Sisterhood ideas to bond during the busy spring semester April 18, 2019April can be a stressful month. Between finals and the end of the academic year approaching, along with Greek Weeks, philanthropy events, competitions and more, sometimes it can feel like there’s little time left to have fun with your sisters. Read on for sisterhood ideas from chapters around the country you can use either this semester or save for the fall!Epsilon Phi, University of North Carolina Wilmington: “Our chapter celebrates sisterhood by creating events encouraging a great bonding experience in which anybody from the chapter can attend. Our sisterhood opportunities can include events like simple lunch dates, movie nights in the suite, or doing things like Ice Skating or Defy Gravity. To help encourage members to go to our events we like to listen to the interests and ideas of the chapter. Sisterhood Chair may plan the events but they take into account what the chapter wants to do to create a sense of excitement for the events.
Within our chapter meetings, we celebrate sisterhood in simple yet encouraging gestures. These gestures can vary from our violets (shout-outs) to one another to when we pass around our “take away box.” This box is a chance for sisters to take some sort of encouraging, inspirational, or even funny note from the box written by other sisters to brighten their day.”Alpha Chi, Murray State University: “On our day off, we had a low cost spa day sisterhood where we made face masks, lip scrubs, manicures, pedicures, and did massages. We wore pjs, watched movies and enjoyed each other’s company while relaxing at the house. Everyone had a great time even though it wasn’t super extravagant!
We also have a new chair, Spirit Chair. Our new Spirit Chair Melina Eaker started a Monthly newsletter called “Sigma Sunshine” to send out announcements, not only about intramurals and Sigma events, but also sports/events occurring on campus.
The newsletter also includes sisters who have birthdays that month, fun facts, friendly reminders and next month she even plans on doing a feature of “Why we love Sigma,” which will be compiled from submissions. We also recently held our large sisterhood, which was a lot of fun! The theme was Talladega Nights, so we did race car related activities and then dressed like we were going to the racetrack.
There were pre-formed groups designed to get us to hang out with people we don’t normally talk to. Within these groups, we created our own cardboard box cars, made team names, changes and cheers, and then competed in various mini games (while wearing our cars). Our teams had a relay completing the games we set up and it was really exciting to watch and cheer each other on since everyone was really into it. This large sisterhood was a blast and our chairs Liz McKenna and Shannon Robinson did a great job with planning everything out!”Epsilon Sigma, Virginia Commonwealth University: “Every Wednesday we host sisterhood events where our sisters come and participate in bonding activities. We use games and activities to create an inclusive and positive environment.
Often our activities include speaking about why we appreciate Sigma and our sisters. One game we played, we tossed around a ball of yarn creating a web. Every time we tossed it the sister it was given to was told by the sister passing it to her why she appreciated her.
It is touching to see how much Tri Sigma and Sigma love has brought us all together.”Alpha Mu, University of Louisiana-Lafayette: “The women of the Alpha Mu chapter are preparing for our spring sisterhood retreat with much enthusiasm. The event will include pajamas, pancakes, and tons of engaging activities in order to build relationships throughout the chapter. Our sisterhood chairwomen, Mackenzie Gondran and Morgan Boudreaux, are working tirelessly to make this sisterhood event one of the best ones thus far. When asked what makes this sisterhood retreat different from the ones in previous years, Mackenzie and Morgan said these activities are not only so we can learn more about our sisters, but also so we can learn more about the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and the Alpha Mu chapter. So, this spring, you can find the women of Alpha Mu in our pjs, bonding with our sisters and falling in love with our chapter all over again!”Nu, University of Central Missouri: “This last semester we put on some very successful sisterhood events.
Right after bid day we had a roller-skating sisterhood where we rented out the entire place for an hour and a half. The venue provided great games and allowed each member to have a free soda. We got great photos for our social media and video footage for recruitment video. We also had a sisterhood sleepover where we ordered pizza, played games, and watched movies!”.
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We're a super small sorority (Currently we have 12 active members), so we already all know each other and don't need to do ice breakers, just get closer then we are currently. If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them. One thing we do is pair up with someone we’re not very close to (an officer assigns pairs) and take half an hour working through 4-5 questions, the first two pretty light (“what’s your dream job?” Sort of things) and then some more serious ones to help us really get closer (“what’s something you’re insecure about?” Or “what is your biggest fear?” Sort of things)Also, play sardines, highly recommend for retreats. Trust falls can also be fun and lighten the mood a little, and having people write anonymous letters to the sorority and then put them in a hat, and have other sisters randomly draw and read them out loud.
What Is A Sorority Retreat
I love doing tarp flips and it really helps people get more comfortable with one another on top of helping develop communication and team-building skills!. Tap Two - Tap Two is when everyone stands in a circle facing outwards and either closes their eyes or are blindfolded. Some people are chosen to come in the middle, but remain anonymous to the people making up the circle. The facilitator reads off prompts (ex. 'tap two people who make you smile,' 'tap two people who inspire you,' 'tap two people who truly embody sisterhood,' etc.).
The people in the middle tap the two people silently and return to their spot in the circle. The facilitator then chooses new people to come to the middle. I love this activity because it is a way to give and receive compliments in an anonymous way - it's not just friends sticking to who they're comfortable with, and it's not the same compliments coming from the same people!.
During my time as sisterhood coordinator, I started the annual retreat for my small sorority and it’s been really effective even though we all know each other. I think one of the best activities that we did at retreat is called “Cross the Line” and while we all knew a lot about each other, this activity went into the stuff that we normally don’t talk about or it’s just assumed about us. You can find the activity online easily and adjust the statements to your needs, but the general concept is that as the facilitator you read a list of statements starting pretty surface level like “Cross the line if like night better than day” and going to more deep like “Cross the line if you have lost a parent” or “Cross the line if you struggle with your weight”.
If the participants identify in that group and feel comfortable self identifying, they cross the line of tape on the ground and separate themselves from the group for a few seconds before heading back. This activity involves silence from everyone with the exception of the facilitator so people are more serious about it. Afterwards we took some time to reflect and some of the questions I ask as facilitator are “were you surprised that for no statements no one crossed the line?”, etc.
And people can respond freely without naming people or hinting at certain people.Sorry for the long explanation, if you have any questions let me know. Hope this helps and good luck on your retreat!. So for ours, we pre-assigned color teams and did a spirit competition in their color theme. We have a large chapter (400+) so did a ton of activities, but of the ones I recall:-TP fashion show: give each group lots of tape, streamers in their color, and a bunch of toilet paper. Tell them all they have ten minutes to dress up a teammate using what you’ve given them.
Have a fashion show after, pick a winner-blind maze: we’d blindfold one team member and put them in some sort of set of obstacles, like following a cone or string maze. Another team member has to yell instructions to get them to the end of the maze, first one to the end wins-relays: relay race, each member of the team has to participate.
We usually do: spin around a baseball bat three times, run to the other end of the area and try to jump rope or hula hoop or something a set amount of times, run back to your teammates for the next girl to go-trivia: slightly less active, so a good break activity. We did chapter trivia (some questions about rituals, some about history, some just funny like “which sister has kissed someone from the show The Bachelor?”) and gave points to each team based on how many questions they answered. There is one game that we play called the human knot.
It’s where you stand in a circle with both hands out. You grad someone else’s hand but is can’t be the person next to you. Then you have to undo the knot without letting go and finish back in a circle. You get real close and personal but we always enjoy it.We have also done a stay-cation retreat where we made lunch together, did pictures in a park, went to the aquarium, then had dinner together for one day. The other day we did a bible study, traditional rituals, dinner, and a movie. One thing we did was have a piece of paper with our names on them and everyone went around writing nice things/memories about them and that person.
We also did an activity where everyone wrote down a little known fact about themselves (ex: I played soccer in hs or I wanted to be a magician when I was a kid). It was then read aloud and everyone had to guess whose it was.
I really liked both these since you don’t always tell people what you like about them and there isn’t always the chance to talk about little things.