Motivational interviewing is a style of communication that uses a guiding, reflective style to engage with people, clarify their strengths and aspirations, and utilise their own motivations for change, and promote independence of decision making.
In a nutshell, MI saves your breath, your time and you are more effective when it comes to people making decisions about themselves. The feedback we regularly receive is that Motivational Interviewing also helps to avoid burn out.
This is an introduction to the principles, spirit and skills of motivational interviewing.
• Gain an overview of an effective alternative to trying to be persuade people to change their behaviour.
• Gain an appreciation of how people can use their own motivations and find their solutions for behaviour change.
• Tune our listening from “to be understood.” into “listening to understand”.
• Discover how questions, reflections, affirmations and summaries can be used to facilitate a more effective conversation about behaviour change.
• Observe how reflective listening can help when people’s emotions are running high.
Delivered by:
Et Al Training. Our aim at Et al Training is to provide all Health Care Professionals working in Primary Care with memorable, creative and above all fun training events that will explain the why as well as the how in patient care. We build confidence in all our delegates and to this end we tailor all our events specifically to our audience. You will find creative and innovative delivery in your sort of language. https://www.etaltraining.co.uk/
