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Board of Trustees Adopts Consensus Process At a Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting in mid-2004, board members passed a resolution to explore a decision-making process based on consensus rather than on the formal parliamentary process. It took this initiative for two main reasons: First, Concept Twelve suggests making all decisions on the basis of substantial … Continued
Decorations/Preparations Registration On name tags use dots: Opening (10 minutes) Speakers (60 minutes, 15 minutes each) Exercise: Puzzle Pieces for Sponsorship Attendees break into two groups according to the designations on their name tags: red, blue, and green. Red is one group, and blue and green is the other. Each group receives a set of … Continued
Twelfth Step Within Format for Information Gathering “Ideas that Work” Type of Project Humor Project Name OA Trivia Project Goal To create laughter Organizing Service Body Individual Contact Information Susan S. (sharabi4@bezeqint.net), Israel, Region Nine Resources Needed (budget, volunteers, materials, etc.) Workshop with trivia questions (answers provided). Examples attached. Implementation Process (including length of time for … Continued
Type of Project Membership Retention Project Name We Care Box Project Goal To connect with members in between meetings Organizing Service Body Southern Alberta Intergroup – Tuesday Night meeting Contact Information Tim/e-mail: Link to Tim’s email Resources Needed (budget, volunteers, materials etc.) Small box; “We Care” slips of paper (see example below). Implementation Process (including … Continued
Twelfth Step Within Format for Information Gathering: “Ideas that Work” Download the PDF in English Resources Needed (budget, volunteers, materials, etc.) Print out the “bingo’s” from the website – https://www.oalaig.org/site-assets/docs/bingo.pdf. This PDF on the website contains 200 pages with 4 cards to a page. You can print as many or as little as you want … Continued
The Simplicity Project is a simple idea to help YOU stay abstinent! Got program? Got an index card and a pen? Brought to you by the World Service Business Conference Twelfth Step Within Committee. Download The Simplicity Project (PDF slides) in English.
‘Growing Recovery Worldwide’ Forum Workshop (WSBC 2018) Develop and grow recovery in our worldwide OA Fellowship. Use this workshop to identify obstacles and diversions on your own road to recovery, then find ways to use the OA program to get back on track and help others on the journey. OA Board-Approved. © 2018 Overeaters Anonymous, … Continued
OA is not a diet club Many people come to OA expecting diets, weigh-ins, and lectures on food and weight. To their surprise (and often relief), they find that OA offers none of these things. Why? Because food and weight are only symptoms of our problem. We use food as the alcoholic uses alcohol and … Continued
Use this slideshow presentation as part of your worskhop. Download the PDF in English or refer to the translatable text below. Translatable text of this document 1. Difference Between Abstinence and a Plan of Eating Workshop 2. AIMS To increase the Fellowship’s focus on actions required for abstinence, because our primary purpose is to abstain … Continued
Use this presentation to facilitate an in-depth review the definition of abstinence in OA and how it applies to your OA program. Learn how the OA Tools of Recovery, including a plan of eating, sponsorship, meetings support your abstinence. Examine other aspects of the OA program, such as your Higher Power, body image and weight, … Continued