Description

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a conversation approach to help individuals change behaviors and increase intrinsic motivation to reach their goals. It seeks to help people decide to make behavior changes or improve their commitment to change. It can focus on almost any aspect of life where choice is needed, for example deciding to address anger issues, trauma, adverse childhood experiences, make education or career decisions, attend parenting classes or sessions, complying with court orders, changing negative behaviors (bullying, fighting, abusing), making life style changes (health, substance use) based on heart set/mindset.

The three hour workshops will take place once a month for 3 consecutive months and in between the 3 sessions there will be the opportunity to participate in a shorter Practice Coaching sessions.

Learning Targets for workshops:

●  Develop and strengthen the core skills and conversational processes for using MI to support intrinsic motivation to make decisions or change by helping parents and children formulate their own thoughts and plans in reaching a goal.

●  Be engaged in active learning through experiential activities, videos and demonstrations, and facilitated practice as a multimodal way to learn this strength-based approach.

●  Learn strategies to help guide a person’s thought process and avoiding traps that create discord.

●  Learn ways to work toward proficiency in this approach.