Creators Of Interactive Journaling®


Based on over 20 years of collaboration and development with the industry's leaders in behavioral change, The Change Companies®' Interactive Journaling® approach offers a change-focused, participant-driven resource for effectively guiding targeted populations through the process of life change. This innovative approach enhances the therapeutic engagement between providers of service and participants while building consistency and confidence in the modality being used.

In the course of gathering immediate and relevant information related to the problem areas, participants map out where they have been, where they are now, where they wish to go and how to get there. This structured and experiential writing process leads participants through a series of core behavior change content, targeted questioning and effective behavioral change strategies toward positive, pro-social life changes.

To date, we have served over 20 million individuals in their exploration and engagement in life changes.




The Change Companies® is a national publishing, consulting, training and video company that works with leading industry experts to develop effective, evidence-based materials that assist individuals in making positive life change. Our products and services are used in the fields of prevention, treatment, impaired driving, criminal justice and healthcare. Our mission is to put the most effective tools at the lowest possible cost, into the hands of the end user who is working to make positive life changes. You would think after 20 plus years of being CEO of a corporation, it would be easy for me to define the essence of The Change Companies®. It's not. In part, we are true to our name; The Change Companies® is constantly evolving. We are intensely interested in the research about behavior change but we are not a research organization. We apply the research to create Interactive Journals, a unique process that assists individuals to make positive life changes. I charged the creative team to create a brief digital representation of our core mission. If you are a client of ours or are considering becoming one, this may be of interest to you. The Change Companies® provides decision makers with a broad variety of options to meet every clinical and business need in adult treatment. Within our line of adult treatment Interactive Journals are Journals specifically targeted to special populations, females and family support. Interactive Journaling® is powerful for all in the process of change, and particularly effective for youth. The Change Companies® offers a range of Journals specifically geared to enhance the organization and structure of youth treatment. Interactive Journaling® gives youth an active voice in treatment. It keeps young clients on target while accommodating their need to express the frustrations and fears that build during the challenges of treatment. The decisions people make on a daily basis have a cumulative effect on whether they are on a path toward a healthy lifestyle or poor health. The Change Companies® offers products to support individuals in making small or large changes in their daily behaviors to improve their overall health and well-being. By weaving the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, Cognitive-behavioral techniques and Motivational Enhancement research into the Interactive Journaling® process, The Change Companies® brings cost-effectiveness, organization and structure to criminal justice programs. Responsible Driving Institute, a division of The Change Companies®, provides a unique focus and expertise on how to motivate and guide people toward positive and lasting behavior change. Using prevailing change research, Interactive Journaling® and best practices from industry leaders across the country, our impaired driving programs have proven effective in improving offenders’ knowledge and attitudes, increasing personal responsibility and commitment to change and decreasing recidivism. The Change Companies®’ education and prevention programs provide a structured process of self-exploration for young people at-risk. By equipping young people with the tools for making positive choices and changes, they gain the confidence and skills to avoid the high-risk pitfalls that surround them. Our programs cover key prevention concepts including normative education, substance abuse prevention, violence prevention and life skills development.

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