Brief Action Planning Online Course
3-5 hours self-paced online content, followed by 2 x 30-minute practice and feedback sessions. Learners have 60 days from enrollment to complete.
Appropriate for a wide range of professionals and peer helpers.
What You’ll Learn
What Learners Are Saying
Great course!
Thank you so much for the opportunity to take this course. I feel it was structured and delivered extremely well and I am really happy I took it. I’m looking forward to using BAP in my practice and sharing what I have learned with my team.
Thank you!
This course is very well done – the information is very clear, the exercises are very helpful, and the handouts are very useful. Thank you!
Great BAP course
It’s very dynamic and clear for the students. I love it.
Excellent course
Excellent content, easy to access the course, and the material supports me directly same as with workshops delivered in person or webinar format
Loved the Practice Sessions
I liked the practice sessions! The facilitator was amazing. Practicing this really allowed me to understand the purpose of BAP as well as how to effectively use BAP and set up SMART goals with clients. So far this has helped me communicate much better in my practice.
Varied Learning Methods
It was nice to have remote features of the program where you could complete it on your own time. You could also adjust the speed of videos or read CC instead of listening, which meets individual’s personal preferences and accessibility.
Effective Learning
Online format is great. Very easy to navigate and includes effective teaching and learning strategies.
Practical Blended Learning
The online platform and learning space was good. I liked that there was a blend of reading, video and learning activities on the different topics.
Great Information
The way the information was laid out was amazing, concise and printable for reference and use. The personal zoom meeting to practice was helpful too.
Liked the Interactive and Group Learning
We worked as a group to complete this program. I liked the group interaction and discussion components. I also liked the videos – they helped to see BAP in action.
Practical Application of Skills
The best thing for me was how you got to role-play, and actually use what you’ve learned and use it in a scenario.
Flexible Learning Format
I like that the modules were provided to us to go through on our own time and then we were able to apply the knowledge from them over a call.
Applying the Learning
I loved the ability to go through the training and have the 1:1, then a week in between to try and apply it to my job before having the last 1:1.
Great Course
Information was provided in a clear manner and the ability to practice with a facilitator.
Organized Learning
Number and clarity of the resources if fascinating. The organization of the BAP course activities was great. And I really enjoyed the opportunity to practice my skills on a timely basis.
Supportive Learning
I love how the course is designed, makes sense and supports learning.
Course Details
- 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
This is an interactive skills-based workshop that is designed for participants who want to consider practical applications for their work. CCMI uses learner-centred, performance-based approaches to adult education. The BAP online course includes:
- Learning activities that evoke understanding and build skills.
- Practice activities that increases practical understanding and allow trainers to provide constructive feedback.
Practice and feedback sessions are intended to increase trainee’s confidence and achieve proficiency in BAP skills. The course includes 2 x 30-minute 1-on-1 webinar sessions with a BAP trainer. The trainer role plays the part of a patient or client to give the learner an opportunity to practice their skills. Past experience has shown that most BAP trainees become skilled with 2-3 practice sessions. These sessions are the ideal preparation for BAP Certification. Additional group practice and feedback sessions are available.
Click here to view the Group BAP Practice and feedback schedule.
BAP certification demonstrates a trainee’s competence in BAP skills through an exam in the format of a structured and recorded interaction with a CCMI Standardized Patient. The exam is scored by a coder using a standardized rating scale. The rating scale emphasizes conversational tone, flow of the interaction and adherence to the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing in addition to demonstration of BAP skills.
Click here to view the BAP certification schedule.