Intermediate

Motivational Interviewing Clinical/Beginner Training

Motivational interviewing is a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. It is a person-centered counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change by paying particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen an individual's motivation for and movement toward a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person's own reasons for change within an  atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.

Motivational Interviewing: Deepening Your Skills

Motivational Interviewing: Deepening Your Skills

Skill Development in Motivational Interviewing

This training reviews the essential elements of MI, provides detailed information on the process of adapting MI to groups across a variety of formats, including group set up and use of skills to shape group conversation. Whether you wish to lead MI groups or just explore how this approach can work, the two-day workshop can help you learn about and experience this approach. The workshop is highly experiential, with most of the time spent practicing the approach in working groups that allow for development and deepening over the two days together.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of MI. One will learn the fundamental spirit and principles of MI, the language of change, as well as the core counselling skills of the approach. MI is a skill that takes practice to learn. The simplicity of the approach is often confused with being easy to learn.  Research has indicated that MI is a skill best learned through observed practice and feedback.

The Special Guest of our conference is Prof. William Miller, the creator of the Motivating Dialogue, a tireless promoter of humanistic work with another human being, one of the most cited scientists in the world.

The patronage over the conference was taken by the Polish Society of Motivational Therapy.

During the conference, we will present as  DM a universal tool used in education, therapy, medicine, coaching, social care, addiction therapy, penitentiary care, etc.

This training day is for those who have previous experience with MI. Most of training day will be skills practice, with special focus on the fourth process, Planning.

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

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.

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing training is an intensive skill-building session. Participants are expected to arrive prepared to practice the skills that were learned in the introductory level training. If you are comfortable with the following concepts, you are probably ready for the intermediate level:

1. Ambivalence

2. Change Talk and Sustain Talk

3. Righting Reflex

4. Spirit of MI

5. OARS