Reading Literature Aloud at OA Meetings

(Reprinted from A Step Ahead newsletter, Fourth Quarter 2011) OA’s group conscience has decided we should display, sell, use and read aloud only OA-approved literature at OA meetings. This includes OA Conference- and board-approved literature and AA conference-approved literature.* Although OA has not reviewed and approved AA literature, we deem their group conscience approved its … Continued

What Is Cross Talk?

Reprinted from Lifeline, Ask-It Basket, August 1999 Question What is cross talk? Are all responses and comments to another person at a meeting cross talk? Is thanking someone for something he or she shared cross talk? Or is it cross talk only if the comments are negative? Answer OA literature does not specifically define cross … Continued

OA Promise

I put my hand in yours, and together we can dowhat we could never do alone.No longer is there a sense of hopelessness,no longer must we each dependupon our own unsteady willpower.We are all together now,reaching out our hands for power andstrength greater than ours, and as we join hands,we find love and understandingbeyond our … Continued