Change Talk Associates offers continuing education and coaching in Motivational Interviewing. Cristine and Frances continue to nurture a life-long friendship.
Change Talk Associates (CTA) was co-founded in 2009 by Cristine Urquhart & Frances Jasiura, Social Workers and MINTies. It continually evolved over the years, inspired by their shared commitment to empathic listening, their experiential wisdom as MI trainers, and the proven effectiveness of an MI approach to engage and support lasting change. Throughout their partnership, Cristine & Frances consul
12/16/2024
Hopes for 2025 As we transition into 2025, it is an opportunity to reflect on both our personal and professional hopes for the coming year. Hope has a future energy as we envision what might be. What are your hopes? How do you find hope? What are your reasons for choosing hope? In a helping professional role, th...
09/06/2024
Just received my copy of 8 Ways to Hope! Perfect timing to integrate the wisdom into my upcoming Introductory Motivational Interviewing course, starting on September 20. https://changetalk.ca/event/
07/24/2024
Transitions: Endings & Beginnings In recent months I have been drawn back to William Bridges’ work on transitions. To effectively guide change - individual or organizational - it is helpful to understand the phases of transition. “Transitions start with an ending and finish with a beginning.” And it is in the middle of this - ...
01/03/2024
Early Bird rate extended to January 10, 2024!
Compassionate Conversations Reflecting on the holidays and 2023, chances are there were many moments of compassion for others, and hopefully some self-compassion. Miller & Rollnick describe motivational interviewing as compassion in action. Emphasis is on the health and growth of those you are supporting. At the same time, as....
12/13/2023
Take advantage of the Holiday Early Bird rate for the January offering of Introductory Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals! Promotion on until December 31, 2023.
08/02/2023
Register now for the September 2023 in-person Introductory Motivational Interviewing course in Vancouver, BC!
In-Person Learning is Back in Vancouver! In this in-person, two-day training explore the foundations of Motivational Interviewing to support compassionate change conversations with others. Gain knowledge and practical skills to immediately begin to integrate an MI approach into your practice. Dates & Times Friday, September 22 & Saturday,....
06/28/2023
Thank you to AMSSA for inviting me to share Motivational Interviewing with the services in their network. Looking forward to the webinar on Thursday, July 6. Check out their website
AMSSA – Strengthening Diversity In BC AMSSA offers services to support settlement, language and diversity service providers
08/25/2022
Fall MI Courses - Register Now Explore the foundations of Motivational Interviewing to support compassionate change conversations with others. Gain knowledge and practical skills to immediately begin to integrate an MI approach into your practice.
08/18/2022
Honoured to be invited to share MI at the Allied Health and Nursing Professionals Symposium of the 19th Congress of the International Pediatric Nephrology Association. The conference will be held in Calgary and combines in-person and virtual sessions. Check out my virtual session on September 8, 2022!
Pre-Congress Courses | 19th IPNA Congress - Calgary, Canada Pre-Congress Courses
11/26/2021
MEET CTA CO-FOUNDER AND TRAINING FACILITATOR
Cristine Urquhart, MSW, RSW, has over 15 years of experience as an adult educator with helping professionals across health and social service roles. Drawing on her own experiences working within substance use and mental health services, Cristine is passionate about supporting helping professionals to guide change collaboratively and compassionately, integrating motivational interviewing and trauma-informed approaches. In addition to training, Cristine has worked on a variety of knowledge translation and prevention initiatives with the BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, BC Ministry of Health and the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (Bulgaria, 2007) and a published author, including a contributor in the book, MI in Social Work Practice (2021). Cristine was an instructor with both UBC Continuing Studies and the Justice Institute of BC for over 10 years. She lives in the West Kootenays of British Columbia with her family.
04/04/2018
Attending our sold out April session? Facilitator and co-founder of Change Talk Associates Cristine Urquhart will be there to guide you through 2 days of interactive learning. Cristine has trained thousands of helping professionals across Canada in a Motivational Interviewing style of communication, and presented at numerous provincial, national and international conferences. Passionate about supporting helping professionals to collaboratively and compassionately guide change, Cristine translates research to practice, integrating motivational interviewing and trauma-informed approaches. She is a member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), professional MI trainer and contributing author in the books: Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice (Guilford Press, 2011), Becoming Trauma Informed (CAMH, 2012) and Motivational Interviewing in Groups (Guilford Press, 2013). Register for our other upcoming sessions today!
02/03/2018
Our January session was sold out! Don't miss the opportunity to join us in April.
Introductory Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals What is Motivational Interviewing? Increasing attention is being paid to the benefits of an evidence-based, Motivational Interviewing (MI) communication style to enhance engagement and build motivation for change across a range of populations and practice areas such as: physical and mental health; s...