Thank you for your interest in joining the 10th Step Train. We have found this to be a fantastic resource for maintaining our fit spiritual condition and emotional sobriety on a daily basis. The 10th Step Train is a group of recovered individuals who are partnered for two weeks at a time to share their 10th Step calls once a day.
Requirements for joining the Train:
- We have a wide variety of times we are available for calls throughout the morning, midday and evening. (Availability between the hours of 11AM until 4:30PM ET is especially important to connect with our many international members. If you don’t have that availability, please consider other resources for your 10th Step needs.)
- We are active members of OA and are working with an OA Sponsor. (Alternate Train available for non OA members and for all other 12 Step groups.)
- We commit to calling every day and calling on time. (Scheduled appointment times to be determined between you and your partner.)
- We are maintaining abstinence.
- We are on or past Step 9.
- We will use WhatsApp for our international communications.
- We will accept, welcome, and “make it work”, with partners from all genders, races, creeds, sexual orientations, time zones and countries.
Guidelines for Train calls:
- We write out our 10th Step prior to making our calls. We want to value our partner’s time.
- We keep the “Resentment Causes” or “Why do I have this fear?” in Column 2, to nineteen words or less. The majority of our discussion is on our part with our Character Defects, and in what our HP would have us be.
- Our calls are to be approximately 15-20 minutes in length.
- We don’t offer feedback, if it is not requested. If requested, we ask our HP’s for guidance for the right words and then offer one to a few brief sentences. We don’t give advice, counsel, attempt to fix or problem solve.
- We are loving listeners; that is our gift and service.
- We call every day and we call on time.
We are now an international group of women, men, people who are OK with having partners from any time zone, and who are willing to download and use WhatsApp on our phones to communicate with our partners. WhatsApp use is required prior to membership. Due to our size of our group, we cannot offer time zone preferences, re-partnering or other special requests.
If you surpass those requirements, can commit to calling every day, calling on time and making it work with different time zones and schedules of your partner, then please see the 10th Step Train Call Script (here). It is an example of an effective 10th Step call. Please look it over and follow the instructions. I am so grateful for those who helped me practice this in the beginning, that I am happy to pass on the favor! Together we will set up a “practice call” where you can feel free to make mistakes or ask any questions about the process.
My goal is to help you feel comfortable and confident prior to assigning you to your first partner. (Your partner will also have practiced the Call Script.) While it isn’t the “one and only” way that our members do their 10th Steps, it is a great tool to facilitate non-intimidating, effective and helpful sharing, especially in the beginning.
If you can make the necessary commitments to join the train, then when you are ready to practice your 10th Step calls, please do the following:
- Enter your name and email address, into the form at the bottom of this page.
- You will then receive an email with my name, phone number and further instructions.
- Download WhatsApp to your mobile phone.
- Enter my name and phone number into the regular Contacts on your phone (be sure to allow WhatsApp to have access to your Contacts).
- Text me on WhatsApp with your available times (morning, midday, and evening) that you have to take 10th Step calls, in general, and for this practice of the Script. Please include your name, first initial of your last name, email address, State or Country and time zone, OA sponsor name and first initial of their last name, (please let me know if your sponsor is already on the Train) in the text.
Thank you again for your interest in the 10th Step Train!
In Service,
Dawn B.
Southern California