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Get carefully designed, custom training to suit your professional development requirements, with a focus on employee wellness, and client engagement and retention.
We collaborate with substance use disorder treatment centers, criminal justice departments, mental health organizations, healthcare teams, and more to drive measurable improvements in treatment and care.
On-Demand Motivational Interviewing Courses
for workforce development
Motivational Interviewing Training
A Step-by-Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth
Give your staff the practical conversation skills to transform client:
- discord into collaboration,
- ambivalence into motivation, and
- blaming into empowerment.
This asynchronistic Motivational Interviewing training is the perfect white-label solution for organization that need to…
- Onboard new staff with fidelity to MI for consistent agency culture.
- Increase client engagement and retention, even with mandated individuals.
- Enhance internal communications for better supervisor and staff relationships.
- Decrease employee burnout, empathy fatigue, and turnover.
- Provide employees with practical, evidence-based conversational skills that lead to long-term employee satisfaction and resilience.
Motivational Interviewing for Criminal Justice Professionals
A Highly-Effective Conversation Framework that Builds Trust, Fosters Change, and Reduces Recidivism in Mandated Cases
Give your staff an evidence-based conversation style proven to help them overcome the common motivation problems they face with mandated clients and that help make your communities safer.
With over 40 years of research and 1,800 clinical trials, studies show MI gets better results and outcomes than the standard alternatives—even in criminal justice settings that involve SUD treatment and probation.
This on-demand training is the perfect training solution for organizations that need to…
- Move from a punitive to restorative and rehabilitative agency culture.
- Train their teams in a collaborative communication style to meet core correctional practices (CCPs).
- Onboard new staff with fidelity to MI for a consistent agency culture.
- Positively influence the behavioral trajectories of their clients, beyond the traditional emphasis on surveillance, drug testing, and imposing accountability.
- Decrease employee burnout, empathy fatigue, and turnover.
Custom, White Labeled Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training
Private label, on-demand Motivational Interviewing (MI) trainings for your staff..
Immerse them in evidenced-based practices that foster change and growth.
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Motivational Interviewing (Intermediate)
Turn MI into a Core Organizational Skill
Empower your team with enhanced Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills. This course builds on foundational MI skills while adding advanced techniques.
Research shows that genuine, engaging conversations reduce client defenses and ensure truthful, honest sharing.
In this course, your team members will:
- Explore immersive, role-playing activities to practice all MI skills.
- Learn how to code MI for fidelity.
This intermediate Motivational Interviewing training will help your team feel confident in their skills and inspire them to move to advanced training or even become members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.
Invest in your organizational culture and elevate your standard of client care with this MI training.
Motivational Interviewing Training (Advanced)
Build a Team of MI Experts
Advance your team’s Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills from proficiency to mastery. This training is designed for those who have already learned, practiced, and coded MI skills and are ready to take the next step.
In this course, your team will:
- Record practice and real-life sessions to be coded using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity system, receiving meaningful feedback on fidelity to MI.
- Practice coaching in the moment to identify areas of strength and improvement.
- Completing this course will prepare your team to apply to become members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), ensuring they are recognized leaders in the field of MI.
Invest in your workforce’s development and elevate the quality of client interactions with advanced Motivational Interviewing skills.
Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Responsive Care
Foster Engagement and Retention
Are your SUD clients receiving useful feedback and advice, yet remain unengaged and unmotivated to take critical steps for change? The key to fostering high engagement and retention while nurturing the ideal conditions for lasting change is Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based strategy for engaging individuals and resolving ambivalence. It centers on the idea that each client is the expert of their own life and already has the answers they need. They just need a little help uncovering them.
In this training, your team will learn to…
- Use affirmation and reflections to quickly align with clients.
- Engage clients with compassion, critical listening skills, and strategies that help them move through the critical stages of change.
Equip your workforce with the skills to create impactful, engaging conversations that drive positive client outcomes.
TRAUMA 101
Developing a Trauma-Informed Workforce
This foundational Trauma Informed Care training is essential for all staff in your organization, from the top down. According to SAMHSA’s best practices, every person in the agency should be trained in trauma-informed care. Developed by the Institute of Trauma and Trauma Informed Care at Buffalo University, and recommended by the NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports, this training is ideal for treatment, prevention, and peer workforces.
