Bring motivational interviewing into the realities of your team’s work.
Build on what your team already knows. We connect MI skills with the responsibilities, decisions, and conversations people face through training, practice, coaching, and organizational support.
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For child welfare, criminal justice, community mental health, and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).
BUILD ON WHAT YOU KNOW
Your team knows MI. What would help them use it more purposefully?
You may already recognize the skills and use them in your work. AMIGA creates opportunities to examine the situations that remain difficult: what you are responsible for, what you understand about the person, and what response could help.
We begin with your experience and the work you want to strengthen. Practice and feedback help connect what you know with a purposeful next response.
New to MI? We can also discuss a suitable foundation for your team. Motivational interviewing is collaborative work that explores a person’s own reasons for change.
- A skill makes sense in training but is harder to use in a real conversation. Practice applying MI
- Expectations vary across supervisors. Clarify shared standards
- The same decisions keep returning, and people are unsure where responsibility belongs. Explore supervision support
- People understand the same situation differently. See how we work through it
Appropriate consultation and escalation remain part of competent practice. The aim is clearer judgment and support.
CONNECTED SUPPORT
Build the conditions for meaningful progress
Create a workplace where people can trust the support around them, understand what is expected, and take responsibility for their part.
Adaptive
Adaptive means understanding what a challenge requires, building on what already works, and learning what needs to change in how people lead, organize, supervise, and communicate.
LeadershipMake your commitments visible in decisions, support, and follow-through.
SystemsConnect roles, resources, and routines with the work you expect.
SupervisionUse clear expectations and useful feedback to strengthen judgment.
Motivational InterviewingBuild on MI experience to explore people’s own reasons for change.
Start with the challenge your team is facing.
How shared beliefs become everyday practice
Leadership commitments become useful when people can recognize them in expectations, decisions, and support. Our Belief / Standards / Practice model shows those connections.
Belief
A shared belief in people’s potential and in what is possible together.
Standards
Employee expectations
Role competencies
Turning values into clarity across the system.
Practice
Daily practice
Putting into action, where it matters most.
VOICES FROM THE WORK
What participants take back to their work
Hear how Sullivan County child welfare professionals experienced AMIGA’s Adaptive MI training.
Individual participant experiences from our work with Sullivan County Children & Youth Services, a previous AMIGA client.
“I've attended a few MI trainings, and I learned more from this training than the others combined. It felt more natural. It wasn't just about open ended questions, pausing and giving time, paraphrasing, and so on. It gave intentional ways to allow clients to speak their minds and feel heard.”
“Although our staff has had many trainings in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and we do a decent job in engaging our client families, I feel we all took new things away that we can put into practice allowing us to do MI even better.”
“I received great, gentle coaching during the simulation and wonderful encouragement from our trainer who really made the situation much more comfortable than any training simulation than I had completed prior.”
LEARNING IN ACTION
Try a situation. Notice something new.
Explore what you notice, how you interpret a situation, and what you might do next. The Becoming MI™ Practice Lab offers independent practice across four developmental domains.
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Four areas to explore. Begin wherever you are.
FOUR CUSTOMER SETTINGS
Recognize your work in the conversation.
Child welfare, criminal justice, community mental health, and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) each bring distinct responsibilities and constraints.
Child welfare
Connect conversations with responsibilities for safety, permanency, well-being, and meaningful family participation.
Criminal justice
Communicate requirements clearly while exploring the person’s perspective, available choices, and reasons for change.
Community mental health
Connect the person’s goals with conversations about ambivalence, support, and a useful next step.
FQHCs
Make room for the patient’s priorities, practical barriers, and next steps within everyday care conversations.
Our work with county teams
- Centre CountyCurrent client
- Beaver CountyCurrent client
- Sullivan CountyPrevious client
A USEFUL STARTING POINT
Tell us what your team is working through.
A brief description is enough to begin. We can talk through the audience, existing experience, practical constraints, and useful support.