Soiléir are delighted to announce that we’re teaming up once again with Matthew Spicer of Positive Behaviour Change Solutions in Tasmania. We are bringing two workshops to the British Institute of Learning Disability (BILD) Positive Behaviour Support Conference in Scotland in Spring this year.

The conference will be held in Glasgow on the 13th and 14th May, and the theme this year is inclusion. The programme includes speakers such as Professor Rob Horner, Dr Edwin Jones & Professor Nigel Beail and a whole heap of expert practitioners from UK, Europe, US, New Zealand (and of course Australia and Ireland including us!)

We will be leading two workshops. on the first day, we’ll be facilitating Using motivational interviewing skills in non-aversive response strategies. This workshop will introduce participants to the spirit and skills that underpin Motivational Interviewing. It will focus on how these skills can be used in moments of distress to intervene in a functionally based, non-aversive manner in line with Multi-Element Behaviour Support.

The second workshop on 14th May is focused on Using motivational interviewing skills to support teams implementing behaviour support plans. It will focus on how the processes of MI are used in supporting teams to implement behaviour support in line with the mediator analysis in Multi-Element Behaviour Support. We’ll be doing plenty of skills practice skills using MI, and consider their use in resolving common barriers to the implementation of plans within organisations.

If you’d like more information on registering for this conference, visit https://www.bild.org.uk/pbsconf2020/ and be sure to pop by and say hello!

Gillian Martin is a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland, and a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst