In this session we discussed Motivational Interviewing, an approach used in the Counseling field to foster change in individuals. Like the previous session on Dweck, this FIG session was open to the larger college community- those who were currently trained as mentors in our formal Student Faculty Mentoring program as well as those on campus who just have an interest in mentoring but are not currently mentoring, and those providing mentoring informally (but are not part of our program). Motivational Interviewing, established by Miller & Rollnick (2002), is a structured approach to helping people change based on enhancing their intrinsic motivation and understanding ambivalence. Participants were asked to read about the basics of MI and in this FIG session, we discussed the utility of the four guiding principles and strategies of MI in relation to understanding and mentoring our KCC students. The readings from this session can also be accessed through the Faculty Student Mentoring program google site.

Motivational Interviewing