Motivational Interviewing
Saturday 17th January
10:00 - 13:00 (UK time)
“Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change.”
Who Is This For?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to have better conversations. Whether you’re a therapist or coach helping clients grow, a teacher guiding students, a friend or family member supporting someone through a hard time, or a partner wanting to connect more deeply – Motivational Interviewing will give you tools that work in real life conversations.
What You’ll Get
You’ll learn how to make every conversation more effective by getting to the heart of what really matters. You’ll discover how to listen in a way that opens people up, ask questions that create clarity, and help others find their own solutions without conflict or pressure. The result? Better communication, stronger relationships, and the ability to help people change quickly and naturally.
Course Content
You Will Learn:
How to build genuine connection and trust quickly
The OARS skills: Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries
How to draw out someone's own reasons for change rather than pushing advice
Recognising ambivalence and working with it confidently
Spotting change talk vs. sustain talk (and responding to each)
Language tools that increase motivation and reduce resistance
How to support someone in taking the next step toward change
Practical phrases, questions, and prompts you can use immediately
Real-play practice so you feel MI in action, not just theory
