Everyday MI
Everyday MI is for people who want to be more effective at helping others, and less annoying. Motivational Interviewing is an evidenced based practice with applications in professional and personal relationships.
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MI Snack Video: How Attachment Science Supports MI Engagement - Pt 2 (opens the original)
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Engagement is an Antidote for Rejection and Stigma Part two of my series on secure attachment and the Engaging phase of Motivational Interviewing, with Carol Sullivan hosting the technology. The session opened with Lee naming his own ambivalence about breakout rooms: a speed bump of “this is going to cost me” beforehand, and gladness afterward nearly every time.We then wsatched silent 38-second Cyberball cartoon, referenced in Amir Levine’s book Secure, in which one player is never thrown the ba
Day 300+ 8: Forgetting What You Didn’t Know (opens the original)
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MI Snack Video: How Attachment Science Supports Engagement - Pt 1 (opens the original)
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See this week’s Quick Calendar herehttps://calendarlink.com/event/collection/2Q2NuSummary of the MI Snack for September 9, 2026Part to will be this Wed, Sept 12, 2026 Last Wednesday’s Snack was about Engaging, the first task of any MI conversation and the one that gets skipped most easily in practice. In the practice rooms, the helper often opens with “Hi Billy, thanks for being here, what do you want to talk about?” That is not quie
Three Days in a Row (opens the original)
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MI Snack Video: How Sales Taught Me MI - with Hart Thorson (opens the original)
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In this MI Snack session, Hart Thorson makes the case that selling can be a helping conversation. Hart came to Motivational Interviewing from a background in sales, management, and negotiation, and he opened by asking the room what comes to mind with the word “sales.” The answers were “cringe”, “persuasion”, “pushy”, “winner and loser.” A lot of us had negative connotations to the idea of selling.Hart then laid out solution selling, a customer-centered approach in which the salesperson acts as a
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