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Motivational Interviewing - Introductory Skills

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Motivational Interviewing – Introductory Skills

Full Day | Max. 20 Participants

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Workshop Outcomes

Learn to use the core skills underpinning effective behaviour change
Have a clear understanding of what MI is
Begin using an MI approach with clients
Develop a platform for enhancing Your Motivational Interviewing Skills
Understand the psycho-linguistics of change
Learn effective ‘goal setting’ with an introduction to self-determination theory and how to implement your intentions

Topics Covered

Microskills OARS (open questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summaries)
‘Coding’ your conversations for effective coaching
Effective use of change ‘rulers’
Assessing your client's readiness for change
Decisional balance
Building commitment, goal setting, action planning

Location

How can this workshop be delivered?

Face to face

Overview

'Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach developed over decades by psychotherapists and academics and adapted for different professions where clients need help in managing change (for examples: Lifestyle, health, addictive behaviours). Essentially it will provide trainees with core microskills, which are essential in effective ‘helping’ MI also builds on these skills by using an approach/techniques which help clients to resolve their ‘ambivalence’ (the sense of feeling more than one way about issue- which we all, at times, face). MI is now considered a frontline approach in healthcare and more recently has been adapted to education, coaching and customer services'.

This workshop will introduce professionals to highly effective behaviour change skills to use with their clients/customers. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence based approach to helping people change and the focus is on using practical skills right from the outset -so that the approach and ideas behind MI are immediately put into practice rather than just presented.

The workshop is a mixture of highly practical 'real play' (rather than role play) scenarios which are combined with demonstrations, slides and video. The underpinning philosophy is participants learn the MI skills by doing them with some handouts, video, demonstrations and slides to support.

Workshop Outcomes

Learn to use the core skills underpinning effective behaviour change
Have a clear understanding of what MI is
Begin using an MI approach with clients
Develop a platform for enhancing Your Motivational Interviewing Skills
Understand the psycho-linguistics of change
Learn effective ‘goal setting’ with an introduction to self-determination theory and how to implement your intentions

Topics Covered

Microskills OARS (open questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summaries)
‘Coding’ your conversations for effective coaching
Effective use of change ‘rulers’
Assessing your client's readiness for change
Decisional balance
Building commitment, goal setting, action planning

Who is this workshop for

This workshop is for anyone with a role around assisting either clients or colleagues in behaviour change in the workplace- typical participants work in: (but are not restricted to) education and tutoring, health promotion roles, nursing, medicine, personal training, customer service, sports coaching, drug and alcohol support, nutrition, health and wellness advisors.

Handouts/materials provided

All handouts and materials will be provided by the trainer.

What to bring

An eagerness to learn and an open mind.

Facilitator

Dr 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.

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