What you already know about motivation.

• The mix of internal and external reasons to do behaviors.
• What kind of motivation will serve your clients best?
• Some ways to nurture more internal motivation.

• Identify two advantages of internal, rather than external, motivation for any health promoting behavior.
• List four principles of motivational interviewing.

The spirit behind motivational interviewing.

• What collaboration & autonomy looks like.
• More listening, less talking or (even whispering).
• Considering if this style fits for you.
• The evocation part of motivational interviewing.

• Identify examples of collaboration in everyday life.
• Complete some motivational interviewng exercises.

The dimensions of change talk.

• What change talk sounds like.
• Practice recognizing change talk.

• Learn categories of client change talk and client resistance talk.
• Practice hearing the strength of change talk.

Starting with fewer questions & more reflections.

• Practice reflective listening & avoiding the question and answer pattern.
• Describe a general outline of motivational interview sequence.
• Select some learning exercises to do with colleagues.

Amplifying ambivalence.

• How ambivalence fits in with change.
• How it can be used to facilitate change.

• Identify examples of ambivalence & reactance in common human experiences.
• Use the good and not-so-good approach to enhance motivation.

Redirecting reactance.

• Recognizing reactance.
• How it helps or hinders change.
• Choosing your responses with attention to reactance.

• Practice using reactance to facilitate client modifying his or her responses.

Stages of change.

• Identify client readiness using the Stages of Change model.

Resistance rolling.

• Recognizing client resistance talk.
• Seven ways to avoid arguing and use resistance talk.
• Practice generating responses to your client's typical resistance talk.

• Identify at least 3 ways to respond to resistance talk.
• Practice responding to client resistance behaviors.

Developing discrepancy.

• Why internal discrepancy and not external.
• Six ways to help the client find his or her desire to go forward.

• Identify at least 3 ways to develop discrepancy.
• Practice ways to facilitate the client saying change talk.
• Describe an MI style of giving feedback from assessment results.
• Describe at least 3 elements of a more likely to succeed plan of action.

In my trainings you can bring your popcorn, your sense of humor, and your thinking. You will see clips from popular movies demonstrating the above points as well as examples of counselors working with clients.

Some words about Robert Rhode.

A list of trainings he has provided.