What do Goldilocks and Motivational Interviewing have in common?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a training participant ask me recently, “When is confrontation appropriate? What about when a client is clearly in denial/stuck/not changing?” This is a very good question, the answer of which involves Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I’ll...
You Don’t Need to Know
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI was recently working with someone who was at one of those “fork in the road” moments in their life. I was getting really worked up (in my head), concerned because I didn’t know which choice that person should make. This was a big...
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...
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