Workshops
We can bring a Say It Straight Training of Trainers Workshop to your location if you have at least 6 people to be trained or you can join a workshop in another location. See Upcoming Workshops. If we bring an SIS training to your location, you will be responsible for a room to do the training in, travel, food and lodging for a Master Say It Straight Trainer (Cost to bring a Master Trainer to you is about $1,000 – $1,400 depending on location and time of year.)
Say It Straight Training of Trainers
Basic SIS Training of Trainers Workshop: 3 day intensive workshop to prepare 6-12 participants to become SIS Trainers who can conduct SIS Training in schools, with parents, families, communities, organizations, in treatment, prisons, group homes, shelters, etc. (3½ day workshops for 13-18 participants). Cost: $850 US per attendee. The cost includes a 140 page step-by-step Trainer Manual, samples of five Workbooks/Journals for different age groups that are to be given to each person in your trainings, black and white posters that can be enlarged and colored to be used in your trainings and evaluation materials for different age groups that may be copied and used to evaluate your trainings. Already colored 8½ x 11 inch posters are also available on request.
Optional review and feedback to certify SIS Trainers includes statistical analysis of pre and post-training questionnaires administered by the trainer and a review of subjective feedback from people trained. Trainers become Certified SIS Trainers on the basis of their work with about 30 participants. Cost: $450 US per review.
Becoming a Master Say It Straight Trainer
Requirement to become a Master SIS Trainer: Master SIS Trainers are certified to train SIS trainers as well as work directly with the populations identified above. To become a Master SIS Trainer you need to conduct SIS training with one or more groups (about 30 people) using SIS Workbooks/Journals and SIS Posters. The work needs to be videoed and appropriate SIS objective questionnaires need to be administered to participants before and after training. In addition, the SIS Subjective Feedback Questionnaire needs to be administered after training. The questionnaires and videos should be sent to the Say It Straight Foundation for review and feedback. The review includes statistical analysis of pre and post-training questionnaires, review of the subjective questionnaire and feedback on Trainers’ work on the videos. Trainers are certified as Master Trainers on the basis of their work. Most Trainers are certified as Master Trainers after one review. Cost: $750 US for the first review. The cost of a second review, if necessary, depends on how much material needs to be reviewed. SIS Internship is available for experienced SIS trainers who wish to become Master Trainers. Cost: $350 US per person. The internship is not required.
Other SIS Workshops
Tailored for specific needs, of variable length and cost: These workshops can be organized for 1 or more days or weekend retreats.
- Transforming Breakdowns to Breakthroughs is designed for business, agencies, organizations and boards to create effective work-teams, prevent burnout in high stress environments and maximize creativity through empowering behavior/communication. To find more about this go to: From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs in Organizations
- Peace Within, Peace Between, Peace Among is designed to transform what stands in the way of your group’s potential (family or any group) to achieve their shared and personal goals. In groups with multi-cultural and multi-ethnic members, people discover their fundamental sameness, their diversity and how their uniquiness is rooted in both. This opens the path for enemies to become friends and work together to achieve their common goals.
- Blending Organizational Cultures is designed to successfully merge two or more organizations and create a new working climate.
- Community Networking is designed to develop School-Family-Community cooperative systems.
- Communication/Behavior Excellence is for anyone interested in creating new openings for themselves that empower them and others. It promotes excellence in communications by helping participants connect to their inner resources, recognize their deepest yearnings and learn to give them expression in empowering ways. This is a journey of transformation toward empowerment, positive self-worth, self-care, resilience and leadership. This workshop is appropriate even for groups that already work well together.
- Love Can Be Better At Any Time is designed to achieve breakthroughs in intimate relationships and quality of life.
Say It Straight Training
Upcoming Workshops
Preventing Destructive Behaviors and Promoting Wellness Designated by US Department of Education, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as an Evidence-Based Prevention Program
Listed in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
We can bring an on-site Workshop to your area
UPCOMING INTENSIVE EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING OF TRAINERS 24 HOUR WORKSHOPS
SIS Zoom Workshop 5 days, September 13-17, 2021, 8 am-10:15 am & 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, West Coast US time.
We will setup the next five-day workshop as soon as we have a few more people. Contact Say It Straight Foundation at (512) 243-6788 or info@sayitstraight.org
GOALS & OBJECTIVES of the Training of Trainers Workshop:
RESULTS:
MATERIALS:
GOALS & OBJECTIVES of the Training of Trainers Workshop:
To train people to work effectively for Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools, and in other settings such as treatment, probation, prisons, community, organizations. You will learn to:
Implement a successful research-based, process oriented life skills program for schools and other settings that uses cognitive, affective, visual, auditory and kinesthetic modalities to maximize learning and implementation of empowering behaviors rooted in experience.
