Session 2: Bringing Motivational Interviewing to Life in Your Clinical Sessions (Part 1 of 2)
Motivational Interviewing (MI) sounds great on paper, but sometimes helpers struggle with when and how to use it in their clinical practice. This two-part workshop (both morning and afternoon sessions*) will review basic relational and technical tools of MI and strategies to bring MI to life in your clinical work. Over the two sessions, we will review MI tools that you can use in sessions and incorporate with other techniques you employ in your clinical work. We will leverage a combination of real play, role play and demonstrations to take your best MI knowledge and apply it. Participants are encouraged to bring case examples.
*Attend both sessions to meet all of the workshop learning objectives.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Identify Motivational Interviewing (MI) spirit components
- Describe the four tasks of MI
- Apply MI microskills (OARS)
- Explain how and when to use MI in clinical sessions
Learner level: Intermediate to Advancing
Presenter(s): Michelle Drapkin, PhD
Session 3: Embracing Motivational Interviewing Spirit as a Way of Being
The Motivational Interviewing spirit is essential to the practice of the overall MI conversation. The lack of MI spirit in conversation can lead to flat and disingenuous conversation. On the other hand, when a practitioner’s MI spirit is fully engaged, practitioners can guide conversations to evoke meaningful change. How can we bring the MI spirit forward for others, if we can’t identify what this looks like for ourselves? If you would like to explore this question, this workshop is for you! In this 90-minute workshop, tap into your inner being and your own “why.” We will explore how to embrace MI spirit as a way of being vs a way of doing.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Identify MI spirit and how and where it shows up in MI conversations
- Evaluate your current MI practice utilizing the spirit of MI
- Identify ways to incorporate and/or evoke more partnership, collaboration, empowerment and affirmation in your day-to-day MI practice
Learner level: All
Presenter(s): Adrienne Allen, MSW, LCSW, Amy Parins, MPAS, PA-C
Session 4: Motivational Interviewing and Assessment
What happens during assessment matters. Research consistently shows that when MI is integrated into assessment, clients are more likely to engage services, attend treatment sessions and initiate change compared to clients who receive assessment-as-usual. Participants will learn the MI assessment “sandwich” model (basis of the research) and will develop a simple MI protocol to use in routine assessment practice.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Identify at least two outcomes of the MI assessment sandwich research
- Develop an MI protocol for engaging (first part of sandwich model)
- Develop an MI protocol for closing (last part of sandwich model)
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Scott Caldwell, MS, MA, CSAC
- Lauren Hollie, APSW
Session 5: Becoming a Compassionate Mess — Using Mindful Self-Compassion, Cultural Humility, and MI to Benefit Those We Serve
Compassion is a key focus of the MI spirit, and the practice of compassion is also at the heart of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and Cultural Humility (CH). What happens when we practice all three of these helping approaches together? This workshop invites us to deepen and expand our practice of compassion by incorporating cultural/structural context, self-awareness and self-compassion. During our shared time as a learning community, we will explore how MSC and CH fit with MI and practice these skills with ourselves and our peers. While we may never become experts in the practice of compassion, we can aspire to embrace our imperfect humanness to benefit others.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Recognize the value of compassion for ourselves and others using Neff’s compassionate mess aspiration
- Reflect on how the three components of MSC and the three pillars of CH can support our MI work in practicing compassion with ourselves and those we serve
- Apply the MSC skills of embodied listening and inquiry to engage in cultural conversations
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Jesse Jonesberg, MSW, LCSW
- Brittney Fair, MSW
Thursday, August 10: Afternoon breakout sessions
3–4:30 p.m.
