Developing Partnerships with Peer Workers Using the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (virtual)

This new and exciting 1-day training is integral in developing leadership skills for people with shared lived experience in HIV, Hep C, Harm Reduction, PrEP, and our newest addition, Criminal Justice.

MI involves not only particular skills, but also an underlying attitude, a particular state of mind and heart with which you engage in a helping relationship.In this two-day training, we will dive deep into the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion & Empowerment (PACE).

Peers will have opportunities to begin learning how to operationalize the spirit of MI by learning the 4 Tasks of MI:

-Engaging – Can we walk together?

-Focusing – Where are we going?

-Evoking – Why would you go there?

-Planning – How will you get there?

Peers will also learn how Motivational Interviewing can be used along with the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, to make certain they are using the correct skills for the stage of change exhibited by the client and not falling into traps like Expert, Persuasion. Time & Wandering.

MI is not about installing motivation in people but rather evoking it from them.

A key in MI is helping a person discover their motivation for the change.

Intended Audience

Peer Workers who are working in the community with clients who are seeking ways to change challenging behaviors. There are 6 hours of CEU credits for anyone taking this course with the exception of non-certified Peer Workers, who are pursuing certification, which means there are no credits for this course until you become a Certified Peer Worker.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

-Define Motivational Interviewing as it relates to developing partnerships with clients

-Connect MI with the Stages of Change

-Explain the “spirit of motivational interviewing” (PACE)

-Develop partnerships with their clients using MI