We talk about motivational interviewing for weight loss and how to explore ambivalence and resistance to change. Open-ended questions, reflections, and the idea of rolling with resistance are the major motivational interviewing techniques that we discuss.

I show you how to elicit change talk in your coaching clients and how to move from exploring resistance and ambivalence to planning and creating specific next action steps.

Motivational Interviewing Techniques are often abstract so learning how to apply them in a real conversation can be a challenge.

This video is an example of a real Motivational Interviewing conversation with Laura. I used many different Motivational Interviewing Techniques throughout. I explain why I sued these techniques and the effect they had on the conversation in the video.

If you want to improve your Motivational Interviewing Techniques, make sure to watch the whole conversation.

Change is a messy and confusing process. Ambivalence and resistance are normal parts of the change process. That’s why rolling with resistance and overcome ambivalence is a key Motivational Interviewing skill.

I discuss six common and difficult client scenarios and how to approach them using Motivational Interviewing.

The idea of rolling with resistance (instead of fighting it), is the key idea here. You will learn Motivational Interviewing techniques on how to do it effectively.