ETHOS Training Sessions
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a communication method intended to move the person toward change, focusing on exploring and resolving ambivalence as a key to eliciting that change. Within MI, change arises through its relevance to the person's own values and concerns. Developed by W. R. Miller, Ph.D. and S. Rollnick, Ph.D. in 1991, it is consciously directive in that the counsellor/coach elicits and selectively reinforces change talk and also responds to resistance in a manner intended to extinguish it. Within the employment field, this approach provides client-centered interventions and also addresses motivation as a factor influencing successful transitions to the labour market.
MI utilizes the Stages of Change (SOC) Model, also known as the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TMC), an innovative approach to motivational issues facing job seekers, with the potential to move people along the "Stages of Change" to employment. SOC has been used extensively in the addictions field, where emotion, cognition and behaviour are crucial factors in making changes. Our facilitator, Roxanne Sawatzky, is the founder of Empowering Change and was the Champion and Project Manager for the application of Stages of Change (SoC) and Motivational Interviewing in the employment sector at Opportunities for Employment (www.ofe.ca/research) in Winnipeg from 2006-2010. She successfully managed the 3 yr $1.3 million research study with 2400 participants that focused on using MI/SoC to overcome job seeker's ambivalence to attaining employment for the Manitoba Province and Federal government. Roxanne trained project staff on the model, designed processes, procedures and curriculum that were used in the successful research study. Roxanne, as an independent consultant, now offers this training throughout North America.
Roxanne holds a certificate in addictions counselling and case management and, as a result of the training she received in Spain in June 2009, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). She is also the only Canadian Motivational Interviewing Coding Trainer in Canada. While there are many good Motivational Interviewing trainers, membership in the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) is the only status accorded to training professionals. It is acknowledged by the MINT organization and can only be granted through direct train-the-trainer work with the model originators Dr. William R. Miller and Dr. Steve Rollnick.
ETHOS recognizes innovation and promotes professional development throughout the employment field. Three workshops, Motivational Interviewing Level I, Motivational Interviewing Level II, and Changing Client Perspectives: Using MI in Groups are offered in Victoria in January and February 2012. CLICK HERE for workshop details and flyer.
The following workshops will be held at the Saanich CARE Resource Centre, 120-4243 Glanford Avenue, Victoria:
If you have any questions, please email enquiries@ethoscmg.com.
- ETHOS Career Management Group understands that from time to time, despite best intentions, people may have to withdraw from contracted workshops or services. All cancellation notifications for Motivational Interviewing must be submitted in writing to enquiries@ethoscmg.com and received prior to the registration deadline or, if no registration deadline is stated, at least seven business days before the workshop start date. No refunds will be issued after this date.
- Refunds for Motivational Interviewing workshops will be subject to a 15% administration fee.
- ETHOS will make every effort to accommodate participant requests to attend alternate workshop/session dates where available.
- If ETHOS must cancel any workshop, all fees will be refunded. If ETHOS must reschedule any workshop or service, the participant will have the option to have all fees refunded should they be unable to attend.
