When a member finishes the book of questions Steps Six thru Twelve with their sponsor and is not on maintenance, which set(s) of questions is recommended until the member is ready for the maintenance questions?

The guideline for this situation appears on page 3 of the Sponsor Guidelines. The Twelve Traditions Study Guide is the workbook used immediately preceding or following the Maintenance Questions. World Service Business Conference 2015 addressed this question. When a member completes Steps Six though Twelve but is not yet ready for maintenance, the member follows Steps Six through Twelve with The Twelve Traditions Study Guide. If a member moves directly from Steps Six through Twelve to the Maintenance Questions, the first workbook of questions the member moves to after completing the Maintenance Questions is The Twelve Traditions Study Guide.

This policy adopted by the Delegates at World Service Business Conference 2015:
CEA-HOW is a disciplined and structured approach to working the 12 Steps and 12 Traditions (from the CEA-HOW Concept). Therefore, members’ disciplined and structured approach to working this program is to use the following sets of questions in the following order in their progression of recovery:

  1. First 30 questions from the Sponsor Guidelines;
  2. Fourth Step Inventory questions from the Sponsor Guidelines;
  3. Steps Six through Twelve;
  4. CEA-HOW Maintenance Questions from the Maintenance Sponsor Guide;
  5. The Twelve Traditions Study Guide.

(If a member has stepped up as a Step sponsor and has not reached the maintenance stage of recovery, the member shall use the Twelve Traditions Study Guide as a writing tool until the member is ready for the maintenance questions. It will be a mutual decision between the sponsor and sponsee whether the member shall interrupt the Twelve Traditions Study Guide and move to the maintenance questions if the member reaches the maintenance stage prior to completion of the Traditions Study Guide.

This does not change the use of slip questions or a member’s choice of questions following completion of The Twelve Traditions Study Guide.)

THIS DOES NOT CREATE A NEW LEVEL OF SPONSORSHIP.

After completing the Maintenance Questions and stepping up as a maintenance sponsor, and after completing the Twelve Traditions Study Guide, your sponsor will guide you back to the CEA-HOW booklets with more questions and readings for daily writing.