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• Are you a compulsive overeater?
•'Partner in Service’ Challenge
Local Meetings
Click Here to download a pdf version of our St. Paul/Mpls area meeting list. We recommend you contact the person on the list next to the meeting you want to attend, just to verify time and location.
New Member Meeting: Welcome to Overeaters Anonymous - Meets the third Saturday of each month from 1 to 2 PM at the Minnetonka Community Center. Come hear abstinent OA members share how they recovered. These meetings are open to anyone wishing to learn more about Overeaters Anonymous. Click Here for flyer.
There are Phone Meeting Marathons and for info on that click here.
Why Join Unity Intergroup?
Unity Intergroup serves over sixty meetings in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) and outlying communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. These areas
include Alexandria. Brainerd, Forest Lake, New UIm, Mankato. Wilimar. \Vinona. Rochester and Owatonna in Minnesota; Menomonie and LaCrosse in Wisconsin. We are members of Overeaters Anonymous who are dedicated to carrying the message and serving the members and groups in our area. Overeaters Anonymous is part of Region IV and affiliated with
the World Service Office (WSO) of Overeaters Anonymous.
We provide financial and volunteer support to the following:
- Annual state convention - held every November, which is
attended by several hundred members from 22 states and Canada - Spring Retreat - held every April
- Fall Retreat - held every September
- Big Book Study - held every spring
- Monthly Newcomer's meeting Third Saturday of every month
(listed above) - Monthly Newsletter - Society Pages
- Conduct Monthly Intergroup Business meetings
- Finance this websitc
- Finance Telephone lines - local and international
- Send Representatives to our Spring and Fall Region IV
Assemblies - Send Delegates to our Spring World Convention
- Participate in numerous Outreach events: Health fairs,
Community and Civic events
Forms for Meetings
- Unity Contribution Form
- Update/Register Meeting Information Form
- WSO Contribution Form
- Region 4 Contribution Form
- Unity Reimbursement Form
Meeting Formats
“There are not different kinds of OA. There are, however, different meeting formats such as HOW (Honesty, Open Mindedness & Willingness) meetings, Step meetings, Big Book Study meetings, Traditions meetings and Literature Discussion meetings. In Unity Intergroup publications and communications, OA will always be referred to as OA. If distinctions are wanted or needed they should refer to meeting descriptors or meeting formats. Meetings descriptors would be the day, time, location or group name. For example, a meeting could be referred to as the Tuesday morning HOW format meeting, or the Tuesday Minneapolis Meeting.”
Glossary
Cross Talk "Cross talk" discouraged during an OA meeting is giving advice to others who have already shared, speaking directly to another person rather than to the group, and questioning or interrupting the person speaking/sharing at the time.
Closed Meeting is a group that is open to anyone with a desire to stop eating compulsively, or anyone who thinks they may have a problem with compulsive overeating.
Intergroup (IG) The service body that supports local area groups. The intergroup is made up of representatives from each group it serves and is managed by a board of officers. Intergroups generally provide published local meeting lists, an answering service for newcomers and OA literature.
Lifeline A monthly magazine of Overeaters Anonymous, publishing stories of recovery written and submitted by OA members.
Open Meeting is a group which is open to anyone.
HOW format groups Some OA members and groups choose to work their programs through a HOW format meeting, known for its adherence to professionally (via doctor, nutritionist, dietitian) defined food plans and its disciplined sponsor/sponsoree approach. Whereas the OA program offers only suggestions and allows for individual flexibility defining abstinence, the HOW format provides a set structure to follow. All OA groups are sanctioned and registered by Overeaters Anonymous as they practice the Twelve Steps for personal recovery, follow the same Twelve Traditions and adhere to the OA World Service Office Bylaws.
Sponsorship Sponsors are OA members who are living the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to the best of their ability. They are willing to share their recovery with other members of the Fellowship and are committed to abstinence. Find a sponsor who has what you want, and ask that person how he or she is achieving it. A member may work with more than one sponsor and may change sponsors at will (adapted from Tools of Recovery).
World Service Office Administrative headquarters for Overeaters Anonymous in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Staffed by 14 professionals who conduct day-to-day business operations of OA, the WSO tracks OA groups worldwide, develops OA literature, produces the monthly Lifeline magazine, and sells and ships OA materials.
