Deepen Your Coaching Efficacy With New Skills

This class will guide participants through an in-depth sequence of learning activities to enhance their knowledge, skills and application of Motivational Interviewing and add to their coaching competencies. Using the newly released, entirely rewritten 4th edition by William Miller and Stephen Rollnick, the class incorporates the changes reflected in this text, and updates the thinking about what creates behavior change over longer growth spans. The fourth edition has an increased emphasis on growth, in addition to change, and introduces new concepts, skills, and upgraded and simplified terminology that are introduced in the classes.

 

Participants will:  

• Explore the different ways to support behavior change included in the Motivational interviewing four "tasks" (previously called processes): Engaging, Guiding, Evoking, and Planning.

• Expand your skills in applying the key principles and core skills of MI.

• Discuss sharing information with your patients/clients using coaching competencies.

• Deepen and vary reflective listening skills, eliciting change talk and responding effectively to sustain talk, discord, and change talk.

• Develop additional skills for helping clients/patients to explore and resolve their ambivalence about health behavior change.

• Apply and practice MI skills and strategies designed to evoke motivation for change.

• Adapt the MI method and spirit to best-fit participants’ current practice setting.

 

The widely used approach of Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers many evidence-informed, person-centered communication skills and techniques to complement your coaching competencies. Helping professionals can use these skills to achieve successful and sustained behavior outcomes and encourage growth and progress with their clients.

 

There are four decades of robust scientific evidence to support the efficacy of MI in helping patients make positive health-behavior changes. Research has demonstrated that motivational interviewing can improve client engagement, help to resolve client ambivalence, and promote client activation in activities that lead to better health outcomes.

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Learning activities include demonstrations, class discussions and presentations, and small group exercises, with opportunities for participant practice with feedback.

 

Consider attending this class if you are a coach or healthcare professional who:

• Works with people to change health behaviors.

• Is interested in learning more about MI or building/increasing the MI knowledge skills you already have.

• Would like to translate MI knowledge into practice.

• Want a hands-on opportunity to hone and update MI skills.

 

Suggested resource (not required): Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow, 4th Edition (Applications of Motivational Interviewing) by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick | Sep 21, 2023