Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills
Get the best out of your clients by giving them your best. Applying evidence-based research for keeping your clients / whaiora motivated. Based on Motivational Interviewing (MI) Skills (by W.Miller and S.Rollnick).As a health and wellbeing practitioner, you’ll already know the importance of building rapport and engaging effectively with your clients/whaiora. MI builds on this and provides a framework and approach to ensure that you remain client-focused. By developing the micro skills of MI you will be able to more clearly and strategically support your clients/whaiora to reach their goals.Often your clients/whaiora have more than one goal, eg, get fit and lose weight or feel healthy and drink less (alcohol), or better manage blood sugars and energy levels etc. What we’re saying here is that often its not just about exercise; it’s about health. There are areas such as smoking, drinking, eating too much or too little, securing a house or employment are big issues for many people.As the expert, it can be really tempting to simply tell clients what they have to do to get their health sorted. Have you noticed though, that telling people what to do doesn’t always work? And if it does work it doesn’t last long and the person slips back into their old patterns and habits quite easily.By developing MI skills you will discover how to elicit from your client/whaiora what they need to do and how they can strengthen their own motivation. This will ultimately help them to reach and maintain their goals. When they succeed you succeed! Let MI help you to succeed!
- Maximize and develop specific skills that keep others motivated towards achieving a specific change in behaviour
- Learn how to strengthen an individual's motivation for change
- Identify key elements to creating the “right” atmosphere
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