Talking well with people is a craft, and a craft is learnt by practising. We build courses, exercises and conversations with AI clients around the conversations you actually face: from the appraisal and the demanding customer to the therapy session.
Made by psychologists Stian Midtgård and Jan Reidar Stiegler
MI-lab is available in English. Our other labs are in Norwegian today. About the languages
You can use a lab we have already built, or have one built around your own methods. Either way, with your own users, your branding and an overview for whoever leads the training.
MI-lab, EFT-lab or Lederlab for your group, with your branding, your own users, a progress overview and courses in the right order.
Motivational interviewing · Emotion-focused therapy · Leadership conversations · Employer engagement
MI-lab is available in English, Swedish and Norwegian. The other labs are in Norwegian.
See the labs →
We create courses, exercises, clients and a mentor around your methods and the conversations that are difficult for you, with your name, logo and colours. Inkluderingslab was built this way, for conversations with employers and jobseekers in Norwegian workplace inclusion services.
Sales conversations · Leadership · Customer service · Workplace inclusion · Health and welfare · Schools and early years
Which conversations matter most and are hardest, and what good practice looks like for you.
Courses, exercises and clients drawn from your everyday work, in your methods.
Your experts test the lab and refine it until it hits the mark.
Your own users, a progress overview and further development as you learn.
We have built EFT-lab, developed by Jan Reidar Stiegler, specialist in clinical adult psychology, in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy and IPR (Institutt for psykologisk rådgivning). It is the template: with your approach it becomes a CBT lab, an MBT lab or an ISTDP lab, built together with the trainers and clinicians who own the method.
EFT-lab is available in Norwegian today. An English lab is being built together with practitioners in the field.
For example: cognitive behavioural therapy · metacognitive therapy · ISTDP and dynamic therapy · mentalization-based treatment · couples and family therapy · core therapist skills
Each lab is built together with professionals who teach the field, and is in use with therapists, trainers, employment services and managers in Norway. MI-lab is also available in English and Swedish. The other three are in Norwegian.
Courses at three levels, conversation practice and the MI recorder for role-plays and exercises.
English · Swedish · Norwegianmotivationalinterviewing.ai →
Nine topic courses, chair work and focused simulations for therapists.
Norwegian. An English version is under way.eft-lab.no →
Leadership conversations in short sequences from theory to role-play, based on motivational interviewing, established theories of motivation and change, and Norwegian guidance from STAMI, the Labour Inspection Authority and NAV.
Norwegian only. Built on Norwegian employment law.About Lederlab →
Practice in conversations with employers and jobseekers in Norwegian workplace inclusion services, from referral to job. Variants are in use with Norwegian employment services; we are happy to show the demo.
Norwegian only. Made for the Norwegian system.See the demo →Courses and theory give you the knowledge. The exercises turn it into technique. The conversations are where you use it, again and again, with feedback. The screenshots are from our Norwegian labs.
The first thing many people ask: can my manager read what I wrote? In MI-lab, the answer is no. This is how we handle personal data in MI-lab and EFT-lab, which each have their own privacy policy.
Data is stored on servers in Germany. We have data processing agreements with our suppliers, and the content is not used to train AI models. Client responses are generated by language models from OpenAI in the USA, safeguarded by the EU’s standard contractual clauses.
In MI-lab, the organisation’s administrator sees how far each participant has come and how much the service is used. No other user can open the content of the conversations, the analyses or cases they have written themselves.
You practise with AI-generated clients, not real people. In MI-lab, speech is converted to text as you go, on servers in the EU.
In MI-lab, training data is deleted 12 months after the last activity, and 90 days after an agreement with the organisation ends. In EFT-lab, you delete your account and all its content yourself. DialogSkills AS is the data controller.
MI-lab: privacy policy (in Norwegian) →EFT-lab: privacy policy (in Norwegian) →
Much of what makes a conversation good is shared by the therapist, the manager, the adviser and the salesperson: listening, understanding what is at stake for the other person, meeting scepticism and disagreement with respect, and helping someone a step further. We have taught this throughout our working lives, and it is what the platform trains.
We own DialogSkills together. Stian built the platform and is responsible for motivational interviewing, leadership and work. Jan leads the psychotherapy work.
The content is developed and quality-assured by psychologists and practitioners in the field. Client responses and feedback are generated by AI within these frameworks.
People with a history and reactions of their own, who are affected by what you say. You can try again and see what changed.
Courses, theory, exercises, conversation practice and progress fit together, with an overview for whoever leads the group.
Licensed psychologist in Norway, working in work and organisational psychology, with a clinical background and more than 20 years’ experience of communication skills training for frontline professionals, known as a trainer and speaker on motivational interviewing. He also runs Arbeidspsykolog AS in Bergen, with courses in motivational interviewing and leadership (in Norwegian).
Psychotherapist, supervisor, researcher and teacher, who has trained psychologists in therapy for more than ten years. Professional lead at the Norwegian Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy (NIEFT) and affiliated with IPR in Bergen. His doctorate from the University of Bergen (2018) examined emotional processing in EFT and the effects of two-chair dialogue. Author of Emosjonsfokusert terapi and co-editor of Terapeutens håndbok i emosjonsfokusert terapi, both in Norwegian.
Tell us which conversations your people face. We will get in touch, show you the platform and explain how a lab for you could look. We give a quote after a conversation.
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