Motivational Interviewing Training

Evidenced based communication skills for individuals and organizations

If your organization’s success depends on helping people change behavior without forcing it, it is a strong candidate for Motivational Interviewing Training.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication approach designed to help people resolve ambivalence regarding behavior change. Since its effectiveness was first demonstrated in the 1980s, MI has expanded from a treatment modality for individuals with alcohol use disorder to into a widely used, empirically validated method of communication across a broad array of sectors.

Motivational Interviewing…

  • is evidence-based.

  • is a skill set that can be learned.

  • can be applied by professionals across a wide range of fields.

  • easily integrated into currently used modalities of therapy, communication and leadership.

MI provides a practical framework to…

  • resolve ambivalence about change.

  • address important topics with patients, employees or clients.

  • guide difficult conversations.

  • support meaningful, lasting change.

 
Motivational Interviewing Training by Jacqueline Elster
 
 

Motivational Interviewing Training for Every Sector

Motivational Interviewing can be used in every field where people need help working through ambivalence. MI has been used in a broad range of settings, by multiple disciplines, with diverse populations and with a variety of presenting problems.

    • Improve medication and treatment adherence.

    • Facilitate lifestyle changes such as physical activity, dental hygiene, and chronic disease management.

    • Decrease, and often eliminate, risky behaviors such as substance consumption, nicotine use and unsafe sex practices.

    • Build strong rapport with patients.

    • Affirm and reinforce behavior change in patients.

    • Provide guidance for navigating difficult conversations with patients.

    • Increase utilization of preventative care.

    • Decrease readmissions.

    • Help patients resolve ambivalence about behavior change.

    • Strengthen overall patient outcomes.

    • Improve clinician wellbeing.

    • Teach providers how to de-escalate situations, especially related to behavioral health crises.

    • Increase employee retention.

    • Enhance employee engagement.

    • Boost employee productivity.

    • Decrease employee absenteeism and employee improve attendance.

    • Reduce employee burnout.

    • Improve leadership team communication.

    • Offer a structure for complicated conversations.

    • Help employees overcome ambivalence regarding new and different work demands, trainings or career changes.

    • Train staff to have more responsive, effective conversations that respond to client needs.

    • Reduce recidivism.

    • Improve prosocial behavior.

    • Educate staff on having effective, respectful conversations that empower others.

    • Decrease intimate partner violence, drug offenses, violent crime and property crimes.

    • Provide structure to help people work through ambivalence about change.

    • Improve effectiveness in interactions.

    • Create positive opportunities to build trust.

    • Practice harm reduction.

    • Increase opportunities to engage patients in treatment.

    • Learn to help de-escalate situations, particularly related to mental health crises and hostage negotiations.

    • Provide tangible, concrete interventions for behavioral health crises.

    • Strengthen overall client outcomes.

    • Develop strong rapport with clients.

    • Increase client confidence to cope with challenging situations.

    • Normalized and validate client experiences.

    • Openly explore ambivalence.

    • Reinforce and affirm positive changes.

    • Learn effective ways to provide difficult feedback.

    • Originally developed for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.

    • Build trust and rapport with clients.

    • Increase motivation for behavior change.

    • Reduce resistance and defensiveness.

    • Encourage clients to identify their own reasons for recovery.

    • Strengthen commitment to treatment goals.

    • Promote collaboration instead of confrontation.

    • Enhance client confidence and self-efficacy.

    • Support long-term engagement in treatment.

    • Help resolve ambivalence about substance use.

    • Improve treatment outcomes by fostering lasting, self-directed change.

    • Create an environment that fosters openness, acceptance and empathy.

    • Improve interpersonal effectiveness.

    • Help clients reach their goals.

    • Encourage personal growth.

    • Enable self-discovery.

    • Support clients achieve behavior change.

    • Identify and work through client ambivalence.

    • Encourage healthy behavior change.

    • Improve treatment adherence.

    • Support chronic disease management.

    • Enhance preventive health efforts.

 
 

What Your Customized MI Training Entails

Consistent with MI’s collaborative foundation, I work directly with your team to design a personalized training aligned with your specific population, priorities and performance goals to ensure relevance and measurable impact.

Whether in-person or virtual, my style as a MINT trainer is interactive and engaging. My priority is to ensure that MI learners actively participate with the material by using a multiple techniques to meet the individualized needs of your organization, such as:

  • Live demonstrations with real-time analysis

  • Structured role-plays with rotating roles

  • Deliberate practice drills

  • “Real” plays

  • Micro-skill competitions

  • Games

  • Guided self-reflection

What Services are Offered To You and Your Organization

Motivational Interviewing training and ongoing learning can involve:

  • Introductory Training

  • Intermediate training

  • Advanced training

  • Individual Supervision

  • Group Supervision

  • Coaching

Scheduling a free, 30-minute consultation to discuss MI training options for your organization is easy. Contact us directly at DrE@gabrielcounselingservices.com.