About the Training: This two-day training is an introduction to the evidence-based clinical method of Motivational Interviewing, an effective approach in the care of working in peer recovery coaching. This class will provide recovery coaches and participants with an opportunity to explore creative ways of integrating these approaches. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered, evidence-based, directive method for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. After orientation to the underlying spirit, structure, and principles of Motivational Interviewing, practical exercises will help participants strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit patient change talk, and roll with resistance.Motivational Interviewing”Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.”~ Stephen Rollnick and William R. Miller, Sheffield, UK Oct 201111 CEU’s