October 24, 2024:  Longtime collaborator Chris Wagner and I completed training on MI groups  in collaboration with MINT member Hillary Bolter!  We had a fantastic group of trainees participating from all over the world who learned MI Groups skills. https://www.micenterforchange.com/motivational_interviewing_in_groups. 

July 2024:  Chris Wagner and I provided a full day workshop for a talented group of MI Group learners from all over the state of Virginia and beyond, at this year’s Virginia Summer Institute for Addiction Studies, VSIAS, in Williamsburg, VA.  We were so impressed with the learners’ skills in MI Groups and their staying power across a long day!  Thanks for having us.  Special thanks to VSIAS leadership, especially Cathy Reiner.   We hope to see you at VSIAS again!

OLDER: Chris Wagner and I have developed a suite of training options to help you learn how to do MI in groups.  Our book on MI in groups is available now!  We have a  website devoted to MI in Groups— please visit us at www.motivationalinterviewinggroups.com!  In the meantime, if you are interested in MI groups training, please contact us at: MIinGroups@gmail.com.  We will be happy to arrange a free initial telephone consultation at your convenience.

The Summer of 2013 was a big MI Groups training festival. Chris and I completed an MI in Groups workshop in June in Sheffield, U.K with our dear colleagues Joel Porter, who was our co-trainer, and hosts Jeff Breckon and Judith Carpenter. Additionally, we provided a one day MI training for National Health Service partners of Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, U.K. with our amazing friend and colleague Fiona McMaster. We went to Detroit and trained with friends and colleagues Sylvie Naar, Katie Brogan, Bob Kender, and Nikki Cockern with their dynamic team members, and enjoyed seeing Cristiana Fortini come all the way from Switzerland to be with us there as well.

January 2013: I provided a  4 day group leadership training in New York City  for peer counselors in the T-girls project to reduce risk behaviors among transgendered women at risk for HIV went beautifully. It may have been the best solo training I’ve ever delivered, mostly due to the amazing, smart, open, and dedicated trainees.

While the CHOICES intervention has components outside of MI, it is a variant of an MI Group. Want to learn to do CHOICES in a group? Contact me to discuss it at kareningersoll@gmail.com.