3 Ways MI Helps Prevent Burnout
Reading Time: 4 minutes 3 Ways MI Helps Prevent Burnout 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...
Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning – Part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutes Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning – Part 2 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...
Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutes Motivational Interviewing and Financial Planning part 1 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...
Root Cause? MI is Interested in Root Motivation!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Root Cause? MI is Interested in Root Motivation! 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. ...
What does it mean to be using Motivational Interviewing from the Inside Out?
Reading Time: 5 minutes What does it mean to be using Motivational Interviewing from the Inside Out? 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...
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