Training Opportunity: Motivating Change in Others by ComPsych
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Motivating Change in Others training, Friday, Oct. 21, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
How do you help someone who is struck 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? Do you become frustrated when those strategies fail and then accuse
them of being foolish? 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.
Workshop Objectives
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 discourse that promotes understanding and commitment to
change
Please visit for more information and to sign up to attend this webinar. You must sign up to receive the webinar information from ComPsych.