The workshop:
This motivational interviewing (MI) workshop will use a newly developed model for helping practitioners integrate MI into everyday practice. It is based on the value of shifting between directing and guiding styles. MI is seen as a refinement of a guiding style, something used naturally in everyday life and professional practice to promote learning and behaviour change. The workshop is particularly suited to practitioners who, in their everyday practice, have other priorities besides encouraging behaviour change.

Participants will be given the opportunity to:

• Learn about and practice switching between directing and guiding styles.
• Practice the use of a guiding style for encouraging behaviour change.
• Learn about and practice the more refined skills of MI. This includes particularly the use of reflective listening to elicit change talk.
• Learn about and practice the use of instruction in the service of MI and a guiding style, including doing this briefly in just a few minutes.
• Consider the special integration challenges posed in their everyday work environment.
• Join an internet discussion forum designed to promote learning after the workshop and to access new developments in the field.

Open to all practitioners in health and social care settings, this workshop will be of interest to both newcomers and those more familiar with motivational interviewing. Stephen Rollnick is a clinical psychologist who has many years of experience of training practitioners, and is the co-author (with William R. Miller) of Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change and Health Behaviour Change: A Guide for Practitioners (with Pip Mason and Chris Butler). He may be accompanied by a colleague for this workshop, particularly if the numbers attending require additional trainer support.

Venue: Glamorgan Cricket Club, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
This is a spacious and modern facility, close to the city centre, with views over the ground and surrounding parkland.

Cost: £50 for 2 day workshop
This price includes training fees, morning and afternoon refreshments and buffet lunch. This workshop is being run privately, is not associated with the any organisation or institution, and includes the cost of reusable beaded name badge holders produced by HIV-positive mothers in South Africa, see www.kidzpositive.org

For enquiries please contact: Jake Rollnick – jrollnick@gmail.com
Delegates are responsible for arranging their own overnight accommodation. A list of accommodation very close to the venue can be obtained by email from Karen Edwards.