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Announcing the 2020 NGLA Annual Conference Critical Conversations Series Speakers!
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NGLA is excited to announce our Critical Conversations Series speakers for the 2020 NGLA Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD from February 27 – March 1, 2020. The Critical Conversations Series is intended to engage the audience with topics that are viewed as “critical” to fraternity and sorority life in today’s context. The program format is approximately 60 minutes of content with the remaining time available for in-session application of concepts. The Critical Conversations Series is on Friday, February 28, 2020 from 1:15pm - 2:45pm.
Start getting ready - register, reserve your hotel room, and apply for scholarships.
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Why Mental Health Matters; Addressing Loneliness, Help Seeking, and Support in the Fraternal Community
presented by Colleen Coffey-Melchiorre
Mental health issues are real, relevant and palpable in our chapters and on our campuses. We often lack a true understanding of how to support others and sometimes how to cope with the bad stuff in life. This program will provide a personal story and several action items associated with what you can do, how you can help and how tolerance, acceptance and love instead of punishment and ignoring is the way in. This program will make you laugh, think, and leave you feeling better.
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I Got You: Developing a Mindset of Care for Others
presented by Casey J. Cornelius & Odell Bizzell
From different backgrounds and worldviews, Odell and Casey share a core belief:Our capacity to care for others is never maximized. In this dynamic, pass-the-mic session, audiences, members will explore how we as individuals can be better allies for friends, family, and fellow brothers/sisters in our chapter and community. In order to do so, we must first consider why we often choose to not act on behalf of others and how we can begin the process to change. In the end, this program will equip you to be able to look at another human and say, “I Got You.”
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Your WHY Matters NOW: How Purpose and Passion Inspire Greek Success
presented by Justin Jones-Fosu
Did you know that BOTH the Why and Now of what you do matter to achieve meaningful Greek success? What would it look like for you and your members to be more focused, motivated, and committed to live out the values and create a memorable Greek experience?Justin will challenge you to identify/reconnect with your why (purpose) and live it out now (passion) in order to achieve meaningful and long-lasting Greek success. Too much focus on the “why” can lead to being stymied by indecision leading to little or no action. Too much focus on the “now” can lead to increasing impulsivity and bad decisions.
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Throwing Safer Parties
presented by Rob Steirn
Hosting social events at your organization comes with great risk. As a leader of your organization, you have the power to reduce the infinite amount of scenarios that can go wrong under your watch. At this collaborative educational session, you will learn tips and tricks to help develop your risk management strategy that may enable you to identify and resolve problems before they escalate. After this session, you will have a list of valuable tools that can be easily added to your current risk management procedures as you prepare to host your social functions.
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Re-imaging Greek Life in a Multicultural Society: A Critical Conversation
presented by Dr. Don Trahan
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is not limited to race and/or ethnicity. However, in contemporary society, when we think about DEI, this is typically the lens that we view these concepts. The question that remains unanswered is what about everything else? To put this into perspective, if you believe that you are creating a chapter that is diverse based on racial characteristics, you may lack diversity altogether. What you will find is that there are more within group differences than between group differences. The problem is, we don't see it based on what we can physically see on the surface-level. Join us as we elevate your way of thinking and position your chapter to look beyond traditional pitfalls of DEI and truly cultivate a chapter that is innovative and forward-thinking.
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NGLA MISSION
NGLA educates leaders from a variety of fraternal experiences to transform and empower their community and align actions with values.
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