Short Summary

Help your clients change debilitating behaviors and thought patterns through motivational interviewing. Take Courage Coaching is happy to offer a new course focused entirely on motivational interviewing skills and processes. This 6-week course provides 12 hours of continuing education credits. Upon successful completion of this course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion from TCCU in motivational interviewing. 

Learning Objective

Students will be able to demonstrate motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate working with clients in all stages of behavior change using the transtheoretical model.

What is Motivational Interviewing?

According to Psychology Today, "Motivational Interviewing is method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. It is a practical, empathetic, and short-term process that takes into consideration how difficult it is to make life changes."

Motivational interviewing is often used to help people change their behaviors when facing addiction and chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, to name a few. Motivational interviewing is a good tool for people experiencing anger and/or hostility about their situation. It can help them move through emotional stages to find what is needed to motivate them to change. 

Meet Your Instructors

Kendy

Coach and Director of TCCU, CPMC, NBC-HWC

Kendy lives in northern California with her husband and daughters.  The mother of six children—some grown, twin daughters still at home—and a grandmother to five, she raises poultry, enjoys scrap-booking, sewing and gardening, and loves to read.  

She lives with several pain-producing conditions but hates to miss out because of pain, so she loves coping strategies—choices she makes daily that have her back to “doing life,” rather than being a spectator or withdrawing completely. 

After being coached for her own pain, she made the decision to take coach training.  As a TCCU- and Nationally-certified coach, she helps clients learn pain management skills and return to happy and productive lives.  She wholeheartedly believes it is possible to change your perception about pain.

Paul

Coach and TCCU Faculty — ACSM-CPT, CPMC, NBC-HWC

Paul comes to Take Courage Coaching® with experience in fitness training. He has worked in a functional restoration program with people who are in chronic pain, and is personally familiar with the challenges and successes of his mother—who not only lives with chronic pain, but thrives in spite of it. 

Paul is fluent in Spanish, which now makes the TCC® program available to Latinos. He loves to hunt, fish and camp, play baseball and snowboard. He recently returned home to Bozeman, Montana.