Motivational Interviewing Training, Coding & Coaching
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating with clients and patients who are considering making a behavior change. It is a powerful and effective tool used worldwide for practitioners to help their clients/patients discover and strengthen their own reasons for making a positive change. Motivational Interviewing is:
Evidenced Based (4 Decades of research have evaluated MI as effective in over 1000 clinical trials)
Used in many settings (including: alcohol and drug addictions, mental health, smoking cessation, dental hygiene, criminal justice, health care, diabetes, medication adherence, weight loss, developmental disabilities, sport, education…)
An adjunct to clinical skills (Can be used in conjunction with: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Behaviour Modification, …)
Widely used (Over 50 languages and around the world).
Motivational Interviewing Training – Customized
Motivational Interviewing Coaching and Coding
Motivational Interviewing Training – Public Sessions
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training:
Are you looking to find ways to motivate your clients and patients?
Do you want to learn the keys to understanding what truly motivates others?
Are you feeling stuck when people don’t follow through on making healthy changes in their lives?
As a practitioner are you feeling frustrated or stressed out?
Are you wanting to find ways to help your clients/patients make healthy choices and lasting changes in a non-judgemental, supportive atmosphere?
Motivational Interviewing is an evidenced-based practice that helps practitioners learn effective ways of helping their clients and patients get un-stuck and make lasting behavioural changes.
Who might find MI helpful in their practice?
Social Workers
Case Managers
Direct Service Staff
Health Care practitioners (Doctors, Nurses, Psychiatrists, Physiotherapists, Nutritionists, Dental Hygienists, Veterinarians…)
Mental Health and Addictions practitioners
Teachers and Coaches
Personal Coaching
And more...
What you will learn:
Motivational Interviewing training is designed to teach the attitude, approach, and skills of MI in an experiential, interactive and compassionate environment.
Learn and practice skills that will help you create a partnership with the people you support to help them make lasting positive behaviour changes.
We offer In Person AND VIRTUAL SESSIONS.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Coding & Coaching:
Individualized coding and coaching helps individuals master the skills of MI. Send a recording of a session with a client or patient. We will review your recording and code it using a standardized tool. Then we will have a virtual meeting to review the coding and coach you on what you are doing well and discuss opportunities for growth. Coding and Coaching Packages available.
Motivational Training Courses Available:
Introduction to Motivational Interviewing:
A lively and compassionate interactive session learning the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing.
Length: Varies. Normally a one or two day session.
About this Event
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Define Motivational Interviewing.
Understand the 3 Processes of MI.
Understand the key concepts of Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, and Empowerment.
Have some understanding and practice of: Open Questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries
Be able to recognize change talk
Intermediate
Building on what we’ve learned in the Introduction to MI, we will continue to advance our knowledge and skills of MI by being introduced to more concepts. In this class, we will have more opportunity to practice what we’ve already learned and become more familiar with the concepts and skills of MI.
Advanced
This MI Session is for people with at least one year of consistent MI practice. We will go into more depth in this course building on the current skills that you already have. We will practice our MI skills by engaging in group and individualized sessions. Practitioners will be invited to examine their current MI practice and discover areas they wish to develop building confidence and expanding their MI repertoire. Individualized coding and support can be built into the advanced sessions.
Customized Training
Training workshops can be live or virtual. Customized Motivational Interviewing Sessions are also available accompanied by individualized MI coding and coaching.
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Upcoming Public Motivational Interviewing Sessions
Training workshops can be live or virtual. Customized Motivational Interviewing Sessions are also available accompanied by one-on-one MI coaching.
“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."
– CARL ROGERS
Why is Motivational Interviewing so Effective?
It is different. MI is an alternative to the usual approach of educating patients/clients/students and trying to persuade them to change. Advising people to change is often if not always ineffective.
It is respectful. The spirit or attitude of people who practice MI is key. We honour and respect a person’s choice and autonomy acting as guides to help them discover their own reasons and needs to make a change.
It is brief. Several studies have shown that practicing MI with patients/clients actually saves time. Sometimes a single session can be enough to motivate behavioural change outcomes.
It can be learned. You can become versed in MI through interactive training and on-going coaching by a skilled trainer. Like any new skill of course, learning MI takes practice and time.
Who would benefit from taking Motivational Interviewing?
MI has been studied and implemented in hundreds of environments. It appears to have no boundaries in its ability to help people make positive and healthy changes in their lives. Anyone who is wanting to help someone make a behaviour change will find MI applicable to their work.
If you work in health care, social work, social services, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, education, health promotion, counselling, smoking cessation, coaching, or criminal justice, you will benefit from learning MI.
Many professionals take MI including: case managers, primary healthcare providers, addiction specialists, doctors, nurses, social workers, probation officers, coaches, dieticians, supervisors, personal trainers, veterinarians, physical therapists, dental hygienists, and weight loss specialists.
What are the benefits of MI for you and your clients/patients?
Leads to less burnout and frustration. Giving the control back to your clients can help practitioners feel less responsible for your clients changing.
Adaptable approach. Learn to combine your current approach with an MI style and techniques.
Learn how to work with ‘resistant’ clients. Develop effective techniques to use with clients/patients who are resistant to change.
Help clients/patients become unstuck and improve their lives by building their own motivation for lasting positive behaviour changes.
“Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change.”
― WILLIAM R. MILLER, Co-Founder of Motivational Interviewing