Intermediate

By the end of the training, participants will be able to: Identify seven types of change talk; Utilize strategies to resolve client discord; Progress through an MI-style of conversation using four tasks: engaging, focusing, evoking, planning; Identify when to counsel with neutrality (equipoise); and demonstrate MI skills through practice dyads.

You're ready for the intermediate level if you're already familiar with concepts like ambivalence, change talk, sustain talk, and the OARS skills. 

MI With People Who Don't Want To Change

Level Up Your MI Skills with an In-Person Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training!
Presented by Motivational Interviewing Learning Exchange, LLC in collaboration with ASU School of Social Work – Tucson

Join us for a day of skill-building designed for professionals who already have foundational experience with Motivational Interviewing (MI) and want to take their practice to the next level.

Level Up Your MI Skills!
In-Person Motivational Interviewing (MI) Trainings presented by Motivational Interviewing Learning Exchange, LLC in collaboration with ASU School of Social Work – Tucson

Join us for MI skill-building designed for professionals who already have foundational experience with Motivational Interviewing (MI) and want to take their practice to the next level.

If you've been trained in Motivational Interviewing, and have an understanding of the spirit, skills and strategies of the approach, and would like an opportunity to improve your MI use through practice and feedback, you are welcome to attend our MI Skill Development Groups. Each month, we gather to consider some aspect of MI through the lens of our shared expertise, and then practice with one another, doing our best to provide each other with helpful feedback.

If you've been trained in Motivational Interviewing, and have an understanding of the spirit, skills and strategies of the approach, and would like an opportunity to improve your MI use through practice and feedback, you are welcome to attend our MI Skill Development Groups. Each month, we gather to consider some aspect of MI through the lens of our shared expertise, and then practice with one another, doing our best to provide each other with helpful feedback.

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing  Dates: Part 1 04/14/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time; Part 2 04/15/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing  Dates: Part 1 03/17/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time; Part 2 03/18/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing  Dates: Part 1 02/03/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time; Part 2 02/04/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing  Dates: Part 1 01/06/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time; Part 2 01/07/26 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time

facilitator led - Intermediate MI

In this course there will be a review of the underlying spirit, structure and principles of Motivational Interviewing. This course invites and challenges students to look deeper, to do more complex reflections, and to give themselves more feedback. Participants will look at the skills that will help get clients to the ambivalence and the struggle. At the end of the course participants will demonstrate and practice MI in action by applying MI in a live, recorded conversation.