MI WORKSHOP #1: Friday, May 16, 2025 8:30 am - 12:00 pm

FROM ADVICE TO ACTION: Implementing MI in Health Care Settings
Judith Carpenter & Heather Flynn

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 medication 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.

MI WORKSHOP #2: Friday, May 16, 2025 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

ELEVATING YOUR MI PRACTICE: Refining your Skills and Strategies
David Rosengren & Joel Porter

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).