Motivational Interviewing - Inspiring Change "The training delivered by Steven was exceptional."

Greetings loyal readers of my blog,
I recently had the absolute joy of training a cohort of learners from Staffordshire County Council. My very popular course, ‘Inspiring Change’ went down a storm. This two-day Motivational Interviewing (MI) course quips people with the skills to work with ambivalent people. Ambivalence keeps many people from making desired changes in their lives. Motivational Interviewing is a method that works on facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation within the customer in order to change behaviour.
Motivational Interviewing had a massive impact on how I worked with clients and I love that I now get to impart my knowledge to a new set of learners. Staffordshire has been fabulously supportive of my endeavours and I always find their learners massively motivated, eager and ready to learn. A huge thank you to both Hazel and Miranda who have been my rock in a storm on many, many occasions.
Would you like to see what the learners had to say about my course? Of course, you do, here you go:
1. “The course was very informative and was delivered in a very engaging and inclusive manner.”
2. “I found the session incredibly informative and gave me actual tools to you to improve my communication with the people I work with, that includes the families and children as well as professional colleagues. With a previous career in teaching, I was always aware of the importance of the words we use and how they can impact on a person, and this training gave me actual alternatives that I can use in tricky situations. As a student, we have covered some of this at university, however, I have to say, the training delivered by Steven was exceptional. While, I would have preferred the face-to-face session, I have to commend Steven as he managed to deliver high quality training over Zoom, and that is no easy feat. Overall, I am looking forward to putting this training into practice and am so pleased that we get access to Steven’s videos, so we can go back and watch how he had some of those trickier conversations. Thank you Steven and thank you Staffordshire Learning and Development Team for such a fantastic training opportunity!”
3. “This course was engaging and informative from the moment it started. Steve is an excellent trainer who brings everyone into the group and encourages active participation. The content was interesting and relevant and certainly makes you think about how to introduce these techniques into every day practice. The two-day sessions were set at the right pace and it allowed time for reflection and to gain an understanding. Thoroughly enjoyed the training and would not hesitate to join any other relevant courses that Steve provides for my area of business. Thank you Steve.”
4. “Thank you for a brilliant couple of days Steven.”
5. “Thank you for such a fantastic learning opportunity 😊 I really enjoyed it and am excited about putting it into practice.”
6. “Your approach and delivery of the course content was refreshing. Your honesty, openness, appropriate use of personal and professional vulnerability, and down to earth personality made for a brilliant two days. The interactive content helped me to keep on task, engaged and embed the learning intended from the course. Thank you for being you Steven – you are a wonderful man, making a wonderful difference and I look forward to seeing you in September for Trauma and change.”
7. “Thank you, Steven, for a fab 2 days, I have really enjoyed your training. I’m only 6 months into my role at Staffs and this has helped so much.”
8. “Thank you for making it an engaging and informative training session.”
9. “Thank you so much for the two-day training, it has been really enjoyable.”
10. “I have enjoyed my two days motivational interviewing training; I will be using the 6-stage process with families as I thought this was a good tool for young people and families to have as a visual to the changes that they want to make. I found Steven to be engaging and interested in getting us all involved in conversations and giving feedback to the group. Thank you for the training, I look forward to attending other course in the future.”
11. “This is such a fantastic course which I think would be amazing if was mandatory on my social prescribing training due to the high value the training brings. The positive difference it will make to my consultations is huge! Steven approach is very humanistic and humorous 😊 He’s an excellent trainer. I would 100% recommend to colleagues. I enjoyed the training and wished I had enrolled earlier. The training is of a very high standard and am delighted the training Hub offer this – thank you. The whole course is very engaging 10/10. “