Intermediate

MI with People Who Don’t Want to Change

MI Skills for Engagement In-Person Training

A consistent challenge with many organizations/providers are clients who “just don’t come back.” Research suggests that clients who are actively engaged are more likely to stay in, adhere to and benefit from treatment. Client engagement is one of the most consistent predictors of treatment outcome.  This course will cover the MI task of engagement and how to apply MI skills and strategies to form a  working alliance and connect with your clients.  This is an in-person workshop with a limit of 25.

Level 2: Skills Lab Intermediate course

So... you have taken basic training in Motivational Interviewing, but feel like you aren’t yet fluent in MI?

Hone Your Skills!

This Level 2: Skills Lab Intermediate course is all about skill practice and integration! Experiential education--We learn best by doing! A significant amount of each session will be spent in actually doing or observing skills practice. You’re gonna complete this course with more confidence in your ability to ‘speak MI!’

Level 2: Skills Lab Intermediate course

So... you have taken basic training in Motivational Interviewing, but feel like you aren’t yet fluent in MI?

Hone Your Skills!

This Level 2: Skills Lab Intermediate course is all about skill practice and integration! Experiential education--We learn best by doing! A significant amount of each session will be spent in actually doing or observing skills practice. You’re gonna complete this course with more confidence in your ability to ‘speak MI!’

Motivational Interviewing in Groups: Igniting Group Change

Thursday, October 24th, 2024 10:00am-5:00pm ET

To receive CE credit, you must attend the entire live event. No partial CE credit is awarded for this event.

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.

This Course turns the attention of MI
on our ambivalence about our own Emotions

Ambivakence and Fear of Feelings
Basic Principles of Emotion Focused MI 
with Sky Kershner, LPC, LCSW

Wednesdays at 2:30 - 4:00pm  ET (nyc time zone)

Number of classes: 6
Meeting on Zoom
Duration of each session: 90 minutes 
Tickets: $125 for the course

Miller and Rollnick (2023) described motivational interviewing as, “…a particular way of talking with people about change and growth… (p. 7).”  While it contains the elements of an ordinary, everyday conversation, it many ways it is extraordinary.  It is those extraordinary elements this training session targets. 

Free Online MI Practice Sessions, Every Monday and Friday

Every Monday at 12 Noon Eastern Time (NYC) / (9am Pacific LA / 5pm GMT London)
Every Friday at 9am Eastern Time (NYC) / (6am Pacific LA / 2pm GMT London)

Register here for the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/6uyYEmVvnYHQ2SWo6

Want to practice, register and just show up! Contact me with questions, more info below
skykershner@gmail.com

In this two-day VIRTUAL intensive, experiential training, participants will build on their foundational Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills through: