Los Angeles Trainers & Coaches

Over the past year of training people in a variety of settings I've come to think about Motivational Interviewing as one leg of a 3-legged stool that makes up many people's job functions: Leg 1: Information Gathering Leg 2: Problem Solving Leg 3: Motivating It's key to be able to recognize what kind of conversation you are having and to think about how these conversations sound differently from each other. Information gathering includes asking a lot of questions, and while go

The use of MI in Career Counseling is becoming widespread as more and more Career Counselors and Employment Specialists find that MI is a powerful tool for helping people overcome barriers to employment. In fact, the National Career Development Association has published several articles on the use of Motivational Interviewing in Career Counseling, and Income Assistance agencies in different countries around the world are implementing MI to assist their most employment challen

To say that there is a lot of stress when you work in a helping profession is an understatement. As helpers, we get stressed out because of the reason we got into this work in the first place—we care. We see clients who are suffering and we want to help them, to alleviate their pain, to see them succeed and thrive and be happy. Sometimes, our desire to see them not suffer leads to our own impatience, and we start doing all the work for them instead of letting them come up w

Keeping reflections "short and sweet" will help you keep clients engaged and the conversation heading in the right direction. It's important to remember that every time you're talking your client isn't, which depending on how much you talk gives clients time to tune out or get confused. Another aspect of "short and sweet" is being selective about what material you are repeating or summarizing back to them. What you reflect is what you will hear more of, so make sure that you