WHAT’S NEW…
- We offer employment services (motivational interview’s) to your client’s
- Online training
- Organizational Change Training for Managers and Front Line Staff
- Case Management Training
- Monthly ‘booster’ sessions
**DATE CHANGE. Sign up to join me through Webinar Friday February 24, 2012 at 2:00 pm central time for a 90 minute MI “booster session”. This month I will be talking about the Four Processes of MI. Space is limited to register contact me at: empoweringchange@mts.net the cost is $45 plus applicable taxes. All you need is an internet connection and a USB headset.
Contact us for more information on the following services.
Services:
- Keynote Speaker
- Training
- MI coding of your sessions
- Implementation of Stages of Change (SOC) and MI into your organization
- Evaluation of the SOC and MI in your organization
- Employment Services (Motivational Interviews) and action planning
More Information on our Services:
Training can be modified to fit your setting or budget. Costs are individually determined based on location, preparation required and facility.
1 Day Training:
Introduction to SOC and MI. This is a very brief workshop (6 hours) designed to help the practitioner understand the stages of change when working with people and use the Transtheoretical (Stages-of-Change) model.
Training of up to one day can acquaint the audience with basic concepts and methods of SOC and MI, but is unlikely to increase the clinical skilfulness of participants in the clinical method of MI. This level of training will help participants to determine how interested they are in learning more about MI.
3 Day Training Introductory Workshop (Level I):
Recommended for frontline staff.
The 3-day intensive workshop will provide participants with exposure and introduction to the theory, style, principles, and skill-sets of motivational interviewing. The training will be very interactive and experiential, and will offer a variety of learning activities – video clips, live demonstrations, “real plays,” small group sessions, and many opportunities for hands-on skill practice and feedback. Additionally, we will discuss and experience how a motivational approach can have a powerful, three-fold impact: 1) working more effectively with clients who have been labelled “difficult,” “resistant,” or “stuck,” 2) lessening the impact of counsellor burnout, and 3) working more effectively with clients who have a myriad of overlapping change-related issues.
Objectives:
- Introduction to Stages of Change
- Examine what motivates people to change
- Assess a person’s apparent readiness to change
- Understanding of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
- Introduction to OARS client centered skills (open ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries)
- Recognizing change talk
- Eliciting and strengthening change talk
- Rolling with resistance – what creates discord in the practitioner/client relationship
- Transitioning between Motivational Interviewing and other models
Level 1, LIVE Online Training:
This LIVE online workshop has the same format as our face to face training the only difference is we are online together! We will provide participants with exposure and introduction to the theory, style, principles, and skill-sets of motivational interviewing. The online training will be very interactive and experiential, and will offer a variety of learning activities – video clips, live demonstrations, “real plays,” small group sessions, and many opportunities for hands-on skill practice and feedback. Additionally, we will discuss and experience how a motivational approach can have a powerful, three-fold impact: 1) Working more effectively with clients who have been labelled “difficult,” “resistant,” or “stuck,” 2) Lessening the impact of counsellor burnout, 3) Working more effectively with clients who have a myriad of overlapping change-related issues.
The LIVE online training has a variety of training options, you can join a class that suits you best, 3 hours one day a week, 5 hours one day a week or 2 days in a row, the training is a total of 18 hours. We can also customize a LIVE online training for your agency, contact us for more information.
Objectives:
- Introducation to the Stages of Change
- Learn the basic clinical style and principles of MI
- Understand the fundamental spirit of MI
- Strengthen empathic counselling skills
- Understand and practice the directive aspects of MI
- Experience and practice an MI style for meeting resistance
- Learn to administer and apply a specialized version of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA)to ensure each client receives individualized services
2 or 3 Day Intermediate/Advanced Workshop (Level II):
Recommended for frontline staff, to be done after 6 hours of phone coaching (practicum) the advanced training is usually 2-3 months after three day training.
This advanced workshop is designed for individuals who have completed introductory training in MI, and have experience using this method in an applied setting. Participants will be guided through a sequence of learning activities to move from basic competence to more advanced clinical skilfulness in their own areas of work. Learning activities will include: videotape examples, “real-plays,” small group exercises, and participant practice with feedback. Participants will need to create a 20 minute tape of an MI session to use in this training.
