Events

Join us for a workshop focused on practical actions that support abstinence and serenity through the season. Speakers will share their experience, strength, and hope, and you’ll have time to put together a holiday action plan that fits your own recovery.

Join us for a virtual workshop designed for newcomers and anyone interested in learning more about recovery in Overeaters Anonymous.

Speakers will share their experience, strength, and hope about compulsive eating and the promise of recovery through the Overeaters Anonymous program. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions, meet other members and newcomers, and gain additional support and insight into getting started.

This workshop is especially helpful for those who have been members for two years or less or consider themselves newcomers, but everyone is welcome.

Join us for a practical 90-minute workshop focused on supporting newcomers through sponsorship.

The session will walk participants through the sponsorship journey, from that first phone call with a newcomer to beginning and developing a sponsor-sponsee relationship. Members can gain practical ideas for helping newcomers get started and supporting them as they begin working the Overeaters Anonymous program.

Do I have feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment about my weight or the way i eat?

Description: Explore how finding a personal Higher Power can help you break free from compulsive overeating and find lasting peace.  

Join us for an afternoon of creative activities designed to bring joy, reflection, and connection into recovery.

This year’s Open Studio Festival will focus on paper-based creativity, with guided and open-studio activities including neurographic art, therapeutic storyboarding, collage, and other creative practices. No special art experience is needed—participants are encouraged to simply show up, experiment, and explore how creativity can support their recovery.

Suggested materials include paper, pens or pencils, scissors, paint, markers, crayons, pastels, magazines, postcards, stickers, cardboard, and other paper materials you already have at home.

Are you in recovery and want to protect it for the long term? Do you find yourself sliding in and out of recovery? Are you seeking recovery but worried about how long it might last?  This workshop is for you!  Three speakers. will share experiences and. practices for maintaining a sustained, well-protected recovery. You will also  have opportunities to reflect and build your own long-term recovery.

Join us for a virtual workshop celebrating International Day Experiencing Abstinence and exploring the personal journey of abstinence in Overeaters Anonymous.

Three speakers will share experience, strength, and hope, along with insights and strategies rooted in the Twelve Steps that help them embrace and maintain abstinence. Each speaker share will be followed by a short writing exercise and an opportunity for open sharing.

Join us for a virtual workshop celebrating International Day Experiencing Abstinence and exploring what abstinence can mean in recovery.

Join us for a virtual workshop exploring body image and self-acceptance through the Twelve Steps.

Join us for a virtual Overeaters Anonymous family gathering centered on gratitude, connection, and shared recovery.

Speakers will share personal anecdotes about the people, experiences, and parts of recovery they are grateful for this season. Open sharing will follow, giving participants an opportunity to reflect on and share their own gratitude with fellows.