"I would highly recommend Steven Talbot’s MI training." Motivational Interviewing with Staffordshire County Council, March 2026
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Hello all,
I think we all know that I absolutely love delivering my version of Motivational Interviewing (MI) training, which is call ‘Inspiring Change’ because after all, that’s what it’s all about. This evidence-based approach to overcoming ambivalence has had a dramatic effect on both me and the people that I’ve worked with. I have been motivationally interviewing for many, many years now – far too many to write about on here, it’ll age me terribly! What I have always done is keep abreast of the research and the changes in MI. Plus, as I still retain a small caseload of people that I support, be that with compulsive hoarding, living with bipolar etc. I can see for myself what a humanistic approach to support can bring about. Real life change that lasts.
This week I had the pleasure of delivering my course to an array of staff from Staffordshire County Council. Every one of them was UP for the training. They threw themselves into each task and they laughed, they learned and they said how they were going to put what they had learned into practice.
Below is the collated feedback from the course and I think you can all see that it is still just as popular and staff are taking a great deal from the training:
“This was very engaging, informative and interactive. I would highly recommend Steven Talbot’s MI training and more to the point, I really enjoyed it!”
“Thank you so much this training session was very interesting, and I gained so much useful skills that I can use in my everyday practice. More training like this please!”
“Thank you for the training. Really helped me to re-think and re-frame some of my responses to the families and children I work with. I definitely need to keep practising. Excellent.”
“The training has been brilliant - great session, great engagement, great trainer, great interactive activities that REALLY get you to think. And I never checked my emails once. All in all - engaging!”
“Thank you for very insightful and interesting Motivational Interviewing training. I really feel like I now GET IT, whereas before I really didn’t. Seeing Steven actually doing MI and the difference it has made to people in Staffordshire is brilliant. I really enjoyed the interaction. Excellent, thank you!!”
“Everything was relevant to our practise, both interactive and engaging. I was worried about it being online, but instead I think I preferred it.”
“Fantastic training session, would highly recommend, I was engaged throughout - which is unheard of with me!”
“It is always a pleasure to be trained by Steven, great training session - very informative and interactive.”
“What can I say - FANTASTIC!! I would highly recommend this training to everyone at Staffs!”