ITAA in Oxford, United Kingdom

Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes addiction to social media, smartphones, streaming video or audio content, games, news, pornography, dating apps, online research, online shopping, or any other digital activity that becomes compulsive and problematic. 

Meetings in Oxford

When: every Wednesday 6-7pm
Where: West Oxford Community Centre, Botley Rd, Oxford OX2 0BT – When you arrive at the Centre, do not enter through the main door, instead go around the outside of the building to the right hand side to find Seminar Room 1.
Contact: itaaoxford@gmail.com
Additional information: We warmly invite any newcomers and anyone who identifies as an internet and technology addict to attend this meeting. This is a ‘closed’ meeting, meaning that we kindly request researchers, journalists, friends and family to find an ‘open’ meeting to attend. There are several open online meetings which are appropriate for non-addicts to attend. If you want to learn more about our Oxford meeting, please reach out through the contact email.
NB: Botley Road is closed at the railway bridge to cars and buses. If you are driving, you must approach from the West. There is free parking at the venue. Please email us if you have any concerns about getting here.

Additional meetings

If you’re new, we encourage you to try attending six meetings in a short period of time to see if our program may be helpful to you. In addition to our local in-person meeting, you can also review our other in-person meetings and a complete schedule of online meetings. All meetings are completely free and anonymous.

How do meetings work?

If you will be joining a meeting for the first time, there’s no need to be nervous. Most of our meetings are very simple; each meeting has a chairperson who leads the meeting, and most meetings are one hour long. The chair and other volunteers read some opening statements, before we open the meeting for members to share. There is no requirement to share, and it’s okay to just listen. If you feel comfortable, you can introduce yourself and share what brought you to ITAA. Unless requested by the member sharing, we do not offer suggestions or comments in response to other’s shares; we simply listen non-judgmentally. At the end of the hour, the meeting will end with some closing statements, after which members usually talk casually, ask questions, and exchange contact details.

Internet and Technology Addiction resources

If you’re wondering whether you may have an internet and technology addiction, you can review our questionnaires for internet addiction, social media addiction, streaming addiction, phone addiction, or video game addiction. You can also learn more about ITAA by reading our guide for newcomers, reviewing our tools of recovery, or listening to members’ recovery stories.

ITAA is not affiliated with any political agenda, religion, or outside interests. We’re fully self-supporting and free to all who need it. Our single purpose is to abstain from compulsive internet and technology use and to help others find freedom from this addiction.

Again, welcome! We hope this community is able to provide the support you need in your recovery from internet and technology addiction. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions.

Page last updated on April 25, 2024