OA Holiday Workshop: Keeping Our Recovery Strong

Opening (10 minutes)

  • Serenity Prayer
  • Readings: Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions

Speakers (60 minutes, 30 minutes each)

Introduce speakers who will speak about abstinence and relapse.

  • Speaker One: Speaks on Tools to use when you’re having trouble with your abstinence or willingness.
  • Speaker Two: Speaks on how they came back to OA after leaving, how they became abstinent after relapse, and/or how they keep their recovery strong.

Break / Break into Groups (15 minutes)

Exercise – Read the From Slip or Relapse to Recovery handout (found in the Document Library at oa.org) and discuss the following questions: (40 minutes)

  • Look at our eating behaviors. Do we see anything that may be causing problems, such as eating in the car, sneaking food, eating standing up, eating in front of the TV, skipping meals, allowing too much flexibility in our plan, or anything else from which we need to be abstaining?
  • Are we hanging around “slippery” people and “slippery” places, such as specific family members, friends, restaurants, or grocery stores?
  • Are there changes we need to make to our plan of eating?
  • Are there changes we need to make in our eating behaviors?
  • Are there other actions regarding our food and eating that we need to take?
  • What changes in our thinking do we need to make?
  • What changes do we need to make to our program spiritually?

Group Sharing (30 minutes)

Closing (15 minutes)

  • Announcements
  • Raffle
  • Close

Additional Resources

Downloadable document from oa.org

Books from OA bookstore

Pamphlets from OA bookstore

Sample Announcement Flyer

Download the PDF in English

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