Los Angeles, CA, USA - Intermediate/Advanced 2 day Training

These are some of the tools this Motivational Interviewing workshop will equip you with:

• Pull for change talk and minimize discord and lessen sustain talk in your conversations
• Identifying the back-story of what the client may not be telling you
• Helping the client identify their desired goals
• Strategies and techniques that create momentum for change
• Intermediate/advanced exercises and training in MI
• Differentiate and practice simple and complex reflections
• Practice skills to elicit, recognize and reinforce “change talk”
• Recognize and identity MI skills through role plays
• Advance in all MI skills with focus on reducing client resistance to changing behavior
• Learn some basics of the MITI 4.2.1 coding system and have the opportunity to have one of your MI conversations coded with feedback

Target Audience:

This workshop is geared towards for professionals working with clients with goals of health related behavior change: physicians, nurses, health educators, care managers, dietitians, social workers, counselors, psychologists, life coaches, clergy, probation/corrections officers, dentists, dental hygienists, personal trainers, teachers and students, etc.

For more information go to http://motivationalinterviewingtrainer.com/intermediate-training/

What’s included in registration:

12 hours of training
Resource materials
Beverages and Snacks
Schedule: 9-4