Inform USA Webinar - Simple But Powerful: The Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing

Change is hard. But, behavior change is important in many areas of life for people to achieve their goals, especially health-related goals. If people aren’t motivated or are ambivalent about behavior change, they are unlikely to be successful. Motivational Interviewing (MI) finds and amplifies the motivation that will help people achieve their goals, whatever they might be.

MI can be helpful to professionals of all kinds working to overcome client reluctance and ambivalence to change. MI makes change easier for both clients and professionals. It requires skills, techniques, and a way of being with clients that encourages change. Using this approach, counselors can readily engage clients, elicit their own powerful, internal motivation, offer information that clients will accept and act on, and resolve client ambivalence and reluctance to change.

Participants can expect to learn the following: 

• What MI is and how it is used. 
• The core skills necessary for the practice of MI. 
• 4 ways to give information that clients will act on. 
• A simple way to measure client motivation. 
• 7 questions that will elicit clients’ internal motivation. 
• The 4-step process of MI.