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From Cleveland to the world — a legacy of gratitude, unity, and recovery. Three days of meetings, speakers, panels, and fellowship, in the hall where so much of our history was made.
Registration covers all three days. Everyone attending registers — there is no day rate.
About Us
The Into Action Group exists to inspire spiritual growth through love, service, and fellowship. We seek to help every person recognize their infinite worth to an all-loving God.
We were started by members of our fellowship and we hold true to its principles, though in our current form we are not a meeting of it. Our workshops are open to anyone — members, newcomers, families, friends, and anyone curious about a spiritual way of living. There is no cost to attend. A basket is passed in the spirit of our Seventh Tradition, and those contributions fund the next gathering.
To create spaces where people can explore spiritual principles, share experience, and take action toward a life of deeper meaning and connection — rooted in the principles of our fellowship and in timeless works such as The Greatest Thing in the World.
A community where no one doubts their worth. We gather in ordinary rooms — a church hall, a fellowship room, and in 2027 a hall in Cleveland that seats a thousand — and we do the same thing in each: study, share, and carry it forward.
Helping God's Children See Their Infinite Worth. It is the sentence we measure our work against. If a workshop, a panel, or a weekend does not serve that, we do it differently next time.
Our Twelve Steps, when simmered down to the last, resolve themselves into the words “love” and “service.” We understand what love is, and we understand what service is. So let's bear those two things in mind.Dr. Bob · Cleveland, 1950
Gatherings
Since 2025 we have met on Saturday mornings in Northeast Ohio to read a book together and talk honestly about what it asks of us. Every workshop is free and open to anyone.
July 30 – August 1, 2027
Three days at Cleveland Public Hall, the room where our Twelve Traditions were adopted and where Dr. Bob gave his farewell talk. Meetings, speakers, panels, breakout sessions, an archives exhibit, and fellowship. Registration is $45 for the whole weekend.
Cleveland Public Hall · 500 Lakeside Ave E, Cleveland, Ohio
June 20, 2026
A return to pages 85–88 and the practice they describe: the nightly review, the morning ask, and the pause when agitated or doubtful. This second sitting made room for breakout sessions and closed with a guided meditation.
St. Bede the Venerable · Mentor, Ohio
March 14, 2026
Prayer and meditation taken plainly and practically. We read the Eleventh Step passages together, put a panel to work on them, and spent the last of the morning in guided meditation rather than discussion.
St. Bede the Venerable · Mentor, Ohio
January 17, 2026
The Sixth and Seventh Steps, and the character defects we carry long after we mean to set them down. Built around the book by Bill P., Todd W., and Sara S., with open sharing and a full Q&A panel.
Mentor Plains Church · Mentor, Ohio
November 15, 2025
Anthony de Mello's final book, read alongside our basic text. Awareness, detachment, and love without conditions — gentle in tone and radical in what it asks you to put down.
Mentor Plains United Methodist Church · Mentor, Ohio
September 13, 2025
Our first workshop. Henry Drummond's 1891 meditation on the love chapter, read as a lens for our basic text — with a panel, open sharing, and pizza from Longo's at noon.
Mentor Plains United Methodist Church · Mentor, Ohio
Join the contact list and we will let you know about the next workshop, and send conference news — schedule, speakers, and hotel details — as it is confirmed.
Get Involved
Everything here is built by people who showed up. Whether you have a weekend or an hour, there is something for you to do.
Subcommittees are forming now for the 2027 conference, and every workshop needs hands. Current areas include:
Questions about a workshop, the conference, accessibility, or anything else — write to us and a person will answer.
For conference registration, travel, and lodging, the conference site has the current details.
We are self-supporting and decline outside contributions. Workshops are free; a basket is passed in the spirit of our Seventh Tradition, and what is given pays for the next room, the coffee, and the pizza.
That is the whole model. It has carried us from a church basement in Mentor to a hall in Cleveland that seats a thousand.