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Cultivating Compassion, Healing, and Hope
What: Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference
When: August 6-8, 2025
Where: Madison, Wisconsin
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a highly flexible and powerful approach to helping practitioners address behavioral change and growth for their clients and patients. MI is particularly useful because it can be applied to a variety of situations and settings, including behavioral health, human services, health care, education, corrections, business and more.
This summer, we invite you to explore how the practice of MI can improve your clients’ engagement, resulting in transformative outcomes.
The interactive Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference will share best practices, build skills and promote interprofessional networking. Breakout sessions will be offered at various levels, targeting students, providers who are new to MI and seasoned practitioners.
We look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Madison, where you can learn more about this evidence-based practice, hone your skills and network with other MI practitioners and trainers from the Midwest.
Please direct questions to [email protected]
When: August 6-8, 2025
Where: Madison, Wisconsin
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a highly flexible and powerful approach to helping practitioners address behavioral change and growth for their clients and patients. MI is particularly useful because it can be applied to a variety of situations and settings, including behavioral health, human services, health care, education, corrections, business and more.
This summer, we invite you to explore how the practice of MI can improve your clients’ engagement, resulting in transformative outcomes.
The interactive Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference will share best practices, build skills and promote interprofessional networking. Breakout sessions will be offered at various levels, targeting students, providers who are new to MI and seasoned practitioners.
We look forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Madison, where you can learn more about this evidence-based practice, hone your skills and network with other MI practitioners and trainers from the Midwest.
Please direct questions to [email protected]
Agenda
All day sessions
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9:00AM-3:00PM
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Starting or restarting motivational interviewing
Speaker: Rachel Galanter Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based communication style designed to help people pursue their big goals by reminding themselves of their readiness, willingness and ability to make meaningful change in their lives. We will explore techniques to draw out people in order to find out their motivations and help them become empowered to make change to meet their own goals rather than trying to externally mandate change. This introduction will involve a number of exercises to distinguish the practice of Motivational Interviewing from other communication styles and to enhance our abilities to respond to ambivalence with evocation instead of problem solving. Motivational interviewing can be layered onto other models to reduce attrition and increase the likelihood of participants’ success. Together we will practice individual elements and weaving multiple concepts into conversations. My experience in sharing MI has been that giving people an opportunity to experience through real play and practice allows them to experience the effectiveness of MI for themselves. My trainings rely on an explain, model, practice, feedback model that is infused with the spirit of MI. Learning Objectives:
The work is not the workshop: best practices and tools for learning MI
Speakers: Katie Hartleib, Scott Caldwell, Mike Madson Although MI is a well-established practice for promoting people’s healing, hope, growth, and change, it requires practitioners to engage an effective learning process for people to experience the benefits of MI. Twenty years of research has identified best practices and tools that support effective learning. Drawing on this research and years of experience as consultants working with practitioners, coaches, supervisors, and leadership teams, this session will feature: overview of an evidence-based learning cycle including direct observation of practice, structured feedback, goal-setting, and effective learning methods; a menu of established deliberate practice strategies; simulation of a group supervision session and skill practice activity; use of self-guided learning tools; and a brainstorm of what learners can do to create a community of practice, get MI into routine supervision, or access available learning resources. (A recent outcome evaluation of a project in which Scott and Katie provide consultation to MI coaches documented the effectiveness of these learning methods as evidenced by practitioner fidelity and related positive client experiences with MI: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dcts/mi-client-outcome-evaluation-report.pdf.) Participants will come away inspired and ready to engage learning beyond the conference. Learning Objectives:
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half-day sessions
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9:00AM-12:00PM
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Here's hoping: get it and grow it!
