Waypoint Training

How to Put the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing into Practice

Introduction To The Course

Running over four half days, this is a skills-based course that builds upon a firm understanding of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and is suitable for practitioners working with people with troubling behaviour who do not yet see the need for change.

The course gives you a chance to explore and practise using Motivational Interviewing (MI) compassionately when there is discord, when there is fear, when there is reluctance or loss of hope. MI’s strongest evidence base points to its usefulness in helping people change when they do not feel ready or are in two minds about change. On this course you will practise engaging, focussing and evoking change with people who at various stages of readiness to change. 

As learning MI skills is most effective when both speaker and listener are authentic, rather than practise with case studies or ‘role play’, we create a safe space for learners to draw on their own experiences. The usefulness of MI is most convincing when it is felt. We also encourage practising with an observer as they can give feedback. Observation others is also a great way of learning! 

 As this course is not an introductory course but builds upon a firm understanding of the Spirit of Compassionate Motivational Interviewing, you will already have completed that Waypoint course (ideally) or an equivalent.  It’s important that you are already familiar with the spirit or philosophy of MI and also have some experience in supporting others around behaviour change

This course will be delivered online by two trainers in person. To help attendees get the most from our online training, this course will be delivered over four sessions with a week’s gap in between to put learning in to practice:  
Tues 9th, Thurs 11th, Tues 23rd & Thurs 25th February 2021, 13.30-16.30 

We are offering this course free of charge. In return please consider donating to Project 6 so they can continue offering essential support to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

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What you will learn

  • Recap the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing 
  • Identify barriers to behaviour change
  • Discuss ways of supporting change
  • Practise a range of ways of promoting behaviour change within the Spirit of Compassionate MI
  • Give and receive feedback in an MI-consistent manner
  • Reflect on learning and consider future development
A really good mix of practice and theory. Trainers were knowledgeable getting the opportunity to discuss real world examples was invaluable.

Course price: £190 – £240

(£190 – third sector organisations, £240 – statutory, public and private organisations)

This course is a great follow on from The Spirit of Compassionate Motivational Interviewing which is running on 26th and 27th Jan 2021.

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We are attentive to what’s going on for our learners and always encourage them to be up front with us about what they need. We model what we teach so you can expect a compassionate, collaborative and safe response from us. This is tailored to the person so varies widely.

We would offer ongoing emotional support as suited to your progression with us on a course, whether it’s specific learning needs, confidence, motivation or anxiety and would help you access additional support if needed. You are always welcome to contact us in advance if you want to discuss your particular needs. We will always try to flag up if a section of a course might be more upsetting for some people.

We offer a range of courses relating to personal development and actively encourage a diversity of experiences. Often people who use services want to see what it’s like “from the inside” and are interested to understand a little more formally what the various approaches might have been that they experienced while accessing a service so we’d encourage that (again, if suitable for the individual).

Sometimes, it can be a little unsettling for staff to have people who use services on the same training as them and we make it clear is a course might not be suitable for a given individual. The best thing to do is talk to us if you’re considering this.

Occasionally we get funding to cover costs so it’s worth keeping an eye out on our website. Generally, we are unable to source costs for individuals. They might be able to claim expenses from your own organisation of course.

Oh, yes. We send out attendance certificates at the end of the course. If it’s an accredited course, you’ll get a fancy certificate (or two!) from the Awarding Body.

Several courses are accredited – see the Accredited Courses section for details.

You will never have to disclose anything you do not wish to disclose and we will ensure no pressure is put on you to do so. A key way we learn, however, is to draw on our own experiences and all our courses will ask you to think about how you make sense of some ideas or ways of behaving that we’ve been discussing.

You’ll be invited to share your thoughts sometimes in pairs or small groups and we often have whole group discussions where, again, you would be welcome to explore your ideas. We know that training can be a bit scary sometimes and we do our utmost to get the level of challenge just right for everyone. This means we might have different approaches with different people on different occasions.

We will give you information about how many hours study has been involved. We are not allied to any particular professional organisation for CPD.
Get in touch and tell us what works best for you. We will do everything we reasonably can to make the training as accessible to you as it is to anyone else.
In our attempts to save the planet, we try to minimise our use of paper so we make materials available electronically when we can. Also, it’s a great idea not to spend all your time with us taking notes so we tend not to give PowerPoint handouts until after the event. If you need them beforehand, just let us know.
Generally, 10 am to 4.30 pm. Half days are typically 10am to 1pm or 1.30am to 4.30pm. If we’re doing some specific training for an organisation, we go with what they are wanting.
Probably. Get in touch if you have any concerns or queries.
It depends. Some courses say clearly that they have particular prior learning requirements. For example, most skills-based courses will require you to have good counselling skills. Apart from our introductory counselling skills courses!
Some courses build on firmly established skills, knowledge and/or attitudes. This is clearly indicated in the relevant course descriptions.

Only in the Caribbean or New Zealand. (Just kidding!) Give us a call and we’d love to work out what’s best. Online courses can generally be easily accessed from abroad.

We’re based in Yorkshire but travel all over the country.
If there’s anything specific, it’s mentioned in the particular course description. We’ll make this clear when confirming your place. Some courses do require prior learning too.

For skills-based course, we keep the ratio of 12 learners to one trainer. We often train larger groups with a suitable number of trainers. If it’s not a skills-based course, we tend to limit it to 20 but training can be very successful with very large groups and so we adjust the learning activities to suit the size of the group.

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