Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is the gold standard of change-work tools. It is used as the foundation of excellence in all services including prisons, psychiatric units, and rehabilitation units. MI is the strategy that creates motivation in others by supporting them to focus on their own reasons for change. MI evolved by observing the most effective practitioners and identifying what they did that made all the difference to their clients. These observed techniques have been distilled into a skill-set that we can all adopt to improve outcomes for those we work with. Motivational Interviewing has become the essential training for substance misuse practitioners, eating disorder practitioners, Crisis team practitioners as well as all forms of social work and social care provider. Since the late 1980s, MI has been evolving and delivering results that all providers need. Its value is now so recognised, that MI is becoming the default minimum staff quality standard for practitioners. Many commissioners now make it a requirement that teams they commission must be trained in this skill-set.

An Introduction to the Betterminds' Motivational Interviewing Course

Motivational Interviewing is a client-centred, directive method for harnessing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. Implementing the MI techniques has a huge impact. MI integrates empathy, open questions and reflective listening to create understanding of the patient or service user’s point of view.

Motivational Interviewing is focused, goal-directed, and by using a less direct persuasive approach, it is overall more successful at solving ambivalence. These flexible tools and techniques promote higher rates of sustainable change. MI has the added benefit of reducing the stresses placed on your teams by reducing patient or service user resistance and specific strategies to work with patient or service user resistance. This stress reduction promotes great effectiveness, retention and well-being in your teams.

The Betterminds Motivational Interviewing course will equip your staff with all the tools and resources to be confident effective practitioners. 

How Long is the Motivational Interviewing Course?

The Betterminds Motivational Interviewing Course usually runs for two days.

This training can be delivered back to back. We recommend that with any 2 day training you split it across a week or even longer. This is because your teams will have a better learning and growth experience. They will gain more insight by applying the tools delivered on day 1 and prior to day 2.

Day 1 focused on what Motivational interviewing is whilst day 2 is focused now the how to deliver MI. Day 2 is crammed with tools and techniques to better deliver MI to create a better impact for your teams.

Betterminds also delivers a day-long refresher course in MI for established and very confident practitioners. We would recommend this course only after the whole team have previously accessed our 2 day training course.

What Will My Team Gain From The Betterminds' Motivational Interviewing Course

  • Your team will gain strategies to incorporate and integrate the knowledge gained to support service users.
  • They will gain a unified understanding of working with service users.
  • Your team will have a manual which offers specific strategies to move service users forwards.
  • Your team will gain a full understanding of the theory and practise of MI, as well as specific tips, tools and techniques to help them work more effectively with patients or their service users, when faced with conflict and resistance.

Where Will The Betterminds' Motivational Interviewing Course Be Useful

 

This course will be useful in organisations that specialise in helping others to make sustainable changes. MI is vital where self-efficacy and independence are essential, working to support people to promote a life of partial or complete independence.

MI also plays a crucial role for social care professionals and anyone who works with vulnerable adults and young people. Professionals who would benefit from Motivational Interviewing skills include workers in substance misuse, social housing, mental health nurses, general practitioners and education providers.

What Are The Primary Course Objectives

  • Rapid rapport-building techniques to build trust
  • Persuasion-science tools to minimise conflict
  • MI micro-skills (EOARS)
  • Skills practise of MI techniques
  • How create motivation via creating cognitive dissonance
  • Explain the principles fo MI
  • How to create the fuel to change by building self-efficacy
  • Understand and demonstrate the spirit of MI
  • Explain and apply techniques to deal with resistance
  • Feel more confident as a practitioner

What Else Will Our Team Learn

  • Reduce conflict in your workspace and build a calmer environment
  • Build a culture of independence
  • Normalise change by knowing how to nurture growth mindsets
  • Be more resilient to service user resistance
  • Integrate MI to build a culture of change in your work environment
  • Recognise how the effectiveness of MI can benefit clients, service users and your organisation as a whole