Hi folks:  We are offering a new Advanced Coding MITI 3.1.1 Course Online that begins 11/18/13 and ends 12/23/13.  Here is the info!

International Advanced Online MITI 3.1.1 Coding Training

November 18, 2013 through December 23, 2013

Trainer:  Jacque Elder, PsyD.

Cost:  $450.00

This Advanced MITI 3.1.1 Coding course will begin Monday, November 18, 2013 and end the week of 12/23/13.  I have deliberately scheduled the calls on Mondays to avoid direct contact with the holidays.

There will be two Skype calls per week, one at 10 am CST for non-North American folks. The other Skype call will be on Monday as well 6 pm CST. Please note both calls are on Monday in order to not interfere with holidays.

You only participate in one call per week.

Dates:                         Skype times: 

11/18/13                        10 am and 6 pm CST

11/25/13                        10 am and 6 pm CST

12/02/13                        10 am and 6 pm CST

12/09/13                        10 am and 6 pm CST

12/16/13                        10 am and 6 pm CST

12/23/13                          10 am and 6 pm CST

Goals of the Course:

This Advanced course is for the person who has formal coding training as well as coding experience. If you have found that you went through a MITI training and then never coded a darn thing, join the club.  I did not code until about 3 years after my coding training.  If you fall into this category, you are more than welcome and you should review your materials from your training. We will not be reviewing the bulk of the Manual as you have already been taught that.  If you haven’t gone through a formal coding training yet were trained by a noted coder or MINTie, you are also free to participate.  I just need to know about your training and the scope of your coding work.  This is a great training for research coding as well as feedback/coaching coding purposes.

The course will focus on "challenging" sessions that have baffled many of us as well as some "easy" sessions to code. Challenging sessions might be practitioners who meander around doing some good and then not so good MI.  We like challenges where the Global Ratings are all over the place and how we come to a resolution. We must take time to talk about the different between Simple and Complex Reflections. We will focus on what utterances are not coded, whether structure, personal disclosure or observation.  We have developed examples of Behavior Codes such as Giving Information, MIA and MINAs.

The focus is on full-pass coding.  We will be using no transcripts here.  We are happy to share some forms that we have developed that helps us code quickly while still providing written examples (if requested).  We would love to have participants submit a session of their own (could be role-play or real-play) and challenge us not only on our Behavior Counts but also on the Global Ratings.  John Novo did a great one for me and it is part of my regular training sessions now.

Most of the work is done on the learner's own time, and each will be provided with an online resource that is user-friendly.  On the site, there are 6 Modules representing the 6 weeks of the course.  Each Module contains PDFs, video on parsing, utterances, random start/end times, audio of training sessions that include transcripts (uncoded and coded just for one practice!) and other resources that may be used in Feedback and Coaching.  It is estimated that learners will work 3-4 hours per week on their own time in addition to the 90-minute weekly Skype calls.

How This Course Works:

Once registered and paid, the learner will be provided with a link to the website, a username and a password.  The learner will receive this information prior to the first Skype call scheduled.  We often provide it early so learners have a chance to look at site and downloaded printed materials.  It is expected that the learner will know the MITI 3.1.1 Manual as well as basic coding skills prior to the first Skype call.

Required for Course Learning:

·      Access to a computer with Internet.

·      Access to Skype either at work or home.

·      Computer with speakers and working microphone.

·      A printer to print out MITI Manual un-coded and coded transcripts.

·      A willingness to complete homework.  The trainees who learn the most in this course are those who have done their work

Participation:

The trainers will set up group weekly Skype calls (we are still mastering Skype ourselves) and all group members will be included in call so that anyone may join the call once it has started.  Audio sessions are played on the trainer’s computer and real time coding begins in Module 1 with the Behavior Counts and Global Ratings. 

                       

Trainer:

The trainer is Jacque Elder, PsyD.  She has been a member of MINT since 2000 when she went through her Train the New Trainer. She has extensive experience coding and providing MITI Coding Training for 7 years.  She is a Professor of Psychology at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.  She is a licensed therapist with clinical skills in Couple/family therapy, Eating Disorders and Family-Based Treatment, Substance Misuse, Moods Disorders, Treatment for Suicide Attempters and their Families.  She has trained many people in the MITI coding system and has coded hundreds of sessions for research projects and Feedback/Coaching.

