stephenrollnick

Wow, I hate to dominate this discussion forum by asking two questions in a row, however:

I've read that Auburn University (in Alabama, US) has a Motivational Interviewing Training Institute and was wondering if anyone reading this has been through their program.  If so, would you mind sharing your thoughts?

Also, it appears that there is now on-line training in MI is now available.  Is MI something that can be learned over the phone (I'm open to that idea - I'm genuinely interested in what folks think about this notion).

These questions are prompted by my desire to undergo high-quality training in MI, but having to do so on a very limited budget (i.e., wishing to keep travel expenses to a minium).  I believe I've gotten everything I'm going to get out of reading books and journal articles --- I'm ready to engage in real training at this point.

Best to all,

Collin

Dear Colin,

I doubt you could dominate this forum, so relevant are your needs and concerns to so many others.

Do you do any direct client-contact work yourself?

My every instinct is for you to be discerning.  There are good learning opportunities out there, and some very poorly-conceived training efforts.  You can imagine how a less discerning MI trainer might see on-line training as an easy commercial operation. Yet some of them might be quite good.

And there might be local MI trainers in your area who are very good.  If you tell me where you live I dont mind writing back-channel to you with some information about people I respect.  I cant do this in a public forum.

Think about a rank order of learning possibilities for you.  What would your top 2-3 achievable aims be, given your location and budget?

get back to us here anytime.

Steve