Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills: Spring 2023

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About this 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 on-going skill development. Webcasts and between-sessions work—including with Dialogue Trainer scenarios—will help you target key MI 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 MI 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 Advancing Skills workshop.

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

Training Facts:

  • Dates: Fridays, April 7 – May 5, 2023 
  • Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST
  • Location: Online meeting room
  • Subject: Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • Practice level: Advanced 
  • CE credit:
    • ASWB: 7.5 hours
    • NAADAC: 7.5 hours
    • NBCC: 7.5 hours
  • Course type: Live online
    • 90 minutes weekly live webcast
    • Roughly 35 minutes of weekly home study activities
    • Participants will participate in weekly live webinars with the instructors. They will also have access to weekly readings, videos, and other actives on the learning page. They will be quizzed on the knowledge they learn from the live webcasts and learning activities every week to ensure understanding. 
  • Covered topics: Motivational Interviewing, implementation of best practices
  • Fees: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
  • Date created: 2022

Meet the Faculty:

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 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.

System Technology Requirements: 

Please ensure your viewing device complies with the following recommendations:

  • Must be on a device that allows you to view MP4 files
  • Ensure you have a strong enough internet speed to stream
  • Ensure you don't have firewalls blocking the video (some firewalls block some HTTP addresses)

We will be using Zoom for the viewing of our live sessions. In order to have the best experience for Zoom, please download the application here: https://zoom.us

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value or refund the course to the original source of payment. 

Training Certificates: 

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

  1. Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session) 
  2. Completing all required learning activities
  3. Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
  4. Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form

Certificates of Completion are awarded to participants who have attended the all five, live webcasts (or watched the webcast recording in their entirety), completed all required learning activities, scored higher than 80% on each weekly quiz, completed the course evaluation form, and the 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 roughly two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Program Manager, Marsha Kubyshko at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com


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 posttest 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: 10/17/2020-10/17/2023. 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. 

Curriculum

  • Orientation
  • Welcome!
  • Course Overview
  • Technology Requirements
  • Dialogue Trainer Log-In Instructions
  • Week 1: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Week 1 Webcast: Fridays, April 7, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 1 Recording
  • Week 1 Slides
  • Reading: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Dialogue Trainer: Week 1
  • Article: Moving from Why to How with Autonomy Support
  • Activities: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Transcript: My Father Also Hit Me (Uncoded)
  • Video: My Father Also Hit Me
  • Week 1 Quiz
  • Week 2: Softening Sustain Talk
  • Week 2 Webcast: Fridays, April 14, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 2 Recording
  • Audio Recording: Dr. Holtzapple
  • Transcript: Dr. Holtzapple
  • Reading: Strategically Responding to Sustain Talk
  • Activity: Put A Spin On It
  • Partner Activity: Third Time's a Charm
  • Week 2 Quiz
  • Week 3: Four Processes
  • Week 3 Webcast: Fridays, April 21, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 3 Recording
  • Reading: Navigating the Four Processes of Motivational Interviewing
  • Reading: Is Low Therapist Empathy Toxic?
  • Dialogue Trainer: Week 3: Child Welfare
  • Activity: A Guided Conversation across the Four Processes of MI
  • Video: “Vanessa’s Second Meeting with a Hospital Social Worker”
  • Video Observation: 4 Processes of MI
  • Week 3 Quiz
  • Week 4: Navigating Discord
  • Week 4 Webcast: Friday, April 28, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 4 Recording
  • Transcript: Mindy with Samantha - Child Welfare Encounter
  • Reading: Discord
  • Activity: The Practitioner Said What???
  • Week 4 Quiz
  • Week 5: Implementing Communities of Practice
  • UPDATED: Week 5 Webcast: Fridays, May 12, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 5 Recording
  • Activity: Listen to "How To Make Gravy" (Paul Kelly)
  • Activity: Lyrics for "How To Make Gravy" (Paul Kelly)
  • Exercise: Eavesdropping
  • Selected MI Online Resources
  • Selected Advanced MI Activities
  • Reading: Implementing Motivational interviewing
  • Reading: Creating a Motivational Interviewing Learning Community (Guidance from MINT)
  • Reading: Communities of Practice
  • Week 5 Quiz
  • Course Wrap-Up
  • Training Evaluation
  • Certificate Request Form

About this 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 on-going skill development. Webcasts and between-sessions work—including with Dialogue Trainer scenarios—will help you target key MI 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 MI 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 Advancing Skills workshop.

