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Training

We’ve been training practice skills, including MI, online for 10 years. Due to COVID, most of our training has moved online. However, we’ve found online training works better for several reasons:

  • improved access to people who may not otherwise have access to high-quality training opportunities

  • easy-to-use breakout rooms, easy to see all people in the space and encourage participation

  • easy for our trainers to move between breakout rooms to offer small group feedback and coaching

  • we can more easily spread training out over a longer period of time- instead of long intensive training days, we offer online training 3 hours a week over 10 weeks. Research suggests that training over a longer period of time, versus day-long trainings, is more effective

  • online training also allows us to offer small skill-based exercises for people to go practice, reflect on, and talk about in future classes

  • we are also able to offer small-group coaching and admin support in distributed teams, which reduces travel and other costs

Our online training is highly interactive- we try to never talk more than 20 minutes at a time. Instead, we chunk brief lessons on a single topic and then move between discussion, large group practice, breakouts, and debriefing before moving on to the next topic. These are lessons learned from evidence and our experience as university professors.

FEES

  • $300 set-up per 10-week session and $300 per hour of training

    • e.g., a a 10-week (3 hours a week) online training (up to 20 people) is $9250.

    • Follow up coaching is $200/hr for small groups (we recommend about 10 people) and administrative support is $250 an hour

  • Packages that incorporate a one-year training plan for 20-60 staff, including administrative consultation, training through the intermediate level, regular coaching, supervisor support, and development of sustainability typically run from $20k-$45k. Please schedule a time on our calendar for a meeting by clicking here.

We keep our rates low through ongoing relationships and positive referrals which mean we always have enough work and choose who to work with based on their readiness for organizational change and dedication to implementation. We hope you’ll compare our rates, services, and approach. We work with a limited number of organizations at once.

A typical training calendar looks something like this:

In the first month, we meet with an admin team and supervisors to discuss implementation practice. We share strategies for assessing fidelity and support the team in making decisions about which tools best fit in their agency. We work together to discuss practice alignment and how to support the ongoing use of MI in practice. We encourage supervisors to participate in the training, and in coaching we support them in ways to use and reinforce MI in supervision.

Throughout our training, we weave in information about diversity, equity, inclusion, and how racism impacts trauma and service delivery for marginalized populations. Our goal is to increase awareness, self-reflection, and trauma-informed responses when working across cultural and other differences.

Week 1

 TI-MI: the big picture

  • Course expectations and overview

  • MI: The Four Processes

  • Focus on engagement: Relationships before treatment (safety)

  • Six principles of trauma-Informed Care (TI) and impact of trauma

Week 2

 Spirit of MI and the change process

  • Spirit of MI and alignment with Trauma-informed care

  • Ambivalence: Change talk and sustain talk 

  • Acknowledging harmful histories: impact of discrimination on ambivalence and self-harm (TI) during interviews and interventions

  • Stages of change

  • OARS 

Week 3

 TI-MI conversations

  • What does it mean to be client-centered?

  • What does it mean to care for self? (secondary trauma, TI)

  • Resisting re-traumatization (TI)

  • OARS

Week 4

Tuning your ear to listen for change talk

  • The use of empathy in MI

  • The three E’s of Trauma (TI)

  • Supporting self-regulation (TI) 

  • OARS 

Screening and assessing trauma (TI)

  • Focusing a conversation     

  • Coding your MI- practice

  • Preparing for your practice video

Week 5

Strengthening change talk 

  • DARN-CAT

  • Chasing change talk            

    • Eliciting, strengthening

    • Responding to change talk

Week 6

Planning for change

  •  Giving advice

  • Planning

  • Strengthening commitment 

  • Organizational responses to trauma (TI)

Week 7

Managing discord

  • Managing discord

  • Revisiting trauma responses (TI)

Week 8

Connecting to values

  • Exploring and connecting to values

  • Cultural considerations about values (TI)

Week 9

MI fidelity 

  • Decisional balance and neutral positions

  • Practice fidelity to MI

  • Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity

  • Decolonizing your work (TI)

Week 10

Sustaining your practice

  • Discuss video feedback

  • Self-assessment & peer support

  • Trauma-informed agency meetings (TI)

  • Planning for success

  • Coaching and supervision expectations

  • Trauma-informed supervision (TI)

After training, we have each student submit a sample recording. We provide recorded feedback for the submission and then meet with the student one-on-one to discuss progress, goals, and trouble-shooting.

Then, for six months, we meet with trainees about 4 hours a month in small groups (4-6) to offer coaching and practice. Ideally, groups move from our coaching to peer-coaching in the agency. We help prepare them for this, as well as how to support new employees who have not been trained in MI skills.

Coaching & Consultation

We sometimes offer coaching to people who have used MI in the past and would like to sharpen and maintain their skills.

We also offer consultation to agencies regarding implementation supports of MI as an EBP. Please feel free to reach out.