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Example #1

Remotivation was taught to the DARE drug education and prevention program in public schools in North Carolina.  Staff in schools used remotivation methods to introduce students to the dangers of substance use and motivate them to stop using drugs.

Example #2
A Sunday school teacher in North Carolina became a certified remotivator as part of her work at a mental health center.  At her church, she shared teaching responsibilities of a class of young children with another women by alternating every other Sunday.  Both teachers started teaching the class using traditional lecture and discussion.  The children paid little attention and were disruptive to both teachers.  The remotivator decided to try remotivation as her method instead of the tradional method and see how the children responded.  She used the same content, bible story or verse, as was planned in the teaching materials.  The only difference was that she led the class using remotivation.  The children responded very well.  They paid more attention and actively participated by the answering questions.  This continued over several weeks when suddenly the children asked the other teacher to conduct the sesssions like the remotivation teacher.   The children did not know what to call it.  The children personalized the difference in teaching method and decided that they did not like the non-remotivator.  They asked their parents if only the remotivator could be the only teacher of the class. 
Consumers/patients/clients/students consistently prefer remotivation group process to lecture and discussion.  This has also been show to be the case in substance abuse education classes in detoxification centers and in drivers education classes for person's who lost their license after being convicted for driving while intoxicated.
 

Example #3

Remotivation is an excellent method for leading group medical visits in primary care physicians offices.  It increases participation, increases learning over traditional lecture/discussion, and "activates" the patient to engage in healthy behaviors.