Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (Career Edition) - Feb 2024 - Intake 1/2024

Help your clients gain deeper committment and readiness to work towards their career goals through Motivational Interviewing. Gain valuable understanding and practice skills in the area of Motivational Interview through Roxanne Sawatzky. 

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own career motivation and commitment to career change.

MI helps others become willing, able and ready for changes to their careers. MI is designed to strengthen an individual's motivation for and movement toward a specific career goal by eliciting and exploring the person's own reasons for the changes needed for their careers within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. 

Some behaviours (in the career counselling, coaching context) that can be addressed by MI are:

• Increase ownership of reviewing their job search strategies and activities (resume/CV writing, job and labour market researching, etc)
• Manage ambivalence or refusal to address one’s career thoughts and accompanying behaviours to career planning or career management
• Address dysfunctional behaviours at the workplace

MI outperforms traditional career advice-giving for promoting sustainable career behavior change. In contrast to persuasion strategies that seek to compel career change through external mechanisms, MI strengthens an individual's intrinsic motivation through enhancing willingness, ability and commitment for positive career change. MI does not impose change, but rather supports sustainable change in a manner congruent with the person's own values, strengths and wishes for their career

Programme Learning Outcomes

This masterclass covers the following learning modalities

1. Learn about Stages of Change, Ambivalence
2. Understand Motivational Interviewing and Self Determination Theory
3. Pick up Guiding and Directive Approaches within MI
4. Identify various forms of Talk such as Sustain, Change, Discord
5. Practice of OARS skills and avoid Righting Reflex

The content will cover the latest 4th edition of William Miller and Stephen Rollnick’s book – Motivational Interviewing – Helping People Change and Grow

Live Learning and Practice Sessions (12 hours across 4 sessions)

21, 22, 28, 29 Feb 2024 - 9am to 12pm for each session.

Through theorotical understanding and dyad, triad practice, you can expect a practice oriented learning experience over 4 virtual sessions. Each session includes a 30-40 minutes of practice.

100% attendance and submission of a 20 mins audio recording assignment is required to complete the masterclass.

This programme qualifies you to a total of 12 hours of verifiable continuing professional development hours for WSG credential holders. 

Entry Pre-requisite

This programme is organised for Singapore Citizens and PRs and is suitable for the following groups of learners:

• Trained career practitioners supporting students, job seekers, employees with career counselling, coaching
• Credential holders such as WSG CDF credential holders or NCDA credential holders
• Prior formal training in career counselling, career coaching is preferred

Certification Fees

S$590 per participant 

S$470 per participant (WSG Career Development Framework Credential Holder)

Full payment to be made upfront to confirm registration spot for the programme.