Intermediate

Motivational Interviewing Doula: Intermediate Skill-Building for Proficiency and Guiding Others (monthly web-based meetings)

This interactive workshop seeks to build the skills of practitioners who have learned the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing and are interested in further expanding their proficiency.  The workshop will review the traps that practitioners can fall into that result in discord and sustain talk, while further augmenting the empathic skills of reflective listening.  Workshop participants will have an opportunity to practice complex reflections and expand the ways to respond to change talk to maximize the commitment to change.  Effort will be used to model ways to develop t

One-day Intermediate Motivational Interviewing (MI) training in Charleston, SC on Friday, February 6, 2015 from 9-4:30. Six (6) CEUs available for LMSW/LISWs, LPCs and LMFTs. MI is a person-centered, guiding method of communication and counseling to elicit and strengthen motivation for change. Participants in this highly-interactive workshop will: ask evocative questions; guide the conversation toward change; elicit, recognize, and reinforce change talk, and will practice and receive feedback in order to increase competency in MI. . Early registration before January 9, 2015.

Motivational Interviewing Doula: Intermediate Skill-Building for Proficiency and Guiding Others (monthly web-based meetings)

Motivational Interviewing Doula: Intermediate Skill-Building for Proficiency and Guiding Others (monthly web-based meetings)

Two Day Intermediate/Advanced Motivational Interivewing Training with Denise Ernst and Stephanie Wahab in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

Motivational Intervewing-Increasing Skillfulness

Building on the skills taught in Part I, this intermediate course focuses on counseling techniques unique to Motivational Interviewing. Participants will learn how to handle resistance, elicit change talk, and integrate MI with other techniques. The theoretical underpinnings of MI will be discussed, including research on the efficacy of this technique, ethical issues, and ways of increasing proficiency. Practice MI skills and receive feedback.

Online Intermediate MI workshop

This course meets on Tuesdays, beginning June 3, 2014 through July 8, 2014.  Cost is $500.00 USD and the trainer is Jacque Elder, PsyD.

This blended course uses both online resources as well as one  week Skype call over the span of 6 weeks.  The calls last 90 minutes and they are offered on Tuesdays, 10 am or 6 pm CST in an attempt to accommodate local and international learners.

Group MI: a 2 Day Skills Building Event

Group MI is suitable for many settings including:

Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Corrections, Medical Care, Health Education

Learners must complete the pre-requisite of Intro to MI and produce an audio session that meets profiency before allowed into this course.

This Intermediate course also requires pre and post audio sessions that are coded, and we will be using the VASE-R for pre and post assessment of MI as well.

This course spans 6 weeks on Tuesdays.  The dates are 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24, 7/1 and 7/8, 2014.  The Skype calls are at 10 am CST and the evening call is at 6 pm CST.  Both calls are on Tuesdays, and we will ask you to commit to one or the other.