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Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.
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William R. Miller, Ph.D.

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or the most common place wanting both of two incompatible things.
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William Miller & Stephen Rollnick

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Anyone who willingly enters into the pain of a stranger is truly a remarkable person.
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Henri Nouwen (2005)

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Motivational Interviewing is a soft way of asking people to take a hard look at themselves.
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Rosa Ontiveros

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The best way to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
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Dean Rusk

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What We Do

MI Consociates offers motivational Interview training, consulting and MI supportive services. MI Consociates is a Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). MI Consociates was founded in 2017 by Roxy Vandendries MS, RN. She has trained over 1,000 participants at different levels of motivational interviewing.

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MI Consociates offers a wide array of services. We provide workshops, Code MI Recordings with Individual Coaching Feedback Sessions, Conference presentations, Consulting and Personal Client Coaching. Take a closer look at our services.

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Meet the Founder

Roxy is the founder and CEO of MI Consociates LLC. She is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s Degree in Nursing Education. Roxy is a Certified Chronic Care Professional, a Registered Health Coach level III and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Roxy has trained over 1,000 participants at different levels of motivational interviewing proficiency. Roxy has a unique approach to her workshops and training sessions, she believes in educating effectively through interpersonal communication and fun.

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There is a difference between listening and waiting for our turn to speak.
Simon Sinek
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There's no such thing as small change.
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People are more willing to change when they know they are completely free not to.
Stephen R. Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS, CGP
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Helpers want to help, to set things right, to get people on the road to health and wellness. Seeing people head down a wrong path stimulates a natural desire to get our in front of them and say, "Stop! Go back! Don't you see? There is a better way over there!" and it is done with the best of intentions, with one's heart in the right place. We call this the "righting reflex" - the desire to fix what seems wrong with people and to set them promptly on a better course, relying in particular on directing. What could possibly be wrong with that?
William R. Miller, Ph.D.
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People are the undisputed experts on themselves. No one has been with them longer, or knows them better than they do themselves. In MI, the helper is a companion who typically does less than half the talking.
William R. Miller, Ph.D.
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Some people will never change. Often times we spend so much of our time and energy on trying to fix other people. We may do this out of love, care or even control. The problem is that sometimes those people don't want to be fixed. And all the love, hope and energy in the world can't make an adult do something they don't truly want to do.
Kyle McMahon
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