At Veriti Motivational Interviewing workshops we ask participants to choose something in their own life that they are currently working on changing, or thinking of changing, and that they are willing to share with other workshop participants. This issue then becomes their focus for the Motivational Interviewing activities throughout the day. Of course, we also discuss confidentiality and ensure that the group has a collective commitment to maintain it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of us have experienced a \u2018persuasion\u2019 conversation about changing. It often goes a bit like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Client: \u201cI need to lose 12 kilos to be at a healthy weight and I just feel stuck, it is so hard to stick to a diet.\u201d
Helper: \u201cI know how you feel, it can very demoralising.\u201d \u201cHave you tried meal replacement shakes-you can buy them at the chemist?\u201d \u201cI have a friend who lost heaps of weight that way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Client: \u201cYes, I did try that, but when I stopped using the shakes, I just put the weight back on again.\u201d
Helper: \u201cWell, I think the idea is that you just need to keep using them all the time and also get into regular exercise.\u201d \u201cHave you thought about joining a gym?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Client: \u201cI feel too big to go to a gym, I would just be too embarrassed.\u201d
Helper: \u201cI used a personal trainer for awhile, it really helped to keep me motivated, what about trying that?\u201d \u201cI could give you the name of the personal trainer I used\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Client: \u201cHmmm, I don\u2019t know, it sounds like it would pretty expensive and I am trying to save for a house at the moment.\u201d
Helper: \u201cWell, what about Weight Watchers, lots of people find that works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Client: \u201cHmmm, I don\u2019t know\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have you ever had a conversation like this \u2013 either as the helper or as the person struggling with change? It\u2019s well meaning, but generally not helpful for making changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Veriti Motivational Interviewing workshops, we show you a more effective approach. Using the spirit and skills of Motivational Interviewing, participants learn how to move away from offering suggestions and advice, and how instead to be more collaborative in their work. This involves using a number of strategies suggested by Miller and Rollnick (2013), such as curious questions, empathy, reflection and active listening to help the client talk about their struggle with change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the client\u2019s own experience and self knowledge are evoked we generally find they can quite quickly identify what they are and are not willing to do around change. Curious questions about exceptions or times when the problem was not so great or was not an issue, are also a great tool to help clients identify strengths or abilities they have, but may have been overlooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These are just a couple of examples of Motivational Interviewing strategies. Come along to one of our online or face to face workshops and learn more about effective ways to help people struggling with change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact us<\/a>\u00a0to find out more about Motivational Interviewing and how we can assist your organisation to support and empower your staff.\u00a0Veriti is on twitter and we also welcome contact and your comments @Veritihealth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing: Helping people change<\/em> (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At Veriti Motivational Interviewing workshops we ask participants to choose something in their own life that they are currently working on changing, or thinking of changing,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":10,"label":"In Focus Articles"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Motivational-Interviewing-workshop-it-is-not-about-persuasion-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Barb Bowler RN M Nursing MSoc Sci (Counselling) CMHN","author_link":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/author\/barbbowler\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":10,"name":"In Focus Articles","slug":"in-focus-articles","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":10,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":10,"category_count":19,"category_description":"","cat_name":"In Focus Articles","category_nicename":"in-focus-articles","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}