Motivational Interviewing Skills: 1 Day Workshop in Boston
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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Event Description
Turn Difficult Conversations into Opportunities for Positive Change
What if you could help someone move from “I’m not ready” to “I’m willing to try”—without pressure, confrontation, or persuasion?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a powerful communication approach that helps professionals engage people, explore their motivation, address ambivalence, and support meaningful behavior change.
Our 1-day Motivational Interviewing Skills for Professionals workshop is designed for professionals who regularly have conversations where trust, engagement, motivation, and change matter.
Whether you're working with patients, employees, students, clients, customers, or teams, you'll learn how to replace resistance with collaboration and turn challenging conversations into productive ones.
This is a highly practical workshop featuring role plays, case studies, scenarios, simulations, and hands-on exercises, allowing participants to practice MI techniques in realistic professional situations.
What Makes This Training Valuable?Motivational Interviewing isn't about telling people what they should do.
It's about helping them discover their own reasons for change.
Throughout the workshop, you'll develop practical communication skills that can help you:
Listen differently – Go beyond simply hearing what someone says and learn to identify concerns, motivations, and opportunities for change.
Ask better questions – Use open-ended questions that encourage people to think, reflect, and express their own perspectives.
Handle resistance constructively – Learn how to respond when someone is reluctant, defensive, uncertain, or unwilling to change.
Build stronger relationships – Develop empathy, trust, and rapport even during difficult conversations.
Encourage self-motivated decisions – Support people in identifying their own goals and reasons for taking action.
Create sustainable change – Move beyond one-time conversations by integrating MI techniques into your everyday professional practice.
What You'll Experience During the Workshop
This isn't training where you simply sit and listen.
You'll have opportunities to practice, experiment, reflect, and receive feedback.
The day includes:
- Interactive MI exercises
- Realistic workplace scenarios
- Case-study discussions
- Role-playing activities
- Communication practice using OARS
- Resistance-management exercises
- Professional simulations
- Reflection and feedback
- Personal MI action planning
By the end of the session, you'll have more than theoretical knowledge—you'll have practical techniques you can begin using in your professional conversations immediately.
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What You'll Take Away
By completing this workshop, you'll be better prepared to:
- Communicate with greater empathy and confidence
- Build trust and rapport more effectively
- Identify motivation and ambivalence
- Encourage meaningful engagement
- Respond to resistance without escalating conflict
- Support ethical and sustainable behavior change
- Improve coaching, feedback, counseling, and support conversations
- Apply MI techniques across different professional settings
- Incorporate Motivational Interviewing into your daily practice
- Measure your progress and continue improving your MI skills
Bring Your Team!
Customized In-House MI Training for Your Team
Want your entire team to develop stronger communication and behavior-change skills?
We also offer customized in-house Motivational Interviewing training for organizations.
Rather than delivering a generic program, the session can be adapted to your organization's industry, workforce, communication challenges, professional roles, and business objectives.
Your customized in-house workshop can incorporate:
- Industry-specific situations and case studies
- Role plays based on your team's real-world conversations
- Healthcare, HR, education, sales, or customer-service scenarios
- Your organization's communication objectives
- Specific challenges involving resistance or engagement
- Team coaching and feedback
- Practical tools that participants can apply immediately
- Classroom or customized on-site delivery
Whether you want to improve employee coaching, patient engagement, student support, customer conversations, leadership communication, or team performance, we can tailor the training around your organization's needs.
📧 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 726.65 to USD 934.05
