Stephen R. Andrew LCSW LADC CCS CGPHealth Education & Training Institute

www.hetimaine.org207-773-3275 heti@gwi.net

SHIfT HAPPENS!!!compassion with direction

BiographyStephen R. Andrew, LCSW, LADC, CCS, CGP

“storyteller”, trainer, author, group worker, therapist, community organizer…

Chief Energizing Officer of Health Education & Training Institute (HETI) and member of MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) since 2003.MIA-STEP trainer for ATTC New England since 2007.. Trained MI internationally in 18 countries. He has been a substance abuse counselor in a public school system, and the Executive Director of an adolescent prevention/treatment agency. He is the co-founder of Agape Inc. whichsupports the Men’s Resource Center of Southern Maine whose mission is to support boys, men and fathers and oppose violence and oppression & Dignity for Opiate users, a radical movement to change the conditions that promote the opiate epidemic in our communities. Stephen maintains a compassionate based private practice in Portland, Maine and facilitates men’s, co-ed, and caregivers groups. He is the co-author of the book “Game Plan: A Man’s Guide for Achieving Emotional Fitness” with two dear friends. Stephen lives with his sweet wife, Hilary, and is the proud father of twenty-two year-old Sebastian, in Portland, Maine USA.

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Who motivated you?Who was the one who..

“major positive influence ”(e.g., relative, supervisor,

sponsor, teacher, coach, counselor,

clergy person, etc.)

What were their characteristics/values?

•What did they do? 15 seconds of silence

No longer engage in power struggles with the people we serve…Power over restimulates the original trauma..

Give no unsolicited advice, direction and feedback…without permission,

This is a form of violence..

New Intentions...

“The individual is like a garden to be tended,

not a machine to be repaired”….

*New Working Definition of our work

is a collaborative, power with, not power

over, focus on communication with particular attention to the language of change. The conversation is designed to strengthen personal

internal motivation, the dreams, desire,

hopes and a commitment to a specific intention by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance

and compassion.

Compassion the ability to sit with sufferingHave compassion for everyone you meet, even if they do not want it … what seems like conceit, bad manners, sarcasm or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen….for you do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone…Miller Williams

2018 CS

“People change through the heart, then through the

mind..”

STOP MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THERE’RE AT…

MEET PEOPLE WHERE THEY

DREAM...

TO HOLD THE“ RIGHT ” POSITION

IS TO DESTROY THE WORKING

ALLIANCE ..

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An exercise … Let go of the RIGHTING REFLEX

● Stand up.. create pairs..● The person with the longest hair,

make a tight fist and hold as hard as you possibly can for the whole time…

● The other person take 30 seconds and see if you can open their fist.. try hard.. nothing too physical..

● What happened?

what you think?

“people are more willing to change when they know they are completely free not to change”

Undivided Attention…Listen with “soft” eyes, “warm”ears & “open” heart…Radical Acceptance…Silence...

Presence ..LISTEN well.(3min.)

Summarize…2020 seconds…Be brief..

POWER & CONTROLTO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED

CAPABLE CONNECTION

Tara MacGregor PACFA Reg Clinical & APD Practice Pavestones 2018

What’s going on here?

BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTERVENTION

NOT THE OUTCOME...

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SONG:

How could anyone ever tell you.. you are any thing less than beautiful…

How could anyone ever tell you …you are less than whole…

How could anyone fail to notice …that you’re loving is a miracle…

and how deeply you are connected to my soul…

Thank You!One thing you liked...One thing you relearned...One thing you learned…

Bibliography

Motivational Interviewing in Healthcare: William R. Miller, Stephen

Rollnick, Christopher C. Butler, The Guilford Press. New York, New

York. 2008.

Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, Third Edition.

William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick. The Guilford Press. New York,

New York. 2012.

The Power of Empathy. Arthur Ciaramicoli, Ph.D., Kathleen

Ketcham. Dutton Book Company. New York, New York. 2000.

Motivational Interviewing in Groups: Christopher Wagner, Karen

Ingersoll, The Guilford Press. New York, NY. 2013.

Game Plan: A Man’s Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness. Lyme

Allan., Powell, David., Andrew Stephen.,Central Recovery Press,

Las Vegas NV. 2012.

Rosengren, David (2017). 2nd edition, Building Motivational

Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook, New York, NY:

Guilford Press.

Motivationalinterviewing.org Website of Motivational Interviewing

Network of Trainers (MINT)