Motivational Interviewing Workshops

The FSU Center for Behavioral Health Integration is excited to announcetwo upcoming workshops in motivational interviewing to be presented by Internationally know, certified trainers in MI (Motivational Interviewing).

Hotel(s) offering your special group rate:

• Hotel Duval, Autograph Collection for 159.00 USD per night

Description:

Clinicians working in healthcare settings address health behavior changes and decisions with their patients every day. Patients are often ambivalent about making difficult changes, , often leading to worsening health outcomes despite best efforts from clinicians to provide advice, education, and recommendations. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based, brief intervention approach to helping people with successful health behavior change including Medic*tion adherence, substance use, health care visit engagement, physical activity, diet, and other behaviors.

This half-day workshop will focus on key aspects of MI that can be utilized effectively in time limited settings to support clinicians to offer a different approach to their patients, resulting in different outcomes. The workshop will focus on specific strategies in MI to support participants to increase their skills and knowledge in using MI in their health care visits.

Goals :

Participants will experience increased confidence in their skills for engaging & evoking of patients in respect to change. Attendees will be able to utilize core skills in their work through an MI lens via the 4 major tasks of MI.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the session, participants will:

• Recognize the importance of patient engagement in working with change

• Demonstrate skills to engage patients in health behavior change

• Learn to listen and respond to patient motivation about change

• Recognize ambivalence and learn specific strategies facilitate change

• Increase the likelihood of patient change using core MI skills

Length:

One half-day, 8.30am - 12pm with a 15-minute break

Target Audience:

Nurses, physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, dietitians, behavioral health specialists, midwives, doulas, and any other health care professional. CEU and CME will be offered.

Featuring:

Heather Flynn, Ph.D., Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), MINT Certified trainer

Heather is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of the Florida State University (FSU) Center for Behavioral Health Integration. She is the Chair of the FSU Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the FSU College of Medicine. Heather has been conducting MI training since 2003 and has been internationally recognized for her work in developing international standards and certifications for quality training in MI and other behavioral health treatments.

Judith Carpenter RD, MINT Member, MINT Certified Trainer

Judith is a registered dietitian from the UK since 1987. She has extensive experience in working with both adolescent and adult diabetes & adult weight management. She currently works in the NHS within Specialist Diabetes Care where she leads a Young Adult diabetes service.

Judith became an MI trainer and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2000.Judith has 25 years experience in delivering MI training in numerous settings including health & social care both nationally and internationally. She has been an active member of MINT since joining the organisation and has held many roles. She currently chairs the MINT UK & Ireland Chapter

Description:

Often after completing an initial introduction to Motivational Interviewing, practitioners wonder how they might continue to develop and refine their skills. We designed this innovative, half-day session to help practitioners refine their understanding and use of MI skills and strategies, as well as their understanding of why these skills might be helpful in a particular circumstance. This training will draw on techniques from deliberate practice and self-reflection training techniques that have been demonstrated to enhance practitioner skillfulness (Manuel et al., 2022; Rosengren et al., 2025).

Drs. Joel Porter and David Rosengren will use research in learning to aid in exploring nuances of MI concepts and practicing the application of core skills, while adding advanced understanding of why the practitioner is doing particular things. This highly interactive skills building session will use brief didactics, discussion, self-review, and structured activities. Practice will include deepening reflective listening skills, recognizing and responding to the client’s rhythms in change and sustain language, and deepening awareness of the pull for the fixing reflex. There will be an emphasis on using core skills in a directional and intentional manner and advanced strategies to reinforce change talk and soften reluctance and dissent.

Goals:

Participants will experience increased confidence in their skills for engaging clients and influencing client motivation. Attendees will deepen their capacity in using core skills and broaden their repertoire in deploying skills for creating extraordinary conversations.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the session, participants will:

• Produce more and better-quality, deeper reflections.

• Demonstrate advanced skills to interact with change talk.

• Display the use of reflections and other strategies in response to client sustain talk and dissent.

• Exhibit increased intentionality and directionality in their work.

Length:

One half-day, 1:30 – 5:00 pm with a 15-minute break midafternoon

Target Audience:

Practitioners who have completed an introduction to MI training and who wish to advance their skills.

Featuring:

David B. Rosengren, Ph.D.; MINT Member; Certified MINT Trainer

David Rosengren, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist involved in prevention, treatment, research, and training, works at Prevention Research Institute (nonprofit, Lexington, KY), which integrates MI into its drug and alcohol prevention and treatment curricula. He previously spent time as a research scientist and consultant at the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, as well as being an independent MI consultant and trainer. Dr. Rosengren completed the initial TNT course offered by Miller and Rollnick in 1993. Rosengren, known internationally for his MI training, authored, Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook, coauthored Experiencing Motivational Interviewing from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Practitioners (Rosengren, Johnston, & Hilton, 2025) and has written journal articles and book chapters on addictions, MI and the change process.

Joel Porter, PsyD, MINT Member; Certified MINT Trainer

Joel Porter, PsyD is a clinical psychologist living in Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand and working in the area of addiction treatment. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Canberra and a Senior Lecturer with the National Addiction Centre, Christchurch School of Medicine, University of Otago. Since 2003, Dr. Porter has been providing MI training around the world. Joel and Stephen Rollnick host the free webinar and podcast, Motivational Interviewing & Beyond.

References:

Manuel, J.K., Ernst, D., Vaz, A., & Rousmaniere, T. (2022). Deliberate Practice in Motivational Interviewing. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Rosengren, D.B., Johnston, L.H., Hilton, C.E. (2025). Experiencing Motivational Interviewing Skills from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Practitioners. Guilford Press.

Rosengren, D.B. (2017). Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (2nd Edition). Guilford Press.

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