ABSTRACT
Following the Treatment Contracting session, we start immediately with fence-around, for two reasons. First of all, the client should be, and feel, as safe, secure, and stable as possible to have the best chance of being able to concentrate on what’s coming next: the personal training work. Second, the motivational interviewing (MI) and personal trainer approach requires us to facilitate some small, quick successes. It is important for the client to experience quick success so that the perhaps still tentative commitment to working toward his or her goals is reinforced and strengthened.
