Recently, Paul provided a video demonstration of MI in the context of working with alcohol use and trauma in a great new learning resource (produced by MINT member Dr. Jennifer Hettema).   You can obtain a copy of this helpful new DVD learning resource (and written transcripts of each interview) from http://www.mitrainingvideo.com/. (This brief clip of that interview (above) is used with permission of the Producer).    

WELCOME! PLEASE PRESS THE "PLAY" BUTTON IN THE 1st VIDEO SCREEN ABOVE FOR AN INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE FROM PAUL ...

Paul Burke Training & Consulting Group specialize in providing state-of-the-science training to helping professionals in the field of CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT (including addictions) JUSTICE, and BEHAVIOURAL HEALTH CHANGE.  Beyond training, we are "sustainability specialists". We help organizations implement knowledge transfer approaches that are cost-effective and that contain the prinicples and requirements that assist in the evolution of real "Learning Organizations". We're a growing team of highly experienced clinicians, adult-educators, curriculum design professionals and organizational learning consultants who support each other in the pursuit of excellence in how we work as MI Trainers. We help others to establish Communities Of Practice where people learn to practice MI by helping others learn to practice MI! Together, we're a collective of trainers and consultants who provide an easy-access touchstone in Canada for "whatever-it-takes support" for the learning of Motivational Interviewing.  We work to embrace the spirit and complexity within the art and science of MI and to model and translate it for learners. The way we work helps learners to hold the essence of MI - even while they are learning it! We develop and provide customized training approaches for MI applications in concurrent disorders treatment (mental health and addicitions), corrections, tobacco cessation, problem gambling treatment, health interventions and patient education, and chronic condition self-management. And - training is just the "front-end" of what we offer!
 

We Help Organizations Learn-How-To-Learn MI! 

If you want to talk about ways to help your staff develop skill in M.I., we would love to give you a darned good listening to! In addition to a comprehensive line-up of introductory, intermediate and advanced  courses in M.I., we specialize in helping larger organizations develop cost-effective, self-sustaining and self-perpetuating "learning systems" for the promotion and practice of Motivational Interviewing. Helping organizations "learn how to learn" MI is all about what we do – and it is all about how we do it. A key function of our multidisciplinary team involves helping organizations develop practical approaches to coach for ongoing MI practice. We know that helping people learn MI requires planning well "beyond training". Our emphasis is helping launch "communities of learning" where the emphasis becomes, after training, workplace-based practice and follow up.  In this way, we go beyond training, to approach learning in a whole new light. That is not just our slogan - it is our mission.

Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating with people and guiding them as they construct and strengthen their motivation for positive change:  It's all about what we do; It's all about how we do it.

Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating.  We not only teach the skill, but we employ it in our training methods.  In addition, our trainers are noted for their interactive, entertaining, humorous and creative approaches to facilitating learning.

We offer a highly regarded series of introductory and advanced level MI courses for counsellors, social workers, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, occupational therapists, adult and youth justice personnel, health educators, addictions professionals, psychologists and clergy.

The course lineup includes the full range of MI learning, from an introduction to foundation concepts to advanced level practice and skills enhancement workshops that include coaching and feedback to improve MI fidelity.

Beyond Training

Attending workshops and being trained are not the same thing. We know that people get some solid exposure to MI through participating in workshops. After that,  they need to develop a plan for how they will integrate that new learning into skills training and practice. 

There are three interacting dimensions of competency development: 

1) initial concept/practice expsoure (workshops)

2) skills rehearsal and training via regular workplace-based practice (training)  

3) coaching and feedback on practice performance (supervision and peer coaching).

Thus, in addition to our regular series of courses, we specialize designing cost-effective sustainable learning systems for agencies wishing to implement the practice and ongoing training of Motivational interviewing within their own organizations.

These custom-designed systems enable learner agencies to become effective "learning organizations" by using the organization itself as a part of the process of learning M.I. Not only is it the most effective way to get great outcomes in staff development, it is the most cost-effective way to go about it as well! 

 TRAINER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN ONTARIO

(Right to left in photo) Paul Burke (BC) and Tim Godden (Ontario) co-facilitated a TNT event (Training for New Trainers) in Toronto with Denise Ernst (Oregon) and Carolina Yahne (New Mexico). The event was sponsored by CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health).If you are interested in learning more about our trainers mentorship program, please contact us.                       

New Publication On: Relevance of MI with Survivors of Partner Violence: 

Paul recently co-authored a journal article ("Guiding as Practice: Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Work With Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence") with 8 MI colleagues from the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). You can download a pdf copy for free from the journal "Partner Violence" at http://www.springerpub.com/default.aspx?pid=130&issn=1946-6560 Feel free to call or e-mail us with questions or comments on the article.  

 Paul Burke Training & Consulting Group are proud to be sponsors of the  2010 Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)   national conference: "Issues of Substance"(Halifax, Nova Scotia) 
If you work in tobacco cessation with hard-to-reach male smokers you may be interested in our article "The Development of a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Hard-to-Reach Multiple Substance Abusing Males: A Comic Book as the Central Component" (Gordon Munro, Brenda Munro & Paul Burke). You can obtain it from the International Journal of Diversity, Organisations, Communities and Nations at  ijd.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.29/prod.586