Go2K: Leveraging Motivational Interviewing & Coaching for Student Well-Being & Success

suring students’ total well-being and success is a priority in higher education. With counseling centers becoming increasingly overwhelmed by demand, the call for more preventive strategies has become urgent. Motivational Interviewing presents a reservoir of vital strategies and techniques that can be employed by faculty and staff, enabling them to provide support to students before a crisis arises. Challenges can range from roommate conflicts and academic advancement to mental health issues, so facilitating holistic student success is more critical than ever.

Coaching, centered around sparking motivation and guiding action toward individual goals, is emerging as a pivotal movement within higher education. However, embracing change can be complex. Students, faculty, staff, and fellow students often feel trapped in a behavior change cycle. This webinar will distill the fundamental concepts of coaching and Motivational Interviewing, offering specific strategies and inquisitive techniques that faculty, staff, or students could utilize to support a student navigating campus life and equip participants with practical takeaways for everyday campus conversations.

Objectives

• Understand the six stages of the change model
• Recall the four processes of Motivational Interviewing
• Identify at least one strategy to employ at each stage of change with students
• Utilize one specific coaching question at each stage of change with students. ^{Source: Go2Knowledge}

For more information and to register for this webinar, visit go2knowledge.org.

N.B., in order to view this free webinar, you must sign up using your Langara email at go2knowledge.org