Trainings
Advanced Motivational Interviewing Training Workshop - Phase 2
Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 Days
Training Overview
This advanced workshop builds on the foundational skills introduced in Phase 1, offering participants a interactive engaging deeper understanding of Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles, processes, and techniques. With a focus on evoking and strengthening change talk, reflective listening, structured planning and more, this workshop equips participants with advanced tools to enhance client engagement and facilitate meaningful behavioural change. The interactive format bridges theory and practice, ensuring participants can effectively apply these advanced MI skills in their work.
Who Is It For?
Professionals who have completed the Motivational Interviewing Training Workshop – Phase 1
What Will You Learn?
1
Core Principles and Values of Motivational Interviewing
Four Broad Ethical Values of Motivational Interviewing
PACE: The Guiding Spirit of MI
Four aspects of acceptance – absolute worth, autonomy, accurate empathy, affirmation
2
Processes and Traps in Motivational Interviewing
Four processes of MI:
- Engaging
- Focusing
- Evoking
- Planning
Avoiding the ‘Fixing Reflex’
Traps that promote disengagement:
- The assessment trap
- The expert trap
- The premature focus trap
- The labelling trap
- The blaming trap
- The chat trap
3
Skills and Techniques for MI
A deeper dive into OARS:
- Effective use of open-ended questions
- Simple and complex affirmations
- Setting up for powerful affirmations
Reflective Listening:
- Forming reflection
- Understanding the ‘process of communication’ feedback loop
- Training yourself to think ‘reflectively’
- Learning reflective listening – with accurate empathy
- Fine-tuning reflective statements
- Sustained reflective listening
- Simple reflections
- Complex reflections
- Summary reflections
4
Fostering Change and Goal Alignment
Understanding ‘values’ leading to desired ‘goals’
Supporting the development of ‘Integrity’
Exploring for discrepancies
Overview of the four types of ambivalence: Change talk and sustain talk
Deeper dive into the application of Preparatory Change Talk: DARN
Evoking ‘change talk’
Mobilizing activation Change Talk – CAT
Identifying ‘hidden’ embedded change talk
Moving from evoking to ‘planning’
5
Planning and Client Autonomy
Developing a Structured Focus Planning Map
Strengthening the commitment plan
Supporting the client’s autonomy: Ask, Offer, Ask (AOA)
Remember process, process, process and not just content
How to Register
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is the completion of Phase 1 required to attend this workshop?
Yes, Phase 1 provides the foundational knowledge necessary to fully engage with the advanced techniques covered in Phase 2.