Hosting Resources
Reference material for hosts.
Meeting scripts
Scripts are not kept on this page. Your personal pre-filled script for each meeting lives on your My Hosted Meetings page, behind the first icon on the meeting card. Each script covers your meeting's opening and closing, with your name, your meeting's name, and its times already filled in for you.
Two parts of every meeting are required: reading the opening and reading the Safe Communication Boundaries aloud. After that, the meeting is yours to design however you wish.
Meeting formats
When you create a meeting you choose a format. The format shapes the middle section of your script. The opening, Safe Communication Boundaries, and closing are the same for every format.
See all meeting formats
A discussion or exercise built around a book, workbook, article, or written resource. The host will read a passage and then open the floor for 5-minute shares about how that passage reached them. When the sharing goes quiet, the host will pick up and read more. This will continue until the end of the meeting. The meetings can take several weeks to complete a book. Progress bars and page numbers are provided so you can pick up immediately.
Members take 5-minute shares on whatever is on their minds as long as it pertains to your trauma or the effects it has had on your life. No specific topic or focus.
A guided technique where participants take 5-minute shares to place a person in the empty chair and speak to them to address unfinished conversations. Speak to a lost loved one, or confront a person who hurt you. Say the things you have not had a chance to say to whoever you need to without fear or confrontation.
Members take turns sharing their stories in 5-minute increments while others witness. You can start at the beginning, the end, the middle, whatever part of your story you need to share. Speaking our story out loud kills the shame and puts the accountability where it belongs.
A guided meditation, breathing practice, or other technique led by the host.
A coping skill or strategy is introduced, practiced, and briefly discussed.
A creative prompt or exercise using visual art as the vehicle for expression and sharing.
A piece of music or theme is introduced and used as a starting point for reflection and sharing.
A movement-based practice led by the host at participants' own pace.
The host offers a few topics and participants are given time to write on whichever one calls to them. The floor then opens for 5-minute shares to read what they wrote. No writing experience needed. This is not about craft, it is about getting it out.
A step study meeting for members who also work a program in an outside fellowship such as AA, CoDA, SIA, or Al-Anon. The host names which fellowship's steps the meeting follows, and either works one step at a time or rotates through them. Members take 5-minute shares on where they are with that step and what it is bringing up. You do not need to belong to that fellowship to come. Bridge of Hope is not affiliated with any of them, and no fellowship's literature is provided here. Bring your own.
The host designs the middle of the meeting however they choose. The only requirement is that the opening and closing scripts are read. If you have an idea for a format not listed here, this is your space to try it.
Safe Communication Boundaries
To read the full Safe Communication Boundaries, see the Safe Communication Boundaries page. Your automated meeting script already includes a shortened version written for reading aloud, so covering them at the start of a meeting takes only a moment.
Publish the workbooks you create
As our thanks for providing the community with this content, workbook creators can export any workbook they build as a print-ready book. One click produces a professionally formatted interior document and a full wraparound cover, both ready to upload to Amazon KDP, so you can publish, print, and sell your work under your own name. Every dollar is yours. Bridge of Hope Recovery keeps none of the proceeds, because no money ever changes hands here. Everything about this fellowship is volunteer.
If a meeting is disrupted
Someone hostile, someone unsafe, someone who will not stop. Here is the whole playbook, in order. You are allowed to use it without apology.
- In the call: mute or remove them with your host controls. On the conference line, host controls act on the live connection itself, so this works even when their caller ID is blocked. You do not need their number to remove them.
- After the call: report them. Use Report Something from any page. The review process is identity-blind and fair, and confirmed reports carry real consequences, up to removal from the platform.
- Seal the room: change your meeting's access code. Edit your meeting from My Meetings and set a new access code. Verified members automatically see the new code on the calendar. A removed member cannot log in, so the new code never reaches them. This is the step that makes the problem stay gone.
Two things that do not work (please read once)
- Blocking by phone number does not work. A disruptive caller can hide or change their number with *67. Code rotation (step 3) is the reliable tool. Number blocking is not.
- Never enable "reject anonymous callers" on a conference service. Many members follow our *67 guidance to protect their identity, and that setting would lock them out.
About the numbers you may see
As a host you may see phone numbers on your conference dashboard. Treat them like something fragile that is not yours: never share them, never write them down, never try to match a number to a member. The same no-identification rule that protects you protects everyone.