Description
What is Motivational Interviewing?
- It is an effective evidence-based approach to overcoming ambivalence (ambivalence keeps many people from making positive life.)
- It is non-judgmental, non-confrontational and non-adversarial.
- It is a method that works on facilitating and engaging motivation within the customer in order for them to think about and change their behaviour.
This training can be booked through Insight Academy's EventBrite Webpage.
When:
Tuesday 7 October 2025, 9:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 8 October, 9:30am - 4pm
This is a two-day course. You must attend both days to complete the course.
Where:
The Dudson Centre, Hope Street, Hanley, ST1 5DD
The car park at the Dudson Centre is at the front of the building and is pay & display
Eligibility
This session is available to people who live or work in the Stoke-on-Trent area.
Other Information
The training is appropriate for anyone who is dealing directly with children, young people and adults including:
Managers, Social Care, Organisational Leaders, Housing Officers, Frontline staff etc.
Lunch & Refreshments will be provided, if you have any dietary requirements please let us know at least 2 weeks prior to the training date.
Course and Trainer Information
Steven Talbot has been successfully training people in Motivational Interviewing for eleven years. He has trained: Social workers, teachers and teaching support, housing officers, all manner of front facing support workers, fire and safety officers, mental health professionals and various other professionals.
Feedback from the course has been 100% positive, with many people stating how the course has changed the way that they work with customers and / or service users, and seen customers making great strides in changing their lives.
Objectives
This training consists of:
- The principles behind motivational interviewing
- Exploring ambivalence and how to reduce resistance and sustain talk
- Analysing what is meant by ‘active listening’
- Describing cycles of change
- Exploring ‘change talk’ and boosting the intrinsic need for change
- Discovering where dangerous assumptions can lead
- Exploring the theory of ‘roadblocks’
- Taking part in motivational interviewing
And no – there’s no role play, so you can now sigh with relief.
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