Extraordinary Conversations

Guest (non-instructor) Attendance: $35.00*
Prime Instructor/Counselor Attendance: Free
NAADAC Hours: 1.5
Time: 3:00 - 4:30pm Eastern Time

For those not trained in Prime For Life or Prime Solutions, there is an attendance fee of $35. CES events like this one remain free to our Prime For Life instructors and Prime Solutions Counselors.

*We understand that plans change, but the event fee is non-refundable once processed. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to your participation in our event.
 
All sessions are live-hosted, screen-to-screen 1.5-hour Continuing Education Sessions with PRI Trainers. All sessions will be presented via Zoom. PRI is unable to award hours for sessions previously attended.

Please note that you are responsible for ensuring online PRI sessions and the number of hours earned fulfill your system’s requirements. Credentialing requirements for online sessions stipulate all participants must (1) individually register, and (2) log into the online session on their own device to receive credit/hours for attending. Learners who participate in an online session via shared login will not receive a certificate. Learners are also required to attend sessions in full for NAADAC credit hours to be awarded. 
 
Description: 
Miller and Rollnick (2023) described motivational interviewing as, “…a particular way of talking with people about change and growth… (p. 7).”  While it contains the elements of an ordinary, everyday conversation, it many ways it is extraordinary.  It is those extraordinary elements this self-practice/self-reflection series targets.  This CES series builds on the prior Being Someone Good to Talk to sequence. Specifically, it focuses on how being on the receiving end – the personal-self or client-experience – of extraordinary conversations can deepen practitioner understanding of why and how these skills and techniques matter in helping people grow and change.  
 
This topic offers a series of focused conversations facilitated by MINT trainers designed to develop skillfulness in having extraordinary conversations in prevention and treatment practice.   Using Dr. Helen Mentha’s 2021 book, Someone Good to Talk To, as a point of reflection, each 90-minute session has a unique focus while sharing a similar format that combines a brief didactic, demonstration, discussion, and extended self-practice/self-reflection activity.  Each session is free-standing so a participant can attend one session, every session, or a combination of sessions.  Participants will engage in “real play” skill practice, based on themes targeted in the session, which they will then transfer out of the session and into their “real world” practice settings.   
 
These sessions will focus on interpersonal and communication skills, which research has demonstrated make a difference in client outcomes (Miller & Moyers, 2021).  The training approach is a form of evidence-based training (e.g., Scott et al., 2021), which prior research has demonstrated can be an effective alternative to the traditional practitioner-focused workshop (Bennett-Levy & Haarhoff, 2019). It is built on the training models described by Rosengren, Johnston, and Hilton (2024), in Experiencing MI from the Inside out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook.  
 
 
Goals: 
Participants will recognize that by experiencing and reflecting upon the receipt of core communication skills in the course of real plays they can improve the use of these skills in their work with clients.  They will engage in a deliberate self-reflective process to extend these skills to their practice situations.      
 
Learning Objectives: 
 
At the conclusion of each session, participants will:  

• Be able to identify two core ideas within an essential communication area  
• Practice a tool to improve skill in the identified essential area 
• Have an experience in the receipt of those skills in a real play 
• Reflect after action on these skills and deepen their understanding of why these are helpful  
• Describe a plan for extending this skill into their practice situation  

Date and Time:

November 1, 2024: 3:00 - 4:30 PM Eastern Time*

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