with approximately 2 hours of homework each week. Workshops meet once a week and are approximately 1 1/2 hours, plus you will need to meet an additional 1 hour, once a week, with your step partner. If you decide to work ‘one-on-one’ with someone it’s usually about a 2 hour meeting once a week with your sponsor and/or step partner.
You can only start a workshop within the first 3 weeks after it has started. After 3 weeks, the workshop is closed to new people. It is really up to you and how desperate you are in need of recovery and if you want to wait for another workshop to start. We recommend that you don’t wait and find someone who can take you through the work, one-on-one. Many times you can find someone who is willing to start 2-3 people through the work at the same time . Either way, we can help you find someone who is willing to work with you.
Unfortunately, no. There are questions that the sponsor or a step partner needs to ask. Someone who is not familiar with this work is not going to understand how to guide a 5th step if they haven’t done it themselves. We recommend that when you find your BBA step partner and/or sponsor, it is someone you are comfortable with.
The workshop concept is designed to take several people through the work at one time. When BBA first started in San Diego there was (and still is) a flood of people wanting this way of recovery and since the demand is greater than the supply, workshops are an effective and in-depth way to take a group through the work.
Maybe you don’t. This is a personal issue with how deep and effective your current program is. Time in the program doesn’t mean anything, but the quality of your sobriety is the question you need to ask yourself. Can you relate to the bedevilments on page 52…sober? We never claim that BBA is the only way to have a deep and effective spiritual healing through the steps, because it is not the only way. This is just a way we have found to be more effective than any other way we have gone through the work in the past, or if we are new, to go through the work for the first time. We are hundreds of men and women with many years of sobriety and many who are new to recovery that have found BBA to be a new way of life with a solution based answer to all our problems. If you have attended a BBA meeting and like what you hear and want what we have, no matter how much time you have, then this gift is offered to you for free.
English 
Nederlands 