Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills
About this course
Overview:
This intensive workshop will help you advance your own skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and provide ideas for you and your agency to establish an effective and sustainable community of practice for on-going skill development. You will receive personalized and individualized feedback on two conversation work samples, to fine-tune and strengthen your MI practice. Webcasts and between-sessions work will help you target key MI skills and strategies for taking your own MI practice to the next level.
Suggested Prerequisites:
It is recommended that you will have completed a high quality MI Introductory workshop within the past five years, in order to gain optimal value from this workshop. Self-study and intensive reading in MI are also good preparation. Eagerness to learn and grow in the MI model as well as interest in continuing your practice will help you make the most of this Advancing Skills workshop.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of completing this course successfully, participants will be able to:
- Form effective responses to cultivate change talk
- Form effective responses to soften sustain talk
- Enhance abilities to navigate within and between the four processes
- Identify three strategies for effectively repairing conversational discord
- Identify three benefits of forming a community of practice or learning community
