Paul Burke (Dip.Ed., B.Ed., M.A., R.S.W., CACII) is a veteran in the field of health behaviour change. For more than twenty years he worked with AADAC (the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission) and is well known in the field for his broad experience base as:
- Addictions Counsellor,
- Training Coordinator,
- Prevention Consultant,
- Team Leader,
- Clinical Supervisor, and
- Clinical Director
Since 1992, Paul has completed extensive training in the area of Motivational Interviewing. He has participated in M.I. courses with Dr. Steven Rollnick, co-progenitor of MI along with Dr. W.R. Miller, and has received instruction under Jeff Allison (Consultancy in Edinburgh,UK) in a "train-the-trainer" intensive. He has also taken training with Dr. Rollnick and Dr. T. Moyers (Crete, Greece) in MI Training-for-Trainers and with Dr. D. Ernst and Dr. R. Demmel (Miami, Florida) and has more than 10 additional MI courses to draw from, including the use of the MITI 3.0 coding system and in MI Supervision.
Paul now offers a broad spectrum of education and skill development workshops and seminars related to a variety of applications of MI for organizations across Canada.
In addition to speaking engagements at conferences, Paul conducts more than 40 M.I.workshops per year at both the introductory and advanced levels. He is also lead consultant to organizations that want to develop in-house learning systems for advancing the practice of M.I. Paul is noted for excellence as an instructor and conference presenter and for his entertaining, humorous and creative approaches to facilitating learning. Always with outstanding reviews and feedback, he has presented across Canada to addictions counselors, social workers, teachers, health educators, nurses, physicians, clergy, police officers, military personnel and corrections workers.
Paul invites you to drop him an e-mail (paul@paulburketraining.com) or to call anytime - if you'd like to "chat MI" or bounce around some ideas for how we might be of assistance with you or your group!
