Building Motivation: What is Motivational Interviewing?
Motivational Interviewing is a technqiue you can use to help mentees explore what is important to them and make changes for themselves. This video will explain more about the purpose of MI.
Video Transcript
MI is a conversation about change, designed to strengthen your mentee’s internal motivation and understand what’s blocking them from achieving all they can.
Many recognize beneficial changes but struggle to act—like smokers who know the risks yet continue. Awareness alone doesn’t drive change.
Mentees need to see the benefits of change and to create actionable plans. Motivational interviewing is not about talking mentees into changing, its about helping them explore what matters to them.
Next, you will learn about the mentee/mentor relationship qualities that will make Motivational Interviewing most effective.