TMotivational Interviewing: Basics & Beyondhis is optional 2 or 3 day training depending on your learning goals.
In the 2-day training, we will cover the basics of MI. This is a great introductory exposure to Motivational Interviewing. In the 3-day training, we will cover the basics, and there will be a third day of intensive experiential practice of MI. We will spend the third day understanding what MI competency is through the MITI coding system, as participants gain comfort and confidence in MI skills through practice.
If you'd like "A Taste of MI," the 2-day training is a good option for you. If you are ready to dive into a deeper practice of MI, the 3-day is for you!
If you have previous experience with MI and you are interested in the Advanced day only (3rd training day), you are welcome to join us. Email me to touch base about your training experience if you think this is a good option for you!
Objectives: Through completion of 2-day training, participants will be able to:
- Identify the theoretical basis of MI, learn history of MI
- Integrate the MI spirit into practice: compassion, autonomy, evoking, and collaboration
- Demonstrate MI core communication skills (OARS)
- Describe and gain skills in each of the 4 process of MI: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning
- Engagement: Learn ways to engage difficult-to-engage patients, address re-engagement issues, demonstrate effective empathy
- Focusing: Learn how to create focus with multiple target behaviors, setting agendas, and other tools for enhancing collaboration
- Evoking: Learn to identify change talk and sustain talk, ways to elicit and reinforce change talk, and ways to strategize eliciting change talk from sustain talk
Objectives: 3rd day/ Advancing Your Skills, participants will be able to:
- Increase confidence in their ability to utilize MI in brief encounters through practice
- Be provided with opportunity to make a recording utilizing MI to provide self-evaluation of participant skills to set future learning goals
- Time will be spent working experientially with the third process of MI, Planning: Identify patient signs for change plan readiness, ways to develop effective change plans, and address planning issues that arise in MI consistent manner
