Virtual Meetings

Some Heart of Texas Intergroup OA group meetings have moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The ability to establish virtual meetings quickly has been of considerable help to the OA fellowship. 

Ours is a disease of isolation and the various quarantine and lock down measures required to arrest the spread of the COVID-19 virus could easily contribute to that isolation.  The work of OA members who have stepped forward to set up online meetings have made a great contribution to our Fellowship and to our recovery.

Below is the list of virtual meetings within the Heart of Texas OA Intergroup service area.

If you don’t see the meeting you are interested in, go to the Find A Meeting page and check the World Service Office meeting list and see if it has an online presence.  OA groups are advised to update their WSO entry to include their online meeting information.

HOTIG Online Meetings

These meetings are either exclusively on-line (usually via Zoom) or are hybrid (combination of on-line and in-person).

To connect to a meeting, click on the link in the entry. If you have the Zoom client installed this link should start it up and connect to the meeting without entering the password.

Please send updates about your meeting to info@heartoftexasoa.org

Looking for your meeting format?

Does your group play the “who has the format” game? Some meeting formats are available here.  If you would like your meeting format to be available online, send it to webmaster@heartoftexasoa.org.

Some helpful links about using Zoom

*This information is not an endorsement of any particular conferencing service(s) – it is provided to allow members of the OA Fellowship to use these tools.

Online meeting etiquette

  • Mute your microphone when you are not speaking.
  • Use the “hands up” feature of Zoom. This feature may be hard to find on some Zoom screens – each variant of the application (MacOS, Windows, IOS, Android) have differences in screen layout and location of controls. 
  • Minimize background noises (radio, music, etc – though children and pets are sometimes not so easy to manage, but do your best.

WSO documents for online / telephone meetings