Motivational Interviewing Training Day

Peter Beven

Peter is an experienced tutor and researcher in the Guidance and Counselling area of work. He isa Teaching Fellow of Northumbria University.

Research interests include the use of a range of different approaches to support clients in self-assessment, learning and decision-making. As a former Careers Adviser he is interested in guidance interventions with a potential to enhance practice. Peter has delivered training sessions for a wide range of organisations, in the public and private sectors, both in the UK and internationally.

Motivational Interviewing

For the past ten years Peter has offered Motivational Interviewing to a range of professional groups, in the UK and abroad including Connexions Personal Advisers in England, Career Advisers in Northern Ireland and Wales, Adult Guidance workers, Learning Mentors, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Teachers and Support workers in a range of settings. The latter would include working with Youth offending teams, and staff working for organisations such as the Cyrenians who aim to support homeless people. Peter has been invited to give key note presentations on this topic internationally in Greece, Italy, and Denmark. In June 2014 he presented a paper at the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance Conference in Quebec, Canada addressing some issues in using Motivational Interviewing in Career Counselling practice.

He has published articles linking Motivational Interviewing with professional practice in peer reviewed publications.

Motivational Interviewing

Tutor: Peter Beven, Northumbria University

This is a one day course for staff involved in guidance and supporting individuals with life choices and career decision making. By the end of the programme, participants will:

  • Be able to describe the principles of Motivational Interviewing and how they might apply them to their work with clients
  • Understand the Prochaska and DiClemente Wheel of Change, and be able to identify where clients are in the cycle and to select appropriate strategies for clients at the different stages
  • Have practiced using the skills of Motivational Interviewing through case studies/role play
  • Understand how Motivational Interviewing can be used as a tool within their existing approach to guidance

Programme

9.30
10.00- 11.00 / Registration for course
Motivational Interviewing: origins and Rationale. Assessing readiness to change The wheel of change model. Introduction to the Miller and Rollnick model and its current focus
Case Studies illustrating stages.
11.00- 11.15 / Short Break
11.15 - 12.30 / Building Motivation for Change
Opening Stages in the interview: Interviewing traps to avoid; developing good practice
Skills Exercise
12.15 - 13.00 / Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 / Phase 2: Integrating MI into guidance practice; linking to the three stage guidance model
Skills exercise
14.30 - 14.45 / Short Break
14.45 – 16.00 / Working with‘Resistance’ to Change: Some Issues and skills practice
Planning to implement MI tactics
Review of Day

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