CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PROFESSIONALS
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER, HEALTHCARE, HUMAN SERVICES, MENTAL HEALTH, CRIMINAL JUSTICE & BEYOND
Learn new skills, expand your knowledge, and broaden your approach to create strong client connections. The kind that dramatically improves client agency and engagement—and creates lasting change.
The best part? Our trainings improve resilience so you avoid vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and empathy burnout.
Deliver Exceptional Treatment & Care That Makes a Lasting Difference
Imagine this. You’re working with your client who is slouched in a chair and giving short, disengaged responses, AND there only because it’s court-mandated. You know the stakes, and so do they.
You’ve tried everything from traditional therapy, to the latest canned programs, but nothing works. It’s times like these when you wish you had more knowledge and skills to get your client engaged, to provide them with the tools to start the healing process they need to break free from the grip of substance use disorder and trauma.
That’s where using Trauma Responsive Care and Motivational Interviewing comes in. These person-first approaches are designed to give your client’s agency to improve engagement and retention, even in court-mandated cases.
Our trainings are specifically designed for mental health providers, peer professionals, healthcare organizations, and criminal justice teams seeking an opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills to boost their confidence and support successful outcomes that change lives.
we train all professionals in motivational interviewing, trauma responsive care, & mORE
substance use disorder organizations
mental health agencies
Criminal justice departments
human services agencies
physical health organizations
Hospitals & DOCTOR'S OFFICES
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Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Responsiveness: The Perfect Marriage
A Perfect Marriage
Are you giving your SUD clients useful feedback and advice? But session after session, they aren’t engaged and definitely aren’t motivated to take the advice and critical steps to change their lives.
The answer to fostering high engagement and retention while nurturing the ideal conditions for lasting change?
Motivational Interviewing.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, evidence-based strategy for engaging individuals and resolving ambivalence. It’s centered 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, you’ll learn how to use affirmation and reflections to quickly get on the same page as your clients. You’ll also learn to engage clients with compassion, critical listening skills, and strategies that help them move through the critical stages of change.
Next training: TBA, CONTACT FOR UPCOMING DATES
Trauma First Aid for Peers and Supervisors
Interactive Training
Define your role as a peer in the trauma story. Learn how to encourage healthy boundaries. Know when and how to make a referral.
Trauma First Aid for Peers is designed to educate peers on trauma-responsive care.
- Explore universal precautions, the prevalence of trauma in SUD, recognizing trauma responses, preventing re-traumatization, and practical engagement strategies for a referral.
- Practice setting good boundaries and using trauma-responsive language with practice scenarios.
- Leave with self-care techniques to prevent compassion fatigue.
Peer Supervisors will become familiar with how peers can support trauma-responsive care through good supervision, helping the peer stay safe while practicing critical self-care.
Trauma Responsiveness (Intermediate)
Turn Basic Training into Real Life Practice
Discover the answer to the question, “I have had trauma-informed care training. Now what?“
Combine the empowering tools of Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Care to effectively work with clients and avoid re-traumatization.
In this course, you will learn…
- Practical trauma debriefing skills to gain the confidence to work with distressed individuals so that if you’re the first person they tell about their trauma, you know how to handle any retriggering that may occur.
- The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (PACE: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Empowerment) for a trauma-informed approach that creates a space of safety, trust, and choice.
- How to increase empathy and compassion and maintain professional boundaries.
- How to recognize vicarious trauma and empathy fatigue and turn them into vicarious resilience.
- Emotional regulation to remain calm and centered to create trust and safety and get better engagement and retention when working with clients who have a trauma history.
Motivational Interviewing: Spirit, Skills and Practice
Virtual Training
Are your SUD clients struggling with ambivalence? They know they “should” change, but don’t really want to change for a number of reasons, causing them to remain struck.
The answer to fostering high engagement and retention while nurturing the ideal conditions for lasting change?
Motivational Interviewing.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, evidence-based strategy for engaging individuals and resolving ambivalence. It’s centered 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, you’ll learn how to use affirmations and reflections to quickly get on the same page as your clients. You’ll also learn to engage clients with compassion, critical listening skills, and strategies that help them uncover their own motivation toward change and help them move through the critical stages of change.
In this training you will learn these Motivational Interviewing Skills:
- PACE: Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, Empowerment
- OARS: Open-ended Questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries
- DARN-CAT: Desire, Ability, Reasons, Need, Commitment, Actuation, Taking Steps
Motivational Interviewing (Intermediate)
Turn MI into a Way of Being
Gain confidence in your Motivational Interviewing skills. In this class, practice your foundation MI skills while adding advanced skills and practice.
Research shows that genuine, engaging conversations reduce client defenses and ensure what they share is truthful and honest.
In this class, you 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 you to feel confident in your skills and might spark you to move to the advanced training, or even become a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network Trainers.
Next training: tbA, contact for upcoming dates
Motivational Interviewing Training (Advanced)
Master MI & Prepare to be a MINT member
You have learned all of the Motivational Interviewing skills, practiced and coded them, and moved into mastery.
In this training, you will record your practice and real-life sessions to be coded using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity system. Get meaningful feedback on the sessions’ fidelity to MI.
You will also practice coaching in the moment to identify areas of strength and improvement.
Complete this course to prepare to apply to become a member of Motivational Interviewing Network Trainers (MINT).
Next training: TBA, CONTACT FOR UPCOMING DATES
Embracing Families in the SUD Care & Treatment
Engage with Confidence and Ease
Reluctant to include families in your substance use disorder work with clients? Fear they may cause more harm than good?
Explore these concerns, including issues about confidentiality/boundaries, family dysfunction, and client resistance. Learn how to effectively integrate families into your care and treatment of clients with SUDs.
In this course, you will
- Explore the current peer-reviewed research that supports family engagement.
- Understand what family dynamics are in play when a family member has a SUD issue.
- Self-reflect on your own concerns and biases that may be a barrier to family engagement.
- Learn two family engagement strategies from the proven CRAFT model.
- Develop your own engagement strategy that is open, warm, and welcoming.
custom, private-labeled
Motivational Interviewing (MI) Training
A Step-by-Step Guide to Empower Others Toward Positive Change and Growth
Forge trust. Foster motivation. Fuel Change and Growth.
Private label this Motivational Interviewing (MI) training for your team. Immerse them in evidenced-based conversation style that fosters motivation for change and growth.
This self-paced, online MI training will teach them the most up-to-date foundational approaches to facilitate change and help them be being more confident and effective as a helper.
- 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.