MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING with Dr. Jonathan Fader - Part 1
Coach Your Brains Out
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The Writing Reflex in Motivational Interviewing
The human brain likes to find what's wrong in a pattern. And so as coaches, we're always looking for like, what can we write? What can we make right? We want to write our I GHT, make something right when we think of it as being wrong. If we ignore those things and just focus on fixing or writing what's wrong, we do the athlete into service. So paying attention to not jumping in and fixing or giving advice too early in the process is key. 80% of the time where athletes are unsure if they actually want the advice, or aren't sure about how they're going to receive the advice - that's why motivational interviewing is important.
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