i need your help! ANYONE!

kbean · #1 07-25-2007, 07:42 PM

Hey Guys!
I still need advise on a retreat!

-no beer
-60 girls
-its a bonding retreat

family feud was an awesome idea and the collage!

but i need to keep them busy for a couple of a days not just one night! lol

i am still trying to think of something we can do with the frats!!

what you guys think???
please help me out! not a lot of time left!!!! AHH

Senusret I · #2 07-25-2007, 08:09 PM

What is the venue?

Camping? Lodges? Hotel?

Give me something to work with here.

tld221 · #3 07-25-2007, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

What is the venue?

Camping? Lodges? Hotel?

Give me something to work with here.

umm didnt you get it - there's no beer.

kbean · #4 07-25-2007, 08:26 PM

right now we just have our sorority house. last year we tried camping....no go no one liked it

yes there is no beer....

Senusret I · #5 07-25-2007, 08:29 PM

You realllllllly need to try to have it off-site. That alone will create a better mood.

Try to find a book of icebreakers and team building activities at a bookstore or online.

SWTXBelle · #6 07-25-2007, 08:33 PM

And what is the point of the retreat? Sisterhood? Rush preparation? How many members are we talking about? A chapter I advised had a really great retreat with about 20 girls at a beach house. It would be tougher with larger numbers.

Drolefille · #7 07-25-2007, 08:36 PM

Ok, go to a retreat center. They're cabins with bunkbeds and a big open meeting room or two for you to use. Do fun bonding activities and serious bonding ones. Playing "all my sisters who" is fun. Playing "the newlywed game" with bigs and littles is fun. Having the whole chapter (try to ) learn a dance that you do at recruitment is fun. Bonfires, fun.

Candlepasses, serious bonding. writing something that you're ready to get rid of on a piece of paper and throwing it into the fire is serious bonding.

(AND STOP POSTING THIS EVERYWHERE. )

Animate · #8 07-25-2007, 08:49 PM

Pillow fight?

PeppyGPhiB · #9 07-25-2007, 09:20 PM

Well, my chapter loved to go camping...granted, it was camping on the beach...

We used to play a game that was a great way to get to know your sisters. Everyone writes down on a piece of paper, anonymously, one thing about themselves that they don't think anyone else in the room knows. All the pieces of paper go in a hat/pillowcase, and everyone takes turns picking one piece out and reading it to the chapter. Everyone tries to guess which person wrote which fact. Usually it's really funny and brings out new sides of people that you never knew about.

Senusret I · #10 07-25-2007, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Well, my chapter loved to go camping...granted, it was camping on the beach...

We used to play a game that was a great way to get to know your sisters. Everyone writes down on a piece of paper, anonymously, one thing about themselves that they don't think anyone else in the room knows. All the pieces of paper go in a hat/pillowcase, and everyone takes turns picking one piece out and reading it to the chapter. Everyone tries to guess which person wrote which fact. Usually it's really funny and brings out new sides of people that you never knew about.

We JUST did that at my chapter retreat this past weekend!

TrevorG · #11 07-25-2007, 10:45 PM

Ropes course?

alrphimu · #12 07-25-2007, 10:48 PM

my campus has an outdoor adventure course....like a ropes course (it's more of a climbing/rappell tower)...my sorority has never done it, but a bunch of girls in my pledge class did it as a bonding activity and it was pretty BA and took most of a day...if you can't find anything like that in your area, maybe look for a rock climbing gym? any activity where the majority of the girls look like idiots becacuse they don't know what they are doing will be fun. Also, we've gone to corn mazes (okay, so we go to school in the midwest) and had bonfires for sisterhood activites...those are always fun.

epchick · #13 07-25-2007, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

We used to play a game that was a great way to get to know your sisters. Everyone writes down on a piece of paper, anonymously, one thing about themselves that they don't think anyone else in the room knows. All the pieces of paper go in a hat/pillowcase, and everyone takes turns picking one piece out and reading it to the chapter. Everyone tries to guess which person wrote which fact. Usually it's really funny and brings out new sides of people that you never knew about.

We did for our retreat....but we played this game in Bingo form. So it had each fact about sisters and you had to fill the bingo form.

To the OP: maybe i'm confused, but if your trying to have a "bonding retreat" why are you worried about something to do with the fraternities? Don't worry about the boys....just focus on your sisters. IMHO, Alcohol shouldn't determine whether you have a good time or not.

Xidelt · #14 07-26-2007, 12:06 AM

Capture the flag? IF it's on campus, do a campus-wide scavenger hunt (with a rule of NO CARS so there will be no risk management issues). Spa activities? Crafts? Themed movie time? Plan to write a new ritual or rediscover an old one. Or just make ritual part of it. That can make it more meaningful to everyone.

Perhaps you could set aside some time to take everyone off-campus for an organized activity, like a team-building ropes course, hiking, horseback riding, reserve a private room at a restaurant and have a sisterhood dinner.

End the retreat with an awards ceremony with paper plate awards and silly superlatives.

AlexMack · #15 07-26-2007, 12:23 AM

We did cool things like the anonymous fact game, and we split into groups with sisters from different pledge classes and answered questions on sigma kappa trivia. Then we had a bunch of envelopes with different dollar amounts in, whoever won got to pick their envelope first, and so on. Then we had to go out for like 2 hours and try to do something with the money that had something to do with sisterhood (tangible items. My group took a picture of all of us standing at a street sign (Triangle Street), made the sigma kappa handsign, printed it out at cvs, got a cheap photo frame and stickers and stuck sisterhood on it. All for $5).
Cool things like watch a movie together that has meaning for your chapter or sorority (every Sigma Kappa knows or has seen Mystic Pizza), sit in a circle and say why you love your chapter, everyone writes down their name and one person pulls it out and each sister has to say one nice thing about the person whose name was drawn.
Deep down inside, everyone is five years old. Embrace that, treat it like a big slumber party?.

Ooh another good one we did. We each got a piece of paper, wrote our name on it (decoratively like with stencils and drew stuff we liked. I drew a big Boston Red Sox B on mine) and then you get your sisters to write messages to each other on them. Those are really awesome to look back on, I still have mine.