How did you work the steps?
In Mexico, very few groups have a somewhat unique way of working the Steps. We have reading meetings using the book It Works: How and Why and the guide to work the steps. We start with Step One, read some paragraphs, and then a member who has already worked the Steps this same way shares their story and their perspective on what we just read. Then the moderator reads another section, another member shares, and so on.
When we get to Step Five, we go to a kind of spiritual retreat to the woods or somewhere far from the city where the members who are “working the Steps for the first time” write a personal history based on six specific questions about their past.
All of this writing and reading takes place over three days and two nights without sleeping. Then, on Saturday night (we start Friday afternoon, and usually the writing is finished around that time), they read all they wrote to a sponsor—someone who has already worked the Steps this way.
I know that the literature says that there is not a unique way to work the steps but I did the steps this way and it has worked for me. I am 4 years clean now. (Don't misunderstand me, I'll be an addict until the day I die)
I also know that there are members who worked the steps in a traditional way (with the history of just one sponsor) and they are also clean. I'm just curious.