Workplace counseling and Motivational Interview is a therapy program offered to employees of a company, often through an employee assistance program, that provides employees with a safe place to discuss any issues that they’re struggling with.

Quality of the para-counselors, the key personnel of this program can impact the success of a healthy work environment.

Therefore, ECDL is offering a three-month long training program on “Workplace counseling and Motivational interviewing” particularly to the para-counselors, and other workplace counselors around this country.

Outline:

1. Introduction to Counselling and Motivational Interview (MI)

• What is mental health counselling?
• What is Motivational Interview (MI)?
• Guidance, para-counselling, and counselling

2. Personal and professional Aspects of Counselling and Motivational Interview

• Negative motivators, personal qualities of an effective counsellor
• Structure, Initiative and Physical Setting of Counselling

3. Counselling and Motivational Interview Micro Skills

• Rapport
• Active Listening
• Multimodality Probing Accent
• Questioning skills
  • Open-ended
  • Close-ended
  • Leading
• Request for clarification
• Restatement
• Reflection of feeling
• Summary of feelings
• Acknowledgement of Nonverbal behavior
• SOLER
• Helpful and Non-helpful behavior
• Transference
• Counter transferance
• Termination
• Follow-up
• Referral

4. Counsellors attitude

• Non judge mentality
• Acceptance
• Empathy
• Congruence

5. Intervention technique

• Breathing Relaxation techniques
• Anxiety and Stress management
• Depression management and Suicide Prevention
• Healthy lifestyle
• Reactions to stress
• Time management

6. Self-empowerment

• Assertiveness
• Body Scan
• Empowerment
  • Verbal
  • Non-verbal
• Body Boundary
• Saying No
• Nonviolent Communication
• Mindfulness
• Grievance Management

7. Assessment

• Online test
• Session conduction videos on intervention issues