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Motivating Change in Others

How do you help someone who is stuck or ambivalent about making an important change in their life? Do you give them advice? Do you argue or debate them to persuade them make a change? We can respectfully engage others to help them make changes through careful listening and by allowing the other person to identify their own priorities and motivations. The key communication skills addressed in this session are adapted from Motivational Interviewing and involve asking open questions, affirming, reflecting and summarizing in order to help someone move from ambivalence to action.

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Attend Training on November 15th

This training will help you:

  • Describe how efforts to persuade or advise others results in resistance to change
  • Consider whether your present approaches are facilitating or impeding change in others
  • Change the way you engage others though use of questions and reflections to promote engagement leading to change
  • Participate in meaningful conversations that promotes understanding and commitment to change

Next Steps: 

  • Complete the participant feedback survey by 11/18
  • Practice the "Two Part Formula": Listening and Reflecting & Asking Motivating Questions
  • Promote Health Holidays (Nov-Dec)
  • Start planning well-being activities for 2023

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