Due to the holiday weekend, the Board voted to move the monthly meeting forward to the following Saturday on the 9th. CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees July 9th, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Please adjust for your time zone) How To Join A Zoom Meeting: [1]https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Zoom-meeting Join Zoom Meeting [2]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [3]+13462487799,,96821037645 ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees July 2nd, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Please adjust for your time zone) How To Join A Zoom Meeting: [1]https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Zoom-meeting Join Zoom Meeting [2]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [3]+13462487799,,96821037645# US (Houston) [4]+16465588656,,96821037645# US (New York) Dial by your location [5]+1 346 248 7799 US ( ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees Minutes May 7th, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time Acknowledging that we are all here for our personal recovery. The mission of the CoDA Board of Trustees is to ensure the longevity and fiscal health of the organization, to support the Fellowship’s ongoing service work, to promote CoDA unity and to reach the still suffering codependents. OPENING Attendance and order of round robin – Barbara, Faith, Joe, Katherine, Yaniv, Terry D. (Hospi ...Continue Reading

Hello To The CoDA Fellowship! First, we wanted to let you know that all of the on time CoDA Service Conference (CSC) motions are out. You can download them in 1 Zip file here: [1]https://www.codependents.org/2022_Motions.zip . This link will be good with any & all motions updates through conference. Many are also already available on the website; the rest will be up soon if you prefer to download 1 at a time: [2]https://coda.org/delegate-package-2022/ Please pass this on to other ...Continue Reading

Dear Fellowship. You may have seen this email on the Group Service Rep List (GSR), but we are also sending it directly to our fellowship members, as not all intergroups have signed up for the GSR list. If you haven't heard, this year Voting Entities (VE's) will be able to submit motions to the CoDA Service conference (CSC) just like a World Service Committee. Is there anything your Intergroup, State Organization, Province, or Country would like to see changed? Now's your chance! VE Motio ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees June 4th, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Please adjust for your time zone) How To Join A Zoom Meeting: [1]https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Zoom-meeting Join Zoom Meeting [2]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [3]+13462487799,,96821037645# US (Houston) [4]+16465588656,,96821037645# US (New York) Dial by your location [5]+1 346 248 7799 US ( ...Continue Reading

Lighting Our Path: Daily Meditations for Recovering Codependents Have you ever heard a share or shared something in a meeting that you wish you had written down? Sharing our experience, strength, and hope is part of our recovery. Sharing in writing carries the message to many codependents. Perhaps you have already written something in your journal or maybe you have submitted a short piece to Co-NNections, now called CoDA’s Weekly Reading. Is there a quote from CoDA literature that has help ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees Minutes April 2nd, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time Acknowledging that we are all here for our personal recovery. The mission of the CoDA Board of Trustees is to ensure the longevity and fiscal health of the organization, to support the Fellowship’s ongoing service work, to promote CoDA unity and to reach the still suffering codependents. OPENING Attendance and order of Round Robin – Barbara, Faith, Katherine, Yaniv, Caryn T (Co-NNecti ...Continue Reading

Dear Fellowship. You may have seen this email on the Group Service Rep List (GSR), but we are also sending it directly to our fellowship members, as not all intergroups have signed up for the GSR list. If you haven't heard, this year Voting Entities (VE's) will be able to submit motions to the CoDA Service conference (CSC) just like a World Service Committee. Is there anything your Intergroup, State Organization, Province, or Country would like to see changed? Now's your chance! VE Motio ...Continue Reading

Dear Fellowship. The CoDA Board is in search of a Developmental Editor to assist our CoDA Literature Committee (CLC) in the development/editing of a new book, entitled Growing Up in CoDA: Becoming Emotionally Mature. The content of the book includes nine chapters, exercises, and member stories. Growing Up in CoDA expands the inner child and reparenting information that was included in our basic text, Co-Dependents Anonymous. The new book is meant to describe how the disease of codependency ...Continue Reading

Announcing Our First Hybrid CoDA Service Conference! (Internet And In Person) August 22-25 Rapid City, South Dakota And on the Internet! Representing Your Area at The CoDA Service Conference (CSC) What Is A Voting Entity? (VE) It is a region, state or country that represents the CoDA meetings in a given area. VE’s are each allowed to send up to 2 delegates. We are excited to share that our intent for 2022 and moving forward is to have a hybrid (Internet AND in person) CSC! The starti ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees May 7th, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Please adjust for your time zone) How To Join A Zoom Meeting: [1]https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Zoom-meeting Join Zoom Meeting [2]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [3]+13462487799,,96821037645# US (Houston) [4]+16465588656,,96821037645# US (New York) Dial by your location [5]+1 346 248 7799 US (H ...Continue Reading

CoDA members, such as yourself, are a valuable asset to our recovery program! We would love you to consider joining a committee at the world level! It's a great way to give back and for you to truly make a difference! Many have personally found doing service to be a great way to learn to set boundaries and say no when we need or want to. Especially early on, some need to learn what limits are, and service in CoDA is a great way to practice in a safe environment. It’s also an excellent way t ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees March 20th, 2022 Face2Face Workgroup Minutes Day/Time: Sunday - 8 to 9:30 am Pacific Time (Please adjust for your time zone) Attendance and order of Round Robin - Barbara, Faith, Katherine, Yaniv, Gail Absent: Florence, Joe. Legal Liaison: * [1]Thebookee.net site. Attorney taking care of this. * Copyright agreement for outside publications: Renamed: Audio Visual Release Form, still working on this. * Copyright updates needed fo ...Continue Reading

