Motivation Bites

07/28/2020

Boris wants us all to lose weight. Learn how...

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Why telling people what to do doesn't work and what you should do instead. Motivational interviewing supercharged with Solution Focused Brief Therapy, two sc...

09/30/2019

Half price for October 2019

Presented by Dr Pat Partington, learn how to supercharge your motivational interviewing skills with proven techniques of solution focused brief therapy.

02/13/2018

This online course starts with the fact that our brains are hardwired for survival: they don’t want us to burn calories unnecessarily or restrict our intake. That poses a problem for fitness professionals. However you're going to learn how to overcome this by activating the dopamine-producing reward pathways in the brain – the neurological basis of motivation. You’ll learn how to use the tried and tested techniques of Motivational Interviewing and supercharge them with skills of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. £25 off until the end of February 2018!!

Presented by Dr Pat Partington, learn how to supercharge your motivational interviewing skills with proven techniques of solution focused brief therapy.

01/30/2018

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We’re hugely invested in the idea that the cause of obesity lies with diet – and that we should therefore solve the problem with kale and apple soup (and oth...

01/18/2018

Online education: Half-priced until January 31st
Motivation and the Solution Focused Mindset
When it comes to helping people change behaviour there are beginners and experts. Beginners tell, experts listen. Beginners work with problems, experts with solutions. Beginners impose change with advice, experts elicit change with questions. Beginners work with willpower, experts with motivation (they're not the same thing by the way). Beginners work hard, experts work clever. Boost your career - learn how to become an expert.

Presented by Dr Pat Partington, learn how to supercharge your motivational interviewing skills with proven techniques of solution focused brief therapy.

01/14/2018

Three Good Things
Would you like to be happier? Of course you would, happy people have better physical health, feel less physical pain, live longer and make better decisions! There are lots of ways you can make yourself happier but it tends to be a short-lived experience, so how can you make yourself consistently happier? Do the Three Good Things exercise at the end of every day, that's how! First of all you are priming your mind in a positive way just before you sleep - which should even help you to sleep better but, importantly, because our memories are consolidated during sleep you will get those happy memories deeply engrained into your brain. And secondly, you are changing the way you view the world and the part that you play in making good things happen. They don't have to be big things, lots of small good things are much more important than the big things because they keep you at a constant level rather than going up and down all the time. Give it a go!

01/14/2018

Your brain on YES
Positive words and images fire-up the motivational centres of the brain. When we want someone to agree with us on a big issue we begin with small agreements and then build on them. This is a favourite technique of the psychologically informed salesperson that wants the customer to agree that a product is good. We use positive statements in clusters called 'yes sets', they could just as easily be called agreement sets as we are getting our client's brain into the agreement habit. This means that your client's brain is now more open and more accepting of your bigger statements surrounding exercise, rehabilitation and diet. These, of course, will make a massive impact on their lives. Using positive language not only fires the motivational centres of your client's brain but also your own. So you get better results and enjoy your work much more!

01/14/2018

Your brain on NO
Telling people people what to do works sometimes, well it works between 5-10% of the time actually. However, if it had any real effectiveness physical inactivity wouldn't be costing the NHS £1.1 billion every year. Obesity wouldn’t be costing £4.2 billion each year and smoking wouldn't be costing £5.2 billion each year. This short video shows, in simple terms, what happens in the brain when we receive direct advice. We are all socially conditioned to resist advice, and this begins all the way back in childhood. The brain's amygdala fires up a stress response that makes us change resistant, while the prefrontal cortex is dampened.

01/14/2018

Motivation and the Solution Focused Mindset
Give your career the boost that comes with behaviour-change expertise – the crucial ingredient essential in getting the best results for your clients. Learn how to become a mind-coach, working toward solutions, rather than away from problems: it’s more effective for your clients and more enjoyable for you.

Presented by Dr Pat Partington, learn how to supercharge your motivational interviewing skills with proven techniques of solution focused brief therapy.

01/14/2018

The question-behaviour effect: Ask, don't tell
Psychologists are increasingly realising that simply asking people about their future intentions actually influences their behaviour. It's called the question-behaviour effect. So rather than saying to someone, "Make sure you go to the gym tomorrow, you don't want to waste all that hard work", it's actually more effective to simply ask, "Will you go to the gym tomorrow?" Firstly, nobody likes to be told what to do and secondly, the question fires up a mental image of performing the behaviour, which is then reinforced by thoughts that make it more likely to happen. 25% more likely actually! Genius!

01/14/2018

How we think and make decisions
Motivation is a word that we use to explain behaviour. We do things because we’re motivated to do them. But sometimes even though we want to do something we can end up not doing it. So we might want to exercise and eat healthy food but too often we end up sat in front of the TV eating junk.
So why is that? Well, everything makes sense when you understand how we think and make decisions. In this short video I'll introduce you to something that psychologists call 'systems thinking' and how we make use of these systems in making decisions.

01/14/2018

Why telling people what to do doesn't work
We know that there are two systems for thinking: subconscious System 1 and conscious System 2. In our everyday lives these two thinking systems complement each other, but they don't do equal amounts of work. In fact psychologists believe that our subconscious system 1 mind does around 90% of all of our thinking and decision making for us. However, when we give direct advice to people, we are communicating with their conscious system 2 mind - and that's why telling people what to do doesn't work!