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Courtcraft masterclass: Motivating change in compressed timeframes.

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Wednesday 9th October 2024

Seminar | 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM

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Learn from international Motivational Interviewing expert Michael Clark 15 highly effective and brief techniques to encourage change and promote positive behaviours with individuals who appear before you in court.

Develop the critical skills to hold 2-3 minute conversations to assist people on their path of change, including those regressing in substance use or treatment, those who are losing hope or are overwhelmed, or those who have made recent progress and need encouragement to stay the course.

From a busy mention list, in family violence/personal safety proceedings, to the sentencing process, or in a judicial monitoring hearing and in specialist courts, these techniques will give you tools for those brief windows of opportunity to motivate people to make and sustain change.

You will learn techniques to provide alternative perceptions of a problem that allow more hope and movement and to help people who seem stuck to think about their problem in a more positive way.

Note: This program is open to judicial officers only.

Speakers.

Build Motivation - The Center for Strength-Based Strategies
Michael Clark
Michael D. Clark, MSW, is the director of Build Motivation - The Center for Strength-Based Strategies, a technical assistance group based in Michigan, United States, specialising in the Motivational Interviewing model. He is a long-time member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT - 2003) and has trained both line-staff practitioners, judges/magistrates, and agency management/leaders. He has delivered sessions across various fields, including Corrections, Probation/Parole, Juvenile Delinquency, Mental Health, Treatment Courts, Addictions, and Child Welfare. Michael has published over 50 articles and has served as a contractual consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria. Michael is also a co-author of the Guilford Press book, “Motivational Interviewing with Offenders: Engagement, Rehabilitation, and Re-entry” (NY: Guilford Press), with the 2nd edition scheduled for publication in 2025.
Magistrates' Court of Victoria
Magistrate Pauline Spencer
Magistrate Pauline Spencer was appointed as a Magistrate in Victoria in 2006. Her Honour currently sits at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court and serves as the Head of Division for Specialist Courts, providing judicial leadership across the court’s therapeutic justice programs in both mainstream and specialist courts.

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