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Customized Communication Training to Create Supportive and Productive Work Places

At Radiate Consulting our goal is to create supportive and productive workplaces through training individuals in enhanced communication skills. We are able to create customized trainings to meet individual organizations needs.

An employee goes where they are wanted and stays where they are valued. Our goal is to help supervisors create an atmosphere where each individual feels heard and valued.

One of the training approaches we use is Motivational Interviewing to engage individuals in an interactive and creative way.

Motivational Interviewing Training

Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based practice that addresses ambivalence to change. It uses a collaborative, person-centered approach that helps to guide an individual toward their own reasons for change. This approach helps them garner the resources and support they need to make the changes and achieve their self-defined success.

Basic Motivational Interviewing

The basic component of this course provides participants with an understanding of the spirit and skills of the Motivational Interviewing model, and gives them an opportunity to practice the model.

Objectives- Participants will effectively learn how to…

Describe the spirit and skills of the Motivational Interviewing model
Identify the outline & structure of Motivational Interviewing
Practice Motivational Interviewing in conversation
Determine how to implement MI practices into their work with individuals

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing

This component provides participants with additional information regarding Phase II of the Motivational Interviewing practices and gives participants an opportunity to practice a MI conversation through both phases. The Intermediate course also assists participants to identify the areas in which they can improve their practice, and offers strategies for making such improvements. This phase will enable many participants to practice the model with sufficient skill that they will begin to see results in their professional interactions.

Objectives- Participants will effectively learn how to…

Identify areas of practice that they find difficult
Demonstrate the skills to facilitate change talk, decision-making, and change planning
Demonstrate the spirit and skills of MI in an actual conversation, focusing on the areas identified in objectives
Determine how to implement MI practices into their work with individuals

Advanced Motivational Interviewing

The Advanced course builds on the competencies that participants developed in the Intermediate training, further honing their use of the Motivational Interviewing spirit and skills. It introduces the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity code, a more complex and accurate method for assessing use of the model, and enables participants to use this tool to refine their practice. This course will enable many participants to practice the model at a competent level.

Objectives- Participants will effectively learn how to…

Demonstrate the use of the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) Code.
Utilize the MITI to code conversations observed and undergo such coding while practicing MI
Complete a self-assessment tool regarding use of MI and identify next steps to enhance fidelity
Determine how to implement Motivational Interviewing practices into their work with individuals

Andrea Carroll

(She / Her)

Motivational Interviewing Training

"Kim has really enlightened me to a bunch of great new communication styles and techniques and I really value the skills and strategies I have learned with her and I can see how it would help me professionally and personally."

Allison Hammett

(She / Her)

Motivational Interviewing Training

"MI has been a great way to meet the families where they are at and have them explore different ways of parenting as well as different ways of coming to their own realizations of how to solve their problems... Kim has been really dynamic in her training keeping everyone engaged. It has really been a great asset for me to be a part of this training."

Gina Nasco

(She / Her)

Program Manager at Lynn Community Health

"We have had Kim here many times at our site. She does our GIFT and MI trainings for our staff. Kim has such a way about her. She really makes people feel comfortable. She really tries to remain flexible with everybody. She's really just wonderful. She's patient, she'll go at your pace. She meets you where you're at. She is a wonderful trainer... We will continue to use MI at our center and use it with our young adults because we found that it works."

Mikiel Peratino

(He / Him)

Lead Peer Specialist, Vinfen

"Kim knows how to open people up but hold structure throughout the process... Kim's great, I could not recommend more."

Wendy Mancia

(She / Her)

Program Director, Chelsea Youth Access Center (CYAC) Youth Elemento

“It’s amazing, the GIFT training, it gives young adults hope for the future. That it truly is a GIFT”

Zohreh King

(She / Her)

Director of Peer Support Services

“Sending a young person to GIFT instantly connects them to other young people. I connected her to GIFT. She thanked me and said, It is exactly what I needed at exactly the right time, I needed to know that I had strengths. Now she’s working! It is a skills based training, with other people who have been through similar things. It (GIFT) helps you to become yourself. That’s what I love about it!”

Nicole Jamieson

(She / Her)

Program Director at Youthquake in Lowell

“This person, at first,.... they were inside their shells, …..going through GIFT helped them find their place in the world. Now they come to Youthquake weekly and our interacting with the other young adults at Youthquake and really having a great time.”