He has been learning and teaching motivational interviewing since 1986. Dr. Rhode was in the first (1993) “Training of Trainers for Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions” offered by University of New Mexico and facilitated by Dr. William Miller and Dr. Steve Rollnick. He has conducted over 100 motivational interviewing trainings for groups as small as three and as large as 650, for physicians, counselors, nurses, social workers, parole officers, and students. He has published in peer reviewed journals about the learning of motivational interviewing.