As we enter the Spring season, with trees and flowers bursting into bloom, OA Silicon Valley Intergroup is happy to announce we have begun to offer workshops again. To check out any of our previous workshops, please click here!

NEW WORKSHOP SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2026

The first of our upcoming workshops is titled, Sponsorship: Find One, Be One, Change One, being offered for FREE on Saturday, March 21, 2026, from 2:00 to 4:00 PDT. This two-hour online workshop will feature up to four speakers who will share their experience, strength, and hope on finding, being, and
changing sponsors, including the 12 Day Newcomer Sponsor program.

In addition to a Q&A session after the panel, participants will have 10 minutes to reflect on the session in whatever way suits them best, be it meditation, prayer, journaling, or some combination or other method.

If time allows, there may be some sharing of the reflections. 

Please be sure to bring your book titled, The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous, Second Edition as well as a pen or pencil and paper!

To register, please visit EventBrite. Don’t forget to share this workshop information with your OA fellows and any newcomers.

ATTENTION NEWCOMERS

If you are a newcomer – someone entirely new to Overeaters Anonymous – and you are interested in working with a Sponsor, but aren’t sure about the program or who to ask to sponsor you through the Twelve Steps, then check out this new blog, titled, Sponsorship – One of the 9 Tools of OA Recovery. This blogs can help you learn a bit about how sponsorship can work for you by taking advantage of a Temporary Sponsor who can take you through the First Twelve Days of OA.

NEW OA LITERATURE FOCUSED ON SPONSORSHIP

A significant step in every OA members journey is the point at which they make the decision – with the aid of their Sponsor and their Higher Power – to become a sponsor. Sponsorship is a vital and important service, and yet many of us worry that we may not be ready, or that we don’t have all the necessary recovery skills.

Well, the great news is that OA is now offering a new booklet, entitled, Sponsorship in OA. Designed to help expand our understanding of sponsorship, this 32-page booklet covers a number of key topics, contains real testimonials from OA sponsors. and the Appendices include 30 questions to ask the newcomer along with a complete guide to sponsoring through each of the Twelve Steps of OA.