TrainingWiki

This part of MIWiki is meant to contain exercises for training in Motivational Interviewing

''In science, when you begin to get somewhere, you find that the principle is quite simple but has enormous implications and is not easy to discover. I feel that we have made progress in client-centered therapy in approaching some of the truth of what happens in the process of change and how it can be facilitated. And to try to help people to grasp that and begin to try it out, experience it, and finally come to live it in more than just the therapeutic hour—that’s what training is all about.'' - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers Carl Rogers] from C. R. Rogers & D. E. Russell (2002). Carl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary. Roseville, CA: Penmarin Books, p. 275.

Welcome to the training manual for the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). The primary mission of MINT is to promote the quality of training and practice of motivational interviewing. Toward that goal, this manual provides a variety of training ideas, specific exercises, metaphors and activities all designed to help learners understand the spirit and practice of motivational interviewing. Most of these training ideas were designed for a workshop format, but many are also suitable for individual training and supervision as well.

This manual was compiled through the generosity of MINT trainers, who volunteered their ideas and were not compensated for them. In that same spirit, this manual is offered as a free gift for you, the potential trainer or supervisor of motivational interviewing. Any sale or duplication of this manual is prohibited. We ask that you provide proper attribution when you quote or use this manual.

This manual organizes training methods by content areas with which they are often used. Most of the training exercises described in this manual, however, can also be used flexibly in learning other content and aspects of motivational interviewing.

Best wishes as you move forward in your training and supervision of motivational interviewing! The Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers

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Most of the exercises are from the trainingmanual Motivational Interviewing Training for New Trainers (TNT), Resources for Trainers, http://www.motivationalinterviewing.org/