Women Studies Speaker - Invite a Women's Studies professor to talk about gender roles and how they affect our self-concepts. (BBG International Ideas Page - 3/30/99)

Parent-Teen Relationships - Have a family therapist come and talk about parent-teen relationships. (BBG International Ideas Page - 3/30/99)

Looking At Women's Roles - How To - Get your members thinking about women's rights, sexual discrimination, and possible solutions. Help your members discover their own opinions and values, with the assistance of a questionnaire that asks how they feel about women's roles in society. (2/23/99)

Big Brothers Program - Offer all AZA new members a Big Brother, a member of the AZA Chapter who is a Junior or Senior. Have the Big Brother help them by calling them about meetings, offerring rides, etc. And offer all BBG new members a Big Sister from the BBG chapter.

Big Sisters Program - Offer all AZA new members a Big Sister, a member of the local BBG Chapter who is a Junior or Senior. Have the Big Sister do everything that a Big Brother would do. And offer all BBG new members a Big Brother from the AZA chapter.

Executive Board Overnight - Have the members of the chapter board meet with the brother/sister chapter and brainstorm, bond, and communicate their goals for the upcoming year. (Cori Daniels-Kleiner - Advisor to Rainbow BBG - 1/15/99)

Chapter Overnight - Have an overnight just for the BBGs (no AZAs allowed!!) Or vice versa for the AZAs. Do cheesy bonding things. Make-overs and romance movies for the girls ... Sports and action movies for the guys. (Jess Levinson - Advisor to Ruach BBG - 2/23/99)

Shoe Secrets - An awesome bonding activity, especially at brotherhood and sisterhood programs! Everyone takes off one shoe and puts it in the middle of the circle. Each person receives several tiny slips of paper and a pen. The ice breaker starts when each person takes one show from the middle. When you get a shoe, you have to look around the circle to see who's shoe it is. Then, each person writes a positive message to the person whose shoe it is and folds the paper, placing it in the shoe and putting the shoe in the middle. The game continues until everyone has used up their papers without taking any shoe more than once. At the end of the game, everyone reclaims their shoe and finds tons of positive messages about themselves!

Variations on the game: At the end, have everyone make a collage using the messages about them and words that describe them (cut them out of old magazines). By the end of the program, each person will have something that they can keep that will cheer them up whenever they look at it! (1/18/99)

Trust "Walk in the World of Darkness" - This program is in the office cabinets. You blindfold a person, and have a second person walk them in and around your meeting place. This is best done in warmer weather. Then the two people switch places. Afterwards (this is key to this program), all the participants tell how it felt to be blind; did they trust the other person; this can be a good 45 minute program. (Alan Fogel Asst Director -SIA)

Group Climate Questionnaire - How To - Have everyone in the chapter fill out a survey which asks questions about how they feel in relation to the other members, and also how they feel about the other members. (2/22/99)

The Bridge - This is a program to avoid "cliques" in a chapter. Break the chapter up into a few groups (5-7 people to a group). Pick the kids for the group at random or purposely to get people to work together. The object of the program is to make a bridge out of newspapers so that a milk crate can fit under the bridge and can be supported by a brick.

Materials Needed: Newspapers (about a week's worth from your entire board), Duct Tape (a lot), a milk crate, a brick.

Notes: This program was done in the AZAA Tournament a few years ago and brought back to our chapter. (David Simon - Exodus AZA - 1/16/99)