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    • For IG Reps
    • Meetings Overview
    • Sundays
    • Mondays
    • Tuesdays
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    • Thursdays
    • Fridays
    • Saturdays
  • We Care List
  • Events
    • Upcoming 2025 Events
    • Past HVIG Recorded Events
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    • Service Opportunities
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    • OA World Service
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OA HOW 2-Hour Meetings

Meetings listed herein 

  • Endorse, utilize and follow the Sponsee guidelines 
  • Are two hours long
  • Focus on reading and pitching on the OA tools as used by 2 Hour OA HOW members
  • Include most or all of the readings and components of traditional 2 Hour OA How meetings such as: the Preamble to OA, What is HOW, the Only Requirement, The HOW Concept, Reflections for the Newcomer, either the AA Big Book reading from More About Alcoholism or the OA Step 2 excerpt on insanity, the excerpt from How It Works from the Big Book, the OA 12 steps and OA 12 traditions, Clay Feet, the Promises or Bad News
  • Welcome newcomers and invite them to introduce themselves
  • Have a newcomer greeter
  • Celebrate periods of abstinence
  • Celebrate Step ups and Anniversaries using the 2 Hour format readings
  • Have speaker and/or leader share
  • Have an opportunity for pitches at the end open to all participants
  • Make a good faith effort to send one or two group reps to monthly HVIG meetings


Though there are many kinds of meetings, fellowship is the basis of them all. To find information about all types of OA meetings, visit Overeater Anonymous.

Are You Having Issues with Call-In Only Meeting Connections?

Phone & VOIP Tech Challenges

Technology is always changing.  For those meetings that are still using call-in only (and not Zoom), sometimes, the old "free conference call" numbers don't work as well as they used to.  Passcodes stop working or it might take trying a few times before you can get access to the meeting. Why?  Because phone technology gets updated and the old trunk lines do stop performing.  You can also try rebooting your phone.  If your meeting is having issues, it may be time to consider getting a new phone number.  If so, send us an email with your new meeting info and we'll update the website! 

Strong Meeting Checklist

This checklist is OA Board Approved. Consider doing a regular business meeting and healthy group inventory with your weekly OAHOW meeting.

Get the Checklist

Need Help with Meeting Expenses?

Meetings now have the option (not required) to request to be reimbursed by the HVIG for expenses paid like Sign-Up Genius or Zoom accounts, for example. Simply pay the expense and submit the form below.  NOTE:  Expenses can only be reimbursed if enough funds are available in our account.

Meeting Expense Reimbursement Form

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