The MI approach helps clients to strengthen client motivation for making specific health-behaviour changes. It is heavily influenced by the client-centered tradition of helping. MI  combines the strategic component of guiding and involves asking, listening, evoking and informing. It  helps clients to engage in active change plans. MI does not "implant" motivation. Instead, MI serves to create a safe and easy space for motivation to grow. In a similar way, this workshop involves asking, listening, evoking and informing to help plant the seeds that take root to create the foundation for MI skill development.

This 3-day workshop provides an excellent mix of education and opportunities for skill practice so as to maximize learning-transfer to workplace applications. It often serves as the foundation for the process by which people learn how to learn to apply MI. To accomplish that, our experience is that learners need to:

1. Know about MI (Undertsand the underlying principles, practices, and concepts)

2. Practice with MI (experiment, obtain feedback, make adjustments and fine tune)

3. Consolidate and Integrate MI into their daily work ("Get" MI) 

Course Content Includes:
•  Demonstrations by the instructor and video taped examples by Drs.
   Miller and Rollnick are included.
•  Experiential role-plays and interactive learning activities are almost
   always rated by participants as one of the most fun, impactful and
   effective tools in integrating M.I. into their existing practices.
•  A one-day overview course, which highlights the theoretical and
   philisophic foundations upon which M.I. is based and to demonstrate
   commonly-practiced key skills and principles, is also available. 

Course Outline: (more detail available by contacting us)

-Understanding Change as a Process (as opposed to an "event") 

• -Overview of the six stages in the Transtheoretical Model of Change
• -Building/strengthening motivation for change
• -Enhancing client confidence and commitment to change
• -Creating an "Ecosystem" for the practice of MI (The "MI Spirit") 
• -Four key principles underlying the M.I. style
• -Working to amplify and resolve ambivalence to change
• -Understanding client resistance to change
• -Five fundamental M.I. skills
• -M.I. work in the contect of other counselling methods
• -Incorporating the M.I. "spirit" and "style" into your own counselling method(s)
• -Program development/design using M.I. concepts (optional)
• -Group work founded on M.I. and change model concepts (optional)
• -Ethical considerations

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