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What and how people practice
There is an adage that says, practice makes perfect. And that saying is both overstated and over-simplified. Renowned American football coach, Vince Lombardi refined this platitude to, “perfect practice makes perfect.” In terms of human behaviour and human beings in general, the truth is perfection is unattainable; more accurately, becoming complete with respect to some… Read more
The Evidence Basket
Very likely, most health care professionals support the concept, observation, and use of evidence-based practice (EBP). Technically, EBP means integrating individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. Ideally, it results in more consistent clinical recommendations and practices across health care services. Motivational Interviewing (MI) research and its resultant evidence… Read more
Listening, really listening
In a previous blog (click here), we have addressed the importance of empathy when adopting a Motivational Interviewing (MI) spirit or attitude. More and more we have become convinced that using MI is less about doing, and more about being. That is, MI has conventions, ways of being in an MI spirit – the confluence… Read more
Self-Care: Awareness and Practice
There is an adage that suggests, “your life does not get better by chance…it gets better by change.” In the health-caring professions, practitioners are very likely drawn to their professions by their care for humanity and health. Often, that caring component might translate or grow into a practice of putting everyone, certainly our clients or… Read more
Michelangelo, magnificence, and the attitude of being ‘in’ Motivational Interviewing
In one School of professional coaching training, the Coaches Training Institute, one of the cornerstones of their co-active model of coaching is cogently phrased; the model holds that every person or client or person being coached/interviewed is Naturally Creative, Resourceful, and Whole (NCRW). To engage in coaching communication is to take up this NCRW attitude… Read more