TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2023

2:00pm - 4:00pm PT
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Workshop 1 of 2 in the "Motivational Interviewing in April, for the Mental Health Workforce" Series (view series page for full details, including priming resources)

Motivational Interviewing in April,
for the Mental Health Workforce

Workshop 1: Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Connecting with Our Humanity to Support Growth and Change

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ● 2:00pm - 4:00pm

How we show up in our work spaces and the attitudes we hold profoundly impacts the work we do.  It is impossible to separate our professional skill sets from our beliefs about ourselves and others. In this session, we will learn the “spirit” of motivational interviewing and how this spirit shapes our therapeutic approach and creates context for our interactions with clients. We will learn how connecting to the “spirit” allows us to create psychological safety for help seekers and how essential it is for promoting trauma-informed care.

After attending this workshop, behavioral health providers and professionals will be able to:

• Identify and define the four main components of the “spirit” of MI.
• Demonstrate at least two ways the “spirit” can help promote change among help-seekers.
• Create their own plan to build “spirit” in their own sessions with help seekers.

Other workshops in this series:

Workshop 2: Building Strength and Connecting to Intuition
Motivational Interviewing and Affirmation Skills for Youth and Young Adults

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 ● 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Whether voluntarily sought or mandated to treatment, help seekers come to address problems in their lives. In this session, we will discuss how building strengths and affirmations helps promote self-efficacy and confidence that can fuel the change process. This session will focus specifically on using affirmation with young adults (although the skills and practice are applicable with individuals of all ages).

After attending this workshop, behavioral health providers and professionals will be able to:

• Identify at least three strength qualities that can be affirmed and supported among help seekers.
• Create at least three interventions that affirm help seeker strengths.
• Use values sorting and characteristics of successful change tools to promote strengths and competencies among help seekers.

While each session is standalone, we highly recommend you attend both!

Who is this series for?

All sessions are open to anyone (mental health or school mental health professionals including counselors, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, peer supporters, alcohol and drug counselors, mental health program administrators, MDs, nurses, and other allied health professionals) *Please note that the training will be an advanced level of Motivational Interviewing, and participants should have a basic familiarity or experience with this modality.

We are open to all participants; our priority service areas are SAMHSA Region 9 states and territories, including: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and U.S. Pacific Islands of American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.

4 CEUs are available through full participation (two CEHs are available for each session, with a total of four CEHs for both)