Brief Action Planning Workshop or Webinar:
Flexible Training Options
- Webinar: 4 x 90 minute webinars over 4 weeks (6 hours total)
- Workshop: 1 day (7 hrs) training
Includes two 30-minute practice and feedback sessions with expert trainers
Appropriate for a wide range of professionals and peer helpers
What You’ll Learn
This webinar series 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.
About the Course
- Practice and Feedback: Engage in 2 x 30-minute sessions with expert trainers to refine your skills.
- Progress updates: Sponsors receive regular participant progress reports.
- Capacity: This course can accommodate up to 24 learners per group.
What Learners Are Saying
Easy-to-follow course
The course was easy to follow, good reasoning for why methods are applied in the way they are, good demonstrations.
Love the interactive sessions
I liked the interactive sessions and the brevity of the intervention.
Simple approaches taught
I loved the simple approaches taught and how interactive the course was.
Very practical
It is a practical course. I can put it to use as soon as possible.
Beneficial course
It was a great course. I was not familiar with BAP prior to this workshop and I believe it was really beneficial.
Love the practical examples
I like the practical examples and flows of conversations from start to finish in supporting a plan – and knowing when a plan is ready to be made.
Very practical strategies with real examples
I like those very practical strategies with real life examples. I very much enjoyed the follow up 1:1 session with the facilitator and found it very valuable to discuss different strategies. I also bought the MI book she suggested that day and started reading it that evening! Thank you again!
Wonderful facilitator and useful tools
I appreciated the workshop being in-person, great facilitation, tools to use in real time.
Clear, straightforward course
The workshop material was very clear, straightforward, not complex. It has templates to guide us which is very helpful. It’s also nice that there were not too many templates! The facilitator was also very fun, engaging, had great energy, and made the information very easy to understand and agree with! The workbook was also wonderful. It was nice to have pictures, diagrams, and templates. 🙂
Well designed course
I liked the whole series of webinar and the content/tolls are designed and presented, it is helpful to work in mindful way by recognizing the autonomy of the client.
Love the facilitator and the learning environment
The facilitator was so great! She was engaging, supportive and created a great learning environment. I liked having time in break out rooms to connect with other colleagues, learn from them and practice BAP skills. I liked having the majority of participants in the field of speech therapy and early childhood health and development- it made the sessions feel more tangible and productive.
Very engaging course
Learning the tools, practicing them through “real” play was vary valuable. I liked having access to the course online, and having an opportunity for 1:1 coaching. Great presenter, very engaging.
Practice sessions are helpful
Very practical advice and tool for goal setting with clients. The practice sessions were helpful to apply the information.
Opportunity to practice the skills learnt
I like the opportunity to practice the skills in breakout rooms. The facilitator was supportive and encouraging.
Enjoyable content
I really enjoyed the content that was shared and the opportunities to put it into practice at each session.
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 webinar series includes:
- Learning activities that evoke understanding and build skills.
- Practice activities that increase practical understanding and allow trainers to provide constructive feedback.
- Facilitated discussions about how new skills and knowledge can be applied in learners work or volunteer setting.
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 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.
Brief Action Planning Online
3-5 hours self-paced online content
Includes two 30-minute practice and feedback sessions
For a wide range of professionals and peer helpers
Motivational Interviewing Foundations - Faculty Led
16-17.5 hours of training spread. Options for virtual or in-person.
Includes two 30-minute practice and feedback sessions
Appropriate for a wide range of professionals and peer helpers
More Brief Action Planning Training
Brief Action Planning (BAP) is a structured, evidence-based approach that guides people in setting SMART goals, assessing confidence, problem-solving, and planning follow-ups.
Choose from a variety of virtual and in-person training options
Frequently Asked Questions
Brief Action Planning is a self-management support approach to help people make action plans to address the aspects of their health or situation that are most important to them. It is practical and highly structured, and involves using an algorithm to guide someone step-by-step through deciding whether they want to make a plan, developing a SMART plan, assessing their confidence, problem-solving if necessary, and planning their follow-up. Each step of the process is carefully considered and is based on the literature and evolving understanding of what works and doesn’t work to help people change.
Brief Action Planning is designed to:
- Incorporate the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (compassion, acceptance, partnership, and evocation).
- Use a person-centred stepped care approach.
- Build self-efficacy.
- Develop skills for independent self-management.
- Create concrete and realistic plans in under 10 minutes.
This approach works well for supporting people who are already thinking about change and need some help to get started, and it can be used by anyone who is interested in helping people make behavioural changes to impact their health or well-being.
Learn about other Brief Action Planning Courses at CCMI.
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.
Practice and feedback sessions increase trainees' confidence and proficiency in BAP skills. These video sessions provide opportunities for participants to practice BAP skills with a BAP trainer. The trainer role plays the part of a patient or client appropriate to the group participating in the video session. Past experience has shown that most BAP trainees become skilled with 2-3 practice sessions. These sessions are the ideal preparation for BAP Certification.