Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills
Online Course
This intensive workshop will help you advance your own skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and provide ideas for you and your agency to establish an effective and sustainable community of practice for ongoing skill development. Webcasts and between-session work--including with Dialogue Trainer scenarios--will help you target key Motivational Interviewing skills and strategies for taking your own MI practice to the next level.
Suggested Prerequisites:
It is recommended that you will have completed a high quality Motivational Interviewing introductory workshop within the past five years to gain optimal value from this workshop. Self-study and intensive reading in MI are also good preparation. Eagerness to learn and grow in the MI model as well as interest in continuing your practice will help you make the most of this workshop.
Meet the Instructors
Ali Hall, JD, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali has designed and facilitated more than 2,500 Motivational Interviewing workshops for children and family service systems, health care practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminal/juvenile justice professionals, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. Ali offers MI coding and skill development coaching and provides consultation to systems for effective MI implementation. Ali is the co-author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skill Development (2021) and co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) rating and coaching instrument.
Ken Kraybill, MSW, has worked in healthcare, behavioral health, homelessness, and housing for the past 35 years. He is a Senior Trainer at C4 Innovations and is dedicated to improving the quality of care provided to marginalized and vulnerable people. Ken develops curricula and facilitates in-person and online training nationally on topics including Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed care, outreach and engagement, clinical case management, peer integration, Critical Time Intervention, and supervision. Ken has a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington in Seattle and an undergraduate degree from Goshen College in Indiana.
Training Certificates
Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:
- Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
- Completing all required learning activities
- Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
- Completing the course evaluation form and certificate request form
7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB and NBCC. 7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through NAADAC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants approximately two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.
Group Registration
If you are registering five or more people from one organization, please email us for a special discount.
Scholarships
Full and partial scholarships available—email us for more info. Deadline to apply is Friday, March 24, 2023.
Accommodations
If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Marsha Kubyshko.
Grievances
If you would like to report a complaint, please email Rachel Ehly.
*In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required post-test questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate.
C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2020 to 10/17/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 continuing education credits.
C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This course has been approved by C4 Innovations as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
Who Should Take This Course
Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-oriented organizations (see suggested prerequisites)
Learning Objectives
As a result of completing this course successfully, participants will be able to:
- Form effective responses to cultivate change talk
- Form effective responses to soften sustain talk
- Enhance abilities to navigate within and between the four processes
- Identify three strategies for effectively repairing conversational discord
- Identify three benefits of forming a community of practice or learning community
Course Facts
Dates/Time: TBD (email us if you are interested in this course/topic)
Practice level: Advanced
Cost: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
CE credits:
- ASWB: 7.5 hours
- NAADAC: 7.5 hours
- NBCC: 7.5 hours
“I was able to learn a lot—particularly about handling discord and navigating through the different processes.” --Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills Online Course Participant
Learn More
- Building Knowledge in Motivational Interviewing Part 1—self-paced course
- Building Knowledge in Motivational Interviewing Part 2—self-paced course
- Introduction to the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)—self-paced course
- Motivational Interviewing Coding Lab—for advanced MI skills building and evaluating motivational conversations
- Motivational Interviewing—podcast series
- Motivational Interviewing: Talking with People about Change—webinar recording hosted by Ken Kraybill (60:48 minutes)
- Changing the Conversation: An Interactive Tool to Build Motivational Interviewing Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
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