MI, Culture, and Intergenerational Healing: Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery
Friday, October 2, 2026
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 do our histories shape the ways we understand, protect, care for, and respond to others?
This interactive 3-hour training explores the intersection of Motivational Interviewing, culture, attachment, and intergenerational healing through the concepts of Ghosts in the Nursery and Angels in the Nursery.
Using MI Spirit as a guiding stance, participants will consider how family history, culture, migration, loss, language, relationships, and lived experience shape the meanings people make of themselves, others, and change. The training emphasizes curiosity, cultural humility, and an MI-consistent strength-based approach to intergenerational stories.
An ofrenda will serve as a recurring metaphor for what is carried across generations: stories, values, wounds, traditions, absences, protective relationships, sensory memories, expectations, and sources of belonging. Clinical and cultural vignettes will be used to explore intergenerational patterns, protective adaptations, family roles, belonging, and change.
Participants will also reflect on the “ghosts” and “angels” they may carry into helping relationships and consider how their own histories influence what they notice, value, avoid, feel pulled to rescue, or feel compelled to change.
Location:
International
Category title:
Introductory
Intermediate
Advanced
Cost:
115
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Event language:
Eng
Official event:
No
Summary:
An experiential MI training exploring culture, attachment, intergenerational patterns, and the “ghosts” and “angels” carried across generations.
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Date:
9 Oct 2026 - 9:00am