Participants will:
- Define trauma (including different types)
- Explain the findings of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study
- Understand how trauma/adversity impacts individuals
- Discuss the relationship between trauma and substance use
- Understand the six principles of trauma-informed care and their importance
- Identify trauma symptoms in the Case of Vanessa
Participants will examine their own biases, stigmatizing language, re-traumatization, and self-care practices to prevent empathy overload. A trauma-informed workforce leads to better client engagement, retention, and positive outcomes.
Trauma Responsiveness (Intermediate)
Turn Basic Trauma Training into Real-Life Practice
Equip your team with advanced skills to enhance trauma-informed care and avoid re-traumatization. This course combines the evidence-based tools of Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Care to effectively work with clients.
Your team will:
- Develop practical trauma debriefing skills to assist distressed individuals and handle retriggering.
- Apply the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (PACE: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Empowerment) for a trauma-informed approach that ensures safety, trust, and choice.
- Increase empathy and compassion while maintaining professional boundaries.
- Recognize vicarious trauma and empathy fatigue, transforming them into vicarious resilience.
- Use emotional regulation techniques to remain calm and centered, foster trust and safety, and improve engagement and retention.
Embracing Families
Overcoming Biases for Better Outcomes
Are your team members reluctant to include families in their substance use disorder (SUD) work with clients? Do they fear families may cause more harm than good?
This training addresses these concerns, exploring issues such as confidentiality/boundaries, family dysfunction, and client resistance. Learn how to effectively integrate families into the care and treatment of clients with SUDs.
In this course, your team will:
- Explore current peer-reviewed research that supports family engagement.
- Understand the family dynamics at play when a family member has a SUD issue.
- Self-reflect on their own concerns and biases that may be barriers to family engagement.
- Learn two family engagement strategies from the proven CRAFT model.
- Develop their own engagement strategies that are open, warm, and welcoming.
Equip your team with the skills to confidently engage families, fostering a supportive and comprehensive approach to SUD care and treatment.
Embracing Families (Intermediate)
Hands-On Techniques for Family Inclusion
This hands-on training teaches clinicians how to facilitate family activities that promote collaboration, communication, and support. Participants will engage in “real-play” groups and individual sessions using a 4-week educational outline for families. This prepares them for quick implementation. The training is designed for new patients and interested family members.
Informed by the Celebrating Families curriculum, this training includes new activities using the CRAFT communication model and self-help resources. Clinicians will develop educational groups for inpatient and outpatient services, provide collateral sessions, and enroll family members as primary patients.
Participants will engage in experiential activities, brainstorm best practices, and facilitate educational groups. This increases comfort in working with families and supports ongoing family engagement.
Pre-Requisite: Completion of basic Embracing Families training (offered in Dec 2023 and July 2024) or other comparable family training.
CREATIVE RHYTHMS WORKSHOPS & FACILITATOR TRAININGS
Create connection. Build Community. Reduce Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout.
Are you looking to create a meaningful cultural shift in how your organization approaches SUD? Are you also looking to provide impactful staff development that improves employee satisfaction and retention?
In collaboration with Creative Rhythm Events for Recovery, we offer interactive workshops, engaging presentations, and facilitator trainings clinically proven beneficial for creating connection, building community and lowering stress, anxiety and burn out.
Give your team what they need to feel confident and effective in SUD treatment and care.
WHITE-LABELED MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (MI) TRAINING
Simplify Your Training Demands.
OASAS ACCREDITED & NYCB APPROVED TRAINERS
Authentic Trainings programs and trainers meet or exceed standards set by OASAS & NYCB, so you know your team is getting the continuing education they need to amplify their performance and maximize your organizations results. Our trainers are approved for CARC electives and continuing education by NYCB.
To see the full list of our approved Instructors and Courses, click here.
Let us train your staff to use the evidence-based models proven to be effective.
Improve client engagement & retention. Reduce vicarious trauma and burnout in your organization.
Clinical Supervision Foundations II
Creating a New Normal: Reducing Trauma in the Workplace
Creating Connection and Community through Expressive Art, Music Making and Mindfulness
Embracing Families in SUD services: A Tip 39 Training
Equine Assisted Emotional Intelligence Skills
Healing from Loss
Journey to Wholeness – Wellness Retreat
Motivational Interviewing: Skills and Practice
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Trauma 101: Introduction to Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma First Aid for Peers
Intermediate Trauma Responsive Care
Embodied Trust & the Way of the Horse
Motivational Interviewing
Trauma First Aid
Trauma 101
