Dr. Stephen Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing Co-Founder
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Stephen Rollnick, the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing.
The Motivational Interviewing style, strategies and skills have been used to address a wide range of challenges, including those very tough conversations in which there seems little hope of making progress in helping people.
I doubt there’s many of us that enjoy having these difficult conversations, but what if there was a better approach to getting the outcome you wanted in these moments?
Stephen has found that when conversations about change go poorly, it’s because the more you try to insert information and advice into others, the more they tend to back off and resist.
Understanding optimal ways to communicate with one another is at the heart of this conversation
Motivational Interviewing can be used to enhance your ability to listen with skill in any situation, and to help people, young and old, to adapt and to develop their potential.
Its use has spread into health care, criminal justice, education and most recently into sport.
I hope it makes a difference for you.
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| 0:00.0 | We have discovered that instead of trying to persuade people why or how they should change |
| 0:06.6 | It's far better to basically to create a conversation in which they do it for themselves. |
| 0:15.0 | And in order to create that conversation, |
| 0:18.0 | you need to come alongside someone |
| 0:20.0 | and you need to view them as a person who's got the motivation inside them and the strengths inside them. All right. |
| 0:41.6 | Welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay and by Trade and Training, I'm a sport and Performance Psychologist, as well as the co-founder of |
| 0:45.0 | Compete to Create. |
| 0:46.8 | And the whole idea behind these conversations is to learn from people who are on the path of |
| 0:51.0 | mastery to better understand how the |
| 0:54.4 | extraordinarys think and do, how they organize their inner world, how they |
| 0:59.1 | organize their outer life to be able to experience and understand the nuances, both the mastery of self and mastery of craft. |
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