Session 1: Exercises for Integrating MI and Multicultural Orientation
The purpose of this session is to enhance the delivery of MI with a lens of cultural humility and antiracism by discussing and demonstrating different effective activities that the presenter has used in his current trainings.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Demonstrate MI activities that address cultural humility and antiracism
- Demonstrate MI-Cultural Humility activities, debrief and brainstorm exercises within the group and discuss format for teaching others
Learner level: All
Presenter(s): Maurice Bulls, MEd
Session 2: Bringing Motivational Interviewing to Life in Your Clinical Sessions (Part 2 of 2)
This is part two of the morning session, Bringing MI to Live in Your Clinical Sessions. Please only attend this session if you attended the morning session.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Identify Motivational Interviewing (MI) spirit components
- Describe the four tasks of MI
- Apply MI microskills (OARS)
- Explain how and when to use MI in clinical sessions
Learner level: Intermediate to Advancing
Presenter(s): Michelle Drapkin, PhD
Session 3: Integrating Motivational Interviewing into Your Trauma-Informed Care Work
In this session, you’ll learn more about using MI Skillfulness to increase engagement and retention of clients through the hard work of trauma therapy. Understandably, the people who need to work through trauma to improve their lives are reluctant to open the door to help. At the end of this session, you’ll be re-energized around empowering your clients and increasing their receptivity towards healing and growth.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Describe the ways that MI skills and spirit add to your skillfulness in trauma work
- Practice applying skills to role play situations
- Relate the lessons learned to the use of MI in your trauma informed work
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Monica Caldwell
- Amy Gunderson, CSW, LPC
- Gail Kowalkowski, MSW, APSW, SAC-IT
Session 4: Motivational Interviewing in Higher Education
This session will be hosted by a group of seasoned practitioners who use MI in their higher education work daily. As they seek to help you grow your own practice in the realm of higher education, they will interweave stories from the front. There are multiple ways to use MI in this space, and you’ll leave wondering how you, too, can integrate MI into your work with adolescents and young adults.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Describe the ways that the spirit and practice of MI can appear in higher education settings
- Develop additional skillfulness employing MI in higher education settings using multiple practice scenarios
- Relate the lessons learned to the use of MI in your own higher education setting
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Susan Cushman, MPH, CHES
- Erica Karger-Gatzow, LCSW
- Jen Waletzko Johnson
- Lee Weintraub, MPH, CHES
Session 5: Motivational Interviewing Across Professions: Setting Aside Credentials to Clear the Way for Curiosity
MI can be effectively applied in many professional settings. As a learner of MI, it can be challenging to imagine how examples from various settings can be applied to your own. At times it can feel like the lack of expertise in a given topic can be a barrier to effective conversations about change. This session will directly address that challenge with interactive exercises designed to help you apply MI no matter the subject.
This interactive workshop will allow learners to practice the spirit, skills and strategies of MI removed from the need for any subject matter expertise. You will leave with an enhanced understanding of your role as change guide and a decreased need to rely on your own expertise.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Assess the value of content-specific expertise in an MI-adherent interaction
- Employ MI skills to a case scenario without relying on discipline-specific knowledge
- Prepare to use your professional wisdom and expertise in an MI-adherent style
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Mia Croyle, MA
- Adrienne Allen, MSW, LCSW
- Laura Saunders, MSSW
Friday, August 11: Morning panel presentation and breakout session
9–9:45 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Motivational Interviewing Implementation Matters
Implementing MI (or any evidence-based practice) means selected practitioners learn the practice to fidelity standards with integration into routine services. Implementation represents an ambitious project for any provider organization because practitioners must engage new ways of working. Members of an MI implementation team in a state-county partnership will discuss stages, drivers, challenges, preliminary outcomes and lessons learned in the Rock County Comprehensive Community Services MI Implementation Project.
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Identify two stages of implementation
- Identify two drivers of implementation
- Identify two challenges of implementation
- Identify two lessons learned by the MI implementation team
Learner level: All
Panel members:
- Rock County Comprehensive Community Services MI Implementation Team
- Scott Caldwell, WI DHS, MI consultant
- Jenna Singer, Rock Co. DHHS, CCS program manager
- Jason Cliffgard, Rock Co. DHHS, CCS clinical supervisor
- Alyssa Tatge, Rock Co. DHHS, CCS service facilitator
10 a.m.–12 p.m.
Parallel sessions: The Rollicking OARS + I
This high-energy, highly interactive rotating series of exercises has been newly designed by a group of MI trainers just for you! You and your group mates will build your skills — regardless of where you start — using the MI micro skills of open questions, affirmations and reflections. You’ll get to try all three!
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, you will be able to
- Demonstrate skillfulness in the use of open questions, affirmations, reflections and sharing information and advice
- Choose responses that are more or less MI consistent
- Identify your own strengths and prepare to continue learning and practicing where you want to build skill
Learner level: All
Presenter(s):
- Multiple members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)