Motivational Interviewing: 2 Day Introductory Workshop

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a conversation style used in helping professions to help clients identify their own intrinsic motivation for change. This 2 day introductory workshop will provide participants an in-depth overview of the theory, principles, and skills of MI. Learning activities will include: demonstrations, videotape examples, “real-plays”, small group exercises, and significant participant practice and opportunities to receive feedback.

Attendees also receive one (1) free work sample submission to be coded using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Tool (MITI) 4.2.1. After the sample is submitted there will be an individualized coaching and feedback call to review the work sample. The submission is nontransferable.

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The training will take place from 9am-4:30pm both Monday & Tuesday.

After attending this 2 day introductory workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the key components of the Spirit of MI.
  2. Describe how the 4 Tasks of MI are used to help move clients/patients towards the direction of their change goals.
  3. Identify and describe the foundational communication skills of MI.
  4. Identify core MI strategies for exploring clients' own reasons for change in practice exercises
  5. Develop strategies to continue learning and practicing MI to improve participant confidence and competence in applying the skills and strategies of MI.

This workshop is appropriate for helping professionals who are in the role of counseling clients/patients to make and sustain healthy behavior changes. This includes but is not limited to counselors, social workers, case workers, clinicians working with people who use substances, probation/corrections officers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists and dietitians.

Attendees also receive one (1) free work sample submission to be coded using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Tool (MITI) 4.2.1. After the sample is submitted there will be an individualized coaching and feedback call to review the work sample. The submission is nontransferable.

What’s included in Registration:

  • 12 hours of Motivational Interviewing training
  • Resource manual and materials
  • Copy of presentation after the training concludes
  • 1 free work sample submission, including individualized coaching and feedback
  • Breakfast pastries and coffee
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 12 CE contact hours*

Adam Rietveld, LCPC has worked as a professional counselor in a variety of behavioral health settings including a locked residential psychiatric nursing home, an inpatient behavioral health hospital, and at outpatient community mental health centers. He currently owns and operates a private counseling practice in Crystal Lake, is an adjunct faculty member at National Louis University teaching in their MS in Counseling program, and works as a MI trainer, coach, and mentor.

Adam has been facilitating Motivational Interviewing trainings since 2015 and was invited to join the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2016. He has experience facilitating trainings for counselors, social workers, case workers, alcohol and other drug counselors, probation officers, graduate level students, and professors.

Adam received a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of Central Florida and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Counselor Education & Supervision from National Louis University.

*Rietveld Consulting, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7027. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Rietveld Consulting, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Illinois LPCs, LCPCs, LSWs, and LSCWs will be eligible for continuing education pursuant to Illinois Title 68 section 1375.220 and section 1470.95.

Upon written request Rietveld Consulting, LLC will provide the necessary materials to participants for them to submit to their licensing body, on their own behalf, for the consideration of continuing education hours.