Motivational Interviewing Skills that Promote Peer Empowerment

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This full-day, interactive Motivational Interviewing (MI) training teaches peer support practitioners how to help people find and strengthen their own reasons to change. Participants learn the spirit, theory, processes, and core skills of MI, with hands-on practice throughout. Offers 6 (six) NAADAC CE credits.

What You’ll Learn

• Define MI and how it differs from directing and following
• Describe the MI spirit: collaboration, acceptance, compassion, evocation
• Recognize reactance and the righting reflex in real conversations
• Work through the four processes: engaging, focusing, evoking, planning
• Practice OARS skills, including complex and double-sided reflections
• Identify change talk and assess readiness using the Stages of Change