Online Learning with CCMI

What You’ll Learn This course is focused on building an understanding of the spirit of MI and developing core skills, including using OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries), responding to the way people talk about change, helping people to make Brief Action Plans, and understanding ‘resistance’. The course includes interactive exercises and 1-1 practice and feedback sessions with Motivational Interviewing professionals. About the Course Self-paced content: Complete the majority of the coursework at your own pace online. Practice and Feedback: Engage in 3 x 30-minute sessions with expert trainers to refine your skills. Ongoing support: For 12 weeks post-course, receive weekly emails with practical resources and skill prompts Completion time: The course takes approximately 16-18 hours to complete. You will have access to the course for 90 days from the start date. Start date: May 1st.   Register before April 15! Don’t miss out! The registration deadline is April 15, so sign up now to secure your spot.   If you have any questions about the course, feel free to email us at eLearning@centrecmi.ca — we're happy to help. Plus, we offer group discounts, so let us know if you're interested! Read more

Collaborative Screening is a framework for making health screenings more meaningful. It takes your screening process beyond routine data exchange to create the supportive, respectful conversations that are essential to person-centered care. The Collaborative Screening framework integrates concepts and skills from well-established methods for providing person-centered health care, including motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, and cultural humility. Using this framework supports you to reliably apply these methods to screening and follow-up conversations. This introductory course provides a high-level overview of collaborative screening, and equips learners to: Describe the purpose and process of collaborative screening. Describe the foundational principles for conducting a person-centred screening and follow-up conversation. Describe how to adapt a person-centred approach to different screening workflows. The course includes an interactive online learning module, a final assignment, and a one-on-one practice and feedback session with a CCMI practice facilitator.   The course takes approximately 60-90 minutes to complete, and you will have 30 days from enrollment. Read more

This self-paced online course mini course is designed for learners who already have a foundational motivational interviewing course and want to deepen their knowledge, skills, strategies. It focuses on strategies for developing a sense of ambivalence when a person doesn't see the discrepancy between their behaviour and their values or goals.    At CCMI, our skills-based training includes practice activities with opportunities to receive feedback from an experienced instructor. This course includes a written assignment with feedback as well as a live online practice and feedback session where you will meet with an instructor and have an opportunity to try on what you've learned.    Time commitment: 30-60 minutes self-paced online content including your written assignment, followed by a 30 min 1:1 practice and feedback session. You will have 30 days from enrollment to complete the course. Read more

Ready to evaluate motivational conversations? Provide feedback to others for skill enhancement? Elevate your self-reflection for improved skill? Let’s power up together!   The MICA is a valid and reliable rating instrument for assessing motivational conversations. The MICA relies on the principles, strategies and approach as presented in Miller & Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing texts, Third and Fourth Editions. The MICA allows users to evaluate a practitioner’s helping conversation, assess MI competence from a quality assurance perspective, and provide a quality improvement process to move from beginning use of MI to proficient demonstration. Ultimately, MICA’s goal is to provide professionals with easily digestible, structured and specific feedback regarding their effort to use MI with those they serve.   The Complete Foundations training will introduce participants to the MICA’s 2 strategies and 5 intentions, plus provide multiple opportunities to rate motivational conversations using the MICA. And you will receive 12 follow up skill enhancement emails—one weekly after course completion to support practice integration. From this thorough foundation, you will be able to decide for yourself, your organization and/or your system of care whether and how to implement the MICA into your essential evaluation and skill development processes.   Registration open: until May 9, 2025 Capacity: 20 people (first-come, first-serve) This training will be held virtually, as a series of 4 webinars (total 12 hours) June 9 @ 8:30 - 11:30 am PDT June 10 @ 8:30 - 11:30 am PDT June 16 @ 8:30 - 11:30 am PDT June 17 @ 8:30 - 11:30 am PDT   This course requires full registration to proceed. If the course is not filled by May 9, 2025, it will be cancelled or rescheduled and anyone who has registered will be contacted and issued a full refund.  Read more

This brief online course is designed to offer a small taste of the foundational concepts of motivational interviewing (MI). It includes the definition of MI, an overview of the spirit of MI, and a description of a range of styles for interacting with a person.    Read more

This course offers a brief introduction to the common principles of trauma-informed care (TIC), cultural safety (CS), person- and family-centred care (PFCC), and motivational interviewing (MI). We estimate that the course takes 2-3 hours to complete, including practice and application activities. You will have access to the course for 60 days from enrollment.    You may choose to work through this course on your own or with a partner or a group. Having a partner or a group can be helpful for generating feedback and ideas for how to apply what you are learning to your specific situation. It will also give you an opportunity to practice new things before you try them out in real life.    Note: This course is focused on common principles of these approaches. Aside from providing brief definitions of each approach, this course does not provide in-depth training in any approach. Links to additional resources are provided for those who want to learn more.    Prerequisites: None. An introductory knowledge of TIC, CS, PFCC, and MI is helpful, but not required.    Please note that this course is in beta testing. As a beta tester, you would be one of the first people (outside of the development team) to take this course. Any feedback you have to offer will be taken under consideration for revisions before the course is marketed to a broader audience.  Read more