Motivational Interviewing

Recognized as an evidence-based practice, participants of this virtual workshop will learn the methods to engage, focus, evoke, and plan in an MI session, as well as the fundamentals of MI practice: understanding ambivalence, practicing with MI spirit, reflective listening, and learning the core MI skills of recognizing, evoking, and responding to a person’s “change talk”.

Community Partner Training- Sponsored by CYFD-BHS

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12 Social Work CEU | 12 Length

Trainer:
Alicia Shiver, MA, LADAC, LMHC & Lindsay Worth, LMHC, MPA, MA, Motivational Interviewing Training Center (MITC)

Trainer Bios: 

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.

Lindsay Worth is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and has worked in mental health and addictions research at the University of New Mexico for 24 years.  She has worked in a number of settings including prisons, schools, treatments centers, and tele-health environments and is currently involved with projects in psychedelic and stimulation research.  She also spends much of her time training, coaching, and coding in Motivational Interviewing.

About Us: 

MITC is owned and operated by Alicia Shiver and Lindsay Worth who are both members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and licensed counselors.  They have diverse and comprehensive experience in training, coaching, and supervising professionals and behavioral health critical supporters and have a combined 35 years of experience working in clinical research, addictions, education, healthcare, and correctional settings.

MITC has received numerous government grants to provide training and education services in New Mexico, USA. We have supported and facilitated two virtual MINT-Endorsed Training of New Trainer programs in 2019 and 2020 with participants attending from 14 countries. We continue to support people in learning and implementing motivational interviewing and have successfully worked with over 6,000 people in our 7 years of business. 

• Explain the differences between motivational interviewing and other therapeutic methods.
• Demonstrate understanding of ambivalence and the stages of change.
• Describe the 4 processes of motivational interviewing.
• List and explain the components of the MI spirit.
• Use OARS skills to effectively engage in practice and role plays.
• Explain the difference between change talk and sustain talk.
• Identify 3 methods for evoking change talk.
• Demonstrate ability to use methods for identifying, evoking, and responding to change 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.