Online Learning with CCMI

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

The MI Beyond Foundations mini courses are designed for learners who want to deepen their Motivational Interviewing (MI) knowledge, skills, strategies. Each mini course focuses on one concept and is designed with practical application in mind.   Supporting a person's autonomy is an important part of MI. It can be difficult to determine what that looks like in situations where risk is involved. This mini course focuses on how to: Identify risk Distinguish between tolerable and intolerable risk Examine your role in relation to risk Respond to risk in MI-consistent ways   At CCMI, our skills-based training includes practice activities with opportunities to receive feedback from an experienced instructor. This course includes a written assignment and 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: 45-90 minutes self-paced online content, followed by a 30 min 1:1 practice and feedback session. 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 exploring values in an MI conversation, which can help to understand behaviour, prompt consideration of alternate behaviours, deepen motivation, and support sustained change.    Discussions about values can deepen a person’s motivation to change by helping them to focus on what they want in life and who they want to be. This mini course focuses on how to: Define values. Understand the role of values in conversations about change. Identify values in a conversation about change. Demonstrate how to incorporate a person’s values into a conversation about change.   At CCMI, our skills-based training includes practice activities with opportunities to receive feedback from an experienced instructor. This course includes 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: 45-90 minutes self-paced online content, followed by a 30 min 1:1 practice and feedback session. You will have 30 days from enrollment to complete the course. 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 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.  Once you have registered, you will have access to the course for 30 days.    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). 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.  Read more