Training is available in your location for 12 or more participants or join a workshop in another location.

SIS Training of Trainers

Basic SIS Training: 4-day intensive workshop to prepare 12-25 participants to do SIS training in schools, with parents, families, communities, organizations, in treatment, prisons, etc. Cost: $750 US per person. Workshops in languages other than English are usually for 5 days.

Optional review and feedback for SIS Trainers includes statistical analysis of pre and post-training questionnaires administered by the trainer and review of subjective feedback from participants to trainer. Trainers are certified on the basis of their work with about 40 participants. Cost: $450 US per review.

Becoming a Master Say It Straight Trainer

This begins with attending an intensive basic SIS Training of Trainers 4-day Workshop: Participants interested in becoming Master SIS Trainers who can train other trainers as well as work directly with students, parents, families, communities, organizational team building, in treatment, prisons, etc. should facilitate a group using SIS Workbooks/Journals and SIS Posters. The work should be videotaped and appropriate SIS objective questionnaires should be administered to participants before and after training. In addition, the SIS Subjective Feedback Questionnaire should be administered after training. The questionnaires and videotapes 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' videotaped work. 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 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

Can be Tailored for specific needs, of variable length and cost: These can be organized as 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.

●    Peace Within, Peace Between, Peace Among is designed to transform what stands between your group’s potential (family or any group) to achieve shared and personal goals and the realization of this potential. Participants discover goals, the ingredients of their interactions and rules that stand in the way. They discover and practice what needs to be transformed to achieve the 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 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-esteem, 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 create breakthroughs in intimate relationships and quality of life.