Motivational Interviewing and Mentalizing

• The ethos/principles of MI

• The cycle of change and how to apply it to your work

• Mentalizing and the mentalizing stance: how they relate to MI and cycle of change

• Principles of Motivational work

• Recognising and working with ambivalence

• Recognising and responding to sustain/change talk in ourselves and with clients

This is a live online training, with trainers present throughout. The training consists of an engaging combination of live teaching, group discussion, skills practice, and interactive online activities. 

This course is suitable for all practitioners who work with children, young people and families in the areas of health, social care, education and youth services. It will be of particular interest to those who would like to introduce MI interventions into their existing practice and already use mentalization based practices in their work. But prior knowledge and experience of mentalizing approaches and MI are not required. 

The course aims to help practitioners in a variety of settings to support people to engage in help and make change by: 

• learning the core principles of MI and how they connect with mentalizing and mentalization based practice

• developing skills in client-centred communication and maintaining a mentalizing stance

• develop skills that address ambivalence and elicit clients’ own motivation to change

The online platform Zoom will be used to deliver this training. Prior to booking on, please ensure you meet the system requirements so you're able to join this training. 

Before the training, please test your equipment is working by going to Zoom.us/test and follow the instructions.