PHA CHANGE AGENTS....

So I don't think I could be more excited for what we are doing within PHA! We have completely restructured our meetings, and instead, of the mundane announcement after announcement, we are having meaningful discussions and planning events for areas in our community where we see the greatest need. If you have read any of my blogs, I mentioned how we have "A" Weeks and "B" Weeks. "B" Weeks are lead by our delegates, and they are focused on a different values of our community. "A" Weeks are suppose to be announcements, but we have changed them to include 15min of announcements, 35min of productive work, and 10min of updates from the small groups for the large groups.

Now, I know I did not get hear everything about the VPs meeting, but I did get to hear their updates from Ina and Stephanie planning to educate chapters on hazing to Sam and her Recruitment team transforming our website.. So exciting!

I think what I am really impressed with is our Delegates. Usually Delegates feel like they are just messengers, and that their position is not really valued so what they do during "productive time" is have a discussion with Tyler and me. This week we talked about what a PHA Delegate is? Is the position valued? and what is PHA?

I think it was so cool to listen to the delegates say that their chapters did not perceive their position as valued until lately when we they said how they were able to say how PHA meetings have transformed and how now they have a role in leading the B weeks. Just listening to them talk, you can tell that they are excited and feel like they have a purpose at the meetings. They started talking about what else needs to change in the community and how they perceive PHA as the GLUE that holds the COMMUNITY together. How cool! So if you cannot tell, I am really really excited!

I think that the affect that delegates are having are apparent in how many volunteers we are sending to read in the City Schools this Thursday and Friday. We have 58 women going to read to children!!!

I know I believed that we could create CHANGE in our positions, but I would never had imagined that we could generate such momentum so fast. Granted, we do not have the whole community on board yet, but with our FOUR EXEC BOARDS, and the Panhellenic Delegates/Directors starting to want to create this change I do think it is possible!

Maybe our IDEAL FRATERNITY/SORORITY LIFE won't be just a project but an OUTCOME of all our hard work and dedication to fraternity/sorority life.....