Eat Ice Cream on Wednesdays (5): The Future Present Moment

All sessions are live-hosted, screen-to-screen 1.5 hour Continuing Education Sessions (CES) with PRI Trainers. All sessions will be presented via Zoom. PRI is unable to award hours for sessions previously attended. 

Please note that participants are responsible for ensuring online PRI sessions and the number of hours earned fulfill your system's requirements. Credentialing requirements for online sessions stipulate all participants must (1) individually register, and (2) log into the online session on their own device to received credit/hours for attending. Learners who participate in an online session via shared login will not receive a certificate. Learners are also required to attend sessions in full for credit hours to be awarded.  Participants will receive a survey email after the session, and will receive a certificate once the survey has been submitted. The link to the surveys are also available on the instructor site under "My Trainings." Note, participants must attend the entire session.

PRI supports low-risk driving choices. Therefore, we will remove anyone who is driving on a Zoom call hosted by our team. So as to not further distract, we will not chat or verbally ask questions first. You'll be able to join a different Zoom session, from a stationary place, at a later date.

Description:

Being “Someone Good To Talk To” is something many of us aspire to be--in life and practice. This CES series builds on the prior sequence with a specific focus on growth mindset as practitioners continue to practice and develop skills.  This topic offers a series of focused conversations facilitated by a MINT trainer designed to develop skillfulness in being someone good to talk to in prevention and treatment practice.   Based on Dr. Helen Mentha’s 2021 book, Someone Good to Talk To, each 90-minute session will have a unique focus while sharing a similar format that combines a brief didactic, demonstration, discussion, scaffolding practice, and extended practice.  Each session is free-standing so a participant can attend one session, every session, or a combination of sessions.  Participants will engage in “real play” skill practice, based on the issues identified by the participants, which they will then take out of the session and into their “real world” practice settings.    
  
These sessions will focus on interpersonal and communication skills, which research has demonstrated make a difference in client outcomes (Miller & Moyers, 2021).  The training approach is a form of context-tailored training, which prior research has demonstrated can be an effective alternative to the tradition workshop training approach for learning Motivational Interviewing, and Self-Practice/Self-Reflection as an integrative training strategy for evidence-based practices (Bennett-Levy & Haarhoff, 2019).   

Goals: 

Participants will recognize that by focusing on a few core communication concepts real-plays they can improve the use of their skills in their work with clients.  They will engage in a deliberate self-reflective process to extend these skills to their practice situations.      

Learning Objectives: 

• Be able to identify two core ideas within an essential communication area 
• Practice two essential skills (affirmations and summaries) 
• Have an experience in the use of that skill in a real-play  
• Experience these skills from the Inside Out 
• Describe a plan for extending this skill into their practice situation.

Date and Time:

May 17, 2024: 3:00 - 4:30 PM Eastern Time*

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