The first meeting of the weekend—a warm, inclusive gathering that welcomes fellows from all paths, years, and food plans. We celebrate belonging, connection, and the relief of finding ourselves among people who understand. A gentle start to a transformative weekend.

Putting principles before personalities is simple in theory and messy in real life. This panel explores how fellows practice humility, restraint, honesty, and compassion when egos collide—at home, at work, and in meetings. A relatable, often humorous look at spiritual principles as daily tools, not lofty ideals.

OA includes members whose eating choices are shaped by personal circumstances, health needs, cultural or religious traditions, ethical commitments, and food access. This panel offers a compassionate look at how we work an OA program when outside factors influence what and how we eat. Together, we celebrate the many ways recovery shows up on our plates—while honoring what brings us together: honesty, willingness, and spiritual connection.

This session explores the roots of our program—how early experiences, addiction knowledge, and spiritual seeking converged into the design for living we use today. Through Step 1 and the Doctor’s Opinion, we examine powerlessness not as defeat but as the doorway to awakening. A thoughtful, historical lens for newcomers and veterans alike.

A casual, connective meet-up for young adults wanting community beyond the formal meeting format. Think shared laughter, mutual encouragement, and conversations that stretch into clarity. Come as you are; bring your questions, quirks, and hopes. You don’t have to recover alone.

From exhaustion to obsession to avoidance, movement has meant many things to us. This panel explores how fellows are learning to move their bodies with kindness, curiosity, and freedom. Whether you’re rediscovering physical activity or building a relationship with movement for the first time, this conversation offers warmth and real identification.

Many fellows discover that food was only one doorway into or part of a much larger recovery landscape. This panel explores cross-addiction, multiple programs, and the whack-a-mole moments that bring us back to spiritual basics. A thoughtful, relatable conversation about integrating tools, staying right-sized, and finding unity amid complexity.

A gentle blend of movement and meditation designed to quiet the nervous system and bring the mind back into the present moment. This session offers soft stretching, slow breathwork, and a sense of inner spaciousness—an invitation to meet stillness not with effort, but with openness. All bodies and experience levels welcome.

A casual opportunity for fellows seeking sponsors—and sponsors seeking fellows—to meet, ask questions, and connect. No pressure, no performance—just real conversations about working the program, building trust, and finding a spiritual rhythm together.

Throughout the weekend, enjoy pop-up meetings hosted by local OA groups. Formats vary but all are rooted in identification and connection. A chance to discover new styles of OA meetings and meet fellows from across the fellowship.

The conference begins with a playful ceremony followed by a keynote that welcomes us into the weekend’s theme: awakening, clarity, and the power of a recovering mind. Through shared experience, we reflect on transformation, willingness, and the light that breaks through when we least expect it.

If you came looking for a quiet, traditional OA meeting… bless your heart, this is not that. This late-night gathering is loud, lively, and full of spontaneous connection. We share fast, we laugh hard, we get spiritual without getting sleepy, and we let the group conscience run the show. Come for the energy, stay for the honesty — and leave more connected than when you walked in.

A creative, laughter-filled open mic where fellows share original recovery-inspired songs, poems, stories, and reflections. A joyful space to express truth, humor, and gratitude while celebrating the diverse voices of our fellowship.

This guided meditation session helps you slip beneath the noise of the day and into the quiet place within—a space of clarity, breath, and spiritual listening. Simple, gentle, and accessible, it’s an opportunity to reconnect with the inner light that recovery slowly uncovers.

Steps 2 and 3 invite us to reconsider the forces shaping our lives—fear, ego, habit, and hope. In this workshop, we explore what it means to become willing to believe in something greater and to make the quiet, revolutionary decision to let that “something” guide our next right actions.

Work events, holidays, airports, celebrations—life doesn’t pause for abstinence. This panel explores staying spiritually grounded when food is abundant and feelings are louder than tools. Fellows share strategies, mishaps, small victories, and the relief that comes from remembering we don’t travel alone, no matter where we eat.

A gathering for women and female-identifying fellows to connect through strength, vulnerability, humor, and truth. This meeting offers a gentle place to lay down the armor, share lived experience, and listen for the quiet guidance that often emerges when women come together in recovery.

A meeting for men and male-identifying fellows to explore recovery with honesty, laughter, and the relief of not having to “figure it out alone.” Together we look at healing, connection, and the freedoms that grow when men speak openly about the inner life instead of muscling through it.

A gentle yoga practice inviting stillness, breath, and embodied serenity. Designed for all levels, this session offers a spacious pause in the middle of a full weekend—an opportunity to reconnect with yourself and your Higher Power through mindful movement and quiet grounding.

