Using MI with Individuals

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Introductory - A Taste of MI

NovoVia Consulting offers introductory workshops ranging from one hour to a half day that are tailored to the customer’s specific needs. The workshops provide a brief overview of MI followed by exercises geared towards the participants’ area (s) of implementation. The purpose of these workshops is to introduce participants to MI, provide an opportunity to try some basic exercises in MI, and inspire participants to want to learn more about MI.

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Basic to Advanced

NovoVia Consulting offers courses and training in MI ranging from one to five days, tailored to each customer’s needs, competence level, area of application, and work setting. All workshops, courses, and training sessions require active participation by participants including hands-on exercises, role and/or real plays, open discussions, group work, videos and pictures, and games. During training, participants work with their own everyday examples and client situations. Participant’s may also receive training tasks between training days.

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• Basic Training Courses provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge of MI’s basic attitudes, principles, skills, and techniques they can use in their own day-to-day environments and contacts with their clients. ​​Such theoretical and practical knowledge include:

  • Spirit of MI - Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Evocation/empowerment

  • Reflective listening and conversational skills used in MI - Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries

  • The four processes in a MI conversation – Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, Planning

  • Communication styles in MI – Following, Directing, Guiding

  • Giving information (Explore – Offer – Explore) and asking for permission

  • Recognizing, eliciting, and responding to clients’ change talk

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• Advanced courses are intended to deepen participants’ knowledge and understanding of MI. Content, theory and exercises are modified according to participants’ area of expertise, skill level, and current client situations. Advanced courses can include general, or more specific themes, such as:

  • Developing, deepening, and practicing specific conversational skills.

  • Strategies for supporting client autonomy in conversations.

  • Responding to clients sustain talk and experienced discord in the relationship.

  • Addressing and responding to client ambivalence.

  • Discussing specific client cases and preparing for client sessions.

  • Supplementing your MI knowledge by learning more about compassion, motivation according to Self determination Theory (SDT) and highlighting the positives using strategies from Positive Psychology.

 

• Refresher Training Courses are offered for participants who have already received introductory training and who are wanting to refresh their knowledge of MI. These workshops are intended to invigorate participants’ knowledge of MI and keep MI in focus during their everyday conversations, as well as keep participants informed of the latest literature and research in the field of MI.

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