6-week series (9 hrs): Uplevel Your Motivational Interviewing Skills, Advanced
Hello! Thank you for checking out this training opportunity! I’m Hillary Bolter, and I help people get really, really good at Motivational Interviewing. We are gonna get REAL about advancing your skills in MI (and have FUN!!). This is not a beginner/intro training!
Benefits:
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Keep the burden of change off YOUR shoulders
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Work less hard, get better results
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Feel confident tackling difficult conversations & ‘difficult’ clients
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Become a more successful helping professional
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Feel more effective with your clients
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Improve client outcomes (evidence-based practice, y’all)
Details:
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Group meets Wednesdays from 12p-1:30p EST
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Each session is LIVE VIRTUAL, with a mix of presentation, practice, videos & audio samples and Q&A via Zoom platform
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Course runs for 6 weeks, from 5/20 until 6/24
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Course includes private Facebook group where I will post additional learning resources, conduct Facebook Lives on special topics, and respond to YOUR questions and comments daily
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Certificate for 9 hours Continuing Education hours provided at completion of workshop, NCSAPPB approved Substance Specific and Evidence Based Practice (SS-EBP)
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All weekly sessions are recorded for your viewing and posted on our private FB group (so don’t worry if you miss a week!)
I’ve trained a lot of people in Motivational Interviewing. I hear participants say often, “I know MI, I use it all the time.” My next question is, “What do you mean by that?” Do you mean you approach your clients with the spirit of MI, a combination of compassion & acceptance, partnership & collaboration, evocation & curiosity? Do you mean you use the OARS skills (Open Ended Questions, Affirmations, Reflections & Summaries)? Do you mean you have honed your listening skills to catch the Change Talk, and over the course of a conversation, artfully soften the stuck talk and cultivate & build change talk around a specific goal to support your client resolving ambivalence about change? Do you mean you reflect more than you ask, use complex reflections most of the time, remember to provide affirmations and always ask permission before giving advice? Do you mean you avoid directing, prescribing, telling or getting ahead of your clients readiness level? (Don’t worry, you don’t need to know all of that to sign up for this course- that’s where you will arrive at course completion!)
Usually not. And that is what using MI means. And using MI to fidelity- (you know, the threshold of skills that is actually what all of those amazing evidence-based practice research trials have shown is effective)... THAT takes time to practice. And that’s what this advanced MI course is all about. Practice. We are gonna practice. Learning MI is not a one-and-done kinda thing. In this course, we are going to look at MI through the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) coding system. Through this lense, you will learn ‘what is MI’ and ‘what is not,’ how to listen for the global elements used to code MI, and behavior counts with particular focus on Reflection to Question ratio. You will have a chance to listen to your own sessions using this lens, and if you’d like, you will receive one MITI coded individualized feedback session during this course.
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