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Motivational Interviewing Training

A Step-by Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth

Who Should Attend:

• Counselors

• Supervisors

• Peer Professionals

• Mental Health Professionals

• Social Service Professionals

• Education Professionals

In this Motivational Interviewing (MI) training, learn an evidenced-based conversation style that fosters motivation for change and growth.

With over 40 years of research and 1,800 clinical trials, studies show MI gets better results and outcomes than the standard alternatives—even with complex cases and mandated clients.

This self-paced, online MI training will teach you the most up-to-date foundational approaches to facilitate change and assist you in being more confident and effective as a helper. Inside, get the practical conversation skills to transform client

• discord into collaboration,

• ambivalence into motivation, and

• blaming into empowerment.

Explore the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (partnership, acceptance, compassion, empowerment) and OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries). Learn to blend this MI training with trauma-informed care, a person-centered lens, and strength-based engagement.

Available 24/7, this on-demand course includes expertly designed lessons, demonstrations, and exercises led by skilled members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with lived MI experience in numerous fields, including mental health, substance use disorder, and criminal justice.

It also includes learning guides and quizzes to build confidence and competence in MI.

*This MI Training is based on the latest edition of Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow and addresses the application of MI across fields, including healthcare, education, mental health, social services, criminal justice, restorative justice, and anywhere conversations of change take place.

Course Goals

• Use MI as an effective, evidence-based communication style to foster supportive client relationships.

• Discover the MI conversation skills that inspire positive attitudes about change and growth.

• Integrate the Spirit, Four Tasks, and Skills of MI into a person-centered approach to your work with others.

• Explore ways to identify ambivalence and help clients find their motivations for change.

• Get current on the newest MI model and research, including crucial person-centered language and critical perspective shifts.

Who Should Take This MI Training?

This course is right for professionals and helpers who want to…

• Feel confident and effective in fostering conditions for change

• Integrate the spirit of MI with trauma-informed care • Refresh their MI skills with the most current model and research

• Improve listening and conversation skills to strengthen trust, rapport, engagement, and client retention

• Rekindle joy and satisfaction in their career.

  It’s also perfect for organizations that need to…

• Onboard new staff with fidelity to MI for a consistent agency culture

• Increase client engagement and retention, even with mandated individuals

• Enhance internal communications for better supervisors and staff relationships

• Decrease employee burnout, empathy fatigue, and turnover

• Provide employees with practical, evidence-based conversation skills that lead to long-term employee satisfaction and resilience

  Get this private-label

  Motivational Interviewing training for your agency.

  Imagine your organization’s logo proudly displayed on the course dashboard,

  providing your staff with a smooth, branded training experience.

  What You’ll Learn:

  Module 1: The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing

• Explore the Spirit of MI and PACE (Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Empowerment) to cultivate positive, healthy internal beliefs about your clients and set the foundation for supportive relationships.

  Module 2: The 4 Tasks

• Learn the simple, step-by-step MI process to bring ease and joy to your work with others—even mandated clients.

• MI 4 Tasks: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, Planning

  Module 3: OARS

• Develop person-centered listening skills to build a culture of safety where clients can identify motivations, explore ambivalence, and make desired, healthy changes in their thinking and behavior.

• OARS - Open Ended Questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries

  Module 4: The Nuts & Bolts

• Differentiate between the most current, person-empowered vocabulary and mindsets of Motivational Interviewing from past models.

  Module 5: DARN Cat

• Tune your ear to hear and strengthen talk that motivates change while softening language that sustains the status quo.

• DARN (Desire, Ability, Reasons, Needs) CAT (Commitment, Activation, Taking Steps)

  What makes this MI Training different?

• Focus on building relationships that improve engagement, lead to retention, and foster change that lasts.

• Focus on the critical changes to the MI model from the 4th edition of William R. Miller Stephen Rollnick’s book Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow.

• Focus on integrating new skills into prior learning and experiences. Learn from adult education authorities and expertly designed learning modules.

• Focus on an interdisciplinary approach and taught by subject matter experts and MINT trainers with experience in mental health, criminal justice, substance use disorder, and beyond.

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Course Objectives

1. Use MI as an effective, evidence-based communication style to foster supportive client relationships.

2. Discover the MI conversation skills that inspire positive attitudes about change and growth.

3. Integrate the Spirit, Four Tasks, and Skills of MI into a person-centered approach to your work with others.

4. Explore ways to identify ambivalence and help clients find their motivations for change.

5. Get current on the newest MI model and research, including crucial person-centered language and critical perspective shifts.

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