Motivational Interviewing for Health Coaches

Motivational interviewing techniques are communication skills that support a personalised approach to enabling people to manage their health and wellbeing, and make changes in their lives based on what matters to them.

This 1.5 day programme will support attendees to:

• Understand what personalised care means, and how this is a partnership approach to motivational interviewing
• Define motivational interviewing
• Describe the spirit of motivational interviewing
• Define the principles of motivational interviewing
• Identify, develop, and apply motivational interviewing techniques to help, support and empower patients change
• Elicit the level of motivation through active listening and appreciate the influence of language and its impact
• Understand the cycle of change and how to apply it in practice
• Identify ‘sustain’ and ‘change’ talk in motivational interviewing
• Understand motivational interviewing techniques and apply them to their own area

For more information, and to apply, contact Rachel Bryers.