Upcoming Events ~ NOTE: due to the COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty and for safe practices, all events are virtual, via Zoom

  • Monarch Level 1 Workshop on Motivational Interviewing & Coaching Tools for Healthcare Professionals ~ WECHC ~ Sept 25 & Oct 2 2025 {viaZoom}

    25th Sep 2025 9:00:am – 25th Sep 2025 12:00:pm

    This introductory, two half-day workshop sessions provide a meaningful overview of MI using the Monarch System’s unique approach which integrates Motivational Interviewing (MI) with other impactful behaviour change practices such as coaching methods and key elements of behaviour change theories/applications. This event is sponsored by the Windsor Essex Community Health Centre (WECHC) and is open and free to all Ontario residents who are either health professionals or students enrolled in a health professional program. Over the two days, we will explore and help you to acquire applied techniques to use with your clients in your day-to-day practice. You will learn how to build motivation and transition that enhanced motivation into a strengthened and real commitment to healthier behaviours. We will teach you different ways to use such elements as reflective listening at 3 levels, presence, competence views, compelling questions, eliciting change talk, tagging values onto desired behaviour changes, and moving with apparent-resistance in service of your patients’ needs for long- term goal setting and commitment to change. This is a very participant < > facilitator interactive workshop format for which you will need full access to your audio and video functions in a private space in order to work and practice MI skills and tools. For registration information, please visit this web site. For more information about the workshop see this WECHC Flyer. And for additional information about our workshops, please visit https://monarchsystem.com/

  • Monarch Level 1 Workshop on MI & Coaching Tools for Waterloo Wellington Self-Management Program Professionals ~ Nov 6 & 13 2025 {viaZoom}

    6th Nov 2025 9:00:am – 6th Nov 2025 12:00:pm

    This introductory, two half-day workshop sessions provide a meaningful overview of MI using the Monarch System’s unique approach which integrates Motivational Interviewing (MI) with other impactful behaviour change practices such as coaching methods and key elements of behaviour change theories/applications. This event is sponsored by the Waterloo Wellington Self-Management Program and is restricted to health professionals in that Program. Over the two days, we will explore and help you to acquire applied techniques to use with your clients in your day-to-day practice. You will learn how to build motivation and transition that enhanced motivation into a strengthened and real commitment to healthier behaviours. We will teach you different ways to use such elements as reflective listening at 3 levels, presence, competence views, compelling questions, eliciting change talk, tagging values onto desired behaviour changes, and moving with apparent-resistance in service of your patients’ needs for long- term goal setting and commitment to change. For registration information, please visit this link. For more information about the workshop see this Workshop Flyer and for additional information about our workshops, please visit https://monarchsystem.com/

  • Monarch Level 2 Advanced Workshop on Motivational Interviewing & Coaching Tools for Healthcare Professionals ~ WECHC ~ Dec 4 & 11 2025 {viaZoom}

    4th Dec 2025 9:00:am – 4th Dec 2025 12:00:pm

    This advanced, 2 half-days' (Dec 2 and 9, 9:00-12:00 each day) workshop builds on either of our Introductory (Level 1 full-day/two half or 2-day intensive) MI workshops. This event is sponsored by the Windsor Essex Community Health Centre (WECHC) and is open to all Ontario residents who are either health professionals or students enrolled in a health professional program. All participants need to have completed Monarch’s Level 1 workshop or equivalent (click here to view the MI skills covered in our Level 1 course). Specifically, the Monarch System’s Level 2 offering is designed to help health practitioners work with patients/clients who are overwhelmed, stuck behaviourally, and/or are struggling to make the changes they want to make. Many clients are trapped in a view that they cannot change their behaviours, and this workshop focuses on helping clients re-frame and re-shapte this experience, in service of fostering meaningful health-related behaviour changes. The workshop includes amplified MI video examples; along with additional participant MI practice; and feedback opportunities to support the immediate integration of the new advanced tools within participants’ professional and personal lives. For registration information, please visit this web site (pending). For more information about the workshop see this Level 2 Flyer (pending). And for additional information about our workshops, please visit https://monarchsystem.com/

  • Monarch Level 3 Progressive Workshop on Motivational Interviewing & Coaching Tools for Healthcare Professionals ~ WECHC ~ Jan 29 & Feb 5, 2026 {via Zoom}

    29th Jan 2026 9:00:am – 29th Jan 2026 12:00:pm

    Similar to the previous levels of training, the Level 3 Progressive training builds from Monarch's previous offerings and is both interactive and “hands-on”. The event is sponsored by the Windsor Essex Community Health Centre and is open to health professionals who have completed Monarch's Level 1 and Level 2 workshop trainings or equivalent (a reminder of our level 1 and 2 skills' taught is available here). This set of workshops is offered virtually, via Zoom, for 3 hours each day on 27 January and 3 February, 2025, from 9:00-12:00 each day; to be eligible for a Level 3 course completion certificate, participants must attend both days and participate fully in all aspects of the workshop. Click on this Level 3 Flyer link (pending) to see information about this level 3 workshop. The 'progressive' nature of the workshop is such that we want to design the event around participants' experiences using MI and your needs re enhancing, honing, and cementing your MI knowledge and practical skills in service of best impacts on your clients/patients. To that end, by 15 January 2026, registered participants are asked to complete a set of questions from a survey monkey questionnaire at this link . For example, we want to know what MI tools you have used most frequently; what issues have arisen in using MI with your clients; and what would make a level 3 MI workshop useful to you. Consistent with our MI workshops, there will be lots of MI demonstrations; opportunities to practice previously learned and new MI skills in partnerships and/or small groups; and to participate in large group discussions and question-answering sessions. Registration information is available at this link {pending}. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com