FEA Field Staff

    FEA Field Staff is a conference put together for leadership consultants from different greek organizations. There were leadership consultants from different fraternities and sororites; some travel all the way from the southern states to attend this conference. There were over 250 consultants present! It was a great way to network and introduce ourselves to other consultants that will be traveling to the same colleges that we are traveling too, and just make new friends in general. We got to listen to some fantastic speakers during the three day conference and to attend some helpful workshops.

Favorites

    Some of my favorite parts of FEA were:

• Learning about social excellence and how to facilitate deep conversations with strangers. Practice makes perfect! I have always know that I am a shy individual and that talking to strangers makes me uncomfortable, but I was able to step outside of my comfort zone a bit and talk to people and get to know them on a different level. I will still need to continue to work on this skill, but I can do it!
• Learning about cliques and bullying. Everyone assumes cliques are bad, but that isn't necessarily true. We develop cliques because we want to surround ourselves with people we are comfortable with, and that is OK. Cliques become harmful when they start to bully.
• Learning the importance of remember someones name and connecting with them. I never thought how important it is to remember someones name. I know that when someone remembers my name that I feel important to them, but I have never thought that others would feel the same. That should have been obvious to me! I now focus on learning names.
• Becoming friends with the Alpha Sigma Tau women. They are amazing women and we were able to create some great bonds while at FEA. We have continued to hang out after FEA and stay in contact!

    I just highlighted my favorite parts of the FEA Field Staff conference. I could spend days talking about all of the information I learned, so I thought I would shorten my entry to just my favorite parts. And it didn't hurt to be surrounded by cute fraternity men :)