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Motivational Interviewing - Intermediate Skills

$3000 INC GST

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Motivational Interviewing – Intermediate Skills

Full Day | Max. 20 Participants

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Workshop Outcomes

Build on the core skills learnt at the intro level
Enhance the basic MI skills via coaching and feedback
Recognise and enhance change talk in your clients
Employ effective strategies to always stay on side with your clients

Topics Covered

Accord: 'you and I will never have an argument'
Change talk: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, Commitment, Taking steps
Behaviour Change: is not driven by knowledge, it is driven by motivation
Can you do behaviour change in 10 minutes?

Location

How can this workshop be delivered?

Face to face

Overview

This workshop is to advance the motivational interviewing skills and techniques that participants already have learnt in some introductory level training/workshop. This intermediate workshop allows us to reflect on the techniques employed in the workplace: what has worked? what do you need coaching on? It also allows us to add some new elements and again send people back to the workplace to try out skills which can then be strengthened and enhanced again in the advanced workshop.

Workshop Outcomes

Build on the core skills learnt at the intro level
Enhance the basic MI skills via coaching and feedback
Recognise and enhance change talk in your clients
Employ effective strategies to always stay on side with your clients

Topics Covered

Accord: 'you and I will never have an argument'
Change talk: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, Commitment, Taking steps
Behaviour Change: is not driven by knowledge, it is driven by motivation
Can you do behaviour change in 10 minutes?

Who is this workshop for

This workshop is for anyone working with change- especially if the role involves helping the client change a behaviour- the list is not exhaustive but people who offer 'advice' are typical candidates for MI training (doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, community workers, fitness professionals, nutritionists and dietitians, substance misuse, alcohol workers, counsellors and those working in adult education are all good examples) Customer service has also become a recent focus for MI training.

Handouts/materials provided

All handouts and resources are provided by the trainer.

What to bring

Just yourself and a wish to learn.

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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