Introductory

In a full-day introductory workshop, participants will learn the basic concepts related to Motivational Interviewing: Evocation, compassion, partnership, acceptance. Special attention will be paid to naming and describing the skills of Motivational Interviewing: Open ended questioning, affirming, reflective listening, and summarizing. Participants who complete the introductory training generally receive the knowledge necessary to talk about Motivational Interviewing with others, and will usually leave with a new set of skills to begin practicing individually.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a conversation style that supports change in a manner congruent with a person’s own values and concerns using collaborative, goal-orientated methods of communication. This introduction covers the spirit, core skills and processes of MI, as well as the most current research of MI use and effective practice. Professionals from a wide array of helping roles such as education, dental care, addictions, healthcare, social services and counseling can benefit from learning MI.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a conversation style that supports change in a manner congruent with a person’s own values and concerns using collaborative, goal-orientated methods of communication. This introduction covers the spirit, core skills and processes of MI, as well as the most current research of MI use and effective practice. Professionals from a wide array of helping roles such as education, dental care, addictions, healthcare, social services and counseling can benefit from learning MI.

Two Day Motivational Interviewing Fundamentals Skills Training

A 2 day skills building course for all practitioners working in brain injury rehabilitation

Are you an allied health practitioner, physician, social worker, care co-ordinator or case manager working in brain injury rehabilitation? Would you like to learn more about motivational interviewing, the person-centred approach that can help to strengthen a client’s motivation for behaviour change? If so, this course is for you.

EQUINE-ASSISTED INTRODUCTION TO MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING

Do you ever wonder how to help those you serve to see and embrace the need for change?  A normal part of change is ambivalence - feeling two ways about it.  The challenge of facilitating change more effectively may involve making some changes in your approach.

The Basics of Motivational Interviewing

This two-day training will discuss an effective approach in the treatment of challenging clients, and provide participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches into an effective therapeutic intervention -- when to use, when not to use Motivational Interviewing. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence.

Motivational Interviewing: The Basics

During this four-week online workshop, participants will learn: the fundamentals of motivational interviewing, the core OARS strategies of the motivational interviewing process, ways to identify and elicit change talk, as well as strategies for exploring and resolving ambivalence. The learning process is varied across several modalities, to maximize your opportunity to familiarize yourself with motivational interviewing as it can be applied in your practice.