Writing can become a doorway into unexpected truth—the kind we don’t always access by thinking harder. Guided by a creative writer, this workshop explores how putting pen to paper softens resistance, reveals next steps, and opens dialogue with a Higher Power. A gentle blend of creativity, courage, and spiritual listening.

A compassionate, truth-telling workshop using the Twelve Steps to explore body image with gentleness and courage. Together we look at the stories we inherited, the ones we built, and the ones we can finally release. This session invites a shift from self-critique to self-acceptance in the light of spiritual awakening.

Aging touches all of us—our bodies, our families, our relationships, and our understanding of time. This panel explores how recovery supports us through shifting seasons: caretaking, changing abilities, new freedoms, unexpected grief, and surprising joy. A warm, humorous, deeply human look at living—and growing—through all ages and stages.

Steps 4 and 5 help us gently untangle the stories, secrets, and patterns that have shaped our lives. Through shared experience and Big Book guidance, we explore how honest inventory and safe disclosure create relief, humility, and surprising connection. It’s less about confession and more about clearing space for new light to enter.

Throughout the weekend, enjoy pop-up meetings hosted by local OA groups. Formats vary but all are rooted in identification and connection. A chance to discover new styles of OA meetings and meet fellows from across the fellowship.

A space for LGBTQIA+ fellows to gather, breathe, and be fully themselves in recovery. Here, identity and abstinence aren’t competing stories—they’re threads in the same tapestry of healing. Join us for shared experience, hard-won clarity, and a reminder that progress, not perfection, lights the way forward.

An OA Birthday Party first!  A hands-on spiritual practice where you're guided through the creation of your own God Box! Use this 6" x 4" x 2" box as a place to surrender fears, resentments, decisions, and the things we clutch too tightly. Through art, laughter, and quiet intention, we practice turning things over in a physical, tangible way. It’s Step Three with glitter, glue, and unexpected grace. Space is limited to 50 people for this premium offering so sign up early! All materials are included! Additional purchase required.  Click Here!

Two-Way Prayer blends writing, listening, and quiet openness into a simple practice of communicating with a Higher Power. This workshop offers guidance on how to begin, how to discern, and how to trust the gentle inner shifts that follow. A grounded, accessible method for deepening spiritual connection—one honest sentence at a time.

This panel explores the quiet, often invisible battles of restrictors and purgers—told with honesty, dignity, and the relief of shared experience. Fellows discuss how the program softens obsessive cycles and opens space for peace, nourishment, and spiritual grounding. A gentle, courageous conversation for anyone seeking freedom from the hungers beneath the hunger.

A judgment-free conversation for fellows who have experienced weight-loss surgery, used weight-loss medications, or other medical interventions for their compulsive eating. Panelists share how they integrate these experiences with OA’s spiritual program, navigate expectations, and stay connected to honesty and humility. A space for nuance, clarity, and identification across diverse paths to recovery.

A dedicated space for those who have lost—or understand carrying—the weight of 100 pounds or more. Through shared stories, hope, and humor, we explore how recovery shifts burdens from the body to the sunlight of the spirit, where they can finally soften. Identification, not comparison, leads the way.

A gathering for fellows who wish to share a meal in community, even without purchasing the keynote lunch. We reclaim eating as connection rather than isolation, sharing experience and hope around the table—one of recovery’s most meaningful practices.

A simple way to support your own recovery and stay connected with the fellowship. Sitting down together for a nourishing, abstinent meal creates grounding, ease, and community.  Stay fully present without the stress of leaving the hotel or planning food while also getting to enjoy the Lunch Keynote.  Please note all meals are sold at cost, enabling us to keep our registration fee low and the event self-supporting.

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Our lunchtime keynote invites fellows to reflect on abstinence as a spiritual, emotional, and physical unfolding—rarely linear, often surprising, and always shaped by willingness. Through story and insight, we explore the many dimensions of abstinent living that emerge “all at once” in recovery.

Emotional sobriety is the quiet inner balance that recovery slowly grows—where feelings are felt, not feared, and serenity becomes less fleeting. This workshop offers tools and shared experience for navigating emotional life without relying on food. It’s an exploration of the inner landscape where clarity, honesty, and spiritual steadiness begin.

Meet the sages of OA—fellows with multiple decades of abstinence who have weathered life’s storms with spiritual steadiness and a sense of humor intact. They share what endurance looks like, what softens over time, and what still surprises them. A rare chance to hear long-haul recovery spoken with humility, clarity, and light.

