Training Overview:
Motivational interviewing (MI) requires practice with accompanying feedback. This practice-focused training is intended to be a highly interactive session for individuals who have already been trained on the basics of MI. We will focus on more advanced MI skills and participants both observe and practice giving one another feedback in a series of role play sessions. Attendance at an introductory motivational interviewing training is required.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Analyze and respond to client sustain talk without inducing defensiveness.
• Evoke and Strengthen Complex Change Talk (DARN-CAT).
• Use targeted OARS (Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, Summarization).
• Integrate Harm Reduction Philosophy with Client-Led Change Planning.

Facilitator: Tanagra Melgarejo, MSW, National Harm Reduction Coalition

Organized by the Health and Recovery Training Institute