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.