Motivational Interviewing Summer School 2024
Motivational Interviewing Summer School 2024
The focus of training over the summer months in 2024 is to support the workforce making use of Motivational Interviewing in their conversations about change with their service users.
What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?
Motivational Interviewing is an evidence way to guide a conversation about change. It is based on a spirit, core principles and skills, with empathic, reflective listening at its heart. It may be easy to introduce it yet takes practice and effort to build competence.
- Introduction to motivational interviewing
- What is new in the 4th edition of Motivational Interviewing (2023)
- A deeper dive into empathic listening
These sessions, all using zoom, are planned for both July and August 2024. The sessions will be the same both months so workers choose what will work for them considering any holiday plans. The sessions will be different so come to one, two or all three depending on your needs and work/ holiday
All workshops run from 10 am to 1 pm. Workers can sign up to any of the above course and get zoom details by contacting Ed Sipler ed.sipler@setrust.hscni.net
By attending any training, you are agreeing to provide a short evaluation after the training to give feedback of the impact of this training and using what was covered in the training.
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Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI) and behaviour change Motivational Interviewing (MI) gives workers a learnable, evidence-based approach to the conversations with their clients about change. This training will introduce MI as a starting point of learning. It is aimed at any worker who has not been introduced to MI or who has had training some time ago but their practice using it has faded. Date: 29th of July or 12th of August 2024 – 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom (Participants should choose one of these two dates)
What is new in the 4th edition of Motivational Interviewing (2023)
Since it was first introduced by an article by Bill Miller in 1983, we have witnessed the growth in this evidenced based approach to conversations about change.
Each edition of the basic text in MI showed the growth of the approach through research and practice and how it can be applied to any behaviour. While starting with changing addictive behaviour, the very title of the new edition in 2023. Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow points to its application across a range of common challenge we all have.
In this session participants will: · Gain an overview of the changes in language and approaches in using MI. · Practice some of the core changes. · Gain an understanding of how these changes are being applied by the facilitator in practice.
This session is aimed at participants who have already had an introduction to MI and who want to grow in its application.
Date: 30th July or 13th of August 2024 – 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom (Participants should choose one of these two dates)
A deeper dive into empathic listening
Empathic listening is not limited to Motivational Interviewing yet is a core skills in guiding anyone toward change.
In this session participants will have an opportunity to dive deeper in their use of reflective, active, empathic listening.
It will make use of material shared withing the Motivational Network of training and it is hoped that we all leave this session being better listeners in our conversations with our service users.
As the Trust is putting energy into combating loneliness, there will be an emphasis is applying our listening skills to when our service users seem stuck in a pattern of behaviour.
Date: July 31st or August 14th 2024 – 10:AM to 1:00 PM on Zoom (Participants should choose one of these two dates)
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On-line Resources
Increasing help seeking for mental health – on-line tools: An important question is how do we reach people earlier for support? In Partnership with ASCERT and the Autism team we took four self-help resources currently in existence to create on-line versions to enable people to do the work from these resources at their own pace. (Opens best in EDGE). Each has an evaluation link to gauge impact.
Building our Children’s Developing Brain for parents to help build their children’s emotional regulation is aimed at parents to help build emotional regulation. It is not infant mental health but beyond that as children get verbal and into school. https://view.pagetiger.com/selfcareforfamilies
Using Self Compassion to Improve Wellbeing and Support Growth
https://www.ascert.biz/self-compassion
Teams can request sessions to introduce self-compassion to their teams by contacting ed.sipler@setrust.hscni.net
Bend Don’t Break: Low intensity CBT based self-help to support resilience. Bend Don’t Break | ASCERT https://www.ascert.biz/bend-dont-break/
Making Our Nevous System Work For Us- Using the Polyvagal Therory to Improve Well-Being is available to improve wellbeing. It is not a quick fix but will require effort to put it into practice. The booklet is on the South Eastern Trust website under the healthy living tab, then building a toolkit for change, https://setrust.hscni.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Nervous-System-Brochure-Final.pdf
An on-line version with visual clips of the resource is at: https://www.ascert.biz/making-our-nervous-system-work-for-us/
You Tube Clips for psych-education and to support conversations. Three you tube clips on well-being have been developed
- Stress and Trauma and your nervous system https://youtu.be/beC3b9IWA_o
- Self-Care Now When We Need it Most https://youtu.be/rfHLHwhD1Pw
- Dealing with worry https://youtu.be/dIYhhhqf9Gc
- What supports long term change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipiHO0rczCI&t=4s
3 clips have written resources the viewer can download from the description on the You Tube site. To find these clips search Ed Sipler on the You Tube or visit www.ascert.biz under the resources section.
Three more You Tube clips focus on alcohol and drug issues:
- Alcohol Drugs and Change https://youtu.be/r9M-DRBrCHE
- Coming back from a relapse https://youtu.be/ukOVlm7bHVk
- Supporting family members https://youtu.be/T1NEzxapAxY
Riding the wind of change – a series of five 15 minute clips to support well-being on the South Eastern trust’s You Tube site 
Stress is a normal part of life, yet when it becomes overwhelming, can impact on anyone’s physical health, mental well-being and relationships. 
During a time of change in the South Eastern Trust, five 15 minute sessions were delivered to staff to support well-being during this period. As the information and resources talked about in these clips can be useful to anyone, recordings of these clips were uploaded to the Trust’s You Tube channel and are now being made widely available. The first four clips have papers discussing the content in more detail that can be downloaded from the You Tube site
- Managing change- survive or thrive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbZIMp-c4U&t=16s
- Grounding, calming skills to help us turn down the volume of our fight or flight response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqge7R-xmI
- Being a bit kinder to ourselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmh9CZoJ8zw
- Supporting someone under pressure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0PG78Mq4I
- Pulling the themes together and a little more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCgi7IPMK9s
A play list of all 5 clips is on Riding the Waves of Change – YouTube and there are papers that go into more detail that can be downloaded from the description of each clip.
These clips are aimed at promoting well-being and are not a replacement for professional support. Embedded in the clips are avenues for making use of further on-line self-help at www.ascert.biz or Building a toolkit for change – South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust (hscni.net) Any feedback or comments are greatly appreciated.