Health Education & Training Institute

This two-day training is an introduction to the evidence-based clinical method of Motivational Interviewing, an effective approach in the care of challenging clients, and will provide participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. After orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and principles of Motivational Interviewing, practical exercises will help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit change talk, and roll with discord.

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This workshop will be lively as participants in our concurrent Teaching Motivational Interviewing workshop will be periodically joining to lead exercises as part of their training. We are offering this workshop, as well as the following Advancing the Practice training, at a discount and will be inviting feedback about the new trainers.

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From recent Foundational MI trainings:

• I can't thank you enough for the amazing beauty, honesty, vulnerability and humor that you bring to these training.

• Steve had a great way of explaining the process and showing how and why it can be a useful way to approach clients with compassion and understanding

• I am so glad I enrolled! The workshop was provocative, affirming, and opened my mind to new ways I can work with my clients. My range has expanded.