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Paul Burke Training & Consulting Group is a learning organization . We are a growing team of highly experienced clinicians, adult-educators, curriculum design professionals and organizational learning consultants who support each other in the pursuit of excellence in how we work as MI Trainers. We also help others to learn to teach and practice MI. Together, we are an ever-growing group of trainers and consultants who provide an easy-access touchstone in Canada for "whatever-it-takes support" for the learning of Motivational Interviewing. We work to embrace the spirit and complexity within the art and science of MI and to model and translate it for learners. The way we work helps learners to hold the essence of MI - even while they are learning it! We develop and provide customized training approaches for MI applications in concurrent disorders treatment (mental health and addicitions), tobacco cessation, problem gambling treatment, health interventions and patient education, and chronic condition self-management. And - training is just the "front-end" of what we offer!
Our East Coast (Canada) Tour Starts on April 5th!
We're offering 3 of our most in-demand courses in three Maritime provinces this April. See below for details!
We Help Organizations Learn-How-To-Learn MI!
In addition to a comprehensive line-up of introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in M.I., we specialize in helping larger organizations develop cost-effective, self-sustaining and self-perpetuating "learning systems" for the promotion and practice of Motivational Interviewing. Helping organizations "learn how to learn" MI is all about what we do – and it is all about how we do it. A key function of our multidisciplinary team involves helping organizations develop practical approaches to coach for ongoing MI practice. We know that helping people learn MI requires planning well "beyond training". Our emphasis is helping launch "communities of learning" where the emphasis becomes, after training, workplace-based practice and follow up. In this way, we go beyond training, to approach learning in a whole new light. That is not just our slogan - it is our mission.
Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating with people and guiding them as they construct and strengthen their motivation for positive change: It's all about what we do; It's all about how we do it.
Motivational Interviewing is a way of communicating. We not only teach the skill, but we employ it in our training methods. In addition, our trainers are noted for their interactive, entertaining, humorous and creative approaches to facilitating learning.
We offer a highly regarded series of introductory and advanced level MI courses for counsellors, social workers, corrections personnel, health educators, addictions professionals, psychologists and clergy.
The course lineup includes the full range of MI learning, from an introduction to foundation concepts to advanced level practice and skills enhancement workshops that include coaching and feedback to improve MI fidelity.
Beyond Training
Attending workshops and being trained are not the same thing. We know that people get some solid exposure to MI through participating in workshops. After that, they need to develop a plan for how they will integrate that new learning into skills training and practice.
There are three interacting dimensions of competency development:
1) initial concept/practice expsoure (workshops)
2) skills rehearsal and training via regular workplace-based practice (training)
3) coaching and feedback on practice performance (supervision and peer coaching).
Thus, in addition to our regular 
series of courses, we specialize designing cost-effective sustainable learning systems for agencies wishing to implement the practice and ongoing training of Motivational interviewing within their own organizations.
These custom-designed systems enable learner agencies to become effective "learning organizations" by using the organization itself as a part of the process of learning M.I. Not only is it the most effective way to get great outcomes in staff development, it is the most cost-effective way to go about it as well!
Our East Coast Tour Starts April 5th!
We're offering 3 of our most in-demand courses in three Maritime provinces this April. Call or e-mail us to receive more information or to register for...
Foundations in Motivational Interviewing
- -Halifax, April 5-6 (9-4:30pm) & April 7 (9-noon)
- -St. John's, April 19-20 (9-4:30 pm) & April 21 (9-noon)
- -Moncton, April 26-27 (9-4:30) & April 28 (9-noon)
"MI Aerobics" (Advanced Skills in Motivational Interviewing)
-Halifax, April 7 (1-4:30pm) & April 8-9 (9-4:30)
-St. John's, April 21 (1-4:30pm) & April 22-23 (9-4:30)
-Moncton: April 28 (1:00-4:30pm) & April 29-30 (9-4:30)
"How M.I. Am I?" Self-Assessment, Coding & Peer Coaching in MI Practice)
-Halifax, April 12-14, 9-4:30 each day
Registration is available on a first come-first served basis. Tuition is $450 (plus GST) if confirmed by Feb. 12, 2010 and $575 (plus GST) if confirmed after Feb 12, 2010. Full refunds available until Feb. 15, 2010. After Feb. 15 refunds minus a $75 cancellation admin fee apply. Tuition is fully transferable.
TRAINER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN ONTARIO
(Right to left in photo) Paul Burke (BC) and Tim Godden (Ontario) co-facilitated a TNT event (Training for New Trainers) in Toronto with Denise Ernst (Oregon) and Carolina Yahne (New Mexico). The event was sponsored by CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). At at the graduation we welcomed more than 30 new trainers into the MINT organization! Paul had previous professional associations with several of the crew at the CAMH event so it was a good time to reflect on "the good ol' days" (whenever that was!) If you are interested in learning more about our trainers mentorship program, please contact us.
New Publication On: Relevance of MI with Survivors of Partner Violence: 
Paul recently co-authored a journal article ("Guiding as Practice: Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Informed Work With Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence") with 8 MI colleagues from the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). You can download a pdf copy for free from the journal "Partner Violence" at http://www.springerpub.com/default.aspx?pid=130&issn=1946-6560 Feel free to call or e-mail us with questions or comments on the article.
Paul Burke Training & Consulting Group are proud to be sponsors of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) national conference: "Issues of Substance"(Halifax, Nova Scotia)
If you work in tobacco cessation with hard-to-reach male smokers you may be interested in our article "The Development of a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Hard-to-Reach Multiple Substance Abusing Males: A Comic Book as the Central Component" (Gordon Munro, Brenda Munro & Paul Burke). You can obtain it from the International Journal of Diversity, Organisations, Communities and Nations at ijd.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.29/prod.586
