Build Motivational Interviewing Skills | 1-Day Workshop in Minneapolis
About this Event
Bring your team and save:
1. Groups of three or more receive a 10% discount
2. Organizations hosting an in-house session with 10+ participants enjoy a 15% discount.
About the course:
Duration: 1 Day
Delivery: Classroom / In-House
Language: English
Credits: 8
Certificate: Course Completion Certificate
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Motivational Interviewing Skills – Event Description
Turn Challenging Conversations into Opportunities for Change
What if you could help someone move from “I’m not ready” to “I’m willing to try” without pressure, confrontation, or judgment?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication approach that helps professionals build trust, explore motivation, understand ambivalence, and support meaningful behavior change.
This 1-day Motivational Interviewing Skills for Professionals workshop is designed for anyone who regularly has conversations where engagement, motivation, trust, and positive change are important.
Whether you work with patients, employees, students, clients, customers, or teams, you will learn practical techniques to reduce resistance, strengthen collaboration, and make challenging conversations more productive.
The workshop is highly interactive, combining role plays, case studies, realistic scenarios, simulations, and hands-on activities to help participants apply MI techniques in practical professional situations.
What Makes This Training Valuable?
Motivational Interviewing is not about telling people what they should do. It focuses on helping individuals identify their own motivations, goals, and reasons for change.
Throughout the workshop, participants will develop practical communication skills to:
Listen with greater purpose – Identify underlying concerns, motivations, values, and opportunities for change.
Ask more effective questions – Use open-ended questions that encourage reflection and help individuals express their own perspectives.
Respond to resistance effectively – Handle hesitation, defensiveness, uncertainty, and reluctance without creating confrontation.
Build trust and rapport – Develop stronger professional relationships through empathy, respect, and collaborative communication.
Support self-directed decisions – Help individuals recognize their own goals and develop motivation to take meaningful action.
Encourage lasting change – Apply MI techniques consistently to support sustainable behavior change in everyday professional interactions.
What You'll Experience During the Workshop
This is a practice-focused learning experience, not simply a theory-based session. Participants will have opportunities to practice techniques, explore different communication approaches, receive feedback, and reflect on their own skills.
The workshop includes:
- Interactive Motivational Interviewing exercises
- Real-world professional scenarios
- Case-study discussions
- Practical role-playing activities
- OARS communication practice
- Resistance and ambivalence management exercises
- Realistic professional simulations
- Reflection and peer feedback
- Individual MI action planning
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What You'll Take Away
By the end of this workshop, participants will be better equipped to:
- Communicate with greater empathy, confidence, and clarity
- Establish trust and build stronger professional relationships
- Recognize motivation, uncertainty, and ambivalence
- Encourage meaningful participation and engagement
- Respond to resistance without creating conflict
- Support ethical, practical, and sustainable behavior change
- Strengthen coaching, counseling, feedback, and support conversations
- Adapt MI techniques to different professional environments
- Integrate Motivational Interviewing into everyday workplace interactions
- Assess their progress and continue developing their MI capabilities
Bring Your Team!
Customized In-House Motivational Interviewing Training
Help your team develop stronger communication skills and more effective approaches to supporting positive behavior change.
Our customized in-house Motivational Interviewing training can be adapted to your organization's industry, professional roles, workforce needs, communication challenges, and business objectives.
Rather than using a standard one-size-fits-all approach, the training can incorporate:
- Industry-specific scenarios and practical case studies
- Role plays based on real workplace conversations
- Healthcare, HR, education, sales, and customer-service examples
- Organization-specific communication goals
- Practical approaches for handling resistance and improving engagement
- Team-based coaching and constructive feedback
- Ready-to-use tools and techniques for immediate application
- On-site or customized classroom delivery
Whether your organization wants to strengthen employee coaching, patient engagement, student support, customer interactions, leadership communication, or overall team performance, the program can be tailored to address your specific needs and workplace challenges.
📧 Contact us today to schedule a customized in-house session:
Agenda
Module 1: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Info: • Understand MI principles and collaborative communication
• Explore motivation and ambivalence in clients, employees, or students
• Recognize barriers to engagement
• Icebreaker Exercise
Module 2: Core MI Communication Techniques
Info: • Master open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (OARS)
• Develop active listening and empathy
• Respond effectively to resistance
• Activity
Module 3: Understanding Motivation and Behavior Change
Info: • Explore intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation
• Identify readiness for change across individuals and teams
• Align goals with values and desired outcomes
• Case Study
Module 4: Applying MI in Professional Contexts
Info: • Adapt MI for healthcare, HR, social work, education, or sales
• Conduct effective coaching, feedback, or counseling conversations
• Guide individuals toward self-motivated decisions
• Role Play
Module 5: Overcoming Resistance and Objections
Info: • Recognize and address reluctance constructively
• Reframe objections as engagement opportunities
• Maintain rapport and trust during difficult interactions
• Scenario Exercise
Module 6: Integrating MI into Daily Practice
Info: • Incorporate MI into workflow and professional routines
• Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams
• Use MI to enhance engagement, adherence, or performance
• Simulation Exercise
Module 7: Personal MI Action Plan
Info: • Develop a step-by-step plan to apply MI skills professionally
• Set measurable goals and track outcomes
• Commit to continuous skill improvement
• Action Plan Presentation
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 813.99 to USD 1046.32
