Boise, ID USA Intermediate S. Dopart

 2-Day Advancing your MI Practice

This 2 day in person training is for anyone wanting to advance their skills in Motivational Interviewing.  Whether you've had a 1 day training or a few days, want to brush up on your MI skills this training will address all levels of MI including changes from MI4.

Topics Covered:

• Advancing the 4 Processes/Tasks of MI: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking and Planning

• How to pull for “change talk” versus “sustain talk” or “discord” as a key indicator of movement towards change

• How to focus on the key components of helping behavior change – accurate empathy, genuineness, finding focus and evoking

• Advancing your “micro-skills” of MI:  Open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries

• Advanced exercises to further your use of affirmations and complex reflections

• Practicing conversations that have equal partnership, cultivate change talk, and soften sustain talk

• Introduction to the MITI 4.2.1 coding system to allow for increased learning of MI

Target Audience:

This workshop is geared towards for professionals working with clients with goals of health related behavior change: physicians, nurses, health educators, care managers, dietitians, social workers, counselors, psychologists, life coaches, mediators, clergy, dentists, dental hygienists, probation/corrections officers, personal trainers, etc.

13 CEUs provided for RD's in all states and 13 CEU's for all mental health professionals in the state of Idaho.