Motivational Interviewing
Course overview
Helping people make changes is core to any helping profession. This course shows how the Motivational Interviewing approach can help professionals engage clients in conversations about change and empower them to set and achieve meaningful goals for personal change and growth.
Length of course: 2 days
Online and Face‑to‑Face
Learning Objective
- Explore motivation and the change process
- Understand different approaches for enhancing motivation
- Practise using a variety of skills to work with change
- Identify and practise different approaches for working with resistance
Modules
This course has four modules, which cover the principles and practice of motivational interviewing.
Module 1
Change and ambivalence, principles and values of motivational interviewing approach, evoking change rather than imposing change, different approaches for different phases and practiising OARS techniques to enhance motivation
Module 2
Working with resistance and denial: understanding the reasons for resistance and denial, reframing resistance and denial. MI approaches: confrontation is our goal, not our style!
Module 3
Collaborative goal setting: building on change talk. The importance of good goal setting and using a collaborative approach to set SMART objectives
Module 4
Incorporating the desistance model: responding to progress and setbacks
Ready to bring Motivational Interviewing into your workplace?
Whether you want to discuss tailored training, ask questions, or explore how these methods can help your team — we’d love to hear from you.