Registration:

Registration can be completed on the Clinical Training Institute’s website at www.motivationalinterviewing.info. 

Click on “Enroll Now” for the MITI Coding Training.  Once you have submitted your Registration, you can pay for the Coding course via Pay Pal. 

The registration URL is http://www.motivationalinterviewing.info/enroll.html

Payment:

All payment is done via Pay Pal, which requires the learner to have a credit card.  If a learner needs to send a check instead, that is just fine.  The check must be received prior to the beginning of the course in order for the learner to access the Coding website.

Checks should be sent to:

Clinical Training Institute

313 Wesley

Oak Park, IL  60302 USA

Certificates of Completion are provided at the end of the course.

All learners must complete a Course Evaluation Survey in order to receive the Certificate of Completion.  Certificates are generally sent through electronic mail.

Questions:

Please contact Jacque Elder at jacelder@gmail.com.  That is the best way to contact me.  If needed, my cell is 708-717-8528 yet I am better at answering my email.  Sometimes, it is difficult for me to get to my phone.  Please use email and thank you!

MITI 3.1.1 Online Coding Training

Hello folks:  I have another online MITI 3.1.1 Coding Training coming up on 8/27/13.  All of the information that you might need is below.

Registration at www.motivationalinterviewing.info

Submit your Registration and then pay through Pay Pal.

Hope you can join us!

Jacque

Online MITI 3.1.1 Coding Training

August 27, 2013 through October 3, 2013

Jacque Elder, Psy.D. and Karen Grimley, LCSW

Cost:  $450.00

This online 6 week coding course is for those practitioners who have never or rarely used the MITI 3.1.1 Coding system.  All beginners are welcome, as well as those who would like to brush up on their coding skills.

Skype Calls:

The course includes 6 weekly Skype calls that are 90 minutes long.  Learners can attend one or the other or both.  One call is on Tuesday from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, Central Standard Time.  The other call is on Thursday from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.  The Tuesday call is for international learners though anyone in the course may join these calls.  All calls are recorded and then archived on the website so learners can download them and listen to them if they miss a call.

Dates of Skype Calls:

Tuesday 10 am, CST dates                                    Thursday 6:00 pm, CST dates

August 27, 2013                                                August 29, 2013

September 3, 2013                                                September 5, 2013

September 10, 2013                                                September 12, 2013

September 17, 2013                                                September 19, 2013

September 24, 2013                                                September 26, 2013

October 1, 2013                                                October 3, 2013

Alternative Dates:

We are aware that there are national and religious holidays that learners will want to participate in.  We will be mindful of this, and if needed, add another week (or call) onto the end of the course to make sure no one is excluded.                                                           

Trainers:

The trainers are Jacque Elder, Psy.D., and Karen Grimley, LCSW, both members of the MINT. Both have extensive experience coding and Jacque has been providing MITI Coding Training for 7 years. This is an interactive course with weekly face-to-face time via Skype.

Goal of Course:

The goal of the course is to learn the MITI 3.1.1 by focusing initially on the Global Ratings, then parsing/utterances/volleys and finally the Behavior Counts.  The course begins with short audios with transcripts and by Module 4; we are doing full pass coding in 5-minute increments and then the full 20-minute pass.  There are no transcripts used from Module 4 through Module 6 to increase the development of the "eagle ear" required to "hear" the Behavior Counts even in long volleys.

Most of the work is done on the learner's own time, and each will be provided with an online resource that is user-friendly.  On the site, there are 6 Modules representing the 6 weeks of the course.  Each Module contains PDFs, video on parsing, utterances, random start/end times, audio of training sessions that include transcripts (uncoded and coded) and other resources that may be used in Feedback and Coaching.  It is estimated that learners will work 3-4 hours per week on their own time in addition to the 90-minute weekly Skype calls.

