Strategies for Eliciting Motivation in the Unmotivated
OBJECTIVES
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Apply an understanding of the human brain and motivational and reward system to their clinical
work.
Conceptualize behavioural challenges as skills deficits or problems with contingency
management
Apply a nonjudgmental and deeply curious approach to interview and counselling techniques
Elicit client specific motivators and treatment goals
Summarize the key features of motivational interviewing and stages of change.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
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The Brain's Reward and Planning System
The Physiology of Motivation and Reward
How the Reward and Planning System Breaks Down
A Practical Toolbox of Strategies (including assistive technologies)
Distractibility and lack of focus can strangle the effectiveness of even the brightest and best trained
clients, students and/or employees. Dr. Nowell is passionate about helping the people to make the best
possible choices about their commitments and obligations. He is convinced that with a basic
understanding of our own reward and planning system—the way our brains work—we can make the
best use of our time and energy resources at work, school, and in our relationships.
The Brain’s Reward and Planning System
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Understanding the Brain's Reward System from the Inside Out
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Case conceptualization from the perspective of “executive functions” of choosing,
planning, inhibiting, and prioritizing;
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How to Get Clients to Start Talking about Change
Connecting the Dots: Linking up Treatment Goals to What Our Client Already Loves
The Physiology of Motivation and Reward
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Intrinsic Motivation: the Five Reasons That People Do Anything That They Do
What does dopamine “feel like”? What does motivation “feel like”?
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Understanding the Multiple Sources of Self-Esteem and Connecting Those to Treatment
Objectives
Connecting with Return to Work Clients around the Key Human Needs Served by Employment
How to Establish Rapport Immediately with Any Client or Student
Connecting Therapeutic Goals to Our Clients Values and Essential Purposes
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Understand exactly what motivates your clients, and apply that client-specific
understanding to real-life motivational challenges in work, school, and clinical settings;
How the Reward and System Breaks Down
 Understand the clinical conditions which impede attention
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and organization
Four Signs That You Are Working Harder Than Your Clients
Which Techniques Should Absolutely Be Avoided with under-motivated Clients?
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"We're All ADHD Now"-What the Rest of Us Can Learn from People Who Really Struggle with
Focus, Distractibility, and Time Management
Dangers of Failing to Recognize Our Clients Stage of Change
A Practical Toolbox of Strategies
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Strategic Behavioral Inquiry: A respectful, client-centered approach to motivational
management
Learning and Teaching the Key Principle That Every Behavioral Challenge Is Either a Skills Deficit
or a Contingency Problem
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“I work better under a deadline” - strategies for managing time management problems
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How Can We Make Use of the Best of Recent Brain Research to Facilitate Client Movement
Towards Therapeutic Goals?
What Key Motivational Interviewing Techniques Can Be Applied to Any Clinical Situation?
The "Three Don'ts "of Employment Assistance
The “Magic If” - What Method Actors Have To Teach Clinicians
Cloud-based strategies to enhance organization and efficiency
Technologies for motivational support
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