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...
Playing Tug O’War with your clients? Drop the Rope!
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was recently talking with another MINTie (member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) from Rochester, NY. She’s been in the helping professional field a LONG time. She said when she was teaching Motivational Interviewing in...
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...
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