Growing Our Membership Worldwide Workshop | Questions Worksheet

Please ask one person to record answers for your table group during each round.
These papers will be collected at the end of the workshop. Thank you.

Carrying the Message to Potential Members

1. What got me “in the door” of OA?

2. What is your favorite one-on-one encounter you’ve had introducing someone to OA?

3. What is a simple, easy idea I have heard for carrying the message?

4. Describe a successful public information/professional outreach project your intergroup or group has put on.

Talking to Newcomers and Member Retention

5. What is a great way to greet a newcomer?

6. How can I help and encourage a newcomer in OA?

7. What keeps me in OA?

8. How do I carry the message of HOPE in my meeting?

9. What is a good way to make coming back an attraction?

10. How can I help and encourage a member who is struggling?

Unity: Our Common Welfare with Worldwide OA

11. How can I understand the challenges of OA in countries other than my own, and how can I be of service to these members?

12. How might I expand my OA circle by attending virtual meetings?

13. How can face-to-face and virtual meetings help one another?

14. How can I help OA members who do not have literature in their own language?

15. How can I reach beyond my own meeting and service body to find ways to help those in OA in other areas?

16. How can I support members and meetings that have a different way of approaching the program than I do?

Action Plan: Each One, Reach One, Every Day

17. What actions can I take to help grow OA membership?

18. What actions can I ask OA friends and sponsees to take with me?

19. What actions can I ask my meeting to take?

20. What actions can I help my intergroup/service body take?

21. How can we make taking action to grow OA membership an ongoing, daily recovery action for every OA member?