Beyond an Effect Size: Innovations in Thinking & Practice

7-9 March 2012

Auckland, New Zealand

HMA is pleased to announce the second International Symposium on Motivational Interviewing (ISMI). The event will be held in Auckland, New Zealand on 7-9 March 2012.

Keynote address by Theresa Moyers, PhD – University of New Mexico (USA) & Allan Zuckoff, PhD – University of Pittsburgh (USA)

· Pre-Symposium professional development workshops: Advanced MI & Change Talk -Terri Moyers/Joel Porter; Working with Co-exisiting Problems – Allan Zuckoff & Supervision & Coaching – Eileen Britt/Mark Wallace-Bell

· Two-days of interactive presentations by colleagues from New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and beyond

The venue for ISMI is the Stamford Hotel located in the heart of the city

Call for Papers

We are looking forward to covering a wide range of innovative, informative and creative presentations on the key themes of ISMI: Beyond an Effect Size: Innovations in Thinking and Practice. We are interested in hearing about scientific and practice-based papers that inform people about the different ways MI is taught, practiced, integrated, culturally adapted and researched across professions around the world. All presentations will be in a plenary format for thirty minutes followed by fifteen minutes of discussion and questions.

· Submitted abstracts should be 250 words or less.

· Abstracts due date: 17 October 2011

o Please include contact information

o Submitted in Pages or Word format to joel.porter@hma.co.nz

For more registration information please contact: joel.porter@hma.co.nz