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Conducts motivational interviewing conversations with athletes to build intrinsic motivation and resolve ambivalence about training or behavior change.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/grimoire:apply-motivational-interviewingThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use the OARS technique and collaborative conversation to surface an athlete's intrinsic motivation and resolve ambivalence without coercion or external pressure.
Use the OARS technique and collaborative conversation to surface an athlete's intrinsic motivation and resolve ambivalence without coercion or external pressure.
Adopted by: Olympic coaching programs (USOC mental performance division), addiction counseling (the origin domain), healthcare behavior change, and increasingly elite sport coaching education programs incorporate MI principles. The New Zealand All Blacks coaching staff, Wayne Smith in particular, has described MI-influenced approaches as part of their culture-building process. Impact: Mageau & Vallerand (2003) showed that autonomy-supportive coaching (giving choice, rationale, acknowledging feelings — all MI principles) predicts higher intrinsic motivation, greater persistence, and higher satisfaction than controlling coaching. Meta-analyses in healthcare show MI outperforms direct advice-giving for behavior change by 20-50% (Rubak et al., 2005). In sport: athletes high in intrinsic motivation (SDT framework) show 40% less burnout and 30% higher training consistency than extrinsically motivated counterparts.
MI works only when the coach genuinely holds these four attitudes:
If you are entering the conversation wanting to fix, convince, or tell: wait. MI from a controlling mindset backfires.
Avoid closed or leading questions. Start with:
Resist the urge to problem-solve in the first 5 minutes. The athlete needs to hear themselves talk.
Acknowledge the athlete's strengths and efforts without condescension:
Affirmations are not flattery — they acknowledge something real and specific. They build trust and reduce defensiveness.
Use reflections to demonstrate understanding and deepen exploration:
Avoid asking "Why don't you...?" — it provokes defensiveness. Reflect instead.
Every 5-7 minutes, summarize what you've heard:
Summaries serve two functions: they show you've listened, and they organize the athlete's own thinking.
Change talk = any statement the athlete makes toward motivation or commitment:
When you hear change talk: reflect it back, explore it ("Say more about that"), and ask about next steps. Do NOT rush to action planning.
When the athlete pushes back, do not argue:
Resistance signals the conversation has moved faster than the athlete. Slow down, reflect, evoke.
npx claudepluginhub jeffreytse/grimoire --plugin grimoireUses Motivational Interviewing (MI) to resolve ambivalence and elicit intrinsic motivation for change. Best when direct advice or persuasion has failed.
Coaches active listening skills: receptive mindset, reflective paraphrasing, clarifying questions, and synthesis. Use for improving communication, preparing for difficult conversations, or when you talk more than you listen.
Routes psychology requests to the appropriate cognitive/behavioral analysis tool based on the user's situation — bias identification, motivation diagnosis, persuasion, behavior change, or heuristic assessment.