Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
General Information
Title: Motivational Interviewing - Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
Presenter: Margaret H. Sibley, PhD.
Dates: Wednesday-Thursday. May 12-13, 2027. 10am - 5:30pm Eastern Time.
Fee: $495. Early bird discount until 4/1 $375. Includes 12 CE credits, materials, and 2 months access to recordings.
Venue: Live Webinar (Zoom)
CE Credits: 12
Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
Description
Motivational interviewing is an evidenced-based clinical approach that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings to find the internal motivation to change their behavior. It is a practical, empathetic, and short-term process that takes into consideration how difficult it is to make life changes. Motivational Interviewing emphasizes using a guiding, patient-centered style of interaction to promote behavioral change by helping patients explore their strengths, goals, and values and set personal intentions for values-consistent living. The approach upholds principles that include supporting client autonomy, developing deep empathy, and promoting equal collaboration between the therapist and the client.
This training will provide a basic introduction to motivational interviewing for mental health professionals. The facilitator will use didactic and active learning tools to include the use of: pre and post staff self-assessments, educational and research-based materials, video review and discussion, group role play, trainer feedback, and recommendations for continued training Topics will include: what is motivational interviewing, ambivalence and the change process, recognizing change and sustain talk, identifying roadblocks to change, MI spirit, using OARS (strategies to elicit change talk), forming complex reflections, elicit-provide-elicit, and managing resistance to change.
Instructors
Dr. Margaret Sibley is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2014 with specialized expertise in providing Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity coding (using the MITI) and applying MI to neurodiverse populations, including adolescents and adults with ADHD. Dr. Sibley has authored over 130 scholarly publications with research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Institute of Education Sciences. She is the author of a Motivational Interviewing treatment manual focused on blending MI and cognitive behavioral therapy for ADHD: Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation (published by Guilford Press in 2017).
Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
Objectives
1. Describe the behavior change process, ambivalence, and the purpose of Motivational Interviewing.
2. Identify roadblocks to change and understand how therapists can side step roadblocks during patient interactions.
3. Notice Client Change Talk and Sustain Talk and how to analyze patient speech to better understand a patient’s readiness for change.
4. Communicate with clients in a way that is consistent with the spirit of motivational interviewing, including emphasizing client autonomy, collaborating with clients as equals, expressing empathy, and building client self-efficacy.
5. Select Open ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries (OARS) that draw change focused speech from the client.
6. Apply the elicit-provide-elicit approach to share information with clients or integrate structured therapy tasks into a Motivational Interviewing Framework.
7. Generate ways to integrate Motivational Interviewing skills and structured tasks into current practice.
8. Expand one’s repertoire of change-talk generating strategies when working with clients.
9. Identify patient resistance to change and become comfortable responding to resistant patients in a way that deescalates and strengthens the therapeutic relationship.
10. Engage in an in-depth real-play activity that allows for integration of Day 1 and Day 2 skills with feedback from peers.
CE Information
Continuing Education Credits are granted through Neuhoff Psychological Consulting, PLLC for the following professions: Psychologists, Social workers, Mental Health Counselors, LMFTs, and LCATs. It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
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References
Frost, H., Campbell, P., Maxwell, M., O’Carroll, R. E., Dombrowski, S. U., Williams, B., … &; Pollock, A. (2018). Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on adult behaviour change in health and social care settings: a systematic review of reviews. PloS one, 13(10), e0204890.
Miller, W. R., &; Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change. New York: Guilford Press.
Miller, W. R. (2023). The evolution of motivational interviewing. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 51(6), 616-632.
Satisfactory Completion:
Participants must have signed in and out, attended the entire workshop to receive a certificate. Failure to sign/log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
Policies
Application Deadline: May 10, 2027 or until all training spaces are filled, whichever comes first.
Notification of Acceptance
Applicants will be notified, via email, of acceptance when registration is complete, and payment is received.
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Tuition/registration payments are refundable until April 12, 2027. Cancellations after this date are non-refundable. In this situation, we will attempt to find someone to take your slot (based on our waiting list).
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Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
Schedule
| Wednesday. May 12, 2027. 10am - 5:30pm ET. | 10:00-10:20 Pre-assessment/pre-training discussion 11:40-12:40 Change Talk and Sustain Talk |
| Thursday. May 13, 2027. 10am - 5:30pm ET. | 10:00-10:20 Reflections on Day 1 |
Motivational Interviewing – Two-Day Basic Training (2027)
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