Motivational Interviewing

An engaging three hour online programme looking at equipping participants with skills to help engage and support others through effective motivational interviewing and influencing skills.

Key Workshop Objectives:

• Develop effective communication skills to help engage stressed individuals.
• Develop skills to elicit issues and difficulties individuals may be experiencing and unwilling to divulge.
• Developing clear communication from both receiver and sender to reduce communication distortions and blocks.
• Utilisation of two key communication approaches - Principles of Motivational Interviewing and Socratic Questioning

These workshops are online and three hours in duration. Each workshop has a limited number of participants to ensure quality of delivery and full benefit to all involved.

Course tutor - Martin Smith PhD
Martin is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Psychotherapy and the Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, a specialist trainer in mental health, communication, interpersonal skills, and conflict management with over thirty years training experience. He is also a Psychotherapist with a private practice specialising in the treatment of a range of mental health issues. He has been in
clinical practice for over 20 years. He has specialised in extreme difficult behaviour in the workplace and personality issues which go well beyond simply awkward for over ten years and has written a number of online articles on this
subject

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