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Slide 1
Focus on Reaching Out
Slide 2
“Together We Can Do …”
Reaching out helps members strengthen recovery by providing:
- Comfort and support.
- Guidance in working the OA program.
- Sharing your experience, strength, and hope.
OA’s Responsibility Pledge
Always to extend the hand and heart of OA to all who
share my compulsion; for this I am responsible.
Slide 3
What You Can Do
- Drive someone to a meeting.
- Babysit so a parent can attend a meeting.
- Plan a reunion of past and present members.
- Schedule in-home meetings for members who cannot travel.
Keep It Simple: Ideas for Twelfth Step Within Day
Slide 4
Take It on the Road
- Form a group of several abstinent members.
- Travel together to meetings where members may be struggling, and share.
Slide 5
Invite a Struggling Member to a Relapse/Recovery Meeting
- Reaching out is hard for us all, and harder for those in relapse.
- Connections among members help strengthen everyone’s recovery.
- Your meeting can be face-to-face, online, on the telephone, or non-real-time.
Slide 6
Call Five . . . Keep Them Alive
- Make cards with space for phone numbers.
- Fill in the blank when you attend the meeting.
- Make calls.
- For online or telephone meetings, you can post blank cards in the chat or online.
Slide 7
Ideas for Reaching Out to Struggling Members
- Gift a journal.
- Take a member to a meeting.
- Start a gratitude e-mail chain.
- Send an OA podcast link.
- Send tips in an email blast or newsletter.
Still-Struggling Member Tips to Carry the Message
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Fellowship
Ideas for getting together outside the rooms:
- Bowling
- Game or movie night
- Abstinent picnic
- Group walk or hike
- Line dancing or yoga
- Workshops and retreats
Fun and Fellowship: Survey Results and Findings
Slide 9
Make a Twelfth Step Call on the Twelfth of Each Month
- Think of someone you have not seen in the rooms in a while and reach out.
- Don’t know what to say? Try this: “Hi, this is __________ from the __________ meeting. I have been thinking of you, and I wanted to say hello.”
Still-Struggling Member Tips to Carry the Message
Slide 10
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