About this Event
🎓 Certificate: Earn a certificate that showcases your new skills in motivational interviewing with pride.
🕐 Duration: Immersive 1-Day Intensive
🏫 Delivery Options: Available in Classroom, in-house and Live Online
🗣️ Language: Delivered in fluent, professional English
⭐ Credits Earned: Gain 8 valuable professional development credits
We provide energizing snacks, refreshing beverages, and a delicious lunch to keep you fueled throughout the day
Course Overview:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based, patient-centered counseling method focused on goal-oriented change. Designed to empower clients through self-motivation, MI is particularly useful in addressing ambivalence toward behavioral change, making it highly effective for mental health, substance use, and chronic health conditions. This one-day interactive training provides participants with practical tools to facilitate client-driven change and techniques for addressing resistance constructively. Through role-playing, group activities, and reflection, participants will leave equipped to implement MI in their practice settings.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand client behavior and motivation for change.
- Apply MI as an alternative to persuasion, focusing on client-driven solutions.
- Use effective communication skills to encourage conversation and support change.
- Assess client readiness to change using the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change.
- Elicit and strengthen clients' intrinsic motivation by exploring and resolving ambivalence.
- Respond constructively to resistance in client sessions.
- Put MI techniques into practice, with a focus on reflective listening, effective questioning, and summarizing.
- Integrate the person-centered spirit of MI to foster client autonomy and self-efficacy.
- Manage neutrality effectively when clients make challenging decisions.
- Address common frustrations and improve clinical confidence in guiding change.
Course Goals:
- Alternative to Persuasion: Learn MI as a collaborative approach for behavior change.
- Client Motivation: Help clients uncover and act on their motivations for positive change.
- Progressive Skills: Enhance awareness of session dynamics and adjust as needed.
- Patient-Centered Approach: Infuse MI’s principles into everyday client interactions.
- Constructive Responses: Use MI techniques effectively when facing client resistance or ambivalence.
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Bringing the Motivational Interviewing Training in-house allowsyou and your team to learn in a familiar, collaborative environment. It encourages group participation and helps align everyone with a shared communication approach.
This training builds essential skills like reflective listening, handling resistance, and encouraging client-driven change. These are especially useful in healthcare, customer service, education, and social services.Through practical exercises, group discussions, and real-life scenarios, you and your team will gain the confidence to apply motivational interviewing techniques immediately.
An in-house session ensures the content is tailored to your team’s roles and challenges, making the learning more relevant and impactful.
📧Ready to bring this powerful workshop to your team? Contact us at [email protected] to schedule your customized in-house session.
Agenda
1. Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Info: ○ Principles of MI: patient-centered, focused, goal-oriented
○ Overview of ambivalence, resistance, and client motivation
2. Understanding and Enhancing Motivation for Change
Info: ○ Identifying and encouraging change talk
○ Techniques to promote intrinsic motivation
3. Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
Info: ○ Stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation,
action, maintenance
○ Recognizing client readiness for change
4. Key MI Skills: Reflective Listening and Communication
Info: ○ Active listening to understand and respond to client emotions
○ Managing high-emotion situations and dealing constructively with
resistance
5. Strategies for Goal-Oriented MI Conversations
Info: ○ Applying open-ended questions, reflections, and summaries
○ Balancing guidance with client autonomy and support for
self-efficacy
6. Practical Application of MI Skills
Info: ○ Handling ambivalence and building confidence in clients
○ Real-world scenarios and practice sessions
7. Interactive Review and Reflection
Info: ○ Group activities and discussions for skill reinforcement
○ Opportunities for self-reflection and feedback
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
level 1 suite 107/17 Bolton St, 17 Bolton Street Level 1, Suite 107, 17 Bolton Street, Newcastle, NSW 2300, Australia
AUD 688.50 to AUD 847.33
