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

   *CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees**Minutes* *April 2nd, 2022*Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific TimeAcknowledging 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-NNections ...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? ...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 ...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 ...Continue Reading

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

   CoDA, Inc. Board of TrusteesMarch 20th, 2022Face2Face Workgroup MinutesDay/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, GailAbsent: Florence, Joe.*Legal Liaison:* *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 for the two recent updated works:**Making Choices ...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: https://coda.org/world-service-events/ and please watch for more emails.In Service,Your CSC Prep Workgroupcscprep@codependents.org  You can review previous emails here: https://codependents.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/mai ...Continue Reading

CoDA now has our own You Tube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oWXZDpoVdKbyJ0YDh1zTQ/playlistsFor 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:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2JefAJ_fok&list=PLEQVATeN2_2oOcfc8BxOLKda-PItabeXa&index=5&t=4sThe Ken & Mary audio with photo is an upgrade, the CoDA Events Committee was able to remove some silences.We currently have a total of 71 You Tub ...Continue Reading

     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 board@coda.org.CoDA groups may use the following seals on their letterheads, news ...Continue Reading

   *CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees**Minutes* *March 5th, 2022*Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific TimeAcknowledging 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,Rob (Fi ...Continue Reading

   CoDA, Inc. Board of TrusteesFebruary 20th, 2022Face2Face Workgroup MinutesDay/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, GailAbsent: Joe, Yaniv.MOTION to approve Minutes for Public Board Meeting on February 5th, 2022https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yBRos-B99a6OVpk8HlyCXWup9oggibhj/edit Website: CoDA.org update - updates by Web Liaison: Meeting Search Issues (Time Zone Strategy):Interse ...Continue Reading

         CoDA, Inc. Board of TrusteesApril 2nd, 2022Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Daylight Time(Please adjust for your time zone)Join Zoom Meeting/https://zoom.us/j/96821037645//Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645//One tap mobile//+13462487799,,96821037645#// US (Houston)//+16465588656,,96821037645#// US (New York)//Dial by your location//+1 346 248 7799// US (Houston)//+1 646 558 8656// US (New York)//+1 669 900 9128// US (San Jose)//+1 253 215 8782//  ...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:https://coda.org/wp-content/uploads/FSM-Part-2-Meeting-Handbook.pdfWhile 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 ...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: https://www.codependents.org/24.pdfSign Up: https://trimurl.co/trH42jQuestions: sarajess@me.com You can review previous emails here: 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: https://www.codependents.org/sub.htm If you have a gener ...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: connections@coda.org Some Possible Topics: (Could include, but not limited to!)1. Sharing Strength and HopeHow CoDA and the 12 Steps have ...Continue Reading

         CoDA, Inc. Board of TrusteesMarch 5th, 2021Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific Time(Please adjust for your time zone)Join Zoom Meeting/https://zoom.us/j/96821037645//Meeting ID: 968 2103 7645//One tap mobile//+13462487799,,96821037645#// US (Houston)//+16465588656,,96821037645#// US (New York)//Dial by your location//+1 346 248 7799// US (Houston)//+1 646 558 8656// US (New York)//+1 669 900 9128// US (San Jose)//+1 253 215 8782// US (Taco ...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: https://coda.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sponsor-info-for-CoDA-Inmate-Sponsorsh ...Continue Reading

*_Communication Committee’s Email Team _**_Subcommittee is looking for Volunteers!_* Are you looking to do service for the fellowship? We are looking for your help!The CET (CoDA Email Team) subcommittee of the Communication Committee is looking for people interested in responding to emails with questions from CoDA members or new people looking for a meeting. See the description of the committee here: https://coda.org/service-info/communications-committee-main-page/The CoDA Email Team (CET) is a group of a ...Continue Reading

Here is a general guide for getting your local CoDA event listed on the CoDA website & on our quarterly events emails: First in keeping with the traditions it must be sponsored by an entity of Codependents Anonymous (meeting, intergroup, state organization, etc) & not by a professional counselor, church group, etcPlease either go to https://coda.org/calendar/ and click on"Add Event", which should bring up an email to send to our Web Liaison. Or...........On some web browsers, that form may not wor ...Continue Reading

   *CoDA, Inc. Board of Trustees**Minutes* *February 5th, 2022*Day/Time: Saturday - 8-9:30 am Pacific TimeAcknowledging 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.*Attendees and Round Robin order – *Barbara, Faith, Joe, Katherine, Yaniv, Darlene (IMC Chair - Chairs Forum represe ...Continue Reading

CoDA now has our own You Tube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0oWXZDpoVdKbyJ0YDh1zTQ/playlistsFor 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:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2JefAJ_fok&list=PLEQVATeN2_2oOcfc8BxOLKda-PItabeXa&index=5&t=4sThe Ken & Mary audio with photo is an upgrade, the CoDA Events Committee was able to remove some silences.We currently have a total of 70 You Tub ...Continue Reading

Twelve Service Concepts of Co-Dependents Anonymous [*]The members of the Fellowship of Co-Dependents Anonymous, in carrying out the will of a loving Higher Power, advance their individual recoveries, work to insure the continuance of their groups and their program, and carry the message to codependents who still suffer. They may also collectively authorize and establish service boards or committees and empower trusted servants to perform service work.   [*]The Fellowship of CoDA has the responsibility of determinin ...Continue Reading