Join Alicia Shiver for this 4.5-hour FREE virtual workshop focused on developing skillfulness in Motivational Interviewing. This class is appropriate for those who have had an introduction to motivational interviewing through previous training or self-learning. All skill levels are welcome!

Using a tell-show-try model, we will review MI skills and concepts, demonstrate the use of the skill in motivational interviewing practice and then provide opportunities for direct practice and feedback. We will spend the first half of our time on relational components of MI (the MI spirit, accurate empathy, and OARS) and the second half on technical components of MI (cultivating change talk and softening sustain talk).

Come ready to practice!

4.5 Social Work CEUs

Trainer:
Alicia Shiver, LADAC, LMHC, Motivational Interviewing Training Center (MITC)

Trainer Bio: 

Alicia Shiver is a neurodivergent Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New Mexico. She has clinical experience working with patients and staff in primary care, dialysis clinics, correctional facilities, hospital emergency rooms, outpatient community mental health centers, and medication-assisted treatment. She was first introduced to MI in 2010 and has since stayed active in the MI through research, clinical applications, coding and training/coaching. Her professional interests include motivational interviewing, public health, harm reduction, neurodiversity, and community-based participatory research.

• Review MI skills and concepts
• Demonstrate the use of the skill in motivational interviewing practice
• Direct practice and feedback in OARS, cultivating change talk, and softening sustain talk

This training brought to you through a partnership with MITC Training and Education Center and the Children Youth and Families Department, Behavioral Health Services.