Are You Safe in an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting?

WOW! What does B2B mean? Back to basics? But yeah, that shows how different it can be depending on the group. It also illustrates the problem with different groups having different criteria for measuring sobriety. In my group, Clara (by ordering booze with soup) and Bill Wilson (by dropping LSD) would have lost all their respective clean time. But in another group those actions might have been OK. I believe that different groups creating different sobriety standards violates the 4th Tradition because it affects AA as a whole when sobriety tokens don't have universal value (because they don't mean the same thing) throughout the entire Fellowship. It would sort of by like each individual U.S. state printing its own money with each currency dollar representing a different value in each state.

There's a meeting like that here. It's not called B2B, but it does involve doing the steps quickly and publicly, 5th step in front of the group, and getting on knees to do the 3rd step prayer (just like bob made people kneel down before him) and the higher power must be Jesus. They actively try to recruit from other meetings and when they do, they just say you're taken through the steps like the original 100. You have to talk to one of them to get all the creepy details.

Theoretically anyone can sponsor anyone. But I'm referring mainly to the group guidelines. Anyway, I know prospect hunting is different than sponsorship, which is precisely why I listed the criteria for each separately. Hunting in prisons is more formal, which is why you usually have to get permission through the group Corrections Committee. There is no committee (at my group) that officially approves a person's fitness to sponsor. Of course, you have to meet the guidelines to raise your hand when the leader formally asks potential sponsors to identify themselves at the beginning of the meeting.