Short Biography

Pela Petraki Kavvadia is a licensed physician DipIBLM, ELMOc and founder of the NGO Health Entropy Projects, the first NGO in Greece with clear vision on Lifestyle Medicine Advocacy and programs in the community, which is considered ” champion leader in Greece for the program ” Walk with a Doc”.
Pelagia Petraki is an alumnus of the MI Course from UMass Chan Medical School and active member of ACLM, ELMO,ACSM, Exercise is Medicine / Greece, Women4Oncology- Greece , Athens Medical Association, Hellenic Association of Pathologists, Volunteer of the Hellenic Olympic Academy and vice president of the Swedish club of Athens.
Pela Petraki is a mother of 3, and cares for a loving dog and cat. She refers to Exercise as her passion and refuge on difficult times and would like to explore further MI technics in Exercise for helping more people becoming active.

Workshop Title: Motivational Interviewing - enhancing self-efficacy

Short description of the Workshop (WGE3):

Self-efficacy plays an exclusive role in lifestyle prescription since it is the factor that in the end can determinate the outcome in the context of behavioral change.
Practitioners often face the challenge of the Individual’s willingness to perform a new behavior by having low confidence in their abilities to change.
During the workshop we will be able to identify paths of building confidence as we practice the concept of ”meeting the patient where he/she is ” while we can also reflect our own ( practitioners') ability to help the patient in exploring solutions.