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Stephie Cyr of Inner Insights, Canada.

A plagiarist and a Liar.

Below is a message I posted to newsgroups in 2005. The person concerned, Stephie Cyr of Inner Insights Holistic School & Spa, London, Ontario, Canada, subsequently informed me that she was ceasing offering aromatherapy training and thus would no longer use our copyrighted course materials.

It has just come to light in March 2009 - four years after Stephie Cyr claimed she was ceasing aromatherapy training, that she has continued supplying her students with our materials in breach of copyright. This has come to light via some highly dissatisfied pupils of 'First Nation's Students'. Stephie Cyr had issued them (starting in September 2008), with notes copied straight from the course information belonging to Lynn Bosman of the Mississauga school of aromatherapy.

I have been supplied with copies of the notes supplied by Stephie Cyr which in many instances are word for word reproductions of my own and Lynn Bosmans materials. These are notes that I spent years researching and assembling at high cost to myself.

Stephie Cyr has copied our materials in order to line her pockets without doing the necessary research herself. In addition, I have had complaints in the past from her students over the lack of quality of her course.

What makes matters even worse, is that a leading member of the Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists (CFA) teaches at the school of Stephie Cyr giving it unjustified credibility to those who think that the CFA are a reputable organisation - see other articles on this site about them.

Please, if you live in Canada, make people aware of Stephie Cyr and Inner Insights and advise them not to take her courses. Beware of her web site claims, they are spiritually orientated just in order to lure vulnerable people into her web of deceit. It seems some other claims of educational validation of standards may also be false. More on that as investigation proceeds.

Martin Watt. April 2009

Date: Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:48 pm Subject: We have a pirate in our midst! This names a person in the Canadian aromatherapy scene, who despite legal warnings, has pirated information from the course notes that I license to IATA in Canada. I won't name this individual on this group for now, as that may be against group rules, but I would urge you to read the information on my site and see the name. Such nasty individuals need exposure to public scrutiny because they simply steal other peoples hard work and turn it into profit for themselves. This woman is not the only one doing this, but so far she is the first who has been foolish enough to push her luck with me. I hope readers here spread the word so that we can ostracize such people and point students away from their courses. Thanks for any support you can give in spreading the word. Martin Watt

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