Motivational Interviewing Practice Guides
Working guides to MI skills and how to keep them sharp: the MI Spirit, OARS, change talk, the four processes, and MITI fidelity coding. Start with the motivational interviewing overview, or get started with a free account.
Change Talk vs Sustain Talk: Examples & DARN-CAT
Change talk points toward change, sustain talk away. How to recognise both in motivational interviewing, evoke change talk, and answer sustain talk.
Getting Started with Zenobits
Create and publish your first roleplay scenario in Zenobits.
MI Fidelity and MITI Coding: How MI Practice Is Measured
MI fidelity is how closely a practitioner adheres to MI in real sessions. MITI is the standard coding system. What it measures, the competence and proficiency thresholds, and how to use coding feedback for improvement.
OARS in Motivational Interviewing (With Examples)
Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections and Summaries are the four core MI skills. Worked examples of each, the mistakes to avoid, and how to practise them.
Spirit of Motivational Interviewing Explained
The four pillars of MI Spirit: partnership, acceptance, compassion and empowerment. What each looks like in session, and how to build it deliberately.
Embedding Zenobits in Articulate Storyline 360
A complete guide for Instructional Designers on integrating Zenobits AI roleplays into Storyline projects.
Motivational Interviewing Example: An Annotated Session
A full motivational interviewing example: an annotated sample dialogue showing OARS, change talk, and the four processes (Engage, Focus, Evoke, Plan) in a real conversation.
The Four Processes of Motivational Interviewing
Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning: the four processes of Motivational Interviewing. What each process is, what it looks like in a session, the common traps, and how to practise them.
How to Practise Motivational Interviewing (Between Trainings)
MI is a skill, not knowledge: it fades without practice. Practical ways to practise motivational interviewing between workshops, the deliberate-practice method, and how to get feedback on your own sessions.
50 Motivational Interviewing Questions (With Examples)
A practical, categorised list of 50 motivational interviewing questions (open questions for engaging, focusing, evoking change talk, and planning) with examples and the traps to avoid.
Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing
The five stages of change, what each one sounds like in session, and why Miller and Rollnick say MI was never built on the transtheoretical model of change.
7 Core Motivational Interviewing Techniques
The main Motivational Interviewing techniques with examples: OARS, agenda mapping, the readiness ruler, elicit-provide-elicit, and rolling with resistance.
Reflective Listening in Motivational Interviewing
Simple and complex reflections in Motivational Interviewing: how to build one, how deep to go, the mistakes a supervisor hears, and how to practise the skill.
Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use
What the evidence actually shows about MI for substance use, why the righting reflex is strongest in this work, and how to run a mandated appointment well.
Ambivalence in Motivational Interviewing
What ambivalence means in Motivational Interviewing, how to tell it apart from discord and from low confidence, and why a pros and cons list often backfires.