Motivational Interviewing

Enhances importance, confidence and readiness
for making difficult changes.

What Is Motivational Interviewing?

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.

MI helps others become willing, able and ready for change. MI is designed to strengthen an individual's motivation for and movement toward a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person's own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.

MI outperforms traditional advice-giving for promoting sustainable behavior change. In contrast to persuasion strategies that seek to compel change through external mechanisms, MI strengthens an individual's intrinsic motivation through enhancing willingness, ability and commitment for positive change. MI does not impose change, but rather supports sustainable change in a manner congruent with the person's own values, strengths and wishes.

You can visit the official MINT Website at: www.motivationinterviewing.org

About Ali

Ali Hall (JD) is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, elected member of the MINT Board of Directors, and an independent consultant, trainer, and life coach.

I have a passion for working with helping professionals, in all fields and contexts, enhancing their abilities to help those they serve make positive and sustained changes.

Since 2006, I have been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and an independent consultant and trainer. I have been fortunate to have designed and facilitated thousands of MI workshops for behavioral health clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, program administrators, educators, social and child welfare workers, health care providers, health coaches, organizers, and criminal / juvenile justice professionals, as well as training for trainers in evidence-based practices

I serve on the MINT Board of Directors, working with professional skill development committees and initiatives. I have served on training teams for MINT Trainings for New Trainers (TNTs) in Fort Wayne, Atlanta, Berlin, New Orleans and Warsaw. I serve as a training associate for several behavior change organizations as well as the University of California at Davis. I provide subject matter expert consultation for Chapin Hall and several jurisdictions implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act, for the psychotherapy.net MI with Adolescents video productions, and for California Judicial Education Resources.

I am a co-author of the 2021 book Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians- A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement and co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument.

I regularly provide MI coding and skill development coaching and provide consultation to systems and research projects for effective MI implementation, particularly for addressing health disparities. A California native, I spent my undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, completed graduate course work in labor relations and organizational behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University as well as my JD at the Cornell University School of Law.

In my spare time, I participate in marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-served kids’ charities.