We provide Motivational Interviewing training, coaching, and consultation services to a wide variety of health care and human service organizations.
About Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of guiding a conversation to facilitate positive change. An MI user engages with another person from a stance of acceptance and compassion to support them to consider a change about which they are ambivalent or resistant. By eliciting the other person's own reasons for making the positive change and responding strategically, the MI user helps the other person move toward the change they are considering.
First described in 1983 in a seminal article by William R. Miller, Motivational Interviewing has become the standard of care in the field of substance abuse treatment, and has now expanded into mental health, health care, education, corrections, sports coaching, organizational leadership, and a host of other fields. Known for its effectiveness with populations and problems usually considered “resistant” or difficult to engage, Motivational Interviewing has proved its value in study after study, and has earned its place as a Best Practices model.
Motivational Interviewing is effective when well understood and competently utilized by a practitioner. A user does not need to be a clinician, or even a human services professional, in order to use Motivational Interviewing to help foster effective and lasting behavior change in others.
As you consider Motivational Interviewing training for your program, you may wish to consult the recommendations of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers: http://www.motivationalinterviewing.org/training-expectations