3 MI Tips to Support Change
3 MI Tips to Support Change YOU are in the business of helping people change! Yet sometimes you may inadvertently say things that contribute to client resistance to change. How does this happen? Let’s take a look! I invite you to ask yourself these questions: Do I...
Story Time! When Change Talk is Embedded in Sustain Talk…
Story Time! When Change Talk is Embedded in Sustain Talk… OK, I obviously have some playful, kid parts inside of me. I was reading my youngest a bedtime story one night, and realized, “OH! Change Talk! And lots and lots of Sustain talk.”So let me back up and...
Clients have reasons for change, and reasons against change.
Clients have reasons for change, and reasons against change. Motivational Interviewing brings us some specific skills that help us guide clients when they are stuck in ambivalence! Last week, I wrote about the importance of Change Talk. This week, I’m writing...
Do you have a client stuck in hole?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI remember one training participant who shared about his work with a client that was really struggling with depression and lack of motivation. He said, “I’m just trying to get him out of that hole! I keep telling him what to do and...
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...
Hillary Bolter