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Carrie Stack, M.Ed.
Carrie is the founder of the Say Yes Institute (SYI), which offers professional and personal development opportunities through the lens of the, Define, Clarify, Implement (DCI) Model (c). She created this powerful training/coaching model to support participants (agencies, management teams or individuals) to reach goals through concrete, measurable action plans.
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Carrie has 15 years of diverse experience working in the non-profit world, with a focus on staff/program development and training. Using interactive activities, humor and endless optimism, Carrie draws upon her years of diverse experience to enhance all of her training/coaching work. She has developed and led workshops/groups around strength based topics, and has done extensive training, both locally and statewide, on prevention/education issues.
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She is the author of, Conversations with the Future, about the lives of 70 young people in Lynn, featured in the Boston Globe, local press and in a month long series on Fox25. She also wrote, You Are Not A Puzzle Piece, focused on living the life you want, not the life the world may have reserved for you! She is currently working on her upcoming book, Breath of Freedom, inspired by the stories of women/teens she has worked with that have survived domestic violence. Breath of Freedom uses poems, reflections and affirmations to explore the impact that family violence has on every member of the family. A poem from the book, You’re Home, was published by the Boston Literary Magazine in the summer of 2006.
Qualifications:
- M.Ed. in Social Justice
- Certified Life Coach
- Founder of Say Yes Institute
- Experience as a teacher, trainer, social worker, management consultant and program director
- Founder of non-profit, Live Life Write Inc.
- Founding member of NLP Coaching Associates
- Member of New England Women Business Owners (NEWBO)
- Member BNI (Red Rock Chapter)
- Board member of Lynn Arts, Inc.
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Susan Staples, M.Ed.
Drawing upon years of diverse experience as a manager, trainer and counselor, Sue has an extensive background designing and facilitating workshops which support personal and professional success. Sue has a strong background in group training and facilitation, including:
- Effective supervision
- Team development
- Women and empowerment
- Healthy relationships
- Healing from trauma
She has demonstrated success supporting managers to creatively build positive and effective relationships with staff through the utilization of effective supervision/management techniques, and she brings concrete experience and examples in to all training and coaching.
Qualifications:
- M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology
- Co-founder of Say Yes Institute
- Certified Self-Esteem Trainer
- Certified trainer in nationally acclaimed Nurturing Program
- Therapist specializing in healing from trauma/abuse
- Extensive program development and management skills
- Senior management experience with staff/program supervision and development
- Extensive experience working with individuals/groups
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About SYI | About Us
About SYI
What is the SYI?
The Say Yes Institute is focused on supporting people to grow, personally and professionally, in order for people to fully live the life that they want to live. Through workshops, training and coaching, SYI provides participants with the opportunity to develop skills, strategies and insights which contribute to powerful movement and growth.
Why did you create the SYI?
We both have had the privilege of working with people of all ages, from the classroom to the conference room, in a range of roles, from counselor, to teacher, to director, to trainer….and we began to see a lot of commonalities in experiences. Too many people expressed feeling like they weren’t clear on what they wanted, and didn’t feel in charge of their lives, and the direction that they were heading.
This was concerning, because if you don’t know what you want, how are you ever going to get it? And, if YOU aren’t in charge of where your life is going, then who is?
We wanted to provide the opportunity for people (that were interested!) to figure out personally AND professionally, what they wanted, why they wanted it and how they were going to go about getting it.
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“Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.”
Mike Wickett
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