The MI approach helps clients
to strengthen client motivation for making specific
health-behaviour changes. It is heavily influenced by the client-centered tradition of helping. MI  combines the strategic component of guiding and involves asking, listening, evoking and informing. It  helps clients to engage in active change plans. MI does not "implant" motivation. Instead, it serves to create a safe and easy space for motivation to grow. In a similar way, this workshop involves asking, listening, evoking and informing to help plant the seeds that take root to create the foundation for skill development with MI!

This 3-day workshop provides an excellent mix of education and opportunities for skill practice so as to maximize learning-transfer to workplace applications. It often serves as the foundation for the process by which people learn how to learn to apply MI. To accomplish that, our experience is that learners need to:

1. Know about MI (Undertsand the underlying principles, practices, and concepts)

2. Practice with MI (experiment, obtain feedback, make adjustments and fine tune)

3. Consolidate and Integrate MI into their daily work ("Get" MI) 

Teach a learner how to fish and you help them become proficient. But help them to become a fish - to think like a fish, to swim like a fish, and to understand what it is like to BE a fish - and they move from proficiency to competency! Mentoring and peer coaching in the process of learning MI helps learners swim in a whole different league than those who have only been "trained?              Our curriculum design and instructional development team specializes in designing learning systems for organizations that want to maintain and continually improve their practice of Motivational Interviewing. The result is a self-sustaining program of learning and performance coaching facilitated by your own people.

This 2-day course helps supervisors to ensure the "vision" component of supervision stays true to the goals, mandate, and focus of your organization – while supporting a work team that produces high-quality and measurable results.