This workshop explores what happens when life begins to widen—when joy, pleasure, connection, and visibility feel newly possible. We examine the habits that keep us small and the spiritual courage required to occupy more space in our own lives. A hopeful, expansive session for anyone longing to grow beyond old limits.

An OA Birthday Party first! A creative space to explore future possibilities with scissors, color, intuition, and spiritual openness. Vision boards help surface the desires we’re often too busy—or afraid—to name. This activity offers a playful yet meaningful way to imagine what recovery makes possible, and to place those hopes in the sunlight. Space is limited to 50 people for this premium offering so sign up early! All materials included! Additional Purchase required. Click Here.

A welcoming space for Spanish-speaking fellows to share their stories, strength, and humor in their heart language. Together we explore how recovery transforms our “loca vida” with food into a steadier, kinder rhythm of living—one grounded in community, clarity, and spiritual connection.

Throughout the weekend, enjoy pop-up meetings hosted by local OA groups. Formats vary but all are rooted in identification and connection. A chance to discover new styles of OA meetings and meet fellows from across the fellowship.

Steps 6 and 7 ask us to bring our character defects into the light—not to judge them, but to become willing to let them soften. This session explores how humility, humor, and spiritual openness create the conditions for change. A hopeful look at the parts of ourselves we once believed were unchangeable.

A lighthearted meet-and-greet offering a chance to connect with potential sponsors and sponsees. Whether you're new, returning, or rebuilding, this gathering helps demystify sponsorship and opens the door to partnership grounded in honesty, willingness, and shared recovery.

A gentle, humorous, and deeply honest panel about pregnancy and motherhood in recovery. Fellows share how they navigated shifting bodies, emotions, responsibilities, and spiritual practices during these life-changing seasons. Whether you’re planning, expecting, parenting, or reflecting, this conversation holds space for the full spectrum of experience.

Grief reshapes us—whether it comes through death, endings, illness, shifting identities, or the loss of who we once were. This panel offers a compassionate look at how recovery holds us during life’s hardest seasons. Through shared stories, we explore letting go, holding on, and the unexpected light that arrives when we tell the truth together.

A gathering for BIPOC fellows to share recovery in a space shaped by cultural understanding, lived experience, and deep belonging. Here we honor resilience, celebrate joy, and tell the truth about our journeys—holding the “prize” not as perfection, but as spiritual freedom we claim together.

The OA Tools are simple, sturdy pathways back to clarity when life gets noisy. This workshop brings them to life through shared stories, practical application, and gentle humor. Whether you’re new to the Tools or rediscovering them, come explore how they support daily sanity, spiritual connection, and the slow but steady unfolding of recovery.

Amends work invites us to clean up old harm with courage, clarity, and spiritual guidance. In this workshop, we discuss building lists, seeking willingness, approaching people with integrity, and releasing outcomes. What emerges isn’t perfection—it’s the quiet relief of no longer hiding from our own history.

A playful meditation session that invites you to watch thoughts drift by without getting swept away. Through breath and stillness, we practice releasing mental chatter and returning to presence. A calming, humorous way to notice how much peace emerges when we stop arguing with the mind.

Relapse can feel like getting swallowed by the dark side, but recovery reminds us that no one is exiled from the light for long. This workshop offers honest conversation about slips, spirals, and the courage to return—again and again—to spiritual footing. We explore how humility, connection, and willingness help abstinence “strike back” in unexpected ways.

An in-person gathering of the A Vision for You, known for its immersive, line-by-line Big Book study. This meeting offers structure, clarity, and spiritual depth rooted in early program principles. Whether you’re curious or committed, come experience their steadiness, warmth, and the unmistakable awakening that happens when truth is spoken plainly.

Throughout the weekend, enjoy pop-up meetings hosted by local OA groups. Formats vary but all are rooted in identification and connection. A chance to discover new styles of OA meetings and meet fellows from across the fellowship.

A meeting for young adults navigating life, food, identity, and spiritual growth in real time. This space invites honest storytelling, shared tools, and the comfort of discovering you’re not the only one figuring it out as you go. Recovery grows in the company of people walking the same stretch of road.

Growth often begins where our comfort ends. This panel examines the risks—emotional, relational, spiritual—that recovery invites us to take. Fellows share what it feels like to say yes to life getting bigger, how they navigate fear, and the small acts of courage that accumulate into real expansion.

A welcoming space for Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi fellows to share story, humor, and heritage-infused wisdom. Together we explore how recovery unfolds within community and culture, and how gratitude can shift even long-held patterns. Connection here is both grounding and brightening—like a lantern in the fog.

A soft, welcoming yoga class focused on presence rather than performance. Whether you're new to yoga or returning after time away, this session encourages ease, curiosity, and spiritual openness. A restorative way to settle the mind while giving the body a peaceful stretch.

