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    Trevor Simper

    Trevor Simper Motivational Interviewing

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    Making Difficult Conversations Easier

    Half Day | In-House | Max. 15 Participants

    Workshop Outcomes:
    • Confidently and calmly conduct yourself in difficult conversations
    • Understand how to not ‘match’ the psychological state or a conversational partner
    • Avoid the blame game
    Topics Covered
    • Understand how to pick up on what’s not being said (as well as what is)
    • Learn how to avoid argumentation
    • Know when to speak and when to listen
    Location:
    • Perth
    • Willing to work remote
    • Willing to work interstate
    • Willing to work internationally
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    Workshop:
    Making Difficult Conversations Easier

    Overview

    Your colleagues, your employees, your boss, your clients, and your spouse are all possible (and frequent) partners for confrontation and ‘difficult’ conversations. Borrowed from psychotherapeutic approaches effective in treating patients who are often angry, shameful, or traumatised, this half day workshop will provide you with clear evidence-based techniques for making difficult conversations at work and home easier.

    Workshop Outcomes

    • Confidently and calmly conduct yourself in difficult conversations
    • Understand how to not ‘match’ the psychological state or a conversational partner
    • Avoid the blame game

    Topics Covered

    • Understand how to pick up on what’s not being said (as well as what is)
    • Learn how to avoid argumentation
    • Know when to speak and when to listen

    Who is this workshop for

    People needing to represent themselves both in terms of talking up the chain of command, and those heading in the other direction. Undoubtedly, the added benefit to this workshop is the applicability of this approach to personal relationships and dealing with others outside of work, as well as in.

    Handouts/materials provided

    Yes

    What to bring

    A sense of hope and aspiration

    Facilitator

    Trevor Simper

    Trevor Simper Motivational Interviewing

    Dr Trevor Simper has worked with organisations large and small who focus on supporting effective behavioural changes in their clients. The list is not exhaustive but... social workers, community workers, medics, nurses, teachers, university lecturers, physiotherapists, personal trainers, drugs and alcohol workers and health visitors have all benefited from learning motivational interviewing. 'If I had to try and quantify why the training works so well- it would be that people immediately grasp this approach as good for their own personal lives as well as highly effective for helping their clients.'

    Trevor trained in the United States, Scotland and England around psychology, health wellbeing and motivational interviewing over many years and has worked as a researcher and lecturer in several large Universities in the UK and Australia and delivered training workshops for national health services, large pharmaceutical companies, elite sports coaches and sporting organisations and many local government departments. His work on Motivational Interviewing is published in numerous peer-reviewed science articles and his work also builds on from delivering training workshops by coaching professionals one to one in developing their ongoing behaviour change skills back in the workplace.

    Trevor has a doctorate in psychology, Masters, and undergraduate science degrees and a postgraduate certificate for teaching; he is the founder of Small Changes Healthcare Pty.

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    Trevor Simper

    Trevor Simper Motivational Interviewing

    About the facilitator

    Dr Trevor Simper has worked with organisations large and small who focus on supporting effective behavioural changes in their clients. The list is not exhaustive but... social workers, community workers, medics, nurses, teachers, university lecturers, physiotherapists, personal trainers, drugs and alcohol workers and health visitors have all benefited from learning motivational interviewing. 'If I had to try and quantify why the training works so well- it would be that people immediately grasp this approach as good for their own personal lives as well as highly effective for helping their clients.'

    Trevor trained in the United States, Scotland and England around psychology, health wellbeing and motivational interviewing over many years and has worked as a researcher and lecturer in several large Universities in the UK and Australia and delivered training workshops for national health services, large pharmaceutical companies, elite sports coaches and sporting organisations and many local government departments. His work on Motivational Interviewing is published in numerous peer-reviewed science articles and his work also builds on from delivering training workshops by coaching professionals one to one in developing their ongoing behaviour change skills back in the workplace.

    Trevor has a doctorate in psychology, Masters, and undergraduate science degrees and a postgraduate certificate for teaching; he is the founder of Small Changes Healthcare Pty.

