Motivational Interviewing 1 & 2 Online Course:
Multidisciplinary Workshop
ONLINE
Dec 5th-6th & 12th- 13th 2024 9am – 1.30pm AEDT
Workshop Facilitator: Tara MacGregor PACFA Reg Clinical & APD
About the Workshop
This live, online workshop series aims to provide the essential start-up knowledge for practising effective behaviour change counselling in the form of Motivational Interviewing. Delivered over two blocks each containing two, half-day sessions, the course is suitable for all health/counselling professionals working with clients’ health related behaviours. The workshop series provides essential MI theory imbedded in evidence based experiential learning. The training format includes paired experientials, video & live demonstrations, real life scenarios delivered to an interactive small group (16-18). Attendees are supported to reflect on their work throughout the training, to integrate practical, applicable learning and affirm their unique developing skill base. Attendees leave with skills that they feel ready and excited to implement and experiment with. The workshop embodies the ‘Spirit’ of MI by respecting the experience, ideas and learning autonomy of participants. Registrants are required to commit to attending all 4 workshops in full via webcam. A secure internet connection and private location are essential for attendance. The program is not recorded.
MI 1 Block 9th/10th Learning Overview
- Identify & experience roadblocks to facilitating client change in an advisory counselling model
- Describe and demonstrate the ‘Spirit’ of MI
- Identify and practice the components of OARS: the micro-skills of MI
- Describe the effective delivery of client centered information and advice
- Practice MI spirit and skill in a real-life behavior change counselling session
MI 2 Block 21st/22nd Learning Overview
- Name the Four Processes of MI & demonstrate specific skills for each stage
- Identify Evoking as a key process in MI and describe why it is integral to effective health behaviour change counselling
- Identify and work with Change Talk, Sustain Talk and Discord (resistance)
- Understand why clients ‘become resistant’, how MI reframes this and work with tools that can help your clients more effectively
Enhance your confidence in this vital area of health care so that you can engage clients in good conversations that matter
Feedback from participants of the inaugural MI 1 & 2 Online Course 2020
‘I’ve heard so much about this training before, and I had high expectations going into it. What I really was able to learn and gain from this workshop was beyond what I thought! It totally transforms you as a practitioner in the gentlest and most empowering way. Thank you SO MUCH Tara!’ KW, Dietitian Online MI Attendee 2020
‘If you work with people you need to do this!’ RH Dietitian Online MI Attendee 2020
‘Absolutely fantastic way to refine your counselling skills to support change in clients’ Online MI Attendee 2020
About the Speaker
Tara is an experienced health professional who has been supporting people to manage the challenges of living with chronic disease and mental health issues in both inpatient and community settings for over 25 years. She is a professional Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Clinical Member of PACFA (Psychotherapist & Counsellors Federation of Australia), Member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers), PACFA Accredited Supervisor and an Accredited Practising Dietitian. Tara has a special interest in the clinical area of eating disorders and works within the Health at Every Size ® approach. Tara provides supervision for Health Professionals and is a prominent advocate for the development of a culture of supervision & reflective practice in Australian Dietetics. She is the founder of Dietitian Supervision Resources Australia www.dsra.com.au, a website and community building resource. Tara is recognised for her dedication to excellence in counselling practice through her training services. She brings to her work warmth, humour and a ‘down to earth’ understanding of the real-life challenges of living and working well in the context of modern lives.
Booking Details
MI 1 Block: Thurs 5th & Fri 6th Dec 2024 9am – 1.30 pm AEDT
MI 2 Block: Thurs 12th & Fri 13th Dec 2024 9am – 1.30 pm AEDT
Please be prepared to log in 5 minutes before starting time to iron out any tech glitches
All health professionals working with clients who struggle with health-related behaviour change. Class size capped to 18-20.
Full Registration $715.00 (Fee is inclusive of GST and incurs a 50c Booking Fee)
Registrations close Regos Open Soon
About Practice Pavestones www.taramacgregor.com.au
Practice Pavestones is a unique training and skills development service for health and counselling professionals wanting to incorporate an evidence based, client centred orientation to their practice to enhance behaviour change outcomes for their clients. Practice Pavestones provides a particular skill focus for working with eating behaviours and is owned and operated by Tara MacGregor PACFA Reg & APD. Services include Quality Experiential Training, Free Quarterly Skills Newsletter and Clinical Supervision & Mentoring.
‘This workshop was inclusive, thought-provoking, challenging and inspirational. It gave me plenty to think about in my own practice.’
‘We usually just focus on how to best care for a client, it was great [in this workshop] to expand that to how to care for ourselves, which in turn helps us to care for our clients.’
‘The group discussions were very good and enabled us to check in with others on how they do things. We rarely get a chance to do that in practice, and it was tremendously helpful to see how others would do things and why’.
‘Thought-provoking and definitely worth attending.’
‘This workshop was so useful to my work!’.
This workshop is absolutely essential for every single Dietitian who values professional practice – no exceptions.
This workshop was like a warm, safe, supportive hug. I loved that there was such an emphasis on “you’re not alone – this happens to all of us”.
This workshop provides an essential missing piece to our training and the way Tara delivers the material and holds the space for everyone’s stage of learning is masterful. I never miss Tara’s workshops and this was undoubtedly one of the best!
If you are working with clients – there is no other space I know of for Dietitians to learn and experience this content. And the content is absolutely necessary! A must for ALL levels of experience and working areas – big for preventing burn out. The content was challenging with plenty of time, permission and safety for personal reflection, to help make the content applicable and appropriate. Really good balance of theory, examples and activities.
This was a really great space to explore ideas that are fundamental to our professionalism and practice throughout our careers. And of course a workshop with Tara is always fun.
If I was going to learn about professional boundaries there is no-one I would feel more equipped to learn from than Tara. She offers such a safe space to share vulnerabilities and mistakes and always challenges me to be a better clinician.
This workshop covers what every Dietitian needs to know for themselves and clients – everything that we never get taught elsewhere. Highly recommend.
Increasingly, in the progressive and ‘technology busy’ world, we find our personal and professional worlds colliding. Tara’a training helps to reinforce our confidence to develop and maintain boundaries so we can be our best professional selves.
This workshop was a really good exploration of all those things you struggle with as a Dietitian but never hear about/learn about/read about or never really discuss with colleagues. I really liked the discussions and client examples/stories and actions/outcomes of managing boundaries in different situations.
I now know where I need to set better boundaries in my practice and have some clear strategies for doing so, that are congruent with ‘best practice’. This workshop is engaging, clear and stepped through all of the aspects of professional boundaries. I know that my practice will be more sustainable and professional as a result of implementing what I have learned at the Boundaries Workshop.