MI for Healthcare Teams in Oakland, CA: Mental Health & Holistic Healing

This immersive, 8-hour onsite workshop brings Motivational Interviewing (MI) directly into your organization—designed to strengthen your team’s communication, compassion, and mental health resilience. Through a blend of live demonstrations, guided mindfulness, and peer-based role-play, healthcare professionals learn how to use MI to foster patient trust, navigate resistance, and support behavioral change with empathy and clarity. The course also integrates self-care tools to help your staff manage stress, avoid burnout, and reconnect with the purpose behind their care.
How does this course helps your team to connect with patients:

This in-house workshop brings Motivational Interviewing (MI) directly to your healthcare team, equipping them with practical tools to strengthen patient connection, reduce resistance, and navigate difficult conversations with empathy. Through real-world simulations, guided mindfulness, and hands-on communication practice (OARS), participants learn how to create a safe, respectful space for patients to explore change, feel heard, and take ownership of their care.
Why It Matters for Your Team:
In today’s high-pressure healthcare environments, technical skill alone isn’t enough. This training helps professionals build deeper patient trust, improve treatment adherence, and reduce emotional disengagement—by shifting from advice-giving to guided, compassionate dialogue. It also supports the well-being of your staff through self-awareness and emotional regulation strategies, resulting in a more resilient, connected, and human-centered workplace.

Schedule Your Training for 2026
Connect with our team to customize the course content and delivery format based on your goals. Sessions can be scheduled at your convenience—In-house, Private Classroom or virtually.

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Info: • Understand MI’s purpose in promoting health behavior change
• Connect MI with holistic nursing values (compassion, respect, empathy)
• Identify how MI enhances patient trust and adherence
• Hands-on activities/Discussion

Info: • Explore the four elements of MI Spirit: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Evocation
• Practice presence and non-judgment in healthcare interactions
• Activity, Case Study and Practice

Info: • Master the OARS skills
• Practice using OARS with empathy, not interrogation
• Live demo and Skill Practice Rounds

Info: • Recognize patient ambivalence as a normal step toward change
• Learn to evoke change talk (statements expressing motivation)
• Manage resistance without confrontation
• Activities, Case Study, Role-Play

Info: • Use presence, breath, and tone as tools for healing communication
• Recognize how the nervous system affects motivation and stress
• Apply mindfulness techniques during patient interactions
• Activities, Practice

Info: • Apply MI principles to manage personal stress and compassion fatigue
• Use MI self-talk to foster motivation and balance
• Support colleagues through motivational peer conversations
• Activities, Reflection

Info: • Integrate OARS and MI Spirit into everyday healthcare practice
• Reflect on lessons and personal growth
• Develop an action plan for sustained compassionate communication
• Activities, Role Play, Practice

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