Training
Motivational Interviewing: Skills and Strategies for Working with Resistant Populations
This excellent, hands-on training will weave many of your existing skills to:
- More effectively engage with "resistant" clients
- Increase your strategic focus
- Decrease "no-shows" and missed follow-up appointments
- Increase successful outcomes for your clients
- Decrease your frustration and sense of burnout
Who should attend? These workshops are targeted for alcohol and drug counselors, social workers, mental health counselors, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, probation officers, crisis counselors, vocational rehabilitation counselors, doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.
Workshops offered:
- A-B-C Series (A: 2-day Introduction to the Basics of Motivational Interviewing, B: 1-day follow up, building on the basics with specific tools, C: 1-day follow-up putting skills and tools into action)
- Proficiency Series (Monthly skill-honing meetings coupled with participants submitting recorded tapes for coding and individualized feedback)
- MI in Group Settings (External and Internal) - Using MI skills in facilitating public/external and internal/staff meetings more efficiently
- MI for Supervisors - Using MI skills to help staff and clients alike, plus how to use MI in annual evaluation and performance feedback meetings to achieve positive results
- MI Group and Individual Consults - available by appointment, usually 4-8 hrs in length, often used to demonstrate how to use MI skills in case staffing meetings, but can be used to address whatever the group/agency needs are
What MI class participants are saying:
"I finally get it! I have been in several trainings on Motivational Interviewing, but I never walked away feeling like I learned it. You do an excellent job of making it all make sense!" -Lisa H.
"I can't tell you how much difference this follow-up training has made. I can't wait to get back to the office and use this with some specific clients where I know I've been stuck." -Heather M.
Cultural competency training
The components of this training curriculum educate state employees and service providers about the importance of delivering culturally competent care to clients.
The goals of the course include:
- Providing an expansion of cultural knowledge and acceptance of dynamics of cultural differences
- Facilitating the adaptation of services to meet culturally unique needs
- Providing information and tools to better assess and increase organizational cultural competence.
Upcoming Trainings:
11/19/09: MI Session C (Agency: DVR), Sea-Tac, 8:30 -4:30 pm, several seats free for public to join!
Prerequisite: MI Sessions A and B, contact: Peg Evans-Brown evanspr@dshs.wa.gov to register
