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Motivational Interviewing with MPFT and Insight Academy, May 2024, "You are making a real difference to my practice."


Greetings one and all,

Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working closely with staff from the NHS’s MPFT (Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.) This was commissioned via Stoke on Trent’s very own Expert Citizens Insight Academy - my home away from home if you like.  The first development opportunity that I delivered to their social care staff was my ‘Inspiring Change’ Motivational Interviewing course.  As with all of my course, this was created specifically for the staff from the NHS and includes scenarios that are specific to their needs. This includes physical ill health along with mental health issues and disguise compliance with regard to medication regimes. 

Feedback ranged from:


“Thank so much for today, your training was brilliant!”


to,


“Really informative training. Full training days can be tedious, this one was nothing like that. Steven engaged everyone, it felt fully interactive and wasn’t simply delivering of information. The time went really fast and I really felt that what we did will be very useful to me in my practice. Thankyou 😊.” 


As you can imagine, I was rather chuffed by that feedback. I’m not going to bang on about how brilliant I am (you can sigh with relief) I’ll just leave these two pieces of feedback here for you, safe in the knowledge that people are aware of how good I am and what a difference the training is making to social work practice.


“The session was enlightening and I really enjoyed the session.  You are making a real difference to my practice Steven and I wish you had been my tutor at my first university.  I learned more in a day from you than I learned in a year there!”


“I just wanted to extend a personal thank you for the training yesterday, it was really engaging and, in my opinion, a great example of how online training can still be interactive and experiential for learners. I thoroughly enjoyed the session in general but also learning more about motivational interviewing. I would be very keen to understand what other training you offer around this either with MPFT or privately.”


“Thanks for another excellent training session.”

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