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Ferry Beach Schedule
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Motivational Interviewing
August 17-20, 2025
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This four-day symposium will offer a series of techniques for transforming the most problematic challenges encountered in everyday caregiving. 

The spirit, skills and structure of motivational interviewing are immediately applicable to clinicians, healthcare workers, therapists, and caregivers in all kinds of clinical settings. 

Here we will approach the daunting task of creating hope within hopelessness, gracefully exploring a person's spirituality and looking at trauma through a compassionate lens. 

We will create a way of avoiding burnout and we will focus on creating a useful working alliance with the patient, client and/or consumer. 

You will learn to both love the engagement with the people you care for and within that engagement, work with the hopes, dreams and desires of the being before you. 

We will learn, practice, rest within a most beautiful beachside place, and create an incredible learning community... using meditation, music and sharing... 

Invite the family and create an amazing vacation experience while you also immerse yourself in this Motivational Interviewing (MI) Symposium (14 hours of class time with optional independent study).

Meet from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm each day then take off for lunch and to play at the beach, free time, independent study and evening events. There will be a rich supply of independent study options including: articles, questionnaires, partner practice sessions and recording opportunities. Feel free to borrow one of our digital recorders to practice your MI skills.

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 Our Location

Ferry Beach is a beachfront retreat center in Southern Maine (Saco, ME). Experience a respite away from the everyday world, with 32 acres including many porches, a wonderful dining center, volleyball court, playgrounds, art studio, outdoor chapel and of course the beach!
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 Lodging

Choose your desired lodging accommodation, we have a wide variety of cabins & cottages,
dorm rooms (single/double/family size), and campsites! 
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What to Expect

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​Wondering what to pack, what a retreat at Ferry Beach is like and more general information about your stay click read more below.

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Pricing per Person
Adult: $68.00 (Includes Lunch Only)
Adult: $153.00 (Full Meal Plan)

Lodging
Rooms:
Lodging is first come, first serve. $100-550 depending on room selection (dorms, cottages, cabins). To learn more about lodging options click here. 

Campsites:
$45 - Ground/Platform Campsites
$50 - Small RV Sites
$55 - Large RV Campsites
*Additional Meals can be purchased, to do so, please reach out to [email protected]

Our mission at Ferry Beach is to awaken hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love. 
We work by creating programing and events in the areas of Arts & Culture, Education, Spirituality, Sustainability, Personal Growth and Justice & Action.  
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Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center is a 501(c)3 membership organization. 
Our mission is to awaken hearts to explore, grow and renew the spirit of universal love.  We accomplish our mission through work in the areas of
​arts & culture, education, spirituality, sustainability, personal growth and justice & action.
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Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center
5 Boardwalk Drive, Saco, ME 04072 - Our Address has Changed.  Click here to learn more.
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  • Home
  • Organization
    • Governance
    • Board of Directors
    • Board Interest
    • Staff
    • Work at Ferry Beach
  • Membership
    • For Members >
      • Strategic Plan
  • Giving
    • One-Time Giving
    • Sustaining Gifts
    • The Beachkeeper Program
    • Quillen Shinn Society
    • Memorial Garden
    • Endowment Fund
    • Scholarship Program
    • Capital Campaigns
  • About
    • Our Mission & Values
    • History
    • Contact Us
    • Directions
  • Schedule
    • Community Dinner
    • Line Dancing
    • Coffee Hour
    • Quilting Retreats
    • Dancing Jaguar's Adult Spirit Camp
    • Profound Treasury
    • Work Week
    • Annual Meeting
    • Personal Retreaters Week
    • Outdoor Work Week
    • Summer Concerts
    • Sand and Stars
    • RE Week
    • Choral Fest
    • GAYLA
    • Women's Healing
    • Family & Friends
    • Circles of Life
    • Company of Women
    • Circle of Music
    • Sacred Circle Dance
    • Motivational Interviewing
    • Quilting by the Bay
    • The Beach Getaway
    • Labor Day Weekend
    • Summer Cookouts
    • Dancing Jaguar's Teacher Training
    • AFG
    • SOS Saco Bay Conference
    • Vintage Improv
    • Kindred Spirits
  • What to Expect
    • Our Facility
    • Our Retreats
    • Our Dining Center
    • Our Accessibility
    • Our Policies
  • Lodging
  • News
    • Discovery
    • Maine Storm & Climate News
    • Blog
  • Plan a Gathering
    • Gathering Spaces
    • Planning Resources
  • Store