Using Motivational Interviewing for Self-Change
Reading Time: < 1 minutesUsing Motivational Interviewing on myself?! Isn’t it just a technique to use with clients? Certainly not! Alan Zuckoff has an entire book about it, Finding Your Way to Change. The gist is, we need to identify what we want to change, build...
The Righting Reflex Machine
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I’ve become a Righting Reflex machine!” a recent training participant said recently. We are responding from our Righting Reflex when we respond by trying to fix problems in our clients lives. It comes from a good place (our desire to help!),...
More about horses & Motivational Interviewing?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you haven’t read my message from last week about Motivational Interviewing and horse training, check it out here. Yep, I have one more favorite moment from the Monty Roberts horse video about guiding a wild mustang to accepting his first...
What do Horses and Motivational Interviewing Have in Common?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you seen the Horse Whisperer video? Monty Roberts, “the horse whisperer,” is working with a wild mustang in a round pen, with the goal of guiding the wild horse from halter to rider in under 25 minutes. It’s pretty awesome. It’s the...
The intersection between Motivational Interviewing and Social Justice
Reading Time: 2 minutesI struggled initially to figure out a way to write about the current issues as they relate to Motivational Interviewing, until a participant in my current advanced training (thanks Will!) sent me this talk by Bill Miller on the intersection of...
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