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• Are you a compulsive overeater?
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 3 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 fifty local meetings within the Twin Cites of Minneapolis and St. Paul and outlying Minnesota areas including Rochester, MN, Mankato, MN, New Richmond, WI, Bay, WI, Hastings, MN, Lacrosse, WI and Owatonna, MN. 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 of Overeaters Anonymous.
We support: an annual convention held every November attended by over 500 members from twenty two states and Canada; organize an annual spring retreat, summer retreat and Big Book study; publish a monthly newsletter “Society Pages”; host a monthly Newcomers Meeting; conduct monthly business meetings; finance a local website and telephone information line; send delegates to semi-annual regional business meetings and a yearly world business meetings and perform various public outreach with OA informational booths at health fairs and other 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.
"The OA recovery program is essential to each one of us. Our very survival depends on it. Without it, many of us would soon be so thoroughly occupied with compulsive eating we would have little time or energy left to do anything else - including effectively supporting those other causes which mean so much to us." The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, p. 186