How This Course Works:

Once registered and paid, the learner will be provided with a link to the website, a username and a password.  The learner will receive this information prior to the first Skype call scheduled.  We often provide it early so learners have a chance to look at site and downloaded printed materials.  It is expected that the learner will have read the MITI 3.1.1 Manual prior to the first Skype call.

Required for Course Learning:

·      Access to a computer with Internet.

·      Access to Skype either at work or home.

·      Computer with speakers and working microphone.

·      A printer to print out MITI Manual un-coded and coded transcripts.

·      A willingness to complete work done on own time so that learner is prepared for Skype call.

Participation:

The trainers will set up group weekly Skype calls (we are still mastering Skype ourselves) and all group members will be included in call so that anyone may join the call once it has started.  Audio sessions are played on the trainer’s computer and real time coding begins in Module 2 with the Global Ratings.  We review the Global Ratings in the Manual in Module 1.

Registration:

Registration can be completed on the Clinical Training Institute’s website at www.motivationalinterviewing.info.  Click on “Enroll Now” for the MITI Coding Training.  Once you have submitted your Registration, you can pay for the Coding course via Pay Pal.  The registration url is http://www.motivationalinterviewing.info/enroll.html

Payment:

All payment is done via Pay Pal, which requires the learner to have a credit card.  If a learner needs to send a check instead, that is just fine.  The check must be received prior to the beginning of the course in order for the learner to access the Coding website.

Checks should be sent to:

Clinical Training Institute

313 Wesley

Oak Park, IL  60302 USA

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Certificates of Completion:

30 CEUs are available at no additional cost.  They are provided for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors through the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation.

All learners must complete a Course Evaluation Survey in order to receive the Certificate of Completion which has the CEUs noted on it.  The Certificates can be sent to the learner via electronic mail or US Mail or both.

Questions:

Please contact Jacque Elder at jacelder@gmail.com.  That is the best way to contact me.  If needed, my cell is 708-717-8528 yet I am better at answering my email.  Sometimes, it is difficult for me to get to my phone.  Please use email and thank you!

Compassion: How will we measure it in MI?

Hello folks:

I just am now getting through the 3rd Edition of Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollnick.  I feel like a lazy student.

I was excited to read that another new Global Rating has been added and that is Compassion.  I am curious to see how Moyers et al will develop a Likert scale as well as Verbal Anchors for this skill.  How is compassion measured?  How is it manifested?  Compassion furthers separates MI from most of the other counseling skills even though we are all helpers.

I find that I must examine my own motives for why I would want to be compassionate.  I used to think I was, as I was always involved in Social Justice issues, went out of my way to provide pro bono services in MI, and taking the time to mentor new MI practitioners.  Yet why was I doing it?  Was I doing it to look good to the rest of the world?  "Look at me!  Perhaps I should be canonized as a saint!"
In retrospect, I was wanting to be compassionate for all the wrong reasons.

For me, compassion is present when I have a willingness to help/assist in some way without people knowing that I have been compassionate.  Anonymity may be essential in some cases.  I read somewhere that the greatest way to share gifts is to give them anonymously and never know how the other person reacted.  To give gifts/assistance without expectation of being thanked or acknowledged is very hard for me.  To be giving in this way means that I will never feel the glow of "What a good person I am."  I like that glow.  Yet my motives are way, way off.

I agree with Bill and Steve that compassion is what brings us helpers into the helping profession.  And in looking back, I became a therapist because I wanted to "help people".  Yet what good is helping if the rest of world isn't around to tell you what a fabulous person you are.

Compassion also means never giving up on someone.  It is difficult to be around folks when they are suffering yet we do ourselves a great injustice by avoiding them and telling people "I am setting clear boundaries."  What boundaries surround suffering?  What boundaries surround folks wanting to make a behavior change and feeling helpless/hopeless about it?

I also believe that I have to be open and experience compassion before I can be that way with someone else.  I thought I was being compassionate.  I was self-righteous and self-absorbed.

I am perfect in my imperfections.  I strive to still maintain the "pathological optimism" that Bill Miller talks about and I am working on being "relentlessly compassionate".  This is the hard work.

