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Advancing Skills in Motivational Interviewing

This one day workshop will help participants build on Motivational Interviewing (MI) foundations toward increasing skillfulness. The session will focus specifically on practicing the selective and differential use of reflective listening for softening sustain talk and cultivating change talk.

Learning Objectives:

After this workshop participants will be able to:

respond effectively to sustain talk

cultivate change talk

identify strategies for responding to discord

This training , which has a prerequisite of at least four hours of Motivational-Interviewing training, will discuss further this effective approach in the treatment of substance abuse, dual diagnosis, and other challenging symptoms and provide participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches into an effective therapeutic intervention. During this one-day workshop, participants will be offered a brief review, and practice of, Motivational Interviewing spirit and some basic skills, and an overview of what's important.

This training reviews core concepts and skills of MI, foundation counseling, and communication skills that can be used by clinical or non-clinical professionals. Advanced MI concepts introduced after building solid foundation of introductory and intermediate skills.

Short skill demonstration videos

• Downloadable and printable practice sheets discretely guide conversations, or use the sheets to practice skills while role playing with colleagues

• Training available at work and at home, on your computer, tablet, or phone

 Motivational Interviewing Practitioners' Playground: Enhance Your MI Skills

Are you eager to work with other Motivational Interviewing (MI) practitioners for mutual skill development? Ready for specific MI challenges, like engaging with those experiencing trauma, strategically responding to change talk, using structured interventions to strengthen change, deciding what to do with limited time, trying creative planning approaches, and sharing new and disconfirming information with those we serve? Looking for new ideas and activities to bring to your communities of practice?

Advancing the Practice

Advanced Motivational Interviewing (up to 15 participants)

Motivational Interviewing: Advanced Practices

This workshop is for professionals who already practice MI skills in their work. Participants in this training will have the opportunity to discuss their clinical challenges, to receive feedback on their skills from peer learners, and to find one’s own voice within the style of Motivational Interviewing.  The agenda is planned as a full day of practice. 

Self Care at the Intersection of MI and DBT

Just in time for the holidays! Explore ways Motivational Interviewing and Dialectical Behavior Therapy can support our holiday wellness.

Dr. Brad Lundahl is a tenured professor of social work and clinical psychologist whose motivational interviewing research has been cited in thousands of studies.

A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing: Twenty-five years of empirical studies