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Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery
depends upon OA unity.
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For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a
loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted
servants; they do not govern.
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The only requirement for OA membership is the desire to stop
eating compulsively.
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Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting
other groups or OA as a whole.
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Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message
to the compulsive overeater who still suffers.
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An OA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the OA name
to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and
prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
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Every OA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining
outside contributions.
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Overeaters Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional,
but our service centers may employ special workers.
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OA as such, ought never be organized; but we may create
service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
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Overeaters Anonymous has no opinion on outside
issues; hence the OA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
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Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level
of press, radio, films, television and other public media of communication.
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Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these
traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.
Region
Six Assembly of Overeaters Anonymous 
