Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills
Online Course: Spring 2021
"Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills" is an intensive workshop that will help you advance your own skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and provide ideas for you and your agency to establish an effective and sustainable community of practice for ongoing skill development. You will receive personalized and individualized feedback on two conversation work samples to fine-tune and strengthen your MI practice. Webcasts and between-sessions work will help you target key MI skills and strategies for taking your own MI practice to the next level.
Suggested Prerequisites:
To gain optimal value from this workshop, we recommend that you have completed a high quality MI Introductory workshop within the past five years. Self-study and intensive reading in MI are also good preparation. Eagerness to learn and grow in the MI model as well as interest in continuing your practice will help you make the most of this advanced skills workshop. If you have not yet taken an introductory MI training, we are offering "Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change," a live online course starting April 16, 2021.
Who Should Take This Course
Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies seeking to incorporate best practices into their programs (see suggested prerequisites)
Learning Objectives
As a result of this course, participants will be able to:
Learning Objectives
- As a result of completing this course successfully, participants will be able to:
- Form effective responses to cultivate change talk
- Form effective responses to soften sustain talk
- Enhance abilities to navigate within and between the four processes
- Identify three strategies for effectively repairing conversational discord
- Identify three benefits of forming a community of practice or learning community
Course Facts
Dates: Fridays, May 28-July 2, 2021 (skipping June 19)
Time: 12-1:15 pm ET
Subject: Advanced Motivational Interviewing
Practice level: Advanced
Course type: Live online
- 75 minutes weekly live webcast
- Roughly 35 minutes of weekly home study activities
Covered topics: Motivational Interviewing, Implementation of Best Practices
CE credits:
- ASWB: 4.5 hours
- NAADAC: 10 hours
- NBCC: 4.5 hours