Hello to the CoDA Fellowship! We wanted to give you a head's up regarding the 2022 CoDA Service Conference (CSC). CSC will be available both on the internet & in person in Rapid City, South Dakota, August 21 - August 25. More to come soon! Please watch this space on the coda.org website: [1]https://coda.org/world-service-events/ and please watch for more emails. In Service, Your CSC Prep Workgroup [2]cscprep@codependents.org You can review previous emails here: [3]https://co ...Continue Reading

CoDA now has our own You Tube Channel! [1]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oWXZDpoVdKbyJ0YDh1zTQ/playlists For those more used to You Tube, You will find most of the CoDA audio files from codependents.org; + 4 unique videos, & the recent Ken & Mary R (our founders) workshop: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2JefAJ_fok&list=PLEQVATeN2_2oOcfc8BxOLKda-PItabeXa&index=5&t=4s The Ken & Mary audio with photo is an upgrade, the CoDA Events Committee was able to remove some silences. ...Continue Reading

[1]https://coda.org/proper-use-of-the-coda-logo/ This is the CoDA Seal; it is a registered trademark. Use of this mark is only allowed under a Trademark License Agreement, which agreement may allow customization by adding the name of an Intergroup or Voting Entity to the outside perimeter of the seal and/or translation of the words within the circle other than “CoDA”. No other changes are permitted. Please contact [2]board@coda.org. CoDA groups may use the following seals on their letterhead ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees Minutes March 5th, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time Acknowledging that we are all here for our personal recovery. The mission of the CoDA Board of Trustees is to ensure the longevity and fiscal health of the organization, to support the Fellowship’s ongoing service work, to promote CoDA unity and to reach the still suffering codependents. OPENING Attendance and order of round robin - Barbara, Faith, Florence, Joe, Katherine, Yaniv, ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees February 20th, 2022 Face2Face Workgroup Minutes Day/Time: Sunday - 8 to 9:30 am Pacific Time (Please adjust for your time zone) Attendance and order of Round Robin - Barbara, Faith, Florence, Katherine, Gail Absent: Joe, Yaniv. MOTION to approve Minutes for Public Board Meeting on February 5th, 2022 [1]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yBRos-B99a6OVpk8HlyCXWup9oggibhj/edit Website: * [2]CoDA.org update - updates by Web Liaison: ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees April 2nd, 2022 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Please adjust for your time zone) Join Zoom Meeting [1]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [2]+13462487799,,96821037645# US (Houston) [3]+16465588656,,96821037645# US (New York) Dial by your location [4]+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) [5]+1 646 558 8656 US (New York) [6]+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) [7]+1 253 215 878 ...Continue Reading

CoDA Meetings Have Questions; the CoDA Meeting Handbook Has Answers Lately, the CoDA Board has been fielding a number of questions from CoDA meetings. Often, the answers can be found in the CoDA Meeting Handbook: [1]https://coda.org/wp-content/uploads/FSM-Part-2-Meeting-Handbook.pdf While Tradition 4 tells us CoDA meetings are autonomous {“Each group should remain autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or CoDA as a whole.”), there are certain best practices that are highly reco ...Continue Reading

A group of members would like to put on a 24 Hour World CoDA Event: speakers/workshops around the clock. Right now we are asking for members to sign up to do service to get this going. Flyer: [1]https://www.codependents.org/24.pdf Sign Up: [2]https://trimurl.co/trH42j Questions:[3] sarajess@me.com You can review previous emails here: [4]https://codependents.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/main/ If you have a friend who would like to subscribe, please have them go here: [5]htt ...Continue Reading

Call For New Submissions! Have Weekly Readings and Meeting in Print been helpful or thought-provoking for you? Consider submitting your story and sharing your insight with other CoDA members! How has CoDA changed your life? Sharing your experience, strength and hope may help thousands of codependents still suffering. Everybody in CoDA has a recovery story to tell. Please email:[1] connections@coda.org Some Possible Topics: (Could include, but not limited to!) 1. Sharing Strength ...Continue Reading

CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees March 5th, 2021 Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time (Please adjust for your time zone) Join Zoom Meeting [1]https://zoom.us/j/96821037645 Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645 One tap mobile [2]+13462487799,,96821037645# US (Houston) [3]+16465588656,,96821037645# US (New York) Dial by your location [4]+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) [5]+1 646 558 8656 US (New York) [6]+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) [7]+1 253 215 8782 US (Tac ...Continue Reading

Interested in stepping up your recovery? CoDA’s Hospitals and Institutions committee has a sponsorship program for inmates. The aim of sponsoring is to guide the sponsee confined to a prison or institution through CoDA’s steps and traditions. We are desperate to have CoDA members who are willing to sponsor including Spanish speakers. All correspondence is done by US Mail. Anonymity is maintained. For more information and application, go to: [1]https://coda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sponsor ...Continue Reading