Apathy???

ntnylion21 · #1 03-29-2001, 05:28 PM

Hi girls! My name is Lauren and I am from Penn State--Epsilon Chapter. I have a question on how you deal with apathy from sisters. How do you get them to participate and become more involved?? Also how do you increase enthusiasm in the group. We have many sisters who are apathetic and we are trying to figure out how to fix this. Please let me know if you have ideas. Thanks.

Lauren :-)

Dena Parrish · #2 04-03-2001, 11:00 PM

Hi Lauren,

This would be a great way to get chat started with your SOS group. I hope you can get some great responses.

Dena

vixenkappa · #3 04-04-2001, 11:33 AM

We have the same problems here at the chi chapter too. Maybe we could work together to come up with some ideas, since we are neighbors maybe we can arange a sister swap or some type of visiting program. let me know what you think
In sisterhood

Shannon

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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
Helen Keller

sarahann · #4 04-04-2001, 01:36 PM

We had a discussion on this topic at the West Central Regional Conference and here were some of our ideas to think about.
We decided that typically the people who participate are the ones who end up being the officers and there tends to be a seperation of the exec board and everyone else. At meetings try to have the exec board sit intermingled with the rest of the chapter so there is not a physical seperation so the non-officers don't feel dominated.
Have your participating memebers go overboard to try and get to know the apathetic members. Call them at home, go out to dinner or coffee. Make them feel important and included individually and outside of the meetings.
Get to know that apethetic members and their interests. Everyone has something that they are interested in and good at so try to find a project where they will excel and feel importance in the chapter. Support their efforts and encourage success in the project.
And lastly I would recomend that you try not to ever classify someone in a way that they would find out. You may know who the "apethics" are, but try not to make them feel singled out. I hope maybe some of these ideas will help.

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Sarah Henderson

ntnylion21 · #5 04-04-2001, 05:21 PM

Sarah, Thanks for the ideas. I will pass them along at our exec board meeting next
week. Maybe some of them will work.

Shannon, Maybe we can do some stuff together--chapters that is and we both can help figure out how to deal with this problem.

Here at Epsilon it is the officers and a few sisters that are the ones involved with everything. We also have little cliques forming which isnt a good thing either. So any ideas that we come up with to solve this problem will be great!

Lauren :-)

pretzel · #6 04-06-2001, 08:48 PM

this is something we really had issues with here at LAmbda Chapter at UC Davis, but after our national visit stuff got a whole lot better. we have really tried to put everythign with committees. we made a kinda silent rule that exec committe was not to sign up for anything else since we are already involved then we made a list of who else was already on committees and when we ask for volunteers or a committee we check our list and put those on it that are never or seldom involved. this has really worked to help I think because everyone puts in their little part. it did take some work not to shoot your hand up right away at a meeting but to let other peeople get the chance and really not fill committees until you get new un involved members on the committeees really makes people more involved because it is now thier project and not just a meeting they attend. so you might try that. if I have totally confused me I will explain it better another time. hope this helps.
Rhonda

rptiger32 · #7 05-18-2001, 12:33 AM

Hey- i just sent this reply concerning another message- but- when things get bad in our chapter (alpha omicron) we call a midnight meeting (not necessarily at midnight..)but- we wait till its dark- and circle around our chapter room. we pass the candle around the circle- and each girl says whats on her mind! it REALLY works! and you can see a real change in the girls who have been causing problems - or who have not been particiapting.

Rachel
UGA- Alpha Omicron