Hilary you are a gifted excellent instructor on MI the embodiment of the MI spirit! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge and sharing to advance the use of MI effectively!!!

Thank you Hillary!! Yes feeling heard is so very helpful.

Yes 💯percent!!

I love every one of these videos… they give me a shot of enthusiasm for this approach!

Very helpful and demonstrative.

Found your channel in my Pepperdine GSEP asynchronous work. Excited to dive in deeper into (MI) :)

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What do you do when your client is ambivalent in a way that is négative. Like this: on one hand I could take ask them to give me some tools so that next time I can succeed in doing the job, but on an other hand, if I ask for tools, and they give them to me, I am not sure I would use them, so , I will not ask for tools.

Stellar video

This content is so solid. Love all of these videos.

Do you have a spell to make a vampire walk in the sun

Thanks for explaining that so well. You are gorgeous

Clinical social work student here! Thank you for your clear and insightful tips!

So helpful, thank you

Thanks, exactly what I needed!

I am preparing for a class presentation on MI and I got to tell you Hillary each and every video you have here I have written something down. They are so educative and I thought I had figured MI but every new video I play there it is something new. Thank you for making me feel grounded.

When does the MI therapist draw line between using the MI mindset and the moment parent has to put their foot down especially with children when they don't have enough understanding of the situations.

your poker face 🤭

When the choices don't have clear negative undertones, How do we know if the client's choice should be supported by MI work

Oooh, I like the double A. I hadn't thought of just combining that with AOA to make it AAOA. Nice 🙂

Thank you, and I loved the accompanying blog on your website today.

You made it very easy..thank you 😊

Could you do more videos on affirmations please 🙏

I don't see a "Qualities of Successful Changers" handout here or on the linked pages. I'm already subscribed by email. Would it be possible for you to send it please?

I love this video and your words of wisdom. My problem is I sometimes deal with clients (adolescents) who are kind of on a timeline--either change or go to jail! As a recovering addict myself, it took a sufficient amount of pain and a sufficient amount of hope to get me to change. Pain = the unacceptable consequences of continued drug use (prison). Hope = life will be better when I am clean and sober, and I know I can do it. But, I meet these kids who are forced into treatment and who don't want to change. Many are in group homes, and they face pain and misery on a daily basis, so substance abuse is their escape. And, the consequences of their substance use/abuse hasn't been as severe...yet. I find myself going in circles with them using MI and even a little CBT, and I wind up "preaching" to them which does not work because they already get a ton of that. What keeps me grounded is my recognition that I am a helper, not a fixer. If I wanted to be a fixer, I should have become a mechanic!

Hello. I am a substance abuse counselor that works with many clients who waiver between contemplation and pre-contemplation, or ambivalence vs indifference. As a counselor, it is frustrating for me when it seems like progress is being made (change talk and movement into preparatory behavior), then they slide back into precontemplation (I don't really think I have a problem). Maybe after I watch your MI with a precontemplation client video, I'll get some tips. Always willing to learn more.

I appreciated the research evidence that affirmations produce more client change talk than the other OARS skills. The insight that affirmations help people connect to their inner desires and abilities to change is a powerful one. Thank you!

Good words. Thank you!🌞

Thanks for answering my question before I knew I had it 😁

Appreciate this video and I plan to use these skills often over the next 2 weeks!

Where is the link please?

Powerful Tip.

Fuck yeh I love this channel

Hello @MICenterforChange, thank you so much for putting up important resources like this. It's such a helpful communication tool. 👍

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Desperately awaiting that handout 😅

Looking forward to that handout! Always one of the hardest questions for our kids to answer. Thank you!

What is the best way to start a session, using MI and OARS, with a totally resistant teen client? A client that won't even talk? (shoulder shrugs, "IDK", etc.)?

The breakdown is helpful

I find that when I teach OARS to health care workers, they come back after one lesson to tell me how they used it with their kid/spouse/etc... instead of in the work place. I'm always excited they were willing to try it anywhere, but it's clear they see the usefulness right away in personal relationships. As an aside, I find parallels between the OARS and the parenting book "How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen, and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk" by Faber and Mazlisch.

super very nice

I love your point of removing “I” from feedback. People with trauma can be very sensitive to this messages about their worth, no matter how subtle- which makes a lot of sense when we think about acceptance and safety. Indeed, MI calls on us to accept our clients as they are right here, right now, and so removing the conditional “approval” is key. Thanks for the reminder!

I love this little reminder that prompts us to review how well we are doing. Thank you for sharing

I'm just a random person, but I can use this insight for any conversation. Thank you.

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I'm doing a presentation on MI reflections in a few days and this gave me an idea for a talking point and exercise, thank you, you and your video were very helpful.

Love your content! Keep it up!

Addiction is very saddening and maddening. I left my husband of 35+ years last July. Caught him smoking drugs in our bathroom at 3:30 AM. It was truly the final straw. Plus, it scared me near death. He is almost 63 years old. Was diagnosed with congestive heart failure last February. Assumes it's just genetic, not drug use. Lives in denial. Unable to speak the truth. So, enough about "him". I have nothing more to give. I am in receiving mode only. Recovering from the addict.

I don't know if you will see this but I am a program manager for Nurse-Family Partnership. I support a team of nurses that goes into the community to support high-risk 1st-time mamas. We are learning and implementing MI and this channel has been a "game-changer" I cannot thank you enough for your work and for sharing it in this forum. My team IS experiencing stress unlike we ever have before and it's causing a lof of concern for me as their leader. It was very validating to hear everything you said in this video. Thank you- Amanda

Helpful to think about moving from sustain talk to change talk in one sentence to help evoke more conversations about change. Thank you!