Could YOU Use a Change?
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you know we can use Motivational Interviewing with ourselves?? This is going to be a 3-email series on utilizing the tools of Motivational Interviewing with YOU. You may have seen this image before, as I use it to describe essential...
Who’s Problem Is It?
Reading Time: 3 minutesA kid, scissors, and a VERY short haircut Story Time!! I’m going to tell you a story about my feisty younger daughter. When she was 4 or 5 years old, I was in the kitchen doing dishes and she was playing by herself in the other room. She...
Working with Someone who is Stuck in a Hole?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently talking with a training participant who shared about his work with a client who is really struggling with depression and motivation. He said, “I’m just trying to get him out of that hole! I keep telling him what to do and...
You Already Have What It Takes!
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou’ve heard a lot from Hillary about MI, time to bring in the voices of the MINT trainers joining the Bolter Consulting team! Hi! I’m Chris Miles, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers...
The Voice Inside
Reading Time: < 1 minutesGood Ol’ Shel Silverstein! This sweet little poem speaks so well to the spirit of Motivational Interviewing. Why do I talk so much about the spirit of MI? Because, it’s not MI without the spirit. Sometimes I think about the concept of...
Hillary Bolter