Wrestle with yourself so you don’t wrestle with your client!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wrestle with yourself so you don’t wrestle with your client! With Motivational Interviewing, we often say, “We are dancing, not wrestling”. Imagine the metaphor of wrestling with your client– pushing, pulling, persuading,...
The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning!
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning! There are four tasks in Miller & Rollnicks’ Motivational Interviewing: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking & Planning. The final task of Miller & Rollnicks’ MI,...
When to use (and not use) Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes When to use (and not use) Motivational Interviewing As Motivational Interviewers, we are not using Motivational Interviewing to get someone to do what we want them to do. Getting someone else to do what we want them to do is manipulation. ...
A RULE of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes A RULE of Motivational Interviewing Are you familiar with the RULE acronym in Motivational Interviewing? RULE is sometimes referred to as the “guiding principles” of Motivational Interviewing. The RULE Motivational Interviewing acronym...
Ambivalence is normal… but did you know it can be a strength?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ambivalence is normal… but did you know it can be a strength? Years ago I ran Motivational Interviewing groups for folks with substance misuse. I distinctly remember a participant’s response in one particular group, when we were talking...
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