MI, Culture, and Intergenerational Healing: Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery

9:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. MT, 9:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. MT | 8:00–11:15 a.m. PT | 10:00 a.m.–1:15 p.m. CT | 11:00 a.m.–2:15 p.m. ET
Virtual 

Approved CEUs - 3 Cultural CE Hours
Approved for Cultural CE hours through the New Mexico Counseling & Therapy Practice Board and the New Mexico Social Work Board.

How does the past become present in our relationships — and what helps us interrupt the repetition of pain while drawing on memories of love, safety, and protection?

This 3-hour cultural training explores Motivational Interviewing, culture, attachment, and intergenerational healing through Ghosts in the Nursery and Angels in the Nursery. Originally developed in the context of parent-child psychotherapy, the framework is extended here to adult clinical practice, including work with adults without children.

Using MI Spirit as a guiding stance, participants will explore how relational memories from the past may become activated in present-day relationships, identity, intimacy, conflict, belonging, and change. “Ghosts” may emerge through unresolved experiences and repetitions of pain, while “angels” reflect memories of being loved, protected, understood, comforted, or safe that can serve as sources of resilience.

Particular attention will be given to culture, family, migration, language, and histories of colonization as contexts for how memories are held and understood. Through de-identified clinical vignettes, literature and film, reflective practice, and an ofrenda as a recurring metaphor, participants will explore how MI Spirit can support curiosity, cultural humility, autonomy, and deeper awareness of both client and clinician experience.