Many of us extend compassion outward long before we learn to turn it inward. This workshop explores the tender work of making amends to ourselves—repairing old ruptures, releasing self-punishment, and stepping toward a more generous relationship with the person we live with every day. Expect honesty, humor, and surprising lightness.

A dinner-hour meeting for those wanting company, connection, and conversation during the Saturday dinner. We gather to share recovery while eating together in a spirit of warmth and inclusion—reminding us that meals can be moments of fellowship, not fear.

The conference dinner offers a meaningful shared experience that deepens connection and keeps the focus on recovery rather than logistics. With a thoughtfully prepared meal, comfortable seating, and the evening keynote built right in, you can enjoy a sense of calm, fellowship, and accountability — without navigating outside food options or breaking the flow of the night. Please note all meals are sold at cost, enabling us to keep our registration fee low and the event self-supporting.

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A rich evening keynote exploring how recovery expands our lives in unexpected ways—spiritually, relationally, emotionally, and beyond. Through storytelling and humor, we consider the surprising “bigness” that becomes possible when we stop living in fear and start trusting a Higher Power.

A fun, relaxed alternative to dancing or meetings. Join fellows for board games, card games, and laughter that reminds us recovery isn’t just about healing—it’s also about rediscovering play.

An energetic, joy-filled dance party where fellows can unwind, move freely, and celebrate recovery with music and laughter. No steps required—except the Twelve. Come as you are and let the evening’s spirit lift you.

A beloved Los Angeles Intergroup tradition brought to the Birthday Party for the first time. Twelve speakers share on the Ninth Step Promises—illuminating hope, healing, and transformation. Surrounded by candlelight, we gather to reflect on how these promises unfold in real lives, imperfectly and beautifully, over time.

Nighttime can be a vulnerable hour for many fellows. This late-night meeting offers connection, identification, and tools for navigating evening cravings and loneliness. Together we explore how turning to fellowship rather than food can transform the hardest part of the day into a doorway to serenity.

A soothing meditation session focused on grounding, breath, and the small shifts that bring serenity into reach. Perfect for anyone needing a reset, this gathering invites you to rest in stillness and reconnect with the spiritual quiet that supports recovery.

Steps 10–12 root recovery in daily practice—honesty, repair, prayer, meditation, and service. This workshop explores how ongoing spiritual actions sustain clarity long after the initial awakening. Together we look at living the Steps as a rhythm, not an event, with joy and usefulness as natural byproducts.

Relationships are beautiful, bewildering, and sometimes messy—even in recovery. This panel explores how the Twelve Traditions quietly transform the way we show up for partners, friends, family, coworkers, and our OA community. Through funny, honest stories, fellows share how principles like patience, boundaries, humility, and unity create healthier, calmer, more connected relationships—one spiritual practice at a time.

Spiritual awakenings rarely arrive on schedule or look the way we expect. This panel features fellows sharing the moments—quiet or dramatic—when something shifted inside and recovery deepened. These stories remind us that spiritual connection isn’t about perfection but about openness, honesty, and the courage to listen when something new begins to stir.

This gentle yoga session invites you into a quieter kind of balance—the kind that unfolds through breath, patience, and attention rather than effort. Designed for all bodies and experience levels, we explore simple movements that encourage steadiness without strain. A chance to reconnect with the body as a place of support, presence, and ease—right where you are.

Sober eating invites us to experience food with the clarity and honesty. In this workshop, fellows share how identifying alcoholic foods and inviting another person into food decisions brings relief, steadiness, and spiritual grounding. Come discover freedom where obsession once lived.

Childhood trauma can leave long shadows over food, intimacy, and self-worth. In this workshop, we explore themes that help loosen trauma’s grip—not by erasing the past, but by reclaiming the present. A compassionate space to name what shaped us and consider what no longer needs to run the show.

A candid, thoughtful conversation about intimacy, desire, shame, connection, and the ways our relationship with food has shaped our relationships with others. Fellows share how recovery supports honest communication, spiritual grounding, and a gentler experience of sexuality—whether partnered or solo, thriving or healing, curious or cautious. Grace is the common thread.

Throughout the weekend, enjoy pop-up meetings hosted by local OA groups. Formats vary but all are rooted in identification and connection. A chance to discover new styles of OA meetings and meet fellows from across the fellowship.

After some exciting prize drawings, our closing keynote gathers the weekend’s wisdom into a message of hope, renewal, and continued awakening. We celebrate the moments of clarity that recovery brings and honor the journey ahead—one grounded in connection, humility, and sunlight.