FREE MI IMPLEMENTATION WHITE PAPER

When MI Training
Is Not Enough

An adaptive approach to motivational interviewing implementation, trust, and accountability.

Your team has invested in MI. What helps that learning fit the conversations and responsibilities of everyday work? Explore where implementation can struggle and how to choose a more useful starting point.

  • Distinguish motivation, clarity, trust, and practical barriers.
  • See an Ask–Offer–Ask exchange and examples across four settings.
  • Use five questions to review implementation with your team.

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WHAT YOU WILL EXPLORE

Look at the conversation and the conditions around it.

01 · PURPOSE

Identify the immediate task

Consider when the next useful response is MI, a clear explanation, practical support, or a combination.

02 · PRACTICE

Make respect observable

Explore how trust, responsibility, and genuine choice can appear in everyday exchanges.

03 · IMPLEMENTATION

Connect the support

Examine what leadership, systems, and supervision need to provide for learning to be used.

Written for supervisors and leaders in child welfare, criminal justice, community mental health, and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).

Have a particular challenge in mind?

Tell us what your team already knows and which situations remain difficult. We can discuss training, coaching, supervision, or organizational support.

Discuss your team’s needs

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