by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | May 8, 2023 | OARS Skills
Motivational Interviewing in Conversations with Friends and Family Last year, I wrote about applying the spirit and OARS skills to a conversation with my daughter around piercing her own belly button (OUCH!). I can’t tell you HOW many times training participants have...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Feb 13, 2023 | Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills
Summaries that Focus & Guide The Motivational Interviewing OARS deep dive continues! This is the fourth and final in my OARS series as it relates to CHANGE TALK in Motivational Interviewing. In Motivational Interviewing, OARS stand for Open-ended questions,...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Jan 30, 2023 | OARS Skills
OARS: Affirmations! A good MI training differentiates between cheerleading and affirming. Do YOU have an inner cheerleader? I know I do! That inner cheerleader loves to throw my hands in the air and clap and wave as I holler, “YOU GOT THIS! GO TEAM!! Woohoooo!!!”...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Jan 20, 2023 | OARS Skills
Open Questions that Guide! Plus our motivational interviewing cheat sheet Motivational Interviewing is a guiding style of communication. We aren’t asking questions about just anything. Plus, not many of us have time with clients to have meandering conversations. We...
by Chris Miles | Jan 16, 2023 | OARS Skills
MI Doesn’t Just Mean OARS: MINT training Motivational Interviewing Hello! I’m Chris Miles, lead trainer for MI Center for Change. I’m a member of the MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers), and here at MI Center for Change we provide MINT training in...
by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Nov 22, 2022 | 4 Processes, Affirmations and Motivational Interviewing, Motivational Interviewing, OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, The Change Process
Motivational Interviewing Rewires the Brain. There’s a Motivational Interviewing course for that! This week, in the US, many of us celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a holiday with an interesting history that I won’t go address here… but it does have me thinking...