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Motivational Interviewing & Discord
Glenn and Sebastian welcomed Stephen R. Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS to the podcast to discuss discord and many other topics. Stephen is a storyteller, trainer, therapist, author and the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) of Health Education & Training Institute. (www.hetimaine.org). He maintains a compassion-focused private practice in Portland, Maine USA where he also facilitates a variety of men’s, women’s, co-ed, and caregiver groups. Stephen has had significant experience working with people suffering with addiction, mental illness and training staff within the Department of Mental Health.
He is the co-founder of Agape, Inc. which supports the Men’s Resource Center of Southern Maine whose mission is to support boys, men and fathers and oppose violence and Dignity for People Using Opiates, a radical movement to change the conditions precipitating the opiate epidemic in our communities.
Stephen has been a member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2003 and became a Certified MINT Trainer in 2019. He has been a MIA-STEP trainer (Motivational Interviewing Assessment; Supervisor Training Program) for the New England ATTC since 2007. Stephen provides coaching and training domestically and internationally (Singapore, Iceland, China, Canada, Holland, Sweden, Poland, Turkey & UK) for social service agencies, health-care providers, substance abuse counselors, recovery coach specialists, criminal justice, vocational rehabilitation, and other groups on motivational interviewing, addiction, co-occurring disorders, counseling theory, “challenging” adolescents, supervision and ethics for care professionals, men’s work and the power of group work, as well as supervising a coding/coaching laboratory and simulation lab and training for Motivational Interviewing.
Stephen is the proud father of Sebastian, and co-author of Game Plan: A Man’s Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness.
Discord in Motivational Interviewing
Stephen Andrew explores discord in Motivational Interviewing and what it can tell us about the working relationship. Rather than viewing resistance as a characteristic of the person, MI invites practitioners to notice how the interaction itself may be contributing to tension, defensiveness or disengagement.
The conversation considers compassion, relationship repair and how practitioners can respond when they feel pulled towards argument, persuasion or correction. These themes connect with Discord in Motivational Interviewing, Partnership and the Fixing Reflex.
In this episode
00:00 – Introduction and episode preview
06:10 – Stephen’s introduction and early MI story
08:10 – Distinction between client-centeredness and MI
10:37 – The “trauma whisperer,” “gentle guesses,” “the whisperer of hopes and dreams,” and core needs
16:50 – Discord between the head and the heart
25:45 – Developing empathy and compassion
30:40 – Shame
35:20 – Creating learning communities
44:00 – On the horizon – A podcast, a new book, and a new organization called “Dignity”
48:40 – Start of real play between Glenn and Stephen
59:25 – Real play debrief
1:13:42 – End of episode
Links and contact information:
Website: www.hetimaine.org
Podcast: www.hetimaine.org/conversations-in-compassion
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