service workshop 1. oa hierarchy 2. 1 st things 1st 3. working with others 4. the right fit 5....
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Service Workshop
1. OA Hierarchy
2. 1st things 1st
3. Working with others
4. The right fit
5. Levels of Service
(bingo)
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried
to carry the message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these
principals in all our affairs
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Steps are there for suicide prevention
Key Word: Service
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Freedom from the lack of purpose
The steps are for suicide prevention
Our real purpose is to fit ourselves
to be of maximum service to God
and the people about us.
Big Book pg. 77
HP doesn’t call those who qualify;
He qualifies those He calls.
Service is the rent we pay to be on this earth.
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We are wounded healers.
Then do it
Setting boundaries is not about setting up brick walls.
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Assertive vs. aggressive
Besides, we have stopped fighting anybody or
anything. We have to! (BB, pg. 103)
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Principles before personalities
If we are not
of service to ourselves;
We cannot be
of service to others.
If we keep doing
what we have always done;
we will get what we have always gotten.
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Translation: if nothing changes…nothing changes!
Trust HP…
Clean house…
Help another overeater
This is a disease of isolation.(we care list)
*********We may be the only Big Book
someone will ever see.
When all else fails, follow directions.
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Keep on going.
If you run into a brick wall;
turn left. (anon)
Tradition #8
OA should remain ever nonprofessional,
but our service centers
may employ special workers.
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Traditions are there for homicide prevention
We use tradition #8 not to work step #12,
but to help the 12th step work better for us. (AA, 12x12)
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The money motive
is the wrong motive. (AA 12x12)
You cannot keep
what you don’t give away.
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We give freely that which
we have been given for free.
Any form of service that helps reach a fellow sufferer adds to the quality of our own recovery.
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Members can give service by getting to meetings, putting away chairs, putting out literature and talking to newcomers.
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Beyond the group level, a member can serve as intergroup representative, committee chair, region representative or
Conference delegate.
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As OA’s responsibility pledge states: “Always to extend the hand and heart of OA to all who share my compulsion; for this, I
am responsible.”
If no one steps up;
perhaps it does not need to be done.
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Have problems getting people to help in your meeting?....
Time for a group inventory? (pgs 175-176, OA 12X12)
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Old timers: put the keys, checkbook, &/or format
on table as you leave.
To find or be a sponsor outside of your town:
www.oaRegion4.org/?pageid=1315Sponsor lists
( and..speaker downloads)
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This presentation/notes will be at
www.cii.oaregion4.org
We grow spiritually when we sponsor
someone else into the fellowship.
(Big Book)
(green dot)
Dear HP,
Fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff,
and nudge me when I have said enough!
Bylaws, concepts, traditions)
Job descriptions (board, reps, coordinators)
Folders for each person.
Website, phone, newsletter, sponsor database, etc.
Mentoring
(folders)
Support/ attend rural &/or small groups.
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Sponsor/sponsoree data base on intergroup website.
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Speaker Recordings/podcasts?
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12 step within 12/12/13
Keep your mouth and hands busy via service
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Result: Service is Slimming
Groups Intergroups
Region IV World Service
Board of Directors Paid positions
Let’s play service bingo!
By Deonne and JoIowa State OA Convention
2013