This workshop will be 6.5 hours in length divided into 3 sections: Introduction to My Guide to Stroke Recovery, C&C workshop, and a practical application session. During each workshop, participants receive:

• Choices and Changes: Clinician Influence and Patient Action Workbook
• Light breakfast and lunch
• Skilled facilitators who understand the contextual reality of working in health care settings

In this one-day interactive workshop, facilitators help you develop a capacity to influence patient health behaviours from compliance with medication regimens to curbing risky actions. A model will be presented which enables you to have a positive impact on your patient’s behaviour in a brief office visit.

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Describe the role of the provider as a facilitator of change;
• Identify specific strategies to assess the provider’s role in the change process
• Describe 2 skills to influence changing patient’s behaviour, which apply to situations in the clinical setting; and
• Demonstrate techniques to use in clinical settings to influence change