My daughter pierced her own belly button. Using Motivational Interviewing to engage in meaningful conversation.
My daughter pierced her own belly button. Using Motivational Interviewing to engage in meaningful conversation. So… My oldest daughter got on a group chat with a couple other kids one evening recently, and they pierced their belly buttons together. She timidly and...
Don’t Do New Year’s Resolutions!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to 2022!!! And what has changed exactly? Today is just another day. Another Tuesday. Another month. Another New Year in a pandemic. Another strain of COVID. Another year wondering if you’ll have the energy to pull it all...
Be a Good Guide
Reading Time: < 1 minutesMotivational Interviewing is a guiding style of communication. When I talk about this in my trainings, I love using a video by Bill Miller, one of the founders of Motivational Interviewing, because it refers to MI in terms of “being...
Is there a place for Self Disclosure in Motivational Interviewing?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was facilitating one of the advanced MI Uplevel sessions the other day, and a participant asked about the relationship between Motivational Interviewing and peer coaching. She named that those in the peer support coaching realm utilize...
It’s all about the Values!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat exactly is a value? By definition, values are…. “a person’s principles or standards of behavior, one’s judgment of what is important in life”. When I work with coaching clients, I always ask them to...
Hillary Bolter