Speaker: Ali Hall In this fast-paced and highly interactive session we will explore various ideas about hope within Motivational Interviewing and how hope superpowers our life and work. We will engage in four different categories of getting and growing hope using the "Cultivating Hope" card deck, mining images, self-reflections, quotes and activities. Participants will come away with new and reinforced ideas for cultivating hope in their own lives, at work and for those they serve. Learning Objectives:
Trauma (healing) informed care: practical MI responses to triggers
Speaker: Melinda Marasch Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a Healing (Trauma) Informed Care (HIC) approach. The 6 Key Principles of HIC align perfectly with the MI Spirit, Tasks and Skills. This alignment makes for a powerhouse of evidence-based approaches! My experiences sharing HIC & MI include the need for practicality; real life/work scenarios that incorporate approaches. HIC can be very theoretical; it is understandable, yet if you're not intentional you're not sure how to apply it to your job. MI can feel overwhelming, like there are so many parts. Aligning HIC & MI provides many opportunities to enhance direct care approaches that will could significantly impact clients/participants. This workshop provides practical approaches to help professionals work with those who are stressed &/or traumatized. Content will include SAMHSA’s 4 Rs of HIC, the effects of stress & trauma on professionals & participants, Dos &Don’ts and more. An emphasis will be on identifying, minimizing and managing triggers/emotional reactions with responses that prioritize the impact of the trigger. Learning Objectives:
Motivational interviewing in interprofessional practice
Speakers: Yasyn Lee, Adrienne Allen, Beth Martin Motivational Interviewing is a communication approach that can be effectively applied in many healthcare professional settings. Healthcare professionals, in any area of service, are likely to encounter people who might be reluctant to embrace change in their behaviors, thoughts and attitudes. Everyone on a health/social care team can benefit from learning and incorporating MI skills and spirit into their interprofessional practice, and yet we know not everyone may speak the language of MI. This interactive workshop will create a rich learning environment introducing and exposing the common processes of MI, how to think about applying MI when the whole team may not have MI acquisition and encourage the learner to think about 1-2 skills they can begin to implement in practice. An interprofessional/interdisciplinary team of facilitators will bolster participants’ confidence in the use of MI through a variety of learning modalities. Participants will work across professions to bring their respective training, expertise and anticipated use of MI to collaboratively apply the skills and style. Learning Objectives:
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1:00-4:00PM
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Keepin' the MI spirit under heat: staying effective when feeling "triggered"
Speaker: Sue EckMaahs It is natural for practitioners to stumble upon conversations in their work that trigger strong emotions; positive and negative. We're human. Negative emotions and thoughts can undermine our ability to stay in the spirit of MI and erode MI effectiveness. This workshop will be a layered opportunity for intermediate to advanced MI learners to look closely at this reality, and practice self-awareness and specific pathways for better personal detachment, enhanced empathy, and effective MI in difficult conversations. Learning Objectives:
We recommend to attend this after "Here's hoping: get it and grow it!" Neuroaffirming MI: transforming MI from a tool of compliance to a tool for liberation and healing
Speaker: Jesse Jonesberg, Shaina Buckner Motivational Interviewing is a powerful approach to helping others and creating meaningful change. But if we are not careful, we can unintentionally use this powerful tool to enforce compliance, demand conformity, and neurotypical masking. Neuroaffirming care offers a way through this barrier, and it can help guide us towards compassion and change when working with folks who are neurodivergent. Macro MI reminds us the importance of socially engineered trauma in the lives of those we serve, and neuroaffirming care offers us a practical approach to address these larger systemic injustices and work effectively with individuals who stray from “normal” (i.e. most of us!). A neuroaffirming MI practitioner is able to work effectively to avoid “fixing” neurodivergent individuals and instead practices skillfully through acceptance and liberation. Neurodifferences are natural parts of human diversity, and by exposing the myth of normalcy we can be more effective in cultivating compassion, healing, and hope with those we serve. Learning Objectives:
We recommend to attend this after "Trauma (healing) informed care: practical MI responses to triggers" Inspiring your team: MI infused leadership
Speakers: Melody Cole, Jenny Rodefeld Are you a leader that is invested in your team? Do you want to coach and develop your team members for success? Have you ever wondered how to infuse MI into your leadership style? Come to this interactive session to learn more about MI concepts and tools in leadership. We will touch upon topics such as coaching, performance-based conversations, and overall employee engagement. Practice putting your strengths as a leader into action using MI informed leadership! Learning Objectives:
We recommend to attend this after "Motivational interviewing in interprofessional practice" |
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8:00-8:45AM
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Breakfast and Registration Check-In
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8:45-10:00AM
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Keynote Presentation
Words Matter: Engaging Conversations to Reduce Stigma Speaker: Amy Shanahan Discover how authentic listening and thoughtful communication can transform conversations and foster meaningful change. Drawing from our collective experiences and professional insights, we will explore the pivotal role of empathy and self-discovery in reducing stigma and empowering individuals. Join us for an interactive session that exemplifies the profound impact of being truly heard. |
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10:15-11:45AM
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Breakout Session 1
Using MI to Facilitate Empathic Care for the "Tough Customer" Speaker: Alma Molino In sharing MI with others, I have observed that trainees often describe their understanding and use of MI in terms of specific technical components to promote immediate short-term change (e.g., asking "more open-ended questions" to "get" a "resistant" therapy client to do practice assignments), and less frequently reference the equally important relational components of MI, or MI spirit, MI tasks, or their specific rationale for using MI (e.g., to alleviate discord). In my proposed workshop, I will 1) provide a brief overview of both technical and relational components of MI, with comment on 2) common misconceptions about MI and 3) related concepts such as stages of change, and, using a fictional/composite case example of a “non-adherent” therapy client, 4) provide opportunities for participants to consider MI Spirit and tasks in their decision to use or not use MI, as well as to 5) practice MI skills in the context of a larger rationale for deliberately practicing MI in a directional manner, and in a way which supports a collaborative helping relationship which, over time, promotes client-centered change and growth. Learning Objectives:
Introduction to MI Coding: Advancing Learning by Breaking it Down!
Speaker: Sue EckMaahs "I got so much better at MI when I learned how to code!" This is a statement we hear again and again when introducing MI learners to the skill of MI coding (i.e., looking objectively at and for specific micro and global MI skills within in a specific MI session). This highly interactive workshop will introduce intermediate to advancing MI learners to the MITI (Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity tool), and provide introductory practice using the tool while listening to recorded MI sessions. The purpose of the course is not to learn how to become a skilled 'coder', but to use the knowledge of a coder to take your own skills to the next level! Learning Objectives:
Is My advice actually helping?! Rethinking our approach to support
Speaker: Amy Shanahan This workshop delves into the concept of psychological reactance, the natural human tendency to resist perceived threats to one's freedom and autonomy, particularly when receiving advice or suggestions. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of this phenomenon and its impact on helping relationships. The workshop will explore common communication roadblocks that inadvertently trigger reactance and equip participants with practical, Motivational Interviewing-aligned strategies for offering guidance in a way that fosters collaboration and acceptance. Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:
Genuineness as a Path to Compassion
Speaker: Shannon Woulfe Genuineness can create a path to compassion. Miller and Moyers (2021) identified Genuineness as one of the therapeutic skills commonly present for effective therapists. Within Motivational Interviewing (MI), genuine interactions can rapidly build rapport and establish a foundation for change. On the contrary, disingenuous (insincere or false) interactions may cause a therapeutic rupture, creating obstacles for care. This session is designed to better understand the impact of genuine interactions and how they may lead to compassionate connections. Through active exercises, presentation of information, and discussion, attendees will understand the relationship between genuineness and compassion along with learning about the impact of genuine interactions within therapeutic encounters. Further, practical approaches will be presented about how to maintain genuineness while providing MI - even through challenging situations. Within MI training, the positive impact of Genuineness is frequently overshadowed by the foundations of Sprit, Processes, and OARS. This presentation is intended to spotlight the benefits of genuineness and directly connect it to the spirit of Compassion. Learning Objectives:
Motivational Interviewing for African Americans: Cultural Responsiveness in Action
Speaker: Kenneth Ginlack This 90-minute interactive workshop explores the intersection of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and cultural responsiveness in working with African American clients. Grounded in the content from Kenneth Ginlack's guide Motivational Interviewing for African Americans, this session will help practitioners reflect on the impact of generational trauma, internalized oppression, and spiritual resilience in shaping client narratives and engagement. Attendees will be guided through culturally relevant MI strategies that foster connection, dignity, and trust. Through real-world examples, group exercises, and reflection, participants will build skills to deepen client motivation and promote healing through a culturally grounded MI lens. Learning Objectives:
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11:45AM-1:10PM
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Lunch Break (Lunch is on your own)
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1:10-1:40PM
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Group Activity
This after-lunch activity will bring all conference participants together to use our collective smarts and energy to flex our skills in responding to change talk. Led by keynote speaker, Ali Hall, this experience will enhance our skillfulness AND energize us for an afternoon of continued learning. |
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1:45-3:00PM
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Breakout Session 2
I took an MI workshop - now what?!; How to apply MI in your clinical sessions Speaker: Michelle Drapkin You've attended a Motivational Interviewing workshop, grasped the concepts, and felt inspired. And bridging the gap between theory and practice can be challenging. "I took an MI workshop - now what?!”" addresses this common challenge for all of us. In this workshop, we will focus on the practical application of MI tools and strategies in your clinical sessions. We'll move beyond basic concepts, tackling real-world scenarios, practicing together, and refining your ability and confidence to smoothly integrate the MI spirit, four tasks, and "change talk" tools into your daily practice. Learn how to confidently apply MI to enhance client engagement and drive meaningful change. Learning Objectives:
Meaningful Feedback & Coaching To Support Skill Development
Speaker: Rachel Galanter How can supervision be positive, strengths based, and hold people to high standards? This workshop supports supervisors and managers in expanding their abilities to develop the skills of staff and volunteers via feedback and coaching. Together we’ll explore multiple models of feedback, examine which would suit your team, identify effective communication to develop intrinsic motivation to change, and practice providing each other with positive and constructive feedback to develop familiarity and comfort. Research on MI shows sessions decreased sustain talk and discord, had a higher change talk/sustain talk ratio and greater self-efficacy for change when providers: use more MI-consistent responses (affirming, seeking collaboration, emphasizing autonomy); have fewer MI-inconsistent responses (confronting, arguing, persuading; show more MI-spirit—a warm empathic style; and maintained focus toward clear goal. How do we use the spirit of MI as we help others to develop their MI skills? Learning Objectives:
Using MI in engaging survivors of exploitation and trafficking
Speakers: Lauren Flunker, Kristin Radue This interactive workshop is for participants who want to engage and empower those who have experienced sexual exploitation or trafficking to break through the chains of coercion. The presenters invite you to learn about sexual exploitation and sex trafficking indicators and risk factors. This workshop will offer opportunities to explore how Motivational Interviewing can engage this population in a meaningful way to allow survivors to safely seek support and services. Through didactic lecture, small and large group practice, video and music, the instructors will offer ideas for supporting autonomy, partnering with survivors where they are, and develop compassion for survivors. What I have experienced is that people will default back to using closed questions when talking with victims of sexual violence, as they are typically withdrawn and slow to open up. This causes an experience that impacts the victims negatively and they shut down even more typically because they feel they are in an interrogation. Learning Objectives:
"But I Only Have 5 Minutes!": how to do the most good when time is short
Speaker: Ali Hall In this highly interactive session, we will focus on one of the top challenges helpers face: what to do with the little time we can spend with those we serve. We will consider and practice several short, valuable and intentional conversations that helpers can use immediately in their work. When time is short, you'll be glad you experienced this workshop. Learning Objectives:
MI & ME: Applying Motivational Interviewing to Ourselves for Growth and Self-Compassion
Speaker: Lisa Ardner As leaders, coaches, and individuals dedicated to the growth and transformation of others, we often invest our energy in supporting, guiding, and empowering those around us. Yet, we frequently neglect the most vital aspect of change: ourselves. MI & ME is an exploration of how we can use Motivational Interviewing (MI), a method designed to facilitate change in others, as a tool for self-reflection, emotional intelligence, and personal growth. Motivational Interviewing's core principles—compassion, curiosity, collaboration, and evocation—can be just as transformative when applied inwardly. MI & ME introduces a trauma-responsive and self-compassionate framework that allows individuals to engage in meaningful self-exploration, challenge self-limiting beliefs, and nurture a deeper sense of self-worth. Drawing from my experience as an MI trainer, therapist, and coach, I have witnessed a common struggle: practitioners, caregivers, and leaders often struggle to apply grace, curiosity, and support to themselves. MI & ME is an intentional practice of applying MI to oneself and enhancing self-compassion. Participants will gain tools to explore their own MI & ME conversations. Learning Objectives:
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3:15-4:30PM
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Breakout Session 3
MI Fidelity and Client Experience: An Effectiveness Study in Wisconsin Community Forensics Speakers: Janae Goodrich, Scott Caldwell In partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, evaluators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute conducted an evaluation of Motivational Interviewing with Community Forensics programs in Wisconsin. This comprehensive evaluation including measuring fidelity to MI among practitioners, conducting the Client Experience of Motivational Interviewing (CEMI) with clients receiving MI, conducting focus groups with clients to learn about their experience of MI, and reviewing relationships that may exist between client experiences, fidelity to MI, counselor/client demographics, and client outcomes. This presentation will include a discussion of the evaluation and the primary findings, with a focus on how this may be applicable to MI being conducted in a variety of settings. Learning Objectives:
Sustaining MI: Learning, Reinforcement, Coaching
Speaker: Samantha Feryance When individuals receive training in new skills it takes additional effort to apply newly acquired information to their daily practice. To prevent this information from slipping away, trainees can engage in deliberate practice, such as Motivational Interviewing Peer Learning Groups (MI PLG). This session reviews how to build a MI PLG with a discussion on lessons learned, suggestions on how to prepare, and agency collaboration. Incorporating Adult Learning Theory, we will share how to develop a professional learning environment that is in alignment with roles and builds on trainee expertise and experience. We will also explore how to utilize the MI Spirit and Four Tasks within a coaching or supervisory relationship. This modeling behavior helps employees that do not directly support clients incorporate MI into their day-to-day interactions. Learning Objectives:
Spirit Tank Daily Diagnostics: Keeping Your MI Practice Fueled
Speaker: Sarah Cameron, Yasyn Lee The 4th edition of the Miller & Rollnick's MI book says that the MI spirit is needed, even in "the midst of chaos" and that "without which technical skills are hallow." But what are we to do if we leave a conversation realizing our MI spirit left the building? How can we maybe check in each day on our spirit tanks, and aspire for more partnership, or more compassion, or more acceptance, or more empowerment next time? Just maybe, if we can get a better pulse on our spirit tanks, we can better reconcile those tough interactions after they occur. Maybe if we work toward keeping that music behind the words, we can fare better in a sometimes difficult human helping profession. Less burnout, more closure and aspirations for more MI spirit. In talking with other MI practitioners, this idea of MI spirit checks and growth has been the missing piece of truly embodying an MI way of being. Learning Objectives:
Motivational Interviewing with Peers
Speaker: Kris Kelly This interactive 90-minute workshop is designed for Peer Support Specialists, Recovery Coaches, and other helpers who already have foundational knowledge of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and want to sharpen their skills for real-world peer support settings. Participants will explore the deeper nuances of MI, revisit the spirit that guides it, and practice using complex reflections, affirmations, and change talk strategies with confidence. Through small group discussions, partner role plays, and scenario-based exercises, attendees will learn to integrate MI techniques into challenging peer support conversations, while maintaining a person-centered, recovery-oriented approach. Participants will leave with practical tools, renewed confidence, and a stronger connection between MI principles and peer values such as autonomy, mutuality, and empowerment. Learning Objectives:
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8:00-8:45AM
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Breakfast
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8:45-10:00AM
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Keynote Presentation
