One-Day MI Refresher
Are you ready to build on your existing skills and take your Motivational Interviewing (MI) practice to the next level?
This one-day interactive workshop is designed for those who want to move beyond the basics and feel more confident using MI in real-world situations - especially during challenging conversations.
Led by experienced facilitator Alasdair Cant, this session offers a mix of reflection, peer learning, live demonstration, and practical skills-building. You’ll get to practise in a safe, supportive space with people who get the pressures of the job and leave with tools you can apply right away.
Develop your Practice
Have more meaningful conversations with families.
Strengthen your Skills
Navigate discord and ambivalence with more ease
Renew your Enthusiasm
Feel more grounded and intentional in your work
Course format
This is a highly interactive and experiential course. It includes:
Welcome + overview of the day
Quick-fire MI quiz + strengths-based activity
Reflective exercise: exploring an area of change in your own life where you feel stuck
Group demonstration of a full MI conversation: reflective listening, open questions, affirmations, summaries in action
Deep dive into OARS: what’s working, and how to level up
Skills practice in triads (real play or role play)
Scenario: working with a Dad in denial about his drinking and minimising aggressive behaviour
Techniques for “dancing with discord” and working through ambivalence
You’ll leave with increased confidence in using MI in your everyday practice supporting individuals, families, or young people.