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PRIME Solutions®: Level II Training Agenda

June 11-12, 2014

Day One

9:00 am Refining Listening Skills

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion: MI Back to Basics
  • Practice 1: Deepening Reflections

Break

  • Key Concepts for Discussion –Guiding principles for groups
  • Practice 2: Reflections in Groups
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Deciding My Path
  • This Is Who I Am
  • Finding the Fire Within
  • Getting Off the Seesaw

12:00pm-12:45pm / Lunch (Provided) / Ballroom A

Engaging Clients in the Session

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion – Three foundational skills of MI: OAS
  • Practice Skills 1 – Affirmations
  • Key Concepts - 20 minutes – Engagement as a first step
  • Practice Activity 2 – Engaging a group, Solutions Style
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Tools for Change
  • Craving Cue Cards
  • Listening for the Wolf
  • My Formula
  • My Top Ten

Break

Working with Change Talk

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion – Directional aspect of MI: Change Talk
  • Practice Activity 1 – Checks for Change
  • Key Concepts
  • Broaden and build
  • Practice Activity 2 – Envisioning Success with Solutions
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Tools for Change
  • Use 3-2-1-0 Support
  • Change It or Leave It
  • Choose It Again

5:00 Homework and closing Day One

Day Two

9:00 Managing Tools & Activities

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion - Offering information
  • Practice Activity 1 – Offer Information

Break

  • Key Concepts for Discussion – Integrating activities into sessions
  • Practice Activity – Workbook Activity Page 19, Page 22
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Tools for Change
  • Delay, Distract, Decide
  • I Am Powerful
  • Never Again, Imagine Success

12:00pm-12:45pm / Lunch (Provided) / Ballroom A

Shaping Conversations

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion - Shaping group conversations: purposes, basicsand advanced skills
  • Practice Activity 1 – Accelerating
  • Practice Activity2 – Broadening
  • Practice Activity 3 – How People Make Changes
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Tools for Change
  • Stay on Message
  • Reward Myself
  • See, Feel, Think, Do

Break

Defusing Dissent

  • Check-in, assigned reading and activity
  • Key Concepts for Discussion – Techniques for Defusing Dissent
  • Practice Activity 1 – Your Clients Dissent and Status Quo Statements
  • Key Concepts for Discussion (15 Minutes) – Transformingdissent into openness to change
  • Practice Activity 2 – Dissent in the group 20 minutes
  • Looking Forward – 35 minutes
  • Participant Review of Session Topics: Taking Flight – 25 minutes
  • Beyond Myself - Images 1 - 10
  • Beyond Myself - Images 11 - 19
  • Farewell to a Friend
  • Rewired for Pleasure
  • Posttest

5:00 pm Closing Day Two