The Twelve Concepts of OA Service

• The ultimate responsibility and authority for OA world services reside in the collective conscience of our whole Fellowship.
• The OA groups have delegated to the World Service Business Conference the active maintenance of our world services; thus, the World Service Business Conference is the voice, authority and effective conscience of OA as a whole.
• The Right of Decision, based on trust, makes effective leadership possible.
• The Right of Participation ensures equality of opportunity for all in the decision-making process.
• Individuals have the right of appeal and petition in order to ensure that their opinions and personal grievances will be carefully considered.
• The World Service Business Conference has entrusted the Board of Trustees with the primary responsibility for the administration of Overeaters Anonymous.
• The Board of Trustees has legal rights and responsibilities accorded to them by OA Bylaws Subpart A; the rights and responsibilities of the World Service Business Conference are accorded to it by Tradition and by OA Bylaws Subpart B.
• The Board of Trustees has delegated to its Executive Committee the responsibility to administer the OA World Service Office.
• Able, trusted servants, together with sound and appropriate methods of choosing them, are indispensable for effective functioning at all service levels.
• Service responsibility is balanced by carefully defined service authority; therefore, duplication of efforts is avoided.
• Trustee administration of the World Service Office should always be assisted by the best standing committees, executives, staffs and consultants.
• The spiritual foundation for OA service ensures that: