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Connecting to Your WHY

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Dec 10, 2020 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesHey folks! This is third in a series of three on using Motivational Interviewing with yourSELF! Click here for the blog links for one and two. So if you have a change that you are feeling stuck around, or really wishing you could get some...

Detective Listening

by Chris de Beer | Dec 3, 2020 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesA word from MINT member Chris de Beer! – Hillary I’m so pleased to be able to be on the team with Hillary and Chris – both trainers and clinicians that I truly respect. I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming year!...

OARS for Self Change! A Little Activity!

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Nov 28, 2020 | OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing

Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you know that we can apply elements of Motivational Interviewing to our own dilemmas? Today we are exploring how to use OARS skills, the ‘microskills’ of Motivational Interviewing, with ourSELVES! Kinda cool! (Also, this email is loaded...

What Fenway Taught Me About Affirmations

by Chris Miles | Nov 19, 2020 | OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesI want to introduce you to Fenway, our 2 year-old West Highland Terrier. His previous owner had to rehome him a year ago, and we drove all the way from Asheville, NC to Indiana to get him. We fondly refer to him as our little Mid-Westie! He is...

Keeping things focused with SUMMARIES!

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Oct 1, 2020 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: < 1 minutesThis is the fourth message in a 4-part series on OARS skills! Click here to read the first three posts on Open-ended questions, Affirmations, and Reflections. This week we’re doing a deeper dive into the OARS tool of SUMMARIES! In...

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had all the time in the world?

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Sep 24, 2020 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we had all of the time in the world, we might go boating without OARS. But as helping professionals, we have limited time AND our goal is to work with people to support change. So we gotta have some tools to guide the conversation! In...