Your Partners for Transformative Change
Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change
Online Course
This five-week instructor-led course encompasses the purpose, mindset and heart-set, tasks, core interviewing skills, and guiding methods of MI. Participants engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, videos, exercises, and practice opportunities.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a particular way of talking with people about change and growth to strengthen their own motivation and commitment.
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 several thousand Motivational Interviewing workshops for a wide variety of providers such as children and family service professionals, 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 at the intersection of healthcare, behavioral health, homelessness, and housing for more than 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 trainings nationally on best practices including motivational interviewing, trauma-informed practice, trauma-informed supervision, outreach and engagement, recovery support, critical time intervention, and resiliency and renewal for care providers. Ken has a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).
Who Should Take This Course
Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations
Learning Objectives
- Explain how MI is more of a guiding method than a directive one
- Describe the four elements of MI spirit
- Explain the four tasks that guide motivational conversations
- Provide examples of three core interviewing skills used in MI
- Identify three strategies to elicit change talk
Course Facts
Dates: TBD, email us for more info
Practice level: Beginner
Cost: $400 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
CE credit:
- ASWB: 7.5 hours
- NAADAC: 7.5 hours
- NBCC: 7.5 hours
“This training helped me appreciate the philosophical foundations of MI. Being directed is contrary to the innate characteristics of humans, and people need support and guidance to cultivate what they have.” –Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change Online Course Participant
“Practicing MI properly needs practice, and this training is really eye-opening about acquiring the skills.” –Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change Online Course Participant
Learn More
- Motivational Interviewing podcast series
- Building Knowledge in Motivational Interviewing: Part 1
- Building Knowledge in Motivational Interviewing: Part 2
- Introduction to the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)
- Sign up to receive newsletter and training updates from C4 Innovations
Group Registration
Scholarships
Full and partial scholarships available—email us for more info.
Accommodations
If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Isabel-Kai Fisher.
Grievances
If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Rachel Ehly.
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, NBCC, and NAADAC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants approximately two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.
*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 a 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: 10/17/2023 to 10/17/2026. 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.