Cultivating Hope Speaker: Ali Hall Hope leads us to all kinds of good things, including better outcomes for ourselves, our organizations and those we serve. We know hope is deeply needed for our current and future well-being. Hope is a vital component of our psychological capital--and, it is personal, collective and contagious! This session will explore what hope is, what it's good for, how it relates specifically to Motivational Interviewing, and how we can access and cultivate it. We will engage in some brief self-explorations and small group discussions about various aspects of hope, and you will emerge feeling nourished, connected with others, and strengthened from the inside out. Learning Objectives: As a result of this session, participants will be able to identify
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10:15AM-12:00PM
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Rollicking Oars
During this much anticipated group training time, you’ll experience fast paced, highly engaging opportunities to grow your MI skills. Each group will be guided by four teams of MI trainers who will take you on an exciting ride to grow your skillful handling of change talk and sustain talk. When you leave, you’ll feel even more confident in your application of skills to the technical aspect of MI: You’ll have composed different responses to change talk and sustain talk, compared the power of various strategies for eliciting change talk and softening sustain talk and recognize the different ways change and sustain show up in what clients say. As a bonus you’ll have a strong bond with other MI learners! |
Details
This conference will be held at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Pre-Conference
Thursday, August 7-Friday, August 8, 2025 Conference
Learning Objectives:
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Pre-Conference
Thursday, August 7-Friday, August 8, 2025 Conference
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the purpose, benefits and limitations of MI
- Identify key concepts, attitudes, processes, skills and strategies of MI
- Identify best practices for using MI across professions
- Describe how MI can be used as part of an interprofessional team
- Plan how to incorporate MI skills into your professional practice
Who Should Attend
The conference is for any helping professional who works directly with clients who are reluctant to change their attitudes, behaviors and/or thoughts. This training experience should be helpful for participants who have never learned about MI, have forgotten what they learned about MI or want a good review in order to recommit to this evidence based practice. It is designed for those who want beginning to advancing professionals working across the United States, including but not limited to:
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Testimonials
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“I believe that Motivational Interviewing has to be both taught AND caught. This conference delivered both of these experiences at a very high level that was informational, fun, and challenging.” -Scott Stoner, therapist/executive director “The MI conference rejuvenated my passion for client-centered care and belief in the client’s ability to change. The conference included professionals who were able to articulate and model amazing use of MI skills.” -Lauren Hollie, social worker |
“The 2023 Motivational Interviewing Conference was a transformative experience, especially as an aspiring medical student. Learning to engage and evoke self-awareness, bridge collaboration, and empower individuals was crucial in the clinical context. The emphasis on compassion, affirmation, and reflective statements provided tools to strengthen motivation, guide positive change, and align values. This conference has reshaped my approach, equipping me to connect empathetically and effectively as I work towards becoming a medical professional.” -Venkata Reshma Alla, pre-med student “This [conference] course provided practical skills to integrate MI into leadership conversations. I have a better handle on the theories that intersect with MI in leadership and practical skills to begin using.” -Leah Voigt Potter, clinical administrator |
Highlights
Keynote Speakers
Ali Hall
Ali Hall is a member of the Motivational Interview
ing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali currently serves as a Director Emeritus from the MINT Board of Directors where she focuses on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers.
Ali has designed and facilitated thousands of Motivational Interviewing (MI) workshops for a wide variety of providers, including those who serve within behavioral health, substance use recovery, mental health, health care, child and family, wraparound, senior service, and criminal justice systems. Ali also provides training for trainers in several evidence-based practices. Ali regularly provides skill development coaching for interdisciplinary provider teams. Ali is the co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA), a coding and coaching tool for MI skill improvement, co-author of the book Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skill Development (2021) and co-author of the forthcoming What’s the Problem? An Advanced Guide to Motivational Interviewing (2025).
