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Are there particular topics that you “can’t talk about” even with friends and loved ones?  Accurate empathy is a learnable skill that focuses on understanding rather than winning and losing and can be a first step toward meaningful dialogue and collaboration. During this day long-workshop, Dr. Bill Miller will lead you though a sequence of practical steps and experiential exercises so you feel confident employing accurate empathy in a variety of settings. Dr. William R. Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico.

SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) is a comprehensive, evidence-based practice approach to provide early intervention for persons with substance use, misuse disorders including marijuana and nicotine.

SBIRT is a simple, flexible and cost effective, efficient intervention in primary care, emergency departments, schools, wellness centers, and professional and community settings.

This training focuses on the spirit, skills and tools that helping professionals need to recognize and employ SBIRT.

The Training Point is a three-day course designed to enhance knowledge and abilities in facilitating trainings in general and this offering will be focused on participants who have background knowledge and skills of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and/or Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).  The Training Point is grounded in adult education theory and practice, and as such is learner-centered, experiential, holistic, authentic, expressive, reflective, social, collaborative, democratic, cognitive, developmental, constructivist, and cha

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The interpersonal skill of empathy is a learnable way to communicate and is widely applicable in our everyday lives.   It is well-specified, real, and reliable.  This workshop will teach and provide opportunities to practice empathic understanding using a “tell-show-try” approach. 

Welcome to the Wild West Regional Retreat Motivational Interviewing Roundup!

MINTties and aspiring MINTies are invited to enjoy a weekend of all things Motivational Interviewing in the beautiful eastern Sierra. This retreat is free of cost for the first 15 people who register. Please register at the following SignUpGenius website: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b49a8a622a6fb6-wild

Motivational Interviewing Trainers Forum

To cap off HETI’s Valentine’s Week Extravaganza and following his “Teaching MI in Agencies, Institutions & Schools” workshop, Stephen will be leading his tenth annual forum to bring together new and old graduates on Friday, February 15th, 2019.  This will be a chance for getting together to reflect on our experiences with bringing MI to a larger audience, to learn a little more about MI, and to discuss our future efforts at increasing the use of MI in our various communities.

In this advanced, intensive 3-day training, proficiency in understanding Motivational Interviewing (MI) is assumed as a starting point so applicants must already have substantial familiarity and experience with Motivational Interviewing. The focus is on training and coaching skills toward teaching MI and to facilitate the learning of MI by others. This training does not focus on acquisition of proficiency in the clinical skills themselves.

During this three day workshop, participants will:

•Discuss ways to teach, coach this material to others.

To cap off HETI’s February Extravaganza, following his “Teaching MI in Agencies, Institutions & Schools” workshop, Stephen will be leading his ninth annual forum to bring together new and old graduates on Friday, February 15th, 2019.  This will be a chance for getting together to reflect on our experiences with bringing MI to a larger audience, to learn a little more about MI, and to discuss our future efforts at increasing the use of MI in our various communities.

Motivational Interviewing in Brief Interventions for Alcohol (BASICS) and Marijuana.
A second level training for participants who have had at least 5 hours of prior MI training and want to enhance their skills to support BASICS or brief motivational interventions (BMI) for alcohol and marijuana use.