Motivational Interviewing Made Easy 2

Another Five Weeks to Strengthen the Skill That Sets You Apart

So, you’ve read Motivational Interviewing Made Easy. You understand the basics: ask before advising, empower instead of instructing, use client language to spark change. But if you want to move from competent to exceptional, there’s one skill you need to master—reflections.

And that’s exactly what this book is designed to help you do.

Motivational Interviewing Made Easy 2: Another Five Weeks is a hands-on, structured program to help you develop advanced reflection techniques—step by step, week by week. These aren't vague communication tips. These are precise, targeted strategies aligned with the MITI (Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity), the gold standard for assessing MI skills in real clinical settings.

Over five weeks, you’ll build skill in five powerful areas of reflective listening:

• Week One: Hypo-Reflections – Learn to construct reflections based on educated guesses about what a client is thinking or feeling.
• Week Two: Change Your Tone – Shift from hesitant questions to confident, strategic statements that invite real exploration.
• Week Three: Directed Hypo-Reflections – Move beyond passive listening and begin steering conversations toward positive change.
• Week Four: Ampli-Reflections – Learn how to amplify client motivation or gently diminish resistance through tone and content.
• Week Five: Shift Your Grammar – Discover how small word choices—like conjunctions and interjections—can subtly shape a client's momentum.

Each chapter introduces one new skill to focus on for the week, complete with context, practice prompts, and tracking tools to help you monitor your development. You’ll receive clear guidance on how to integrate each reflection type into your daily work with clients—whether you’re a therapist, coach, counselor, nurse, or healthcare provider.

But let’s be honest: most people won’t actually do the work.

They’ll read the chapters, nod in agreement, and go right back to their default communication style. And that’s exactly what keeps them stuck—believing they’re doing MI, while continuing to miss the mark.

Don’t let the simplicity fool you. These skills may look easy on the page, but they’re deceptively powerful—and surprisingly difficult to execute with consistency and precision. Mastering them requires practice. And that’s why this book was written.

If you take the challenge seriously, you won’t just learn about reflections—you’ll live them. And when you submit your session for MITI coding, your scores will reflect it. You’ll stand out from peers who talk about MI but don’t actually use it well.

The truth is, very few readers complete the program. Fewer still reach out for the free coaching and feedback that’s offered. But those who do? Their skills don’t just improve—they transform.

This book is more than a follow-up. It’s a second chance to commit—not to reading about MI, but to becoming the kind of practitioner who truly embodies it.

Five weeks. One skill per week. And the kind of change that lasts.