You can read her full bio and find the link to her training website here.
Amy Shanahan
Amy Shanahan brings 3+ decades of experience in behavioral healthcare to her work as owner of Compass Consulting & Training. Her passion lies in fostering learning and growth, specializing in Motivational Interviewing (MI) training for diverse healthcare professionals. Amy’s background includes system-wide project leadership and a Master of Science in Creativity, enhancing her ability to facilitate engaging workshops and trainings in problem-solving, leadership, and team coaching. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2016, Amy creates dynamic learning environments that empower individuals and organizations to achieve their change goals.
Get to know Amy via Motivational Interviewing Podcast – Lions, Tigers, Bears-MI!
Amy Shanahan brings 3+ decades of experience in behavioral healthcare to her work as owner of Compass Consulting & Training. Her passion lies in fostering learning and growth, specializing in Motivational Interviewing (MI) training for diverse healthcare professionals. Amy’s background includes system-wide project leadership and a Master of Science in Creativity, enhancing her ability to facilitate engaging workshops and trainings in problem-solving, leadership, and team coaching. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers since 2016, Amy creates dynamic learning environments that empower individuals and organizations to achieve their change goals.
Get to know Amy via Motivational Interviewing Podcast – Lions, Tigers, Bears-MI!
Registration Information
Cost:
Value |
Price before June 16 |
Price after June 16 |
Pre-Conference |
$225 |
$250 |
Conference |
$300 |
$350 |
Pre-Conference and Conference Bundle |
$400 |
$450 |
Cancellation policy:
A full refund will be issued to registered participants if the Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference is cancelled for any reason. If a participant wishes to cancel their registration for the Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference, it must be received in writing no later than July 15, 2025. A cancellation processing fee of $50.00 (or full registration amount, whichever is less) will be deducted from the refund. No exceptions. Registrants wishing to cancel may instead transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new registrant's details by July 19, 2025. Cancellations received after July 24, 2025, will not be refunded, or provided a voucher. You must cancel in advance of the conference. No refunds will be issued once the event has concluded, regardless of whether you participated in the event.
Registration Deadline: August 1, 2025
A full refund will be issued to registered participants if the Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference is cancelled for any reason. If a participant wishes to cancel their registration for the Great Lakes Motivational Interviewing Conference, it must be received in writing no later than July 15, 2025. A cancellation processing fee of $50.00 (or full registration amount, whichever is less) will be deducted from the refund. No exceptions. Registrants wishing to cancel may instead transfer their registration to someone else without penalty if they send a written request with the new registrant's details by July 19, 2025. Cancellations received after July 24, 2025, will not be refunded, or provided a voucher. You must cancel in advance of the conference. No refunds will be issued once the event has concluded, regardless of whether you participated in the event.
Registration Deadline: August 1, 2025
Meals:
Breakfast will be provided. All other meals will be on your own.
If you have any dietary restrictions, please email
Breakfast will be provided. All other meals will be on your own.
If you have any dietary restrictions, please email
Lodging
There will be a room block available at the Madison Concourse Hotel.
Follow this link to hotel passkey: https://reservations.travelclick.com/6388?groupID=4655582
Our room block will close for new reservations on July 18.
Follow this link to hotel passkey: https://reservations.travelclick.com/6388?groupID=4655582
Our room block will close for new reservations on July 18.
Continuing Education
Continuing education Units (CEUs) will be available, accredited by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education. The most amount of possible continuing education hours has not been calculated yet.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Continuing Education will email conference Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to the email address listed on participant’s registration. Participation will be verified and CEUs sent prior to September 1, 2025. Be sure to check-in at the in-person conference, to ensure the correct processing of your CEUs. CEUs are earned by participating in live sessions.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Continuing Education will email conference Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to the email address listed on participant’s registration. Participation will be verified and CEUs sent prior to September 1, 2025. Be sure to check-in at the in-person conference, to ensure the correct processing of your CEUs. CEUs are earned by participating in live sessions.
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