    Key Expertise
    • Motivational Intervieiwng
    • Behaviour Change skills
    • Communication 'micro-skills'
    • Counselling for change
    Industry Focus
    • Government/non profit
    • Healthcare
    • Education
    • Pharma
    • Sport
    Based in:
    • Perth
    Specialist Categories
    • Counselling
  • Ask a Question
  • Power in Leadership

    The psychology of power in leadership Leaders carry and use their power in different ways; compare the influence of Mahatma Ghandi opposing British rule or Nelson Mandela’s stand against apartheid with the brutality of Stalin and the ruthlessness of drug lords such as Pablo Escobar. No doubt about it, leaders can be either heroes or […]

    Gender, psychology and leadership

    This month we switch to gender and leadership in the third of our series of eight leadership and psychology articles by Dr Trevor Simper. Are there really personality differences between male and female leaders? Is it plausible to suggest difference in gender predisposes us to be more effective in specific roles? And which specific personality […]

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    In the second of a series of 8 articles Dr Trevor Simper reviews the key aspects of psychology in leadership and groups. It is a brief tour de force of the decades of research which have gone into our understanding of group dynamics and leadership. He considers which decisions are best made by an individual […]

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    What is it that makes a good leader? And what is the difference between managing and leading? We have all spent some of our time leading or being lead, and managed or managing. This is also true though, for people in general, i.e. people who are not corporate leaders. Parents lead children, people involved in […]

    Three Reasons Why Motivational Interviewing is Such a Powerful Tool

    Whether changing behaviour is a concern for yourself, your colleagues or your clients, there is a body of verifiable, evidence based practice for getting results. In this article Trevor Simper gives the 3 reasons why motivational interviewing is such a powerful tool for helping people change, explains a little more about what MI is and, […]

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    Motivational interviewing is on the rise globally and in Australia, especially in our capital cities- as many of our modern day occupations involve supporting and helping people to change- including healthcare, sports-coaching, social work, counselling, drugs and alcohol work and many others. It sounds rather glib: motivational interviewing- a bit like motivational speaking (I’m sorry […]

    Motivational Interviewing and Motivation for Getting Through This

    Like other areas of the community- it is time for us to focus on crisis management. We probably, nearly all, have loved ones who are in the most vulnerable risk group for Covid-19 and we all want to help. Many people are sensibly focusing on what can be done rather than what can’t. Ironically this […]

    Learn MI Effective Approach to Coaching in Sport

    See what I did- MI effective approach to coaching? I.e. my coaching! Well no it probably doesn’t work unless you recognise MI as the acronym for motivational interviewing… Motivational interviewing was born out of treating psychological problems and has also more recently, become a frontline approach for helping people change in health and social care […]

    The Business of Change

    Change is of course happening all the time, change is either easy, difficult or even near-impossible depending upon the nature of the change and the readiness of the person, people or organisation involved. We, individually, go through life changes which are not always volitional- aging is the key example- and obviously changes such as this […]

    Trevor Simper

    Trevor Simper Motivational Interviewing

    About the facilitator

    Dr Trevor Simper has worked with organisations large and small who focus on supporting effective behavioural changes in their clients. The list is not exhaustive but... social workers, community workers, medics, nurses, teachers, university lecturers, physiotherapists, personal trainers, drugs and alcohol workers and health visitors have all benefited from learning motivational interviewing. 'If I had to try and quantify why the training works so well- it would be that people immediately grasp this approach as good for their own personal lives as well as highly effective for helping their clients.'

    Trevor trained in the United States, Scotland and England around psychology, health wellbeing and motivational interviewing over many years and has worked as a researcher and lecturer in several large Universities in the UK and Australia and delivered training workshops for national health services, large pharmaceutical companies, elite sports coaches and sporting organisations and many local government departments. His work on Motivational Interviewing is published in numerous peer-reviewed science articles and his work also builds on from delivering training workshops by coaching professionals one to one in developing their ongoing behaviour change skills back in the workplace.

    Trevor has a doctorate in psychology, Masters, and undergraduate science degrees and a postgraduate certificate for teaching; he is the founder of Small Changes Healthcare Pty.

    Key Expertise
    • Motivational Intervieiwng
    • Behaviour Change skills
    • Communication 'micro-skills'
    • Counselling for change
    Industry Focus
    • Government/non profit
    • Healthcare
    • Education
    • Pharma
    • Sport
    Based in:
    • Perth
    Specialist Categories
    • Counselling
  • Ask a Question
  • My Workshops

    Trevor Simper
    Managing your mind for optimal performance
    • Half Day
    • 25 people
    • In-House
    • $2200 Total
    Trevor Simper
    Making Difficult Conversations Easier
    • Half Day
    • 15 people
    • In-House
    • $2200 Total
    Trevor Simper
    Supporting Staff in Crisis
    • Half Day
    • 15 people
    • In-House
    • $2200 Total
    Trevor Simper
    Motivational Interviewing – Advanced Skills
    • Multiple Days
    • 20 people
    • In-House
    • $6000 Total
    Trevor Simper
    Motivational Interviewing – Intermediate Skills
    • Full Day
    • 20 people
    • In-House
    • $3000 Total
    Trevor Simper
    Motivational Interviewing – Introductory Skills
    • Full Day
    • 20 people
    • In-House
    • $3000 Total

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