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Documents

The following PDF files appear on various pages within this Web site. They are collected here for easy reference and downloading.

A Step Ahead Newsletter

  • A Step Ahead: Second Quarter 2012 (color)
  • A Step Ahead: Second Quarter 2012 (black and white)
  • A Step Ahead: First Quarter 2012 (color)
  • A Step Ahead: First Quarter 2012 (black and white)
  • A Step Ahead: Fourth Quarter 2011 (color)
  • A Step Ahead: Fourth Quarter 2011 (black and white)
  • A Step Ahead: Third Quarter 2011 (color)
  • A Step Ahead: Third Quarter 2011 (black and white)

Ask-It Basket and Archive

  • Ask-It Basket Archive
  • WSBC 2007 Ask-It Basket Questions

Board of Trustees

  • Trustee Application (Interactive)
  • Operations Plan 2012
  • Strategic Plan-Items Completed in 2011
  • Strategic Plan-Items Completed in 2010
  • Strategic Plan-Items Completed in 2009
  • Strategic Plan-Items Completed in 2008

Conference Audio Recordings

  • AAV Order Form

Contribute

  • Contribution Form
  • Seventh Tradition of OA
  • Seventh Tradition of OA (Translatable Version)

Copyright Requests

  • Permission to Use the OA Logo
  • Reprint Permission Form

Courier Newsletter

  • 2012 Courier Newsletter (color)
  • 2012 Courier Newsletter (black and white)

Datebook

  • Datebook Submission Form

Discontinued Literature

  • Billy’s Story
  • OA Cares flyer
  • OA Is Not a Diet Club pamphlet
  • PI Poster Kit
    • How to Contact OA
    • Is Food a Problem for You?
    • Many Symptoms, One Solution
    • OA Preamble
    • Welcome to OA
  • The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of OA: A Kid’s View
  • To the Compulsive Overeater in the Military pamphlet
  • Together We Can pamphlet
  • Treatment and Beyond pamphlet

Family and Friends

  • Compulsive Overeating: An Inside View
  • To the Family

Find a Face-to-Face Meeting

  • OA Intergroup Directory

Group Secretary Materials

  • Contributions Form
  • Literature Catalog
  • Literature Order Form
  • Registration/Change Form
  • Secretaries Maintain the Connection
  • Seventh Tradition of OA
  • Seventh-Tradition Skits
  • Strong Meeting Checklist

Group Support

  • Border Guards: Tradition Four Issues
  • The Balanced Application of Tradition Four
  • Designated Downloader Flyer
  • Excerpt from the OA Handbook
  • El Formato Sugerido de Reuniónes de Estudio de los Pasos
  • Formato Sugerido de Reuniones
  • Group Inventory
  • Group Meeting Record Sheet
  • Guidelines for a Group Conscience Meeting/Suggested Group Conscience Meeting Format
  • How to Start a Meeting
  • Let People Know About Your Meeting
  • Lifeline Meeting Format
  • OA Intergroup Directory
  • Recovery from Relapse Meeting Format
  • Seventh Tradition of OA
  • Seventh Tradition of OA (Translatable Version)
  • Seventh-Tradition Skits
  • Suggested Meeting Format
  • Suggested Step-Study Meeting Format

Lifeline

  • Sample Issue
  • 2011 Lifeline index
  • Lifeline Tabletop Display
  • Lifeline Through the Years
  • Lifeline Writers’ Guidelines
  • Subscription Forms

Literature

  • Addendum for The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
  • Index for The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous
  • Literature Catalog
  • Order Form

Materials from WSO’s Mailing to Intergroups

  • First OA Census Yields Great Results

Media/Professionals

  • Membership Survey Report
  • OA Press Kit

Meeting Formats

  • El Formato Sugerido de Reuniónes de Estudio de los Pasos
  • Formato Sugerido de Reuniones
  • Group Conscience Guidelines/Suggested Group Conscience Meeting Format
  • Lifeline Meeting Format
  • Recovery from Relapse Meeting Format
  • Suggested Meeting Format
  • Suggested Meeting Format for Young People
  • Suggested Step-Study Meeting Format

