The workshop engages participants using principles of motivational interviewing in the teaching methodology to build participants’ motivation to use and familiarity with the technique of motivational interviewing in clinical practice. Real play and other practical exercises will give participants the experience to implement the motivational interviewing approach immediately into their practice. Participants will practice informal coding of an interaction followed by review and discussion to learn how to identify factors that facilitate the motivational interview, and how to gauge success by learning to listen for change talk.

Learning Objectives
– Participants will be able to explain and understand how to use the spirit of MI
– Participants will be able to identify and utilize MI micro-skills to facilitate a conversation with patients
– Participants will be able to identify change talk, “coding” an MI encounter, and perform these in clinical practice