Motivational Interviewing - Skill Building

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*Registration payment includes Credit Cards and Interfund Transfers ONLY.

Target Audience

Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, Community health workers, and other health care professionals.

Description

Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based therapeutic technique designed to help people identify their readiness, willingness, and ability to make meaningful changes in their lives. We will talk about techniques to draw out people in order to find out their motivations and help them become empowered to make change to meet their own goals rather than trying to externally mandate change. Motivational interviewing can be added into other models to reduce attrition and increase the likelihood of participants’ success. During this training participants will strengthen and practice empathic counseling skills, understand and practice the directive aspects of MI, experience and practice an MI style of responding to discord, and learn the fundamental client language cues (change talk and sustain talk) that allow continued feedback and learning in practice.

Pre-requisite Information
This is an advanced Motivational Interviewing class. In order to attend, you will need to have basic knowledge of MI theory and concepts and have attended an MI class in the past.
You must email a certificate of completion to Gabriela Staley, gabriela.staley@advocatehealth.org
If you do not submit a certificate of completion by Wednesday, June 18, 2025, your registration will be cancelled.

Date/Time
Monday, June 23, 2025
9:30 am - 4:45 pm

Location
5039 Airport Center Parkway, Building K, Classroom 17/18
Charlotte, NC 28208

Speaker
Rachel Galanter, MPH
Professional Speaker, Trainer & Coach
Rachel Galanter, LLC

This presenter is being supported through a partnership between UNC-CH, School of Social Work and the NCAHEC Program. The reduced registration fee is made possible through financial support provided by the NC AHEC program.

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Objectives

• Describe the advantages of evoking motivations rather than sharing information about risks and benefits.
• Explain what makes it difficult to not try and problem solve before exploring motivations.
• Demonstrate the ability to ask open ended questions, reflect, and affirm clients.
• Intentionally cultivate change talk and soften sustain talk.
• Reduce the risk of stereotypes and unconscious bias influencing your case planning by adopting the evocative spirit of Motivational Interviewing.

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