Motivational Interviewing-Healthcare professionals& leaders Part1- Nov 25th

Motivational Interviewing series: Starting on November 25th, December 2nd, 4th and 5thth, 2024 from 9:00AM:11:00pm each session.

This 4-part training series will focus on the strategic components utilized in Motivational Interviewing (MI) that highlight relationship building skills and strategies to evoke and respond to client change talk. The objective is to provide Health Care Providers (HCPs) an in-depth exploration of these concepts combined with skills practice during each session. The sessions will build upon each other within the 4 processes of an MI intervention.

Each session will be two (2) hours in duration and participants are expected to attend all four (4) sessions for continuity of the learning process. Recommendation- Registrants must have taken either Choices and Changes: Motivating Healthy Behaviours or Brief Action Planning or Foundations of MI (Contact [email protected] for upcoming Healthcare Professionals workshops to register for Choices and Changes or Brief Action Planning trainings)

Topics Addressed in the series are:

Session 1: Engaging and Focusing Process on November 25th, 2024 from 9AM-11AM

This session will focus on strategic use of OARS skills; the underlying philosophy of CAPE (Compassion, Acceptance, Partnership and Evocative Spirit); identifying communication barriers and the “righting reflex” which impacts therapeutic relationship building.

Session 2: Identifying, Eliciting and Responding to Change Talk on December 2nd, 2024 from 9AM-11AM

This session will focus on identifying and listening for any client change talk; strategies to elicit or evoke change talk within the client and how to effectively respond to change talk so the client talks more about making change(s) and determines that something needs to be different.

Session 3: Exploring Ambivalence, Raising Discrepancy and Addressing Relationship Discord on December 4th, 2024 from 9AM-11AM

This session will focus on strategies that can be used to explore client ambivalence about change and how to raise concerns with the client about their current behaviour. Skills on how to maintain therapeutic rapport using advanced reflective listening skills to counter/challenge the client’s thoughts about change will be explored.

Session 4: Commitment to Change, Obtaining a Goal and Developing Action Plans on December 5th, 2024 from 9AM-11AM

This session will focus on identifying and evoking specific client commitment language that indicates readiness for change and how HCPs can seamlessly move into the planning process to develop client centred goals and action plans.

For more information, contact Constantin Mugenga at [email protected]