All meetings will be at the Dearborn Doubletree Hotel www.dearborn.doubletree.com  located at 5801 Southfield Expressway.

Below is the listing of upcoming meeting dates:
(No meeting in July as a meeting will be held during the Regon V Assembly)

Planning meetings begin at 2pm and last about 1-1/2hours.

• August 14, 2010 (Saturday)
• September 11, 2010 (Saturday)
• September 25, 2010 (Saturday)
• October 2, 2010 (Saturday)

Note: Meeting room location varies, stop at hotel’s registration desk to confirm meeting location.

For further information contact Frank F. at cma810@comcast.net

To register for the upcoming convention click on link below.
Click here for Region V Convention Registration Form (PDF, 182kb)
View and download a copy of the upcoming convention flyer which contains the registration form.

Frank F. at 734-426-0643 (Registration Questions)

Doubletree Hotel Detroit/Dearborn
5801 Southfield Expressway
Detroit, Michigan, United States 48228

1-800-445-8667 (Hilton Contact)

8-11:30 am Business session III
saw presentation on possible future use of webcasts to promote more participation. Delegates were asked to give feedback on how this use of media might impact observation of traditions.

elected new region 2 and 8 trustees who ran unopposed for 3 yr term

elected two new general trustees– took three separate votes to choose from five candidates!

11:30am-1pm lunch
1- 5pm session IV
proposals considered. There was a lot of time spent in debate on the term ‘compulsive overeater’ vs. ‘compulsive eater’ and how this impacted our voting on literature. The debate slowed progress considerably

voting results: literature proposals A-b through A-f approved. They can be viewed on the OA website under World Service.

Guidelines

5:30-7 dinner out! Authentic new mexican cuisine. Delicious and abstinent!

8pm optional reference sub-committee meeting on proposal B– local literature

And now a note from WSB chair:

“I do not like the word ‘violate’ for the traditions. It is unnecessarily harsh. I prefer to use the term ‘does not observe the traditions’ instead”

we are not a glum lot, day 3

there were many quips, but they weren’t that funny. We might have been called a more ….serious-minded lot today. But wait! There is a late save by the reference committee! At 9:30pm, during a heated debate, the WS vice chair said,
“I haven’t seen this much passion other than at a buffet!”

business meeting I 8:30-11:30 am

opened with the serenity prayer in german and english– beautiful!

we learned that there are 165 delegates here. Lots of reports from regions, chairs of committees etc.

11:45 – 12:45 optioned to sit in on the reference committee meeting. re sending electronic reports out vs paper. Packed my lunch and munched happily away while the debate simmered on.

business meeting II 1-5pm

heard from prospective trustees– very impressive! We vote on them tomorrow. Also started to vote on literature. The unity with diversity pamphlet was voted down in a very close contest– we had a counted standing vote because it was so close. I voted no because this otherwise wonderful pamphlet had a story on bariatric surgery– an outside issue to OA.

5-7pm went for a run, called my family and some oa members, ate dinner alone in blessed quiet in my room.

7:30-10pm more reference committee meeting. very heated discussion on the term ‘compulsive eater’ vs. ‘compulsive overeater’. spoke up as a delegate in favor for the plan of movement but recommended the committee come up with a new name so it encompasses more than just exercise. the committee debated and came up with ‘ the tool of an action plan’

bedtime!! I deserve it!

We are not a glum lot, day 2– in which we find the WS chair has a sense of humor:

~when the member reading the 12 concepts could not find the correct reading in binder for the 12 concepts, the chair leaned into the mike and said dryly “ it starts with the number ‘one’ ”

~when answering question about foreign currency collecting for 7th tradition, the chair said, make checks payable to OA world service,or k-a-y-l-a….”

~ upon waiting for staff to get materials ready, “of all the traditions, we do nine the best: we ought never be organized….”

long and beautiful day today! Started at 7 am with an OA meeting– theme: how do you practice abstinent,spiritual, mindful eating?

8-10:30am forum entitled “service– how does it serve us?”

This was so good I’m going to order the recording! Many ideas about why and how we use the tool of service. My table discussed the traditions and how they apply to service.

10:45-12 committee meetings– I’m doing 12step within because I’m unaware that our IG is doing a lot in that area right now. Maybe I can bring back some ideas? The committee broke into smaller sub-committees, and I’m working with a member from australia on promoting the oa website.

12pm lunch

1:30-4:30p more committee meetings

5-7p region 5 dinner. All folks from region 5 break bread and talk region business

7:15-9:15pm literature Q&A. One of my favorite meetings because we discuss prospective literature and revamping existing material.

thursday will be the first day of the actual business meeting!

‘we are not a glum lot’
at the forum, comments are recorded in live time by being typed in and projected on a giant screen.
~While one member quoted from the BB, these words appeared in giant letters: ‘what page is this on???’
~when the projector skipped for a minute: there are ghosts in the machine: Boooooooooo!
~ after typing in the suggestion of tricking someone into IG service, recorder wrote: “then take step 10”
~when one member sang the line of a song: ” hire her, Las Vegas! ”

Join us for:

Making New Connections
Reflections on Gratitude
Service as Gratitude in Action
Recorded Share from our Founder

Literature
Fellowship
Doorprizes!

St Joseph Mercy Hospital
Administration Services Building
Auditorium
5305 Elliot Drive
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

turn onto Elliott Drive; look for parking lot P.
Auditorium is on the first floor.

Hosted by Greater Ann Arbor Intergroup
Contact:
Christen 734.663.1605
Evie 734.483.2334
or email: greatera2ig@gamail.com

The OA HOW Meeting on New Year’s Eve has also been canceled, but there is a meeting earlier in the day at Kathy S’s house, and all OA members are welcome to attend. Please call for details 737-417-0679. There will be an abstinent lunch at Bell’s Diner afterward, 2167 W. Stadium Blvd in Ann Arbor.

The 12/25 and 1/1 Friday 5:30pm meeting space at St. Joe Administration Services Building is available and open if you need a meeting. Join us! Find parking lot “P” from Elliot Drive. Go upstairs to the education classrooms and look for classroom 4.
The best way to make sure there is a meeting is to use the Tool of the Telephone and ask other members to join you!