When Helping Gets Stuck: Adaptive Motivational Interviewing Foundations
Live online workshop | Thursday, January 28, 2027 | Noon–4 p.m. Eastern (EST, UTC−05:00) | 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Pacific | $150 USD per person
An introduction to AMIGA’s six conditions and Ask–Offer–Ask.
How do you carry out your responsibilities when expectations differ or trust has been damaged?
Join Alexander Waitt of AMIGA for a four-hour workshop connecting MI’s ongoing task of engaging with AMIGA’s six conditions for trust and accountability. Engaging is the work of building and sustaining a collaborative relationship. The six conditions help you clarify responsibilities and participation, so you and the other person know what to expect from one another. You’ll use Ask–Offer–Ask, an information-exchange practice within MI, to explore the other person’s perspective, share relevant information, and ask what the other person makes of it.
Bring a work conversation you’re finding difficult. You’ll prepare a conversation plan, rehearse it twice, and use feedback from your peers to revise your approach. You’ll leave with your revised planner and a six-conditions guide to use in your work. This workshop is for you if you work as a supervisor, practice coach, practitioner, or trainer and want to learn AMIGA’s approach.
This workshop introduces AMIGA’s application of these ideas; it is not comprehensive foundational MI training. Completing it satisfies the introductory learning requirement for AMIGA’s trainer pathway. Further preparation, fees, and written teaching authorization are separate.
Learning objectives
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Distinguish MI’s ongoing task of engaging from AMIGA’s six conditions for trust and accountability.
- Identify a condition that needs attention in a difficult professional conversation.
- Use Ask–Offer–Ask to exchange information while clarifying your responsibilities and the other person’s.
- Revise your conversation plan using feedback from both practice rehearsals.
Format and completion
The live Zoom session includes 220 instructional minutes and 20 minutes of breaks. To receive your certificate of completion, attend at least 198 instructional minutes, take part in both rehearsals or an agreed accessible equivalent, and complete your conversation planner.
Professional CE credit is not offered. Completing this workshop does not certify MI competence or authorize you to teach AMIGA’s approach.
Registration
View workshop details and purchase your seat. Enter your name and email if you are attending, or the attendee’s details if you are purchasing for someone else. After AMIGA verifies the paid seat, we email registration instructions privately to the attendee. The payment receipt goes to the purchaser.
You can request a refund through January 21, 2027, or arrange for someone else to attend in your place. If AMIGA cancels the workshop, you will receive a full refund.
For group registration, accommodation requests, or questions, contact alex@amigallc.com.
