ed sessions Council Collaboration: Empowering Girls & Women
Kristin’s Story: a mother’s account of rape, depression, suicide, and hope.
Balboa Bay 2
Catalina 1
As women in a global community, sorority leaders are uniquely poised to make a significant and immediate impact. Imagine the collective power of sorority women when our efforts are collaborative, strategic, and impactful! Through strategic and yet simple fundand awareness-raising initiatives sorority women and their councils can begin to It will offer a call to action to help lift our global sisters out of poverty and oppression. This session will expose participants to the critical issues of impoverished and oppressed women. At the same time it will be an inspiring and action-oriented session as women continue to positively impact our world-wide community. Ashley Dye, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Invite. Teach. Inspire. Don’t preach – They’ll Lick the Cactus Anyway. Bristol 1 You have great information, a cause, and your peers’ best interests at heart. You want to help them make good choices. Sadly, sometimes tragically, they ignore you and insist on learning things the hard way, don’t they? What not to do: try harder, speak louder, use scare tactics, and preach. What to do: Share your passion, offer invitations, encourage, and listen all the while. When people arrive at a college campus they’ll find a community to join. Let’s explore four effective ways to help them find the right one: utilize your passion to make them listen, make sure they feel listened to, make them feel included as opposed to cajoled, and encourage them to try new things until they find the right one. Tyson Wooters, CAMPUSPEAK
Promoting Academic Excellence Bristol 3
“Kristin’s Story” is the personal account of Andrea’s daughter, Kristin, who was raped by a “friend”, went into a deep depression, and committed suicide. Andrea discusses what she learned about the rape, the depression seen by her sorority sisters, and resulting suicide. Andrea stresses the importance of friends and relatives recognizing the signs of depression, if someone is possibly suicidal, how to support the survivor and stressing the importance of getting her or him help. By some estimates, one in four women will be sexually assaulted or have been a victim of attempted assault during her college career. How can family, friends, sorority sisters and fraternity brothers, professors and advisors help? Andrea Cooper, Delta Delta Delta
Strategies for Over-programmed Chapters: Tightening Up Your Calendar, Getting Rid of “Mandatory,” and Improving Morale Catalina 2 One of the greatest obstacles to member morale is a calendar filled to the top with mandatory events. If you find yourself constantly fining members to force them to attend and participate, the problem isn’t your members’ apathy. The problem is that you’re expecting too much and your calendar has gotten out of control. You need to reduce your expectations of member participation to a more reasonable level. T.J. will introduce seven specific strategies to help you get your group’s calendar to a reasonable place so and reduce the burden on your members and improve their attitude about the fraternity/sorority experience. T.J. Sullivan, CAMPUSPEAK
Supporting our sisters through academics should be a primary focus of any College Panhellenic. Learn how to capitalize on the resources available to you to improve your Panhellenic systems academic excellence while rewarding and recognizing individuals and chapters along the way. Beth Saul, National Panhellenic Conference
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