Motivational Interviewing Knowledge Centre
August 12, 2026 2026-08-17 21:08Motivational Interviewing Knowledge Centre
Explore Motivational Interviewing
A practical, evidence-informed resource for understanding MI, developing conversational skills and supporting its use across professional practice.
Whether you are new to MI, returning to it after training, developing your skills or considering how to embed MI across an organisation, start with the pathway most useful to you.
Choose your Motivational Interviewing pathway
The Motivational Interviewing Knowledge Centre is organised around four connected learning pathways. Explore the principles of MI, develop practical skills, consider its use in different professional settings, or focus on developing and implementing MI in practice.
Understanding Motivational Interviewing
Explore what Motivational Interviewing is, how it has developed and the relational foundations that distinguish MI from simply giving advice or persuading someone to change.
- What is Motivational Interviewing?
- The Spirit of MI
- Partnership, acceptance, compassion and empowerment
- Engaging, focusing, evoking and planning
- How MI supports conversations about change
MI Skills and Practice
Develop the communication skills that bring MI into real conversations, including listening, responding to change language and exchanging information skilfully.
- OARS + I
- Reflective listening
- Change talk and sustain talk
- Working with ambivalence
- Information exchange and Ask-Offer-Ask
MI in Different Settings
Explore how MI can support purposeful conversations across different professional contexts without losing sight of the responsibilities and challenges unique to each setting.
- Social work and social care
- Mental health
- Substance use
- Healthcare
- Criminal justice
- Education and youth work
Developing and Implementing MI
Move beyond attending a workshop to consider how MI skills develop through practice, feedback and mentoring, and what helps those skills become part of everyday organisational practice.
- Deliberate practice
- Feedback, coaching and mentoring
- MITI and fidelity
- Communities of Practice
- Leadership and organisational implementation
Developing MI is an ongoing process
Understanding the ideas behind MI matters, but conversational skill develops through opportunities to practise, notice what happens, receive useful feedback and try again.
Listen as well as read
The Knowledge Centre will also connect relevant topics with episodes of Talking To Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, hosted by Glenn Hinds and Dr Sebastian Kaplan. This will allow you to move from written guidance into longer conversations with MI practitioners, researchers, trainers and authors.
Develop your Motivational Interviewing practice
Explore experiential MI training for individual practitioners, advanced skills development and programmes designed around the needs of teams and organisations.
