Recovery and Meeting Resources
On this page we have provided some of the materials that were requested at the retreat. Some are from presentations or speeches. Some of the materials cover other aspects of recovery. We offer them to all who come here as a way of sharing our own experience, strength and hope as we work out recovery programs.
Please keep in mind that these materials are provided as examples of how our Group Conscience has chosen to do certain things and, as the CoDA Traditions state, what you find here is not intended to say how other groups or CoDA as a whole should operate. If you find something of interest here and would like to implement it, you are completely free to do so. Prudence suggests, however, that you bring the materials to your Group Conscience so that it can consider and weigh the efficacy of it for your group.
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CoDA Retreat Handout Packet 2012
This is the retreat handout that we used at the Face Everything and Recover retreat on Hilton Head Island in January, 2012. It contains the agenda and all of the guides that our presenters used.
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CoDA Retreat Handout Packet 2011
Retreat Handout containing practical explanations and techniques for Yoga, Meditation, Breath Work and EFT “Tapping” exercises to reduce anxiety, fear and stress.
Title: CoDA Retreat Handout Packet
Format: Adobe .PDF
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Title: Feelings Aren’t Facts Presentation
Format: PowerPoint
PowerPoint Presentation: “Feelings Aren’t Facts”
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A Personal Bill of Rights.
Several of our members have found that they do indeed have personal rights, despite the words and actions of their abusers. The Personal Bill of Rights page is one of many compilations that come out of the common experiences of codependents and adult children of dysfunctional or sick families. This was presented at this year’s retreat in the form of a question: do we even know that we have these rights? Some of our members and sponsors have shared that they use this sheet as their primary list of affirmations that they use on a daily basis. Some said that they printed it out and placed it in a conspicuous place like their bathroom mirror, (one member stated that they taped it to the dashboard of their car.)
Title: Our Personal Bill of Rights
Format: .PDF
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Coda Meeting Guides:
This is the meeting guide that our group has developed and debugged over the years. We make copies of it at our group so that everyone who comes to the meeting can read along. The information is derived from a variety of CoDA sources so that a person can delve a bit deeper into recovery. The file contains the Main Meeting Chairperson’s manual, a Meeting Guide for attendees (the part to copy for the group) and two other meeting guides (a CoDA Big Book (blue book) Study chairperson’s guide and an Open Discussion meeting chair person’s guide) and it contains the phone list template and the 12 Service Concepts. So, you’ll have to pull it apart and use what works for your needs.
It is an MS Word document. You can do a “find and replace” on the names in the document and place your group’s name in it. Our preference is printing it on standard white 8 1/2 x 11 stock, Duplex (print on both sides of the paper) and put a staple in the upper left corner. Some of the office supply mega stores and Kinko’s offer online discount coupons.
Title: Coda Meeting Guides
Format: MS Word
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A Fellow Traveler’s Guide to Sponsorship:
The Fellow Traveler’s Guide for sponsorship is the product of the long, hard work of observing what has worked and what does not in 12-Step sponsorship over several decades. It was created by one of our sister Twelve Step fellowships, ACA (formerly ACoA), and the credit for the document and its successes belongs only to them. The material in this document was lifted shamelessly and directly from the ACA Big Book during our group’s long work on trying to resolve the paucity of CoDA sponsorship we have witnessed in our group over the years.
We have occasionally dropped in the acronym CoDA, and we have also inserted the Patterns and Traits of Co-Dependence and other CoDA-related material that is commonly used in sponsorship. It’s a kind of “kit” that contains several practical tools that our Group Conscience has chosen as our group’s primary tool to teach sponsorship. Our Group Conscience holds complete responsibility for choosing this document to help our members to understand and practice practical sponsorship. As mentioned above, we strongly suggest that you bring it to your own Group Conscience in order to allow the Higher Power to guide your group in deciding whether or not to accept it into your group’s practices.
Title:FELLOW TRAVELERS GUIDE 01042010
Format: Adobe .PDF
FELLOW TRAVELERS GUIDE 01042010
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CoDA Fellowship Service Manual:
The CoDA Fellwoship Service Manual is another “kit” of information on running a successful CoDA meeting. It has numerous guides and topics that directly relate to running a meeting. Of particular note to us is section 2 –The Group Conscience process. This section describes the purpose of and how to think about and handle a successful GC in your group. Some sponsors in our group add it as an important reading for their sponsees during their 12-Step and 12-Tradition work and bring it in at key times to help see the Steps and Traditions in practice in a meeting. Once the CoDA website appears, click the “Site Map” on the left menu bar, then look for Fellowship Service Manual and download the .PDF to your computer.
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Other Fellow Twelve-Step Fellowships:
Many of our members work other Twelve-Step programs to help them to Face Everything and Recover from a wide variety of compulsions, addictions and illnesses. CoDA recognizes that we sometimes need a bit more help, and illuminates that view in the Fifth chapter of the CoDA Big Book (blue book). Many of the personal stories in the CoDA Big Book also include mention of recovery through other Twelve-Step organizations. In case you’ve lost the link to the website, or are looking for another Twelve-Step fellowship, we’ve included a partial list of Twelve-Step programs that are patterned after the Alcoholics Anonymous format.
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ACA Big Book Index
For our guests who have requested the index for the ACA big book: