Our Background in Motivational Interviewing - based Approaches.

All ignition Associates who are involved with delivery of Forensic Motivational Interviewing training and Motivational Interactions training come in a special flavour: MINTy. This means that they have attended one of the international training events led by Drs. Miller and Rollnick, the originators of Motivational Interviewing, and are members of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Each of them has many years experience in the use and training of M.I., across a variety of settings, ranging from work with survivors and perpetrators of sexual or domestic abuse to substance misuse and critical incident counselling, in the public and voluntary sectors and private practice.

The training is skills focused and experiential in nature, clearly demonstrating how to operationalise the theories and concepts covered. There is an emphasis on skills practice and peer coaching and feedback to develop reflexivity in the use of the techniques. The training is also fun!

ignition has delivered training in Forensic Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Interactions to criminal justice staff internationally, such as for the Ministry of Justice in Estonia and Corrections Victoria in Australia. In the latter our training now forms “…the centrepiece of offender management training.”

ignition M.I.- based training is specifically adapted to forensic contexts where work is with coerced individuals, and provides an extremely effective approach for engaging offenders in the process of change. It is suitable for all staff:

• carrying a one-to-one caseload
• delivering group work programmes to all types of offenders, including sex offenders, domestic abusers or other special populations such as personality disordered
• working with particularly volatile groups such as young offenders

Some recent comments on ignition Forensic M.I. training:

“Exceptionally good. Able to put theory into practice in a comfortable and enabling way - excellent”

“Very supportive and engaging. Made Motivational Interviewing real by very skilled demonstrations”

“Super, super, excellent!”


Some recent comments on ignition Motivational Interactions training:

“Well done, perfect pitch for the audience. Good balance between theory and practice. Excellent job”.

“Excellent presenters, experts in their fields.”

“Facilitators were extremely professional, friendly & knew their material & presented it in a stimulating manner – thank you”

“This training is the best, most effective training I have done in my 4- 5 years of working for [private prison provider]."