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

Training Facts:

  • Dates: Fridays, April 7 – May 5, 2023 
  • Time: 12:00 - 1:30 PM EST
  • Location: Online meeting room
  • Subject: Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • Practice level: Advanced 
  • CE credit:
    • ASWB: 7.5 hours
    • NAADAC: 7.5 hours
    • NBCC: 7.5 hours
  • Course type: Live online
    • 90 minutes weekly live webcast
    • Roughly 35 minutes of weekly home study activities
    • Participants will participate in weekly live webinars with the instructors. They will also have access to weekly readings, videos, and other actives on the learning page. They will be quizzed on the knowledge they learn from the live webcasts and learning activities every week to ensure understanding. 
  • Covered topics: Motivational Interviewing, implementation of best practices
  • Fees: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
  • Date created: 2022

Meet the Faculty:

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 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.

System Technology Requirements: 

Please ensure your viewing device complies with the following recommendations:

  • Must be on a device that allows you to view MP4 files
  • Ensure you have a strong enough internet speed to stream
  • Ensure you don't have firewalls blocking the video (some firewalls block some HTTP addresses)

We will be using Zoom for the viewing of our live sessions. In order to have the best experience for Zoom, please download the application here: https://zoom.us

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value or refund the course to the original source of payment. 

Training Certificates: 

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

  1. Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session) 
  2. Completing all required learning activities
  3. Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
  4. Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form

Certificates of Completion are awarded to participants who have attended the all five, live webcasts (or watched the webcast recording in their entirety), completed all required learning activities, scored higher than 80% on each weekly quiz, completed the course evaluation form, and the 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 roughly two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Program Manager, Marsha Kubyshko at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com


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 posttest 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: 10/17/2020-10/17/2023. 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. 

Curriculum

  • Orientation
  • Welcome!
  • Course Overview
  • Technology Requirements
  • Dialogue Trainer Log-In Instructions
  • Week 1: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Week 1 Webcast: Fridays, April 7, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 1 Recording
  • Week 1 Slides
  • Reading: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Dialogue Trainer: Week 1
  • Article: Moving from Why to How with Autonomy Support
  • Activities: Cultivating Change Talk
  • Transcript: My Father Also Hit Me (Uncoded)
  • Video: My Father Also Hit Me
  • Week 1 Quiz
  • Week 2: Softening Sustain Talk
  • Week 2 Webcast: Fridays, April 14, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 2 Recording
  • Audio Recording: Dr. Holtzapple
  • Transcript: Dr. Holtzapple
  • Reading: Strategically Responding to Sustain Talk
  • Activity: Put A Spin On It
  • Partner Activity: Third Time's a Charm
  • Week 2 Quiz
  • Week 3: Four Processes
  • Week 3 Webcast: Fridays, April 21, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 3 Recording
  • Reading: Navigating the Four Processes of Motivational Interviewing
  • Reading: Is Low Therapist Empathy Toxic?
  • Dialogue Trainer: Week 3: Child Welfare
  • Activity: A Guided Conversation across the Four Processes of MI
  • Video: “Vanessa’s Second Meeting with a Hospital Social Worker”
  • Video Observation: 4 Processes of MI
  • Week 3 Quiz
  • Week 4: Navigating Discord
  • Week 4 Webcast: Friday, April 28, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 4 Recording
  • Transcript: Mindy with Samantha - Child Welfare Encounter
  • Reading: Discord
  • Activity: The Practitioner Said What???
  • Week 4 Quiz
  • Week 5: Implementing Communities of Practice
  • UPDATED: Week 5 Webcast: Fridays, May 12, 2023, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
  • Week 5 Recording
  • Activity: Listen to "How To Make Gravy" (Paul Kelly)
  • Activity: Lyrics for "How To Make Gravy" (Paul Kelly)
  • Exercise: Eavesdropping
  • Selected MI Online Resources
  • Selected Advanced MI Activities
  • Reading: Implementing Motivational interviewing
  • Reading: Creating a Motivational Interviewing Learning Community (Guidance from MINT)
  • Reading: Communities of Practice
  • Week 5 Quiz
  • Course Wrap-Up
  • Training Evaluation
  • Certificate Request Form