In order to help new MI’ers to “take it up a notch”, we offer two additional “levels” of MI training to follow our “Foundations in Motivational Interviewing” workshop. In this second level of MI training, we “go a little deeper” into the technical skills that are required for the competent practice of MI. With extensive emphasis on participant practice sessions and instructor demonstrations, this second of our workshop series will help you to develop a more strategic practice with your Motivational Interviewing skills.
a) Engaging with enhanced efficiency and depth
b) Helping clients hear their change talk powerfully
c) Evoking change talk
d) Developing a focus for the conversation
a) Recognize change talk when it emerges in subtle ways (“when change talk whispers”)
b) Evoke change talk using all OARS skills, once a change target has been identified
c) Respond to Change Talk in ways that move a client conversation toward commitment for change
This workshop is an ideal “next step” for anyone who has completed an introductory level workshop and who is ready to become more intentional, strategic, and purposeful in their MI work with clients. The emphasis in this installment is on applied practice. (We do not re-teach core concepts that are the basis of Level I training – so it is very important that core concepts of Level I training is relatively “fresh” in your memory before you dig n to the exercises in Level II). The workshop is fun and 3 days goes by very, very fast! You’ll leave feeling much more capable of “guiding” in an MI conversation than is normally the case after Level I training. Give us a call any time if you’d like to discuss workshop content or to help us assess your readiness to participate in this, our “second step” toward the competent practice of MI.
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