Your employer signs you up for a Motivational Interviewing (MI) training or you just attend since you are intrigued by what you have heard about this language and its efficacy with behavior change. You learn one of the key skills of MI – complex reflections – which adds meaning to a client’s words. You may […]
Do you ever wake up in the morning with a heavy responsibility of solving the world’s problems? Clients comes to you in distress and are in want of help, answers, and direction or are they? What are they really needing from you? Do they really want advice and direction? Bernard Williams states unsolicited advice is […]
Research clearly indicates that the greatest predictor of why people change is empathy on the part of the professional. So how do we show empathy in a conversation to allow our clients to experience empathy versus just generating an empty chair of sympathy? How do we use empathetic reflections that allow our clients to know […]
When you’re trying to learn Motivational Interviewing, where do you begin? We know we can’t learn Spanish or French in a day so what is the best skill to focus on in learning the language of MI? The skill of complex reflections: complex to learn but can make most impact. The first step in moving […]
So you’ve read the MI book, been to the training, and practiced reflections until you dream in complex reflections. Now what? It might be time to make a tape of your practice for coaching and feedback. Maybe someone has asked you to do it. Maybe you are ready to bump up your skills. Maybe someone […]