OA Foot Steps

{Pre-Meeting ZOOM Room Protocols}

 

DAILY READER MEETING

 

Meeting Intro

Welcome to the 5AM Daily Reader meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, and to our fellowship, OA Foot Steps. My name is ________. I am a compulsive eater and your leader for this meeting.

 

Opening Prayer

Will those who wish, please join me in the Serenity Prayer:

 

God,

Grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Amen.

 

OA’s Unity with Diversity Policy

As we extend the heart and hand of the OA Fellowship to those who still suffer, let us be mindful of OA’s Unity with Diversity Policy, which respects our differences, yet unites us in the solution to our common problem. Whatever problem you may have with food, you are welcome at this meeting, regardless of race, creed, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other trait.

 

Welcomes & Introductions

Let’s go around and introduce ourselves one at a time. Please let us know if you are a new member or visiting us from another area. Please share your name, where you’re from, and how your recovery program is going? You may also wish to tell us what you are willing to leave at the {virtual} door today so that you can be fully present at the meeting today.

 

OA Preamble

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology, or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues. Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive eating and compulsive food behaviors and to carry the message of recovery through the Twelve Steps of OA to those who still suffer.

 

The Twelve Steps

1.              We admitted we were powerless over food—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2.              Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3.              Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4.              Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5.              Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6.              Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7.              Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8.              Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9.              Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.         Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11.         Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12.         Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.    

 

The Twelve Traditions

1.            Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon OA unity. 

2.              For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern. SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE: Trust

3.              The only requirement for OA membership is a desire to stop eating compulsively.

4.              Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or OA as a whole.

5.              Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.

6.              An OA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the OA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

7.              Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

8.              Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

9.              OA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

10.         Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11.         Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, television, and other public media of communication.

12.         Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. 

 

DEFINITIONS IN OA:

https://oafootsteps.com/definitions

 

SUGGESTED GUIDELINES FOR SHARING:

https://oafootsteps.com/guidelines

 

TYPE OF MEETING:

https://oafootsteps.com/type-of-meeting

This is a Daily Reader Meeting! Today we are reading today’s entry in the following daily readers:

 

·           FOR TODAY

·           VOICES OF RECOVERY

 

Please open  your {Daily Reader} to page ___ on {date}, or read along with the screen share from my Kindle. May I have a volunteer to read this passage? Following each reading, we will open the room to shares.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

https://oafootsteps.com/announcements

 

7th TRADITION:

https://oafootsteps.com/7th-tradition

 

CLOSING

By following the Twelve Steps, attending meetings regularly, and using the OA Tools, we are changing our lives. You will find hope and encouragement in Overeaters Anonymous.

 

To the newcomer, we suggest attending at least six different meetings to learn the many ways OA can help you. There are many different types of meetings, all of which are available to support your recovery from compulsive eating. Information about these meetings can be found on oa.org.

 

The opinions expressed here today are those of individual OA members and do not represent OA as a whole. Please remember our commitment to honor each other’s anonymity.

 

Whom you see here,

What you hear here,

When you leave here,

Let it stay here.

 

Let us all reach out by phone or email to newcomers, returning members, and each other. Together we get better.

 

Thank you for asking me to be your leader. After a moment of silence, will those of you who wish please join us in the OA Promise.

 

Prayer

THE OA PROMISE:

I put my hand in yours

And together we can do

What we could never do alone.

No longer is there a sense of hopelessness.

No longer must we each depend

Upon our own unsteady willpower.

We are all together now,

Reaching out our hands,

For power & strength,

Greater than ours.

And as we join hands,

We find love and understanding

BEYOND OUR WILDEST DREAMS!!!

 

Keep coming back!

It works if you work it...

And you're WORTH it!!

 

This meeting is now closed.

 

Are there any OA related questions?