Upcoming Workshops
Integrating MI and CBT
Effectively blend motivational interviewing and CBT to achieve better client outcomes
When: Coming 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours
Location: Online
Become a more effective practitioner by learning how to blend and move between two key evidence based approaches: MI and CBT. In this workshop, we explore frameworks and key elements of these two approaches and help you combine them in your practice.
Boost your effectiveness with clients by seamlessly integrating these two key approaches in alcohol and other drug treatment. Through this interactive one day workshop, you will learn what makes these two core approaches unique, where they overlap and how to move seamlessly between them.
Learning outcomes
- Understand motivation and why people change, and the impacts on treatment outcomes
- Describe how motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy can work in unison
- Seamlessly integrate cognitive behavioural therapy with motivational interviewing
- Apply motivational interviewing to improve outcomes from cognitive behavioural therapy
Who should attend
This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners and assumes basic knowledge of MI and CBT. We recommend you do our essential skills MI and CBT workshops before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.
Facilitator: Paula Ross
“A fantastic way to learn more about MI and CBT's integration. Facilitators knowledge on the subject matter was evident and very informative.”
-Workshop participant, 2023
On 25 July 2024, we delivered Integrating MI and CBT workshop to 11 participants
The feedback was outstanding
- 9 out of 10 would recommend the training to others
- Satisfaction was rated 9 out of 10
- Relevance to their work was rated 9 out of 10
"Thank you Paula for such a wonderful workshop! Really beneficial to my practice with new tools to use with clients"
— Workshop participant, 2024
Participants showed significant increases in knowledge, skills and confidence