Develop advanced skills in motivational interviewing to supercharge your alcohol and other drug practice

When: Coming 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm [both days]
Duration: 7 hours [both days]
Location: Online

Reinvigorate your MI practice, learn useful adaptations and explore ways to effectively manage challenges and barriers with our revised Rethink MI masterclass. Motivational Interviewing is an evolving science, and it’s recently been updated. Advance your MI expertise and ensure your practice is aligned with the latest best practice evidence to enhance client outcomes.

Join one of Australia’s most experienced alcohol and other drug trainers in this two day motivational interviewing masterclass. Take your motivational interviewing skills to the next level by using self-reflection and practical exercises to understand and apply advanced strategies across assessment, intervention and responding to therapeutic challenges.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the ins and outs of motivational interviewing and what’s new in MI
• Understand what drives, and how to better respond to, client ambivalence
• Apply a comprehensive model of change that integrates client values
• Develop advanced motivational listening and questioning skills
• Develop high level skills in eliciting change
• Understand and effectively respond to therapeutic relationship difficulties

Who should attend

This is an advanced skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners. We recommend you do our How and why of MI workshop before attending this workshop.This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.

Facilitator: Paula Ross

“Paula is very knowledgeable about MI and I found it fresh and interesting. Clear content and practical application. Willingness to apply content to individual clinical contexts”

"I've already booked in for the next training. Paula is an excellent presenter and the small group allowed for great interaction."

- Workshop participant, 2023