Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered counseling technique utilized to elicit behavior change. This practice session will focus on developing a collaboration relationship with individuals to explore and resolve ambivalence to support change aligning with one’s own personal values and concerns. The session will build upon a prerequisite eLearning course to deeper explore and demonstrate the principles of Motivational Interviewing.

We are highly encouraging you to take a pre-learning course prior to this in-person course. A basic knowledge of MI will be needed for this training, and that will not be covered in this in-person training. If you have a Relias account, you can take two short trainings, Introduction to Motivational Interviewing, REL-BHC-0-IMI and Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Practice REL-BHC-0-UMICP.  Or you can sign up for a free training through the Florida Certifcation Board https://fcbonline.remote-learner.net/login/index.php

 LOCATION INFO:
Lutheran Serivces in Iowa
106 16th St. SW
Waverly, IA 50677
The Training will take place in the Hansen Spiritual Life Center Building. 

 TRAINER:
Lucy Stam  graduated from Iowa State with a Masters in Sociology in 2008, her thesis qualitatively explored how early parental attachment disruptions impact romantic relationships, also explored were the sociological ways in which attachment can be disrupted within the child parent relationship. Lucy has been a social worker for over 17 years; Currently teach Marriage & Family at DMACC, in the past have taught at Drake and ISU; licensed certified adoptions investigator with the state of Iowa and is a very proud mother to three girls and a wife to a chocolatier who runs and operates a family-owned chocolate business of over 100 years!

Registration will begin at 12:30pm. Training will begin promptly at 1pm. This training is scheduled until 4pm. 

Please note: Priority seating is provided to staff working within one of the current DHS child welfare service contracts, including: Family Centered Services (FCS); Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) / Group Foster Care; Child Welfare Emergency Services (CWES): Aftercare Services; Supervised Apartment Living (SAL); Recruitment, Retention, Training and Support Services (RRTS); Parent Partners; Foster Care Youth Council. If you do not work within one of the current DHS child welfare services contract, you may be bumped from the course and placed on a wait list.