Dates
- 2024: 13 and 14 May
- 2025: 27 and 28 January
Course details
- Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm (9:15am arrival for registration)
- Venue: Coed Pella, Colwyn Bay
- Targeted services: Business & Transformation, Community Wellbeing, Disability Team, Family Support & Intervention, Children Looked After, Older People & HSW, Quality Standards, Vulnerable People Team, Youth Justice Service
- Target group: Individuals who have direct contact with clients
Course aims and objectives
How we speak to people about 'problem behaviours' matters! We can increase or decrease people's motivation.
Motivational Interviewing is a structured communication style which helps people to recognise their problems and to do something about them. It is especially helpful when people have mixed feelings or ambivalence about making changes.
Motivational Interviewing stems from the field of substance misuse but is now used widely in all areas of social work from medication adherence to parenting methods to addressing depression.
This 2 day course gives opportunity to learn the theory and practice the skills.
Course content:
- understand the spirt and ethos of Motivational Interviewing
- remember your listening skills
- learn to evoke and reflect back 'change talk'
- learn to roll with resistance
- consider timing and readiness when developing change plans
- importance of enhancing hope and confidence in your client's abilities to change
For further information, or if you have booked a place on the course and have not received notification to attend please contact the Workforce Development & Learning Administrative Team. Please do not turn up to any course unless you have received notification of your place as the event may be fully booked.