Identify the communications that lead to breakdowns and conflicts, and transform them into powerful resources for effective communications, positive relationships, prevention and sustained recovery.
Empower students, parents, community and other clients you work with to co-create their training, making it appropriate for any group regardless of age, gender and culture.
RESULTS:
SIS research in schools, treatment, probation, and detention settings shows significant or highly significant reductions in alcohol/drug related school suspensions, juvenile criminal offenses, alienation/normlessness, disempowering communications/behaviors and leaving treatment against medical advice, and significant or highly significant increases in empowering communications/behaviors, conflict management, self-esteem, willingness to implement constructive decisions in difficult situations, quality of family and group life.
MATERIALS:
Participants will receive the SAY IT STRAIGHT Trainer Manual and samples of SIS Workbooks for students and adults. Three videotapes, SIS in the Classroom, SIS Student Support Groups and SIS Parent-Community Series will be available for purchase at the Workshop.
The Say It Straight Foundation is dedicated to create sustainable prevention communities by training Master Trainers to train additional Say It Straight Trainers in your community.
Testimonials
SIS training is a well thought out program for improving the psychological health of people of all ages.
Virginia Satir, Pioneer Family Therapist and Author
After being in the field of prevention for over 10 years, I realized that this training brought my skills and knowledge base to a higher level. Concrete solutions to complex problems is truly the theme to this training. I will be forever grateful.
Janet Laning, Center for Student Assistance, Coordinator, Colorado
SIS gives me a powerful tool to work with youth.
Bart Stinson, Deputy Sheriff, CA
SIS goes beyond drug abuse. It’s about life.
Jim Craig, M. Ed. Adolescent Therapist. Texas
Powerful, simple, effective.
John Hughes, Drug Education Director, WA
A must for anyone interested in prevention and sustained recovery.
Donna Woods, Director SE, Governor’s Commission for a Drug Free Indiana
Many of our students have been helped by SIS. Parents indicate there is a long-lasting change in attitude toward peer pressure to use drugs.
Jean Cate, Drug Education Director, OK
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Sample 3 Day Say It Straight Training Of Trainers Workshop Agenda
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FIRST DAY
SECOND DAY
THIRD DAY
FIRST DAY
| 8:30 a.m.- | 9:00 a.m. | Welcome, Introductions and Confidentiality |
| 9:00 a.m.- | 9:30 a.m. | SIS: Moving From Submission/Dominance to Equal Value. |
| 9:30 a.m.- | 10:15 a.m. | Team Building. Sameness, Diversity, Uniqueness. |
| 10:15 a.m.- | 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m.- | 12:00 noon | Our Communication/Behavior Processes. Placating and Saying It Straight Sculptures. |
| Movies: From Placating to Saying It Straight. Function of the Director and Pressurer. | ||
| Process Feelings, Non-Verbal Behaviors. Rules that Lead to Placating. SIS Video (Classroom). | ||
| 12:00 noon- | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m.- | 2:00 p.m. | Blaming or Bullying Sculpture and Movies. Transform to SIS. Process. SIS Video (Classroom). |
| 2:00 p.m.- | 3:00 p.m. | Passive/Aggressive Sculpture & Movies. Transform to SIS. Process. SIS Video (Fam. Comm.) |
| 3:00 p.m.- | 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m.- | 4:15 p.m. | Triad Practice: Step by step Modeling of SIS. |
| 4:15 p.m.- | 4:30 p.m. | Workbook/Journal. Writing and Sharing. |
SECOND DAY
| 8:30 a.m.- | 8:45 a.m. | Temperature Reading. |
| 8:45 a.m.- | 9:30 a.m. | Super-Reasonable Sculpture & Movies. Transform to SIS. Process. SIS Video (Classroom). |
| 9:30 a.m.- | 10:15 a.m. | Irrelevant Sculpture & Movies. Transform to SIS. Process. SIS Video (Classroom). |
| 10:15 a.m.- | 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m.- | 11:15 a.m. | Positive Support and Positive Peer Support Movies. Process. SIS Video (Student Support). |
| 11:15 a.m.- | 12:00 noon | Demonstration of Movie by Participants. |
| 12:00 noon- | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m.- | 1:30 p.m. | Dance of Inclusion |
| 1:30 p.m.- | 1:45 p.m. | Rules that lead to Disempowering Behaviors |
| 1:45 p.m.- | 2:15 p.m. | Multigenerational Sculpture of Rules: From Hearing Voices to Making Choices. |
| 2:15 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:30 p.m.- | 3:00 p.m. | Rule Transformation. Individual and Whole Group. |
