Motivational Interviewing
MI skills from start to finish
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Making significant changes in lifestyles and behaviors can be hard! Direct care service providers in health and social service fields often feel frustrated and ineffective when working with clients and patients struggling to make difficult behavior changes. This four-month series will teach you how to guide your clients and patients towards change in a positive and supportive way, by learning the fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing skills from the ground up. This evidence-based counseling method will help you engage in mutual conversations that naturally engage client and patient change talk, which is the grounding of all lasting client change. We will have embeded a focus on the evidence base and tips on how to culturally adapt MI throughout the series.
Session Topics
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Session 1: The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing - Review the evidence base of MI, and ground ourselves in the spirit of MI, the heartset and mindset that distinguishes MI from other counseling methods. Outline the four MI processes and eight MI skill sets that will be covered in the rest of the training.
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Session 2: The Basic Client Centered Counseling Skills -Learn the four basic counseling skills that will be the base of all client interactions: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries. These are known as the OARS skills.
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Session 3: Advanced Reflections - Focus on deepening our understanding of reflections, the most important MI counseling skill used to shape and encourage change talk. We will spend time practicing the seven different kinds of reflections.
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Session 4: Recognizing Change Talk and Sustain Talk - Discover how to analyze MI conversations and how coding, with a focus on a specific kind of client talk known as "sustain talk and change talk," is particularly relevant to the client change process.
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Session 5: Eliciting and Strengthening Change Talk - Introduce the MI Change Talk Hill and focus on techniques to support and increase client change talk, the most impactful activity in MI that results in actual behavior change.
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Session 6: Rolling with Sustain Talk and Resistance - Discuss the challenges of responding to deeply entrenched sustain talk and present the tools of developing discrepancy and decisional balance as techniques to use to avoid the traps of getting stuck in resistance and conflict.
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Session 7: Developing a Change Plan - Learn how to enter the often-rushed stage of planning when the client is ready. Then introduce importantance rulers to determine readiness for change and unearth hidden barriers to change.
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Session 8: Consolidating Commitment and Wrap Up - In this last phase, we will introduce confidence rulers and learn how to use them to increase the likelihood of the success of action plans. We will also learn how to adjust action plans based upon initial client experiences with change. We will include a series wrap up in this session with a participant plan for future self-learning and application.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR OUR TRAINING
Diversity
Diversity is a fact.
Equity
Equity is a choice.
Inclusion
Inclusion is an action.
Belonging
Belonging is an outcome.
Reference Credit: Arthur Chan
Learn skills and techniques on how to strengthen a person's own motivation and commitment to change and increase your effectivness in your role as a change agent.
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Session Dates and Time:
Friday mornings 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PST
January - 10, 24 February - 7, 21 March - 7, 21 April - 4, 18
For more information about the training or if you have questions about bulk registrations or invoicing, contact Kinda Cable at [email protected].
Meet Your Instructors
Lisa Ladendorff, LCSW, CHW
Development and Training Program Director
Lisa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and trained Community Health Worker with a 30 year history in the practice of motivational interviewing. She is the Director of Training and Consulting Programs at NEON since 2017 and has a long history in the training and practice of MI in Community Mental Health, Behavioral Health and Local Public Health settings. She has seen the power of Motivational Interviewing in helping clients achieve very challenging changes, and in helping practitioners find their compassion and effectiveness as change agents.
Cami Miller, PSS, CHW
Training Coordinator
Cami is a Community Health Worker, Certified Recovery Mentor, and Peer Support Specialist. In addition to working in the addiction field, she has worked with the child and maternal health population, and with the houseless population. Cami is enthusiastic and dedicated to deepening her understanding of Motivational Interviewing. She is currently fine tuning her skills to better train folks as they support others in making meaningful changes.
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NEON is a connector, innovator, and expert resource
Rural and culturally underserved communities in Oregon are often under-resourced, particularly in their capacity to support the health of residents. As a result, barriers to community health can be enormous—providers experience gaps in funding, technology, and training; community members commonly have limited access to information and care. Our mission at NEON is to create a healthier Oregon. We accomplish this by reducing barriers for both residents and the systems that support their health. We are connectors, innovators and experts. We connect people and organizations to one another and to resources they need to meet their goals. By thinking out of the box and harnessing the creativity of our communities, we help lead the development of solutions to the unique challenges faced in our region. We make it our priority to learn and share policy, practice, and tools that will help others accomplish more. We believe that by working together, the communities of Oregon can move from surviving to healthy, happy, and thriving.
Our History
Northeast Oregon Network (NEON) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit health collaborative originally serving Union, Wallowa, and Baker counties in Northeast Oregon and recently expanded into Umatilla and Malheur counties. NEON was launched in 2004 by a small group of individuals who recognized the value of community collaboration in ensuring the health of our residents.
