Workshops can be tailored to the needs of the organisation. The following outline some of the most popular training options.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a skills-based approach to conversations about change. The approach focuses on the client’s needs and wants, and provides a framework for navigating through the resistance and ambivalence that so often accompanies the change process.
MI is an evolving, dynamic field where our understanding of “what works” in conversations about change is constantly being fine-tuned. Our workshops are informed by the most current thinking in MI from key clinicians, trainers and researchers in the international community. Key workshops include:
Foundation Skills:
This two-day workshop introduces the framework and rationale of MI, core skills and application of these skills across the change process. Combining theory with practice, the workshop provides a comprehensive overview into what MI is, what it isn’t and how it works in practice.
Motivational Interviewing : Foundation Skills
Developing Skills:
As a follow up from the Foundation Skills workshop, this one-day course offers an opportunity to revisit and deepen understanding and application of the model after a period of putting the skills into practice.
Motivational Interviewing : Developing Skills
Deepening Practice:
This two day workshop extends the refresher with more intensive practice, observation and coaching to help bring the skills together into more flowing conversations.
Motivational Interviewing : Deepening Practice
MI for Supervisors:
Conducted as either a one or two day workshop, this course is ideal for those with previous training in MI and who are in a supervisory or line management role. The course offers frameworks and skills in both using MI in supervision and in using supervision to support others’ learning in MI.
Motivational Interviewing : MI for Supervisors
Our half: Surviving and thriving in the helping professions
This course is a strengths-based workshop for helping professionals to explore and reflect on what is happening on our side of the helping relationship, and to enhance our capacity to provide sustainable, effective and meaningful support to others.
Our half: Surviving and thriving in the helping professions
Working with substance misuse
Delivered as a one or two day workshop, this course provides practical skills for understanding and working with clients who misuse alcohol or other drugs. Aimed at the professional in a generalist or other specialist area of treatment, the workshop offers both accessible tools and invites clinicians to evaluate how existing skills may be helpful in working with a less familiar presenting issue.
Effective communication for leaders
This workshop has been developed for the senior executive in the corporate setting, where communication skills play a critical role in performing well in day-to-day encounters through to ensuring success of strategic planning and implementation.