| 3:00 p.m.- | 4:30 p.m. | Rule Transformation Practice Time. |
| Triad Practice: Step by step Modeling of SIS. Workbook/Journal. Writing and Sharing. |
THIRD DAY
| 8:30 a.m.- | 9:00 a.m. | Temperature Reading. Sharing in Whole Group. |
| 9:00 a.m.- | 9:30 a.m. | Putting It All Together: Complex Human Systems (Verbal & Non-Verbal). |
| 9:30 a.m.- | 9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 9:45 a.m.- | 10:30 a.m. | Discovering The Strength In Our Roots. Multigenerational Sculpture. |
| 10:30 a.m.- | 11:00 a.m. | Roots and Wings of SIS. Pull of Conflicts. Necklace of Resources (Mini “Parts Party). |
| 11:00 a.m.- | 11:30 a.m. | Modeling of Last SIS Session. |
| 11:30 a.m.- | 12:00 noon | Triad Demonstrations of Movie With Necklace of Resources. |
| 12:00 noon- | 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m.- | 2:00 p.m. | Triad Practice: Step by step Modeling of SIS. |
| 2:00 p.m.- | 2:15 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 p.m.- | 4:00 p.m. | Review of Questionnaires, Trainer Manual and Workbooks/Journals for different age groups. |
| 4:00 p.m.- | 4:30 p.m. | Closure and Evaluations. |
Sample Seven-Ten Session Plan
To be trustworthy we don’t have to be perfect, we have to be real.
Plan for High School Students (50 min sessions). With younger students omit Sessions 8 & 9.
SESSION 1: INTRODUCING SIS TRAINING AND TEAM BUILDING
Creating a setting of safety, trust and support for positive change.
Exploring our sameness, diversity and uniqueness.
Moving from relationships of submission-dominance to relationships of equal value.
Using the workbook/journal.
SESSION 2: PLACATING AND SAYING IT STRAIGHT
Review of workbook/journal.
Placating communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness. Language.
Say It Straight communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness.
Making movies. Transforming placating to SIS.
Feeling good versus being cool.
SESSION 3: TEMPERATURE READING. BLAMING OR BULLYING AND SIS*
Review of workbook/journal.
Temperature Reading: appreciations, worries, puzzles, suggestions for change, new information and accomplishments, today’s hopes wishes excitements and commitments.
Blaming, Bullying communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness. Language.
Blaming/bullying movies. Transforming to SIS.
Our Bill of Rights and Bill of Responsibilities.
SESSION 4: BEING PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE OR TWO FACED AND SIS*
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
Passive-Aggressive communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness. Language.
Passive-Aggressive movies. Transforming to SIS.
Comparing language and experience of placating, bullying/blaming with being passive-aggressive.
Introducing the concept of rules and rule transformation (with high school students or students in support groups).
*DEPENDING ON GROUP SIZE AND TIME ALLOTTED PER SESSION, SESSIONS 3 AND 4 MAY BE COMBINED.
SESSION 5: BEING SUPER-REASONABLE OR PLAYING SMART AND SIS**
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
Super-Reasonable communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness. Language.
Super-reasonable movies. Transforming into SIS. Making movies with more than two actors.
SESSION 6: BEING IRRELEVANT, DISRUPTIVE OR SPACING OUT AND SIS**
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
Irrelevant communication/behavior: sculpture and awareness. Language.
Irrelevant movies. Transforming to SIS.
Making more complex movies with more actors.
**DEPENDING ON GROUP SIZE AND TIME ALLOTTED PER SESSION, SESSIONS 5 AND 6 MAY BE COMBINED.
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
Exploring Positive Support.
Positive support movies and exploring responsibility.
Transforming any communication/behavior into SIS and positive support.
Exploring what works.
SESSION 8: RULES AND RULE TRANSFORMATIONS
(This Session is done with 9th -12th grade students, adults, and younger students in special groups).
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
Multigenerational sculpture of rules.
Experiencing the strength of our roots.***
***This is done with younger students in Session 7 or Session 9.
Transforming rules that lead us to placate, bully, blame, be passive aggressive, play smart, split away from feelings, be irrelevant etc.
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
System under stress: system exercise (non-verbal or verbal).
The pull between conflicting wishes. Necklace of resources.
SESSION 10: THE DANCE OF INCLUSION AND WRAP-UP
Review of workbook/journal and temperature reading.
The dance of inclusion.
Wrap-Up: Making our YES real and our NO real.