Objectives:
- Be able to demostrate and practice advance skills and strategies of MI (i.e., eliciting and strengthening change talk)
- Able to describe the “spirit” and key principles of a guiding, person-centered counselling style
- Observe and debrief demonstrations and DVD examples of MI
- Able to demonstrate and practice advance skills and strategies of MI (i.e., strategic reflective listening, rolling with resistance, developing discrepancy
- Code a 20 minute MI session
Changing Client Perspectives:
This workshop is designed for individuals who have completed advanced training. The two day workshop training will be done with individuals who have experience facilitating; the purpose of the workshops is for the facilitator to deliver workshops to participants who are assessed as being in the contemplation stage and preparation stage. Facilitators will deliver the workshops on day two in pairs.
Workshop Material Includes:
- Curriculum for workshop 1 (participants in contemplation stage)
- Curriculum for workshop 2 (participants in preparation stage).
Assessment Tool (URICA)
All participants attending the Motivational Interviewing training will be trained on how to use the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA). The assessment tool is used to identify what stage of readiness individuals they are working with is in.
Feedback and Coaching on MI Skills:
Receive feedback on audiotaped work samples according to objective criteria for skillful MI. Coaching may be provided in person, over the phone, or by email.
After MI trainings, to assist in making a smoother transition for participants, we encourage follow-up sessions for all trainings. Recent evidence (see Miller, 2004) shows that trainings with coaching-like follow ups are the best way to gain & retain your MI skills.
Coaching Series (practicum):
MI Coaching groups will meet for two hour sessions the sessions are designed to enhance MI skills with further exercises and coaching.
The coaching series is done by phone, with a maximum of 6 people per group. All effort will be given to coordinate the schedule of participants. You will be asked to provide your preference of meeting weekly or bi-weekly a schedule will be created at the beginning of the coaching series, please be prepared to provide availability dates. All participants must complete 6 hours of phone coaching or practicum prior to taking Level 2 training.
Coding:
Audio tape session coding (MITI 3.1) feedback. Coding is the term used for applying the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) Code to an audio recorded worker/client session. It has been recommended that people who are learning Motivational Interviewing participate in this practice.
Implementation:
Integrating SOC and MI into your program, determine whether to implement MI as a stand alone or intervention or adjunct to existing services. This can include assessing the current agency/system culture, training needs, and designing curriculum development proficiency and accountability process.
Case Management Training:
Build the skill capacity of your case worker and case management staff
through this one or two day training.
Case managers assume a critical role in human services, acting as a link
between clients and services that best meet individual needs. Advocacy is a key
area of this practice and it is essential that case managers develop effective
skills in accessing programs and services for marginalized persons using
client-directed approaches.
Goals for Participants: To recognize core case management concepts and
procedures.
This training is geared to case managers and staff who are not currently
case managers, but perform case management functions or new to case management
but have not had formal training. The training is also intended to assist
frontline staff in human service agencies to form collaborative relationships
with clients.
Evaluation/Analysis:
This can include the evaluator providing program evaluation, prepare a framework for the organization, ensure that reporting requirements are achieved for funders, assist in the strategic planning processes and help decision and support program evaluation. Various analyses can be provided on results and various collected demographics. Development of Excel spreadsheets, measuring instruments/questionnaires and Access databases is also available.
What Kind of Motivational Interview Training is Best?
Bill Miller and his colleagues at the University of New Mexico recently compared several Motivational Interviewing training workshop formats. According to their report in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, they found that:
- Substance abuse treatment professionals who simply read a treatment manual and viewed training videos did not, on average, improve their MI proficiency.
- Substance abuse treatment professionals who attended a 2-day introductory skill-building workshop achieved significant improvements in MI proficiency, assessed immediately following the workshop.
- Graduates of the 2-day workshop who received ongoing feedback and/or coaching regarding their real-world use of MI maintained their MI skills better over time than those who did not receive any follow-up training.
- The CLIENTS of those who received the full training package (workshop, feedback, and coaching) showed the most significant changes in how they responded in counseling sessions: an increase in “change talk” and a decrease in resistance.
To summarize: reading about, and watching examples of, MI is probably not enough. As with any skill, the best way to learn is through guided practice. Furthermore, follow-up training focused on implementing MI in the real world can help you maintain new skills – AND can make a difference in how your clients respond to counselling.
As part of giving back to the community Roxanne will provide 1 day training a month at no cost to a not for profit agency. If your agency is interested in this opportunity email Roxanne explaining why your agency should receive the training and what you’re doing in your community to make a difference.
