Keeping things focused with SUMMARIES!
Reading Time: < 1 minutesThis is the fourth message in a 4-part series on OARS skills! Click here to read the first three posts on Open-ended questions, Affirmations, and Reflections. This week we’re doing a deeper dive into the OARS tool of SUMMARIES! In...
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had all the time in the world?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we had all of the time in the world, we might go boating without OARS. But as helping professionals, we have limited time AND our goal is to work with people to support change. So we gotta have some tools to guide the conversation! In...
Motivational Interviewing as a Way of Being
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently chatting with someone about Motivational Interviewing as a way of being. A way of being? I thought it was a skill set? An Evidence-Based Practice? Motivational Interviewing is actually all of the above. MI is a way of being with...
Motivational Interviewing with YOU!
Reading Time: < 1 minutesI recently had the pleasure of being featured on the Abundance Practice podcast on the topic of using Motivational Interviewing to motivate yourSELF. I had such a great conversation with Allison Puryear. You can listen here! Motivational...
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...
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