Meetings

  • OA Intergroup Directory

OA Guidelines

  • Budget Guidelines for Service Bodies
  • Consensus Guidelines and Board Article
  • Fundraising and Prudent Reserve Guidelines for Groups and Intergroups
  • Group Conscience Guidelines/Suggested Group Conscience Meeting Format
  • Guidelines for Addressing Disruptive Behavior
  • Guidelines for Health Fair Participation
  • Guidelines for Locally Produced Literature
  • Guidelines for Membership Retention
  • Guidelines for Local Newsletters
  • Guidelines for OA Events
  • Guidelines for Public Information Events
  • Guidelines for Writing the History of Your Local Area
  • Guidelines for Professional Outreach Committees
  • Intergroup Treasurer Guidelines
  • OA Approved Literature List
  • OA CARES Inmate Correspondence Program Guidelines
  • Web Site Development Guidelines

OA Literature Translations

  • Assigning Rights
  • License 1
  • License 2
  • License 3
  • Translation Guidelines for OA Literature
  • Translation Fund Application

OA Regions

  • Map and Description of the 10 OA Regions

PI Poster

Download these posters to use at PI events or exhibit booths.

  • Pizza Poster: professionally designed color poster, 8.5×11 inches
  • Fork Poster: professionally designed color poster, 8.5×11 inches
  • Pizza Poster: professionally designed color poster, 8.5×11 inches, Includes space for local group information
  • Fork Poster: professionally designed color poster, 8.5×11 inches, Includes space for local group information
  • 15 Questions
  • How to Contact OA
  • Is Food a Problem for You?
  • Many Symptoms, One Solution
  • OA Preamble
  • Welcome to OA

Public Information Suggestions

  • Billy’s Story
  • Courier Newsletter
  • Instructions for Getting OA’s PSA Aired
  • Let People Know About Your Meeting
  • PI Planner
  • The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous: A Kid’s View
  • Professional Outreach Manual: Appendix 1

Register/Change Face-to-Face Meeting

  • Group Registration/Change Form

Register/Change Online or Telephone Meeting

  • Telephone Group Registration/Change Form

Register/Change Service Body

  • Intergroup Registration/Change Form
  • National or Language Service Board Registration/Change Form
  • Virtual Service Board Registration/Change Form

Service Body Support

  • Conference Policy Manual
  • Delegate Support Fund Application
  • Delegate Support Fund Contributions
  • Designated Downloader Flyer
  • Intergroup or Service Board Inventory
  • Professional Exhibits Fund Application
  • Professional Tradeshows Manual
  • Reduced-Cost Literature Application Form
  • Sample Intergroup/Service Board Bylaws
  • Sample Statement of Purpose
  • Suggested OA Hotline Message for Service Bodies
  • OA Bylaws Subpart A
  • OA Bylaws Subpart B
  • Seventh Tradition of OA
  • Seventh Tradition of OA (Translatable Version)
  • Seventh-Tradition Skits
  • Trustee Article and Consensus Guidelines

Seventh Tradition of OA: Translatable Version -Click below for this pamphlet in your language:

  • Danish
  • French
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

Spiritual Principles of the OA Program

  • Spiritual Principles of the OA Program

Tools of Recovery

  • Adbridged Tools

Twelfth Step Within

  • Been Slipping and Sliding? A Reading and Writing Tool
  • Planning a Sponsorship Workshop
  • Recovery Insurance Policy
  • Twelfth Step Within Speakers Sign Up Form

World Service Business Conference

Frequently Used Documents

  • 2011 Wrap Up Report
  • 2011 Final Conference Report
  • 2012 Important Dates
  • 2013 Important Dates
  • Ask-It Basket Questions/Responses
  • Business Conference Policy Manual Manual that includes Conference policies
  • Bylaws, Subpart A: Governing document for OA, Inc.
  • Bylaws, Subpart B: Governing document setting out the identify, rights and privileges for OA members
  • Delegate Registration Instructions
  • Delegate Registration Form
  • Forum Feedback
  • Forum Skit
  • Region Chairman Registration Form
  • Strategic Planning Notes
  • Trustee Application
  • WSBC 2012 Tentative Agenda

Youth in OA

  • Billy’s Story pamphlet
  • Suggested Meeting Format for Young People (use with Suggested Meeting Format)
  • The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: A Kid’s View booklet

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