
Motivational Interviewing - Fathers and Families
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How to:
- Engage fathers in early childhood goals
- Collaborate to achieve family goals like school readiness
- Create opportunities with fathers that make a lasting impact on families and positive outcomes​
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5-Webinar Training Series:
Motivational Interviewing to Engage and Support Fathers
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This 5-webinar series will address multiple challenging situations with families and demonstrate how specific Motivational Interviewing (MI) strategies help facilitate father engagement.
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Examples of using MI in the family context:
- How to collaboratively assess fathers’ roles in the family
and in caregiving
- Drawing out fathers’ motivations toward family
- Bridging the gap between fathers’ goals/values and
caregiving involvement
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Module 1: Understanding the roots of parent motivation, where motivation comes from, what makes for lasting motivation, and how to nurture fathers’ motivation and participation in the context of family
Module 2: Connecting caregiver behavior to personal/family values and goals related to child development
Module 3: Assessing caregiver readiness and increasing commitment to caregiver-child interaction
Module 4: Using the MI style of giving information and sharing concerns to increase caregiver buy-in, motivation, and commitment to engage in tasks related to goals like school readiness
Module 5: Using MI planning strategies to strengthen family/father commitment to reaching developmental milestones
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The 2-hour Webinars are live, interactive, and led by Karin Wilson, President of Theory to Action, a Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) Trainer for the past 20 years, along with a MINT co-trainer.
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A Certificate: Motivational Interviewing to Engage Fathers will be provided to registrants who complete all five modules.
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COST: $450 for the series
​Contact us for further information: info@theorytoaction.world
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Conference Presentations:
26th International Families and Fathers Conference 2025: April 8 – 11, Los Angeles
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Contact us for more information: info@theorytoaction.world
Tel: 831-204-3601