Macro Motivational Interviewing

Special Topics in MI Series Presents:

Macro Motivational Interviewing:

Utilizing the Spirit of MI to Contextualize Clients Within Systems of Oppression and Supportive Community Environments

Do you work with clients that are harmed by oppressive systems?
Do you want to increase your skills around discussing potential systems that harm your clients' experience?
Do you want to increase your comfort engaging in meaningful cultural conversations with your clients?
Are you interested in empowering clients to identify and utilize existing community resiliency resources?

We traditionally think about Motivational Interviewing as a conversation style used with clients or in groups (micro applications). Did you know MI can also be applied within systems? That is macro MI!

This 2-hour workshop will provide attendees with a foundational understanding of Macro MI, with a focus on the utilization of the Spirit of MI to understand a client’s systems experience.

The workshop facilitators will discuss the way in which providers can contextualize themselves within their communities and larger systems, and use this understanding to better assess a client’s system experience. Attendees will learn concrete assessment skills that enhance their understanding of a client’s day-to-day experience of culture, systems currently harming the client, and potential and existing communities of resiliency.

Who Can Register?

Any helping professional interested in learning more about macro Motivational Interviewing! Even though the course may be best suited for those who are already familiar with the basics of Motivational Interviewing, all are welcome to register.

After completing in this course, learners will be able to:

Describe three elements of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological model as it applies to a vignette to better understand client systems experience
List three empowerment advocacy questions
Identify two cultural assessment questions to use with clients

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Speaker Bios:

Sarah Solis, LCSW

Director of Seeds of Change Consulting, Sarah Solis LCSW, has 20 years of experience providing care to clients impacted by trauma. She is currently employed as a Clinical Case Manager at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sarah acts as the Team Lead of a multidisciplinary group of providers supporting unhoused or tenuously housed Veterans who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness, substance use disorder, complex medical needs, and/or low social support. Sarah has worked in corrections, community mental health outpatient and day treatment programs, and community-based services for children and families. Sarah has acted as a direct service provider, clinical supervisor, and worked as a program manager for many years. Sarah also taught Motivational Interviewing to social work graduate students at the University of the Pacific.

Salina Harrigan Thornton, LCSW

Salina has been providing compassionate care as a social worker within her community for more than 20 years. She has nearly 10 years of experience working with youth in foster care. It was during that time that she earned a Master of Social Work degree and several years later, earning her licensed in clinical social worker (LCSW). Salina eventually transitioned into medical and hospice social work and found her passion in Death and Dying and End-of-Life planning. Salina has also provided social work services to homeless Veterans and probation youth 12-18 y.o. Aside from her enthusiastic personality and inclusive nature, Salina displays a unique understanding of how trauma affects individuals and their families. She has continued her work within her community by acting as a board member for a local non-profit that provides mentorship services to foster youth and provides Motivational Interviewing (MI) education to community providers to ensure the best possible care to clients. Salina was also an educator for first year Master of Social Work students as an Adjunct Professor at California State University, East Bay for 5 years.

Jess Sneed

Jess Sneed (they/them) is a Motivational Interviewing trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer with experience developing and delivering behavior change training and curricula for behavioral and mental health startups.

Jess graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Jess is a passionate helper who takes a holistic, trauma-informed approach to helping folks make changes in their lives.

They became a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers in 2022 and have been working with a group of MINTies to uncover and define this new horizon with MI called Macro MI. Since beginning this work, Jess has co-facilitated several presentations and is excited to continue co-creating and training Macro.

Continuing Education

MI Center for Change has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7223. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. MI Center for Change is solely responsible for all aspects of the program

MI Center for Change is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MI Center for Change maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

MI Center for Change maintains responsibility for this program and its content. MI Center for Change #1911, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval periods (8/20/25-8/20/28).

All trainers at MI Center for Change are members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. Click on the logo to check out the MINT website for more info on the MINT!

Regarding other licensures and certifications, you will be provided with a certificate of completion at course completion, with total course hours, objectives, and trainer bio for submission to your licensure board.

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Course Objectives

Course Syllabus

Describe three elements of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological model as it applies to a vignette to better understand client systems experience
List three empowerment advocacy questions
Identify two cultural assessment questions to use with clients

What Continuing Education is available?

Receive a certificate for 2 hour of CE for completing this course!

For CE, you must watch the video, score a passing grade on the quiz and complete the end of course evaluation.
We do not provide CE certificate for partial completion.
Following learning session and completion of End of Course evaluation, participants will receive an email with their downloadable CE certificate with 48 hours.

This course is approved by the following continuing education listed above, or you can view our course syllabus for more details.
Does your board not accept CE from any of our continuing education providers? Upon workshop completion, you will receive a certificate of 2 hours of CE, and we will provide trainer bio and workshop objects to turn in to your board along with your certificate of completion.

Check out our complete List of CE Approvals here. Those not mentioned in the course syllabus do not apply to this course. MI Center for Change maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Please email admin@micenterforchange.com if you have any questions or concerns.

Will I keep my access to the materials?

You will have access for 30 days starting on the purchase date. All of the downloadable materials are yours to keep!

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2 Hour Course

Macro Motivational Interviewing

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