Motivational Interviewing & Beyond

In this third part of the Inside The Conversation of Change, Joel, Steve, Ange, Denise Ernst, Molly Magill, Shaun Shelly, Patrick Berthiaume and friends discuss the idea of harmful conversation, exploring when attempts at helping accidentally cause harm and how to prevent it.

In this episode of MIB, we explore the appeal and helpfulness of MI across cultures, languages and borders. Joel, Ange and Steve are joined by friends and colleagues from Brazil, South Africa and Aotearoa/New Zealand to share ideas and stories from training and practicing MI to get a better understanding of international and cross cultural adoption of MI.

In this episode, Steve, Ange & Joel are joined by Denise Ernst (USA), Simon Adamson (New Zealand), Shaun Shelly (South Africa) and surprise guest Molly Magill (USA) to explore how MI has changed the way we think about and work with addictions and addictive behaviours. The conversation meandered into a range of areas from about how we hold people in mind and in heart to do we need the word "treatment" anymore.

In this MIB episode David Rosengren, Margo Bristow and Onna Brewer join in and try to answer Steve's question: Does Listening Save Time? We spent a lot of time talking about listening. 

Welcome. In this episode Steve, Joel and guests have a well rounded conversation about change. We explore the limitations and unearth question about focusing only behaviour change as an acceptable outcome. Heather Flynn, Kathy Goumas and others join in the conversation to help connect some of the dots and deepen our understanding of what it means to help others. Steve also does some foreshadowing of the fourth edition of the Motivational Interviewing.

In the episode Steve, Joel and guests Stan, Brendan and others explore the upper limits of caring for others. We talk about Compassion Focused Therapy, self-compassion, compassion vs. empathy, therapist shame, vicarious trauma  and more. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it!

In this episode we explored the universe of virtual learning and training with Susan Dopart (USA) and Ken McMaster (New Zealand) . How has COVID fast tracked and required us to adapt to a new teaching, training and learning environment? We were also joined by Pip Mason, Steve Berg-Smith and Onna Brewer to further explore the personal challenges of moving from training in the room to training in cyberspace. 

In this episode Joel and Steve are joined by Russell Calderwood (Wales), Fredrik Eliasson (Sweden), Margo Bristow (USA) and Brendan Murphy (Ireland) to take deep dive in role of supporting autonomy while helping people change. 

This episode starts with Madtv 's clip Stop It  with Bob Newhart and Mo Collins. Afterwards, Joel and Steve are joined by colleagues Andrew Brownhill, Orla Adams and Judith Carpenter to explore what advice and feedback actually are. Is it a task to be done, a skill to learn or art form? Steve provides a live demonstration of he offers advice and feedback. There are questions and comments from the audience 

This Episode focuses in on the role of empathy in sport.  We had three guests that are involved with working with professional athletes who are trying to change the culture of who athletes both young and old are  treated by coaches.  Does empathy have a place in sport? How can empathy support optimal performance? Is coaching about more than just winning?