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Join a community dedicated to deepening Motivational Interviewing practice. Sign up to take your first Spirit Check and gain insights into your MI growth.
Join a community dedicated to deepening Motivational Interviewing practice. Sign up to take your first Spirit Check and gain insights into your MI growth.
Your Partnership is a little below full. This is a good time to pause, reflect, and restore balance.
Spend a few minutes considering what’s influencing your spirit and how you can bring it back to a better state.
Your Empowerment is a little below full. This is a good time to pause, reflect, and restore balance.
Spend a few minutes considering what’s influencing your spirit and how you can bring it back to a better state.
Your Acceptance is a little below full. This is a good time to pause, reflect, and restore balance.
Spend a few minutes considering what’s influencing your spirit and how you can bring it back to a better state.
Your Compassion is a little below full. This is a good time to pause, reflect, and restore balance.
Spend a few minutes considering what’s influencing your spirit and how you can bring it back to a better state.
The Partnership Spirit Tank supports restoration by helping helpers reconnect with the experience of collaborative care. Grounded in the aspirational nature of Partnership, this experience:
This assessment will help you reflect on:
Creates space to reflect on how Partnership shows up in day-to-day moments.
Encourages curiosity about how collaboration unfolds (or falters) in relational work.
Provides closure, affirmation, or an invitation to seek further support.
Here’s a quick overview of each step in the process:
Orient: Anchor reflection in a moment where Partnership was tested or affirmed.
Arrive: Create space for emotional check-in and presence.
Reflect: Deepen understanding through Partnership-aligned prompts.
Respond: Identify a relational or emotional need—or let something go.
The Acceptance Spirit Tank experience supports restoration of the MI spirit by helping users:
This assessment will help you reflect on:
Reconnect with a specific moment when Acceptance felt stretched or activated.
Reflect meaningfully using MI-aligned inquiry rooted in empathy, autonomy, and worth.
Identify emotional or relational needs, or release what no longer serves.
Receive appropriate next steps, whether internal reframing or external support.
Here’s a quick overview of each step in the process:
Orient: Connect assessment result to a meaningful moment from today.
Arrive: Emotional check-in and grounding.
Reflect: Deepen insight through guided inquiry.
Respond: Identify a need or let something go.
Evaluate & Refill: Determine next step and reinforce support pathways.
The Empowerment Spirit Tank experience is designed to help users reconnect with their ability to foster agency and self-efficacy—in themselves and others—especially when it feels most elusive. Through reflection, support, and redirection, the user builds awareness of their role as a catalyst for growth, not a fixer.
Here’s a quick overview of each step in the process:
Orient: Connect assessment result to a meaningful moment from today.
Arrive: Emotional check-in and grounding.
Reflect: Deepen insight through guided inquiry.
Respond: Identify a need or let something go.
Evaluate & Refill: Determine next step and reinforce support pathways.
The Compassion Spirit Tank experience helps restore the MI spirit by supporting users to:
This assessment will help you reflect on:
Reconnect with moments where compassion felt present or strained.
Reflect on the aspirational elements of Compassion in MI (including cultural humility and self-kindness)
Identify what support is needed—or what emotional weight needs to be released
Complete the cycle with emotional closure or by reaching out for more support
Here’s a quick overview of each step in the process:
Orient: Connect assessment result to a meaningful moment from today.
Arrive: Emotional check-in and grounding.
Reflect: Deepen insight through guided inquiry.
Respond: Identify a need or let something go.
Evaluate & Refill: Determine next step and reinforce support pathways.
Get a complete picture of where you stand by taking the full Spirit Check, it only takes about 7 minutes!
