Weekly Motivational
Interviewing Blog

Motivational Interviewing is an international phenomenon. Since the early 1980’s, Motivational Interviewing has been translated and taught in over 75 languages across 6 continents. The MINT, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, has member-trainers from over...

Sometimes as helping professionals, we fall into the habit of thinking we need to figure out what a client needs to change, come up with motivations for them and figure out how they should go about making that change.   In the first training that I attended in...

In my MI and Financial Planning- Part 1 blog, I listed some examples of client ambivalence to illustrate how MI can be a good fit.  A financial advisor can use MI very skillfully in order to help their clients figure out what they need in order to move through their...

Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning?  Humm…not a field you may have thought of where MI can be used. Typically, MI is discussed with mental health and social service providers, but, MI is applicable in any conversation where someone is ambivalent...

Many of us, as helping professionals, are trained to look for the root cause problem. We notice barriers, issues, problems, and our brains want to go toward identifying those and fixing those.  In Motivational Interviewing, we aren’t looking for the root cause, we are...

When we are learning Motivational Interviewing, it can feel like we are trying to use skills that don’t feel organic to us. It can feel like we are trying to use MI from the outside in. Consider the metaphor of duck feet. When you see a duck gliding across a pond, it...