Thursday, January 14, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Training: 8:30am – noon
Lunch: noon – 1:00pm
Training: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Registration fee for two day training: $285
Snacks, coffee, tea and boxed lunch included
Certificate of Completion Provided
Training Materials Provided
Space is limited to 22 participants. Please note, if you cancel after December 15th, 2009, your registration fee cannot be refunded.
Featherstone Professional Center
1807 Huguenot Road, Suite 108
Midlothian, VA 23113 Map
Days Inn (Midlothian)
1301 Huguenot Road
Midlothian, VA 23113
(804) 794-4999
Hampton Inn (Midlothian)
800 Research Road
Richmond, VA 23236
(804) 897-6099
Sheraton Park South
9901 Midlothian Turnpike
Richmond, VA 23235
(804) 323-1144
Holiday Inn Select, Koger Center
1021 Koger Center Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23235
(804) 379-3800
AmeriSuites (Arboretum)
201 Arboretum Place
Richmond, VA 23236
(804) 560-1566
Homestead Studio Suites (Arboretum)
241 Arboretum Place
Richmond, VA 23236
(804) 272-1800
Please note that some hotels have multiple locations, please call the local number listed to make reservations at the correct location.
This introductory workshop will offer a basic level of information on the fundamental spirit, principles and methods of Motivational Interviewing (MI). Instruction will include demonstration of applying MI in working with adolescents and adults with mental health or substance use concerns, as well as serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders. The format of the workshop will be interactive in nature, and participants will be afforded an opportunity to directly observe, experience, and practice basic MI skills.
Specifically, participants will:
- Become familiar with the spirit, principles and methods of Motivational Interviewing.
- Be informed of the normal processes involved in behavioral change and the role of motivation, ambivalence, and stages of change.
- Learn and practice communication skills that are useful in developing trusting and collaborative relationships with clients, and that help increase their interest in making changes.
- Learn strategies that help individuals
- Address ambivalence regarding problematic behavior
- Discover their own reasons for making positive changes
- Build confidence in their ability to make changes
- Reduce defensiveness and resistance to change
- Prepare to change, and begin to take steps towards positive change.
- Learn how to learn Motivational Interviewing from the clients you serve!
Professionals who have attended our trainings in the past: social workers, psychologist, counselors, physicians,
nurses, nutritionists, professors, health educators, and dietitians.
Instructor
Cecilia van Zyl-Knab, MSW, LCSW
Cecilia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been in the substance abuse field since 2002. Until recently Cecilia has worked in the Counseling & Student Development Center at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, VA, where she provided brief interventions for substance abuse, mood disorders, anxiety, eating disorders, grief, and PTSD and conducts group therapy. After 5 years in a university setting Cecilia has moved to working as a psychotherapist in private practice.
Cecilia has been providing MI trainings and consulting to JMU faculty counseling center clinicians, other teaching faculty, and Judicial Affairs and Health Center staff since 2004. In addition Cecilia provided clinical supervising and consulting to graduate counseling and pre-doctoral students who work with substance abusing clients. Cecilia has been trained to provide MI supervision (MITI trained), she reviewed DVDs and coded students’ MI work and provided them with regular feedback concerning their progress and growth areas using MI. Outside of JMU Cecilia has trained the George Washington University Counseling Center, a local Harrisonburg Counseling Center, and VA State Universities Prevention and Intervention faculty.
Cecilia has also presented at APPLE Conferences for the University of Virginia (UVA) Center for Alcohol and Substance Education (CASE) both in Charlottesville, VA and Phoenix, AZ, and at an ABC (Alcohol Beverage Control) Conference. Prior to her work at JMU Cecilia worked at the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV) for the Department of Addiction Psychiatry as a clinical graduate assistant providing MI to HIV substance abusing clients and participating in research studies for smoking cessation and HIV medication adherence. Cecilia has been providing MI interventions for the past seven years and particular likes to work with resistant clients and those who feel stuck. She has taught a class on Substance Abuse Interventions with Diverse Populations, as well as a Practicum Counseling Class at JMU. She has been an active member of MINT since 2006.