Motivational Interviewing as a Path to Personal Change
What is MI as a Path to Personal Change
Motivational Interviewing (MI) sounds great on paper and sometimes helpers struggle with when and how to use it in their clinical practice. This workshop will review self-help strategies to help individuals bring MI to life in their work.
Materials have been updated to reflect new content in the recently released 4th edition of the Motivational Interviewing textbook, including the new MI spirit language. We will cover MI basic relational skills (spirit and microskills - OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summary statements) as well as dive into the MI technical skills (eliciting and reinforcing change talk).
We will review MI tools that you can use in sessions and incorporate with other techniques you employ in your work. We will leverage a combination of real play, role play, and demonstrations to take your best MI knowledge and apply it.
Who Can Attend?
Even though the session may be best suited for those who have already learned the basics of motivational interviewing, all are welcome to attend and participate. In reality any helping professional interested in learning more about the utilization of MI as a Path to Personal Change
What you will learn in this course:
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Identify Motivational Interviewing (MI) spirit components
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Describe the four tasks of MI
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Understand how and when to use MI in self-help sessions
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Receive a certificate for 1 hour of CE for this FREE workshop! MI Center for Change is an NBCC Approved Provider ACEP #7223. And don’t worry, if you miss the live workshop, we will send you access to the recording!
1.5 Hour FREE Live Webinar
Thursday, January 18th, 2024 from 2:00-3:30pm ET
Speaker Bio:
Michelle L. Drapkin, PHD, ABPP
Dr. Michelle Drapkin has been working in the area of behavior change for over 20 years. She is the Owner/Director of the CBT Center and previously held roles as a Senior Behavioral Scientist at BetterUp, where she worked to advance the science and practice of evidence-based coaching in the workplace and at Johnson and Johnson where she led the development and deployment of behavior change interventions, including an intervention for wellbeing and mindfulness. She held a national position at the Department of Veterans Affairs and was on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She has dedicated her professional career to using psychological research to help people. She is a board-certified Clinical Psychologist and sees patients in her private practice, consults with healthcare tech startups, and delivers trainings and workshops on communication/motivation and health and wellbeing at work and in life. She is the sole author of The Motivational Interviewing Path to Personal Change: The Essential Workbook for Creating the Life You Want from New Harbinger Publications.
