The Aspirational Spirit of MI: Learning from the Work Without Carrying It All
Live online workshop | Thursday, January 14, 2027 | Noon–2 p.m. Eastern (EST, UTC−05:00) | 9–11 a.m. Pacific | $75 USD per person
Some conversations stay with you after the workday ends. How can you learn from them and bring your reflection to a useful stopping point?
Join Alexander Waitt of AMIGA for a two-hour live workshop on MI’s aspirational spirit and functional closure. Functional closure means reaching enough understanding of a professional experience to decide what comes next. You identify what you have learned, clarify what remains your responsibility, and decide what action or support you need. You can then pause your reflection with a plan to return to anything unfinished, even if the situation itself remains unresolved.
You’ll use MI’s spirit of partnership, acceptance, compassion, and empowerment to examine your response to difficult work and consider how you want to respond in the future. After a guided reflection, you’ll practice a reflective conversation and rehearse your next response. You’ll leave with a completed reflection worksheet, a clear next step, and a five-workday practice log to help you use the routine in your work. You can use a supplied fictional case throughout; sharing a personal experience is optional.
The workshop draws on ideas relevant to burnout and compassion fatigue. Reflection is one part of that work; workload and organizational support also matter. This evidence-informed workshop does not promise to prevent or treat burnout. The distinctions between forms of closure draw on Rønnestad and Skovholt’s model of practitioner development. The reflection routine is AMIGA’s teaching adaptation.
Learning objectives
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
- Explain functional closure and how it can help you learn from professional experience and choose a next step.
- Use MI spirit to examine your response to a fictional or de-identified work experience.
- Rehearse a future response based on what you learned from your reflection.
- Create a five-workday practice plan that identifies any supervision or organizational support you need.
Who should attend
This workshop is for you if you work as a practitioner, supervisor, practice coach, or MI trainer. Basic familiarity with MI is helpful. You do not need to have taken an AMIGA course or purchased a book.
Participation and completion
You’ll join Alexander Waitt of AMIGA LLC live on Zoom. The two-hour session includes 115 instructional minutes and a five-minute break. Your personal reflections and breakout conversations will not be recorded.
To receive your AMIGA Certificate of Completion, attend at least 104 of the 115 instructional minutes, take part in both practice activities or an agreed accessible equivalent, and complete the action-plan exit ticket. Professional CE credit, competency certification, and AMIGA trainer authorization are not included.
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 7, 2027, or arrange for someone else to attend in your place. If AMIGA cancels the workshop, you will receive a full refund. For group purchases, accommodations, or questions, contact alex@amigallc.com.
