Brief Action Planning

This full-day workshop provides training in the core Brief Action Planning (BAP) principles and techniques. Core concepts included stepped care for self-management support and the spirit of motivational interviewing. The practical skills taught in this course are how to use ask-offer-ask to give information and advice and how to use BAP to help people make action plans that address the aspects of their health or situation that are most important to them. Includes two 30-minute practice and feedback sessions with an expert trainer. After this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define and describe self-management and self-management support.
• Understand and describe the spirit of MI.
• Name and describe each of the spirit’s four vital elements: compassion, acceptance, partnership, and evocation.
• Recognize the difference between three styles of helping interactions.
• Assess whether or not information or advice is being given within the spirit of MI.
• Describe each of the steps in ask-offer-ask, including “teach-back.”
• Assess an interaction to see how well ask-offer-ask was used.
• Know what the 3 questions and 5 skills of BAP are, and understand how to use them
• Role play Brief Action Planning in a Practice and Feedback call setting