Motivational interviewing

Is Motivational Interviewing for me?

This interactive, lighthearted online, live study day is suitable for any and

all members of the team. Registered delegates will receive an emailed

worksheet, which will be used during the event. Delegates will interact,

participate and influence the content of the day which will use bespoke

situations to demonstrate the MI skills and they will not be asked to role

play or listen to us reading through endless power point slides.

We all went into our roles to make a difference; we feel that we can make

things ‘right’ for service users and their families and we spend much of our

time trying to do so.

If you spend your life explaining what your service users should, could,

must or need to do then this is the course for you. Motivational

interviewing is a style of communication that uses a guiding/reflective

style to engage with people, clarify their strengths and aspirations, and

utilise their own motivations for change, and promote independence of

decision making.

If this is sounding a little flowery, in a nutshell, MI saves your breath, your

time and you are more effective when it comes to people making decisions

about themselves. The feedback we regularly receive is that MI also helps

to avoid burn out.

What happens on the day?

We will use memorable explanations, demonstrations, interaction in pairs

and most importantly relax and have fun. The extensive wardrobe and

scenery available at our large training studio allows the tutors to create

characters and situations to demonstrate the topics which are pertinent to

our delegates. Face to face, and telephone consultation techniques will be

included.

What’s the result?

This is an introduction to the
principles, spirit and skills of
motivational interviewing.
Gain an overview of an effective
alternative to trying to be persuade
people to change their behaviour.
Gain an appreciation of how people
can use their own motivations and
find their solutions for behaviour
change.
Tune our listening from “to be
understood.” into “listening to
understand”.
Discover how questions, reflections,
affirmations and summaries can be
used to facilitate a more effective
conversation about behaviour
change.
Observe how reflective listening can
help when people’s emotions are
running high.

9:00 Registration and Online access audio and visual confirmed

9:30 Introductions – and online etiquette

9:30 MI – What is it – why does it work – How the brain receives

stuff! - Principles and Background in a nutshell

10:00 The spirit & principles of MI

10:45 Offering Advice – how to do this without pi**ing people off!

11:15 Official Break

11:30 When Ambivalence meets the Righting Reflex

12:00 Change Talk– What is it? How can I find it? Why does it matter?

12:45 LUNCH

13:30 MI – Open questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries

set in context and practiced

15:00 Tea Break

15:15 Putting it all together – demonstration designed by the

delegates

15:45 Questions and Evaluation

16:00 Close