Paul is a Registered Social Worker and member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). He is a veteran in the field of health behaviour change. For more than twenty years he worked with AADAC (the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission) and is well known in the field for his broad experience base as: Addictions Counsellor, Training Coordinator, Prevention Consultant, Team Leader, Clinical Supervisor, and Clinical Director. Since 1993, when Paul completed his initial workshop training in MI (Trainer: Dr. Stephen Rollnick, co-author, along with Dr. W.R. Miller, of the primary MI text). Paul has extensive advance-level training in MI practice and in teaching MI with key people in the field of MI practice and research.
Paul has received instruction under Jeff Allison (Consultancy in Edinburgh,UK) in a “train-the-trainer” intensive. He completed his first MI Training for Trainers workshop in Crete, Greece, in 2003 (Instructors: Dr. Rollnick and Dr. T. Moyers ). He completed additional training for MI trainers in Miami, Florida, in 2006 (Instructors: Dr. D. Ernst and Dr. R. Demmel). Paul was selected three times by the International MINT organization to facilitate it’s annual international Training-for-New-Trainers (in Canada, England, and USA).
Paul also has training and experience in the use of the MITI 4.2 coding system and in MI Supervision. The Paul Burke Training Group has developed customized MI (uptake) systems for several organizations in Canada in the field of Healthcare, Justice/Corrections, Mental Health Services, Homelessness Agencies, Addictions, and Chronic Health Conditions.
Literally, Paul can say that he has trained “coast-to-coast-to-coast” in Canada! He has provided workshops as far north as Inuvik and Whitehorse; as far west as Vancouver and Victoria and east all the way to Halifax, St. John’s, and P.E.I – (and, of course, to dozens of towns and cities in between). In addition to speaking engagements at conferences, Paul’s group currently conducts more than 40 M.I.workshops per year. Since 1996 he has facilitated more than 300 workshops at both the introductory and advanced levels. He is also often a lead consultant to organizations that want to develop in-house learning systems for advancing the practice of M.I. Paul is noted for excellence as an instructor and conference presenter and for his entertaining, humorous and creative approaches to facilitating learning. Always with outstanding reviews and feedback, he has presented across Canada to counsellors, social workers, teachers, health educators, nurses, physicians, clergy, psychologists, police officers, military personnel and corrections workers. Paul invites you to drop him an e-mail paul@paulburketraining.com or to call anytime – if you’d like to “chat MI”. The Paul Burke Group are the only Motivational Interviewing Trainers in Canada to offer a 100% guarantee on all their workshops.
Over the years, we’ve designed a comprehensive and cost-effective “menu of options” in the form of 10 MI training workshops – all of which are unique in Canada. They have been well tested, and “proven” at the agency level to facilitate the uptake of MI skills for staff who work in a wide variety of client-service agencies. Over the past 12 years, we’ve fine-tuned a training approach and learning process for hundreds of agencies, Canada-wide. Our training model is unique to us and we can connect you with any number of references from people who have experienced our training approach and have rated our programs, and their satisfaction with our services, at the level of “excellent” in virtually every project we’ve taken on since we formed as a company 12 years ago.
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