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 anEvidence-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, October 26-39, 2020, 8 am-10:15 am & 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
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
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.
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
SAMPLE 3 DAY SAY IT STRAIGHTtm TRAINING OF TRAINERS WORKSHOP AGENDA
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.
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1985 by Paula Englander-Golden, Ph.D.
“I know first-hand that Say It Straight can be a powerful tool for youth who are most desparately in need of communicatioon skills that will enable them to reach out and connect with others. Literally, it can help save their lives.”
Kathy Montero
Executive Director, Toyon Mesa School, Residential Treatment Center, Paradise, California
