Facilitator Fridays
Are you an MI facilitator/trainer or aspiring to be one?
Facilitating Motivational Interviewing is hard and often vulnerable work. You are constantly tasked with holding space for others to engage, change, learn, and grow while trying your best to stay present and in the “MI Spirit”. But who is there to hold space for you?
In our Facilitator Friday community, you don’t have to show up as an expert facilitator or someone with all the answers. Instead, bring your “clunky” experiences. Did your “fixing reflex” come up, and you found yourself lecturing? Did a role play go sideways? Did you experience a bout of imposter syndrome? Or did you finally have a breakthrough that helped your group? This is a place of