Upcoming Events

  • Monarch Motivational Interviewing and Coaching Tools Levels 1 & 2 (combined) Workshop for Employment Services Elgin Staff ~ Nov 14 2023 {via Zoom}

    14th Nov 2023 9:00:am – 14th Nov 2023 4:00:pm

    This Monarch MI workshop is a unique event offered to a small group of select staff from Employment Services Elgin and is restricted to the individuals selected within that organization. The content is a synthesis or blending of Monarch's levels 1 and 2 Motivational Interviewing workshops. We will provide a meaningful overview of MI using The Monarch System’s unique approach which integrates MI with other impactful and evidence-based behaviour change practices such as coaching methods and key elements of behaviour change theories/applications. During the first part of the day, we will explore and help you to acquire applied techniques to use with your clients in your day-to-day contacts. Specifically, you will learn how to build motivation and transition that enhanced motivation into a strengthened and real commitment to behaviour changes through such applied motivational interviewing and coaching elements as presence, competence views, compelling questions, reflective listening, readiness to change and change talk, and tagging values onto desired behaviour changes. In the level 2 segment, you will learn how to work with clients who are overwhelmed, stuck behaviourally, and/or seem highly resistant to change. Many clients are trapped in a view that they cannot change their behaviours; this portion of the workshop focuses on helping unlock clients from this experience in service of fostering meaningful health-related behaviour changes. The workshop includes amplified MI video examples; along with full participant MI skill-building and skill practicing; and feedback opportunities to support the immediate integration of the level 1 and 2 tools within participants’ professional and personal lives. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com all in service of your clients’ needs for long- term goal setting and firm commitment to change.

     

  • Monarch Level 3 Progressive Workshop on Motivational Interviewing & Coaching Tools for Employment Services Elgin Staff ~ Nov 21 & 28 2023 {via Zoom}

    14th Nov 2023 1:00:pm – 14th Nov 2023 4:00: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 Employment Services Elgin and is restricted to that organization's 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 21 November from 1:00-4:00 pm & 28 November, from 9:00 am -12:00 pm. to be eligible for a Level 3 course completion certificate, participants must attend both days. 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, prior to the workshop dates, registered participants have been asked to complete a set of questions from this Survey Monkey 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. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com

     

  • Monarch Motivational Interviewing and Coaching Tools for MLHU Health Professionals ~ 1 & 19 December {via Zoom}

    1st Dec 2023 9:00:am – 1st Dec 2023 12:00:pm

    This introductory course provides a meaningful overview of MI using The Monarch System’s unique approach which integrates MI with other impactful and evidence-based behaviour change practices such as coaching methods and key elements of behaviour change theories/applications. This two half-days' workshop - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time each day - is restricted to health professional persons and teams within the Youth Adult Team at the Middlesex-London Health Unit. During the two days, we will explore and help you to acquire applied techniques to use with your clients in your day-to-day contacts. Specifically, you will learn how to build motivation and transition that enhanced motivation into a strengthened and real commitment to behaviour changes through such applied motivational interviewing and coaching elements as presence, competence views, compelling questions, reflective listening, readiness to change and change talk, and tagging values onto desired behaviour changes, all in service of your clients’ needs for long- term goal setting and firm commitment to change. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com

     

  • Monarch Motivational Interviewing and Coaching Tools for Southwestern Ontario Public Health Professionals ~ 18 December {via Zoom}

    18th Dec 2023 9:00:am – 18th Dec 2023 4:00:pm

    This introductory course provides a meaningful overview of MI using The Monarch System’s unique approach which integrates MI with other impactful and evidence-based behaviour change practices such as coaching methods and key elements of behaviour change theories/applications. This full day workshop - 9:00 AM  to 4:00 PM Eastern Time - is restricted to nurses and other health professionals who work on the sexual health / harm reduction teams at Southwest Public Health for Oxford * Elgin * St Thomas, Ontario. During the workshop, we will explore and help you to acquire applied techniques to use with your patients/clients in your day-to-day contacts. Specifically, you will learn how to build motivation and transition that enhanced motivation into a strengthened and real commitment to behaviour changes through such applied motivational interviewing and coaching elements as presence, competence views, compelling questions, reflective listening, readiness to change and change talk, and tagging values onto desired behaviour changes, all in service of your clients’ needs for long- term goal setting and firm commitment to change. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com

     

  • Monarch Level 3 Progressive Workshop on Motivational Interviewing & Coaching Tools for Healthcare Professionals ~ WECHC ~ Jan 26 & Feb 2, 2024 {via Zoom}

    26th Jan 2024 9:00:am – 26th Jan 2024 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 26 January and 2 February, 2024, from 9:00-12:00 each day; to be eligible for a Level 3 course completion certificate, participants must attend both days. 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, prior to the workshop dates, registered participants will be asked to complete a set of questions from a Survey Monkey 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. For more information about our company, our events, resources, and workshops please visit our Monarch website https://monarchsystem.com