Gosh, Motivational Interviewing changed my life...

It has been 13 years since I went through my Train the New Trainer in Quebec with Bill Miller, Terri Moyers and David Rosengren.  I look back on that experience as the most acute case of Impostor Anxiety I have ever had.  I had read the book, watched the 6 hour video and because of ordering that video set, I ended up on a mailing list from CASAA.  A brochure advertising the TNT came, and I thought "Well, I think I meet some of this criteria and if not, they will turn me down."

They did not turn me down and my Impostor Anxiety skyrocketed.  I sat in that training room for 3 days and not a minute went by when I did not think the MI Police were going to come in and bust me for impersonating an MI practitioner/trainer.  I was so quiet and scared in that training that Terri Moyers jokes that she doesn't think I was really there.  At this point in my life, folks must notice me and at that time, they did not.

Thank the Lord and pass the basket.  I am grateful to the MINT and most of all to all the very cool people I have met, been trained by or have trained.  I just got back from Manhattan, Kansas, where I did a one day "MI Booster" along with a MITI Coding Booster.  That group rocked.  For the first time in years, I did not use PowerPoint.  I admit that I am PPT Dependent.  Perhaps that will be in the DSM-V, if it ever comes out.

That freed me up professionally and personally.  I used to worry not only about whether I sounded like I knew what I was talking about but I would also worry about whether there were boogers in my nose or if everyone would judge me for having gained 30 pounds in the last year.  I guess I am not so important that folks focus on my body or my nose.  We talked about the recent changes in the MI world, as well as other interventions and research that is going on in the field of Behavior Change.  We did experiential stuff, watched YouTube and focused on skills acquisition.  You do not need PPT for acquiring and tweaking skills.  Can you imagine that?

Technology is great only when it works.  In the past 3 years, I have come to accept that I require human being contact.  I had been doing a great deal of teaching and training online, and had developed some skills along that line.  It just is not as fun as being with human beings.  I still offer online trainings, and right now am focusing on online MITI 3.1 Coding trainings as the demand for that is high right now.  I went through my MITI Coding training with Jen Manual Knapp several years ago with Glenn Hinds in Derry, Ireland.  I sensed that it would become more popular as it seemed as though it taught the MI alphabet so I could finally understand the MI "book" or technique/philosophy.  I wanted to learn it because I wanted to get better at MI.  I thought my Impostor Anxiety would go away completely yet that only happens when I don't let my ego get the better of me.  I have a friend who says "Keep your pedestal close to the ground so it won't hurt so much when you fall off."  Ouch and right.

I am so OK with being imperfect.  I only ask that if you do see a booger on my nose that you let me know.  I love people who tell me my zipper is down or there is a booger on my nose.  They are the bestest people.

Now, I am embarking on another chapter of a new skill acquisition.  This weekend, I will be going through the first of two weekend trainings of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reintegration) and I have not read the books yet.  I am going because I was a "naysayer" of EMDR for the last 15 years until I recently experienced 2 sessions of EMDR myself with a seasoned EMDR practitioner.  I still am unclear as to what happened in those sessions.  It reminded me of "Wakeful Dreaming" back in the day of Ericksonian hypnotherapy.

All I know is that EMDR helped me shift in a way that I could barely hope for, let alone predict that it would do me any good.  I just know that the useless stuff in my head seemed to go away.  I may be the only person who has a hamster running around on a wheel inside my head (especially at night) yet other people have told me they have hamsters, too.  I named mine "Jacque Hamster", and I learned to invite her to take a break from her very busy day and lay down to rest on a cool bed I made for her.  She sighs and goes to sleep, and so do I.

Talk about stream of consciousness.  Yikes.

I just bought the 3rd edition of the MI book and am looking forward to reading it though it will have to wait until after I read the two required EMDR books that must be completed in 6 days.  I better order them on Amazon.

I will be done teaching full time at Dominican University in May of this year, and am hoping to find another full time job.  I would love to teach/train/do clinical work and who knows where I will end up. I think I would be very good as a greeter at WalMart, and that may be where I end up.  All work is honorable.