Compulsory Training! Very clear, well organised and very skillful presenter

Adding MI to my practice will likely bring very different and positive results and the client will more likely engage and respond to behaviour change. I really enjoyed role playing the new skills and debriefing. I usually don’t like role playing at all but this was safe, fun and useful!

This is a great follow up workshop to attend after the two day Essential Counselling Skills course. It helps to reinforce some of the skills learnt and extend and apply those counselling skills into Motivational Interviewing. It definitely helps me to feel better as a therapist.

A brilliant introduction to MI. Tara sets up an interactive and safe environment to experiment with some of the basics of MI. Tara’s depth of knowledge and humour shines through.

MI Skills are essential to work in a client centred model which is essential for working in HAES approach or NDA. Australia needs more Taras!

This workshop was fantastic for developing some basic but hugely valuable MI skills. It’s going to revolutionise the way I work with families.

If you attend this training you’ll experience a wonderful day spent reflecting on your own practice. You’ll gain a great deal of insight into how you communicate and get the chance to take home some very practical strategies. You’ll want to learn more! The workshop is the perfect length and time will fly. It is so enjoyable!

This course is great to help with those clients who know what to do for their health but aren’t doing it! It gives you skills to help ease out of sticky corners and get clients on the smooth road to positive progress. I had learned some of these skills in a health coaching course and they had got a bit dusty so it has been great to remind myself and affirm how to use them in practice in this workshop. It was great to chat with others in my flied during the breaks. I really appreciated time to stop and reflect and not be bombarded with information.Thank you for making it accessible for CPD points!

This workshop was brilliantly structured with the perfect balance of information and experiential learning. You’ll take home things you can put straight into practice.

This was a really great course and helped me to feel empowered and comfortable to incorporate MI into my practice. I really enjoyed the ‘real plays’ and I think it allowed a lot of ‘aha’ moments and also helped us to experience and see that MI can be natural and feel natural.

This workshop reminded me why I got into Dietetics. Somewhere along the line I forgot. I want to help people better themselves but I forgot that they want that for themselves too. This workshop reminded me of that. I have been so ready to shove information at people but I know that isn’t effective at promoting change. I need to take the time to consider what my clients’ want and ask if <em>they </em>are wanting to receive the info I can offer.

Tara presented MI skills and spirit in a way that supports practical knowledge and enhances skills you already have in the area. I liked the experiential real plays which I usually don’t like doing at all! I am planning to support staff in my organisation with these MI skills during supervision and case discussion

Perfectly balanced, great learning environment, experiential – FANTASTIC!

I found the material in the workshop covered some ground from previous training/short courses I’ve completed e.g. health coaching but it was packaged in a simpler more user friendly way. I now feel more prepared to build on these skills.

I think this should be essential training for all Health Professionals.The videos on the day were really good examples which drew me into the MI paradigm and explained it well. I saw MI in action on this workshop

A very valuable session. I liked being able to practice the skills. Tara’s teaching style was open and approachable and she gave lots of relevant situations i.e. how to apply MI in clinical practice. She passes her wide reaching knowledge with ease. A great session!

This was incredibly useful training for any health professional regularly dealing with people with a diagnosis of diabetes. I appreciated the chances to practice in a safe way and the excellent demonstrations in class. This all provided me confidence to start using a new approach that has been shown to be effective to help clients change

THIS WORKSHOP IS A MUST DO FOR ALL DIETITIANS! I liked most the interaction, Tara’s role modelling, humour, careful consideration of questions and obvious skills.

This was a fantastic, thought provoking workshop to put you in your clients’ shoes and re-think traditional nutrition counselling strategies. Tara is an excellent presenter and workshop facilitator. There was a great balance of theory and practice and a ‘safe’ environment to start practising. The workshop catered for all learning styles which is often overlooked. Great job!

This course is amazing! Every Dietitian should attend this workshop. It will change the way I work with clients. It was well organised and structured and there was a good balance of learning and practising.

Tara’s practical, nurturing and hands-on seminars are the perfect taste tester of MI. You don’t walk away overwhelmed with info but empowered and equipped with the basics of MI. The real plays provided an opportunity to test out the new skills and I feel like I can start to use these new skills tomorrow!

This workshop is an amazing way to get to grips with MI and most importantly how to use it right away!

This workshop will completely change your ideas on how to help your clients. It is light on the academic, heavy on life-time situations. The content provided the right information and guidance to go out and practice. Excellent.

This workshop is a brilliant overview of everything important in the MI model. The training is lots of fun, practical and a great blend of theory and practice. I loved the workbook – lots of practical ideas I can use.

This training helps you to build confidence in counselling. It helps your practice to come more from the heart and genuine open communication.The interactive and experiential teaching style was excellent.

MI 1 & MI 2 are essential workshops for any practitioners working with ED clients.

If you are working with behaviour change you NEED to do this training. You will increase your effectiveness, confidence to help and dramatically reduce your own stress. Tara’s gentle steady confidence in the skills result in modelling MI in the process of learning about MI. It was so much fun participating in the quirky demo activities.

This workshop was a wonderful way to reflect on your own practice and experiement (in a safe space) a different way of ‘being’ with clients that is more empowering for both of you

This workshop was a fabulous intro into MI with great variety over the day that is safe and fun! Tara is warm and accepting

This was a lovely day spent with colleagues and an expert on MI. Not your usual ‘lecture’ style – very inclusive, comfortable and enjoyable learning environment. The practical/experiential side of the workshop made me feel much more confident about putting things into my practice. The breaks were well timed with plenty of coffee in a beautiful venue.

I think we have all hit a patch where we feel unfulfilled in our job – we give too much and risk burning out. This workshop re-iterated there is another way and provided another option in consultations. It was a really interactive day, time flew by and I left feeling invigorated about my job and more confident in my ability to guide and assist my clients

This course demonstrated to me how I could improve my counselling skills to generate better results for my clients while also resolving pressures for myself. The day went in a logical, progressive direction with interesting and engaging information

Very professionally run training with a great size group. I felt comfortable being involved in all of the activities. The content was a great intro and basic overview of MI.

This workshop was very motivating and inspiring to work in a client centred approach. MI really seems like a good way to achieve better results for the patient