High Phis and Pre I....
 

As Phi I am very interested in making the experiences before Initiation memorable, exciting and deep, for both brothers and associates. PM me if you would like to share anything cool that your chapter does or did in the past. I would really like to hear about some events that you feel are "unique" to your chapter!

High Phis and Pre I
 

You should contact your Educational Leadership Consultant for the materials on the Exoteric Mysteries. Those materials contain a number of very impressive pre initiation activities as well as instructions about how to put those activities on and how to make the pre initiation activities a meaningful part of the Call to Brotherhood Associate Member Education Program.

One of the things my Zeta does is visitation night.

They take the neophytes around to all of the places where our old houses were or where we stated meeting.


LOL, one is now a Taco Bell and another is a parking lot!:D

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Watch your language Tom....

;)

Hey I was quoted... how exciting.

Also, read the AM ceremony again. What do we call them...?

'Worthy aspirants, the greek lamp is the symbol of learning...' I'm almost ready for ours I hope... I just need to get the other 4 ready...

My recipe for pre-initiation fun:

1 burlap bag

1 pledge

15 brothers

15 sticks at least 1 inch in diameter

1 blindfold

Mix them all together in a dark basement, ENJOY!

Oh Adam, somewhere on this thread, there is a picture of the Neophypt which is famous and I always relate to that!:D I had one sent to me by a Brother and had it framed!

You are correct of course but I will say no more beyond that!;)

Seek and ye may find!:D

Knock

Ive done some of the "esoteric mystery" ideas with a little tweaking of course, I was kinda just lookin for something unique. Tom, that is neat about traveling to past chapter locations. We are lucky enough to have remained in our house after all these years!(besides a short spell in the late 80's) our chapter has never left. Thanks for the advice though! Oh, and GammaZeta you are officially invited to Beta. Come on up.

Say what? :confused: Though naturally fluent in English, I can't read half of this.;)

I also hold that part during the AM ceremony...

Never been High Phi though...

For Pre-I I believe it to be important to stay true to local traditions your chapter does "within reason" of course. We do the normal activities but our location in the mountains of North Carolina provide an added bonus and ambiance.

One thing they emphasized in GA and in the new Pre-I guides is that you should be flexible to your chapter's current atmosphere and needs and not to keep doing the same thing year after year just based upon "traditions." There are pre-I events that bring the brotherhood together, others that bring focus on rituals, and still others that focus on ideals of the fraternity - so whatever your chapter's needs are, do that type of event. We have a couple of events that we created or borrowed from other chapters that we adapted for our uses - and they worked well.

UMOLCA, I haven't been to Beta in YEARS. Come to think of it, it's been a while for visiting any chapter.

I may have to take you up on that.

Oh, and for those too uptight to realize my previous post about the burlap bag was a JOKE...well, it was a JOKE.

Sounded like what we would do here at UTEP!!;) Then we dump them in Mexico only a couple of minutes away.

What do you not understand?


There is a Brother on G C that had a picture and asked if anyone wanted a copy. Those that contacted him were sent the picture.

I got mine and had it framed. There was a guessing game of who was who in the picture.

It is some where in the LXA threads. As I said, seek and ye will find!

If you go to the search function and type in 'neophyte' and set it to where you are searching LXA threads it should be the 7th one down and the thread is titled The Neophyte.

I wish i could have just cut the link and pasted it here, or even repost the pic, however cell phones are still somewhat limited in their use.

It looks like a broken link currently

Hmmm.....two of our former locations are now beautifully paved parking lots, another is now a new apartment building...only 2 of the 5 houses I knew of are still standing....we were a little rough on the buildings, I guess....

My personal rules of thumb for Pre-I stuff are as follows:

Create events that do two things:
1) Prepare the associate members for the lessons they are about to learn.
2) Bond the brotherhood together (not the AM class, but the entire chapter).

Eliminate events that do two things:
1) Foreshadow the ritual.
2) Separate the associate members from the brotherhood.

I agree with someone's earlier post when they advised you to contact your ELC. The General Fraternity has worked a lot lately to create/adopt/adapt Pre-I lessons that are meaningful and really quite symbolic. I'd advise you to go this route.

Yours in Z A X ,