Oppression, Privilege, and Motivational Interviewing: Utilizing MI for Systems Safety Planning
Mon, Jan 11
|Online Event


Time & Location
Jan 11, 2021, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Sarah Solis LCSW & Salina Harrigan LCSW
Training Description
This 6-hour training focuses on the experience of marginalized communities and the means of tailoring Motivational Interviewing to capture an at-risk youth’s experience of oppression. Trainees will identify aspects of their own privilege and use this to better enhance service provision/assess marginalization. The training will include practice of concrete Motivational Interviewing skills, such as readiness rulers, value cards, and OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries). The training will conclude with trainees practicing the facilitation of change plans that highlight the at-risk youth’s means of remaining safe in oppressive treatment systems. Learning will occur in small and large group. All skill levels welcome, prior Motivational Interviewing training helpful.
Learning Objective
Differentiate between sustain talk and the identification of oppression/structural violence
Identify aspects of their own privilege and use this to enhance service provision to marginalized individuals/communities