Advancing Your Motivational Interviewing Skills
August 26 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
| Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a particular way of talking to people about change and growth to strengthen their own motivation and commitment (Miller & Rollnick, 2023). It can take years of training, coaching, and mentoring to advance our skills. In this one-hour presentation, Dana Sturtevant will share four key tasks to take your MI skills to the next level. Leave with new ideas to invigorate your client conversations. |
Learning Objectives:
- Ask open-ended questions to encourage clients to discover their own reasons and ideas for change.
- Readily hear and elicit “change talk”.
- Form deeper reflections that move the conversation forward.
Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D. (she/her) Bio:
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Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D. (she/her) is the co-founder of the Center for Body Trust and the co-author of the book Reclaiming Body Trust. As a registered dietitian, she helps people divest from diet culture, explore what it means to be embodied, and move toward more compassionate forms of radical care. Her work as a speaker, educator, and trainer focuses on humanizing health care, advancing health equity, and advocating for food and body sovereignty. As a sought-after speaker and writer, Dana is a champion for weight-inclusive models of care and offers supervision, training, and consultation for helping professionals and health care organizations. Dana’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Health, Self, Real Simple, Huffington Post, and on the TEDx stage. |
