MI Audio

What is it?

An on demand audio files of Motivational Interviewing or change based conversations. Audios range from 5 minutes to 30+ minutes

How does it help?

Use these videos to listen to proficient, competent or person centered conversations. Whether you are a leader guiding a team, or an individual it can be helpful to hear the DIFFERENCES in conversations. If you are trained in MICA coding, you can use the audios to practice your coding skills. Often these audios are also used for Johns Coding & Coaching videos, so you can compare and see how you did there!

Explore the MI Audio Archive if you…

  • Want to HEAR what “good Motivational Interviewing” sounds like
  • Want to HEAR what “person centered” conversation sounds like
  • Want to practice your MICA coding skills
  • Want to hear and learn how to navigate conversations through Motivational Interviewing

Affirmations

Affirmations are a micro skill within Motivational Interviewing, the more we affirm, call out strengths and empower others, the more autonomy and activation they will have.

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Opportunity for Affirmations – “Devon”
MI Audio: Opportunity for Affirmations – “Devon”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio-Youth Feeling Healthy with “Bella”
MI Audio-Youth Feeling Healthy with “Bella”
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change

Empathy

Accurate Empathy is a micro skill within Motivational Interviewing.  There is a difference between empathy, sympathy and compassion, when we do accurate empathy, we truly are able to step into another’s shoes to see the world from their worldview.  This helps clients feel heard and understood.

MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability

Engage

Engage is the first of the 4 process’s of Motivational Interviewing.  During this stage, we aim to use these micro-skills: express empathy, use reflective listening, roll with resistance  to help explore their ambivalence. 

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI Audio – Adolescent Seeking to Avoid Pregnancy
MI Audio – Adolescent Seeking to Avoid Pregnancy
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Move closer to kids?
MI Audio-Move closer to kids?

Evocative Questions

Evoking clients thoughts, ideas, feelings about change helps them to stay in control of the change process. Open ended questions can often help clients to dive deep into their own thoughts and feelings.  Evoke is also one of the Motivational Interviewing intentions used on the MICA (Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment)

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio-Not-Quite Competent MI – “DVR 3”
MI Audio-Not-Quite Competent MI – “DVR 3”
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI Audio- Example of Proficient MI – “DVR 4”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Exercise with David

Focus

Focus is the second of the 4 process’s of Motivational Interviewing. With the goal to strengthen motive behind change we want to help the client focus on their values, their goals and what they ultimately want.  

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving

Partnering to Problem Solve

Partnering is an intention on the MICA, which IFIOC co-authored.  But how we partner to help our clients problem solve in a way that supports their autonomy is key to success in Motivational Interviewing.  When clients get stuck, sometimes they need us to step in and help light up the path.

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio- A Client that Keeps Losing Focus – “Leva”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI Audio- MI Microskills – “Alyssa”
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Move closer to kids?
MI Audio-Move closer to kids?

Creating a Plan

The third of the 4 process’s of Motivational Interviewing.  This stage is trying to help your client elicit their own plan for change.  Using micro skills like affirmations and highlighting their strengths to increase confidence in change.

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio-Exercise + Finalizing a Plan
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”

Stages of Change

This is not a Motivational Interviewing concept but one we teach at IFIOC to help put the scaffolding in place to understand the change process. These 4 stages of change can help you identify where a person is at mentally with their change process.  See IFIOC MI approach or rainbow sheet for more details.

MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI
MI audio-Pregnancy, Healthy Eating + Competent MI

Strategic Reflective Listening

Strategic reflective listening is key to Motivational Interviewing.  We are not parroting others statements, but strategically shining light by reflecting key things they have said.

MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability
MI Audio-Supervisor and Accountability
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Not-Quite Competent MI – “DVR 3”
MI Audio-Not-Quite Competent MI – “DVR 3”
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio-MI with Child Expressing Her Concerns
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio-Youth Feeling Healthy with “Bella”
MI Audio-Youth Feeling Healthy with “Bella”
MI Audio- Supervisor – Focus on Values in Change
MI Audio- Supervisor – Focus on Values in Change
MI Audio – Adolescent Seeking to Avoid Pregnancy
MI Audio – Adolescent Seeking to Avoid Pregnancy
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio – Financial Convo – Focus + Planning Heavy
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”

Values / Focus Mountain

Trendsetting in the Motivational Interviewing world. IFIOC has been called the Avand Garde of MI, for our use of pro-social values during the Focus stage of Motivational Interviewing. The more we can connect someone to not just their target behavior, but their VALUES behind it, the more motive they will have for change.
IFIOC created the Focus Mountain concept to help explain values and their part of Motivational Interviewing and the behavior change process.

MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio- Summarizing + Creating Next Steps with Pete
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving

Types of talk (Change, Resistance, Sustain)

Understanding the types of talk is part of learning Motivational Interviewing.  The more you understand the language you hear, the more you know how to move forward in the change process. Please see IFIOC’s MI approach or rainbow sheet for more information.

MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio: Evolving Change Talk “DVR #5”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Examples of Scaling Questions – “Henry”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Frustrated Client – “Healthcare #5”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio- Reflective Listening – “Migraine”
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio – Evoking to Partner in Problem Solving
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI Audio- Navigating Covid-19 with a New Baby
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI audio-Breastfeeding + Creating a Plan
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI Audio-Ambivalence about Continuing to Breastfeed
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI audio- A Person-Centered Approach “Lost Her Way”
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change
MI Audio-Unhappy in Job yet Struggling with Change
MI Audio-Exercise with David
MI Audio-Exercise with David
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