"By far the best training I've been on so far." Motivational Interviewing for Adult Social care via Expert Citizens Insight Academy, March 2025

Greetings one and all,
This week I had the pleasure of delivering my Adult Social Care specific ‘Inspiring Change’ Motivational Interviewing training to a cohort of learners from across the Social Work Learning Academy. This mixture of learners from across MPFT, Stoke on Trent City Council and Staffordshire County Council were exemplary learners. I absolutely loved being in their company and as you can see from the feedback, they all really appreciated the work I’ve put into making the course applicable to their learning needs.
The course was commissioned by MPFT via Expert Citizens Insight Academy, who have given me so many wonderful opportunities over the last few years.
This newly updated version of the course now includes mental health specific scenarios and also an array of hands-on learning tools to better equip the learners to embed the learning.
A smattering of the learner feedback comments is below and as you can see, it was all rather brilliant!
“The training will definitely enhance my practice. It will aid me in relationship building and building trust.”
“Lovely Training, I enjoyed the Methods Steve employs in his teaching, makes it very friendly, relatable, wish all trainings would adopt this method. Most importantly Steve uses activities-based method to get everyone involved.”
“Excellent training as always, really enjoyable and informative, really good involvement of the group which made the training really engaging.”
“Very engaging training! ☺️ reflecting on my practice and will be incorporating within all practice going forward.”
“Fabulous training, really enjoyable and engaging. 10/10 as always! Thank you, lots of new skills to put into practice :)”
“I thought the training was excellent, very engaging and funny - by far the best training I've been on so far 🙂 -- a lot to take away from today in terms of how to convey my approach with service users!”
“The training has been very informative and inclusive. You make it engaging which means it’s a lot more likely I will take the information in fully 🙂.”
“I have enjoyed the training, very informative and a lot of take aways from the training. Thank you Steve I really enjoyed the training.”
“Love how you involve all participants in your training. Makes it far more enjoyable and easier to relate to practice.”