Motivational Interviewing

Price $187.00

Motivational Interviewing

This online course is based on the latest edition of Miller and Rollnick’s book Motivational Interviewing, consistantly receives 5-star reviews!

An evidence-based therapy, it teaches an organised way of helping clients who are reluctant to make changes to improve their health. Basically, it’s a way of having a conversation about change.

You will learn how to support a person’s changes in diet, smoking, substance abuse, exercise, and medication usage; how to generate motivation in people who are not motivated; how to help your clients form a constructive plan for change; and how to constructively respond to a client’s resistance to change.

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This Motivational Interviewing course gives you the opportunity to gain a full understanding of MI, and all the tools you will need to use to incorporate MI into your role.

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What's included

You receive a free downloadable 8-page reference booklet that details the elements of motivational Interviewing: -the four core skills, how to use O-A-R-S, how to recognise DARN statements and examples of Evocative questioning.

What you need to know

  • The course consists of 10 lessons, and all of the skills are explained and demonstrated with easy to follow videos.
  • A Motivational Reference booklet is downloadable and yours to keep
  • Most lessons include a video demonstration of all of the micro skills
  • A number of quizzes reinforce key learnings
  • The duration is approximately 6.5 hours (or less).
  • You have 60 days access to complete the course.
  • A Motivational Interviewing certificate is issued upon completion.

Workshop Curriculum

  • Meet Melanie and Sandra
  • Your Motivational Interviewing Handbook
  • Welcome to Country
  • How to use this course
  • What is Motivational Interviewing
  • Different conversational styles
  • Conversational Styles
  • The Righting Reflex
  • The spirit of Motivational Interviewing
  • Using the spirit of Motivational Interviewing
  • Elements of the spirit of Motivational Interviewing
  • What does evocation mean in Motivational Interviewing
  • The method of Motivational Interviewing
  • Eliciting change talk
  • The 4 core skills of Motivational Interviewing
  • Connecting with the person
  • Listening
  • Open ended questions
  • Affirming
  • Reflection
  • Summarising
  • What is the correct order of the 4 steps in the method
  • O-A-R-S demonstrated
  • What does the acronym O-A-R-S stand for
  • Exploring a person’s goals
  • Focusing
  • 3 styles of focusing
  • Offering information and advice
  • Evoking to elicit change
  • Change talk
  • Listening for D-A-R-N statements
  • What does the acronym D-A-R-N stand for
  • Scale questions
  • Asking evocative questions
  • Responding to change talk using O-A-R-S
  • Responding to sustain talk
  • Sustain talk
  • Strengthening a person’s confidence to change
  • What to do when there is little or no motivation for change
  • Transition from evoking to planning
  • Developing a change plan
  • Roadblocks
  • Commitment to change
  • How will you support change
  • Motivational Interviewing in practice
  • Example of Motivational Interviewing
  • Motivational Interviewing preparation prayer
  • Congratulations on completing this course

5 Star Reviews

Consistently, we hear comments like this “I can see that it will definitely effect my practice positively and will help me ask more effective questions and techniques that I’ve learnt from this course.”

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Our facilitator was warm, engaging, compassionate and empowering. I learned so much in this workshop and highly recommend it.
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Melanie is fantastic and has very interesting and engaging stories. Would happily participate in anything she presented.
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