People need accurate information to adopt healthier lifestyles, but information alone does not change anyone’s behavior. Instead, people are motivated to make changes based on their own interests and goals. Motivational interviewing is a research-based communication technique that can help you explore people’s motivations and support them to make needed changes and adopt healthier behaviors. Learning to work with people’s own motivations helps you to avoid unproductive interactions, and can make you feel more confident and satisfied with your own work as a healthcare professional. In this workshop you will learn and practice motivational interviewing strategies.
Please join the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment for this free training to learn the foundational skills of motivational interviewing. Lunch will be provided. If you have any questions, please email Myra Shanks at mshanks@larimer.org.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The Hilton
425 W. Prospect Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80526
About our speaker:
Paul F. Cook PhD, Associate Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing
Paul is an associate professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, and a licensed psychologist with 15 years of experience in the field of health behavior change. He uses motivational interviewing extensively in his own research on medication adherence, and as a collaborator in studies of smoking cessation, diet change, and exercise promotion. Paul leads an interprofessional training grant and has taught health care professionals from many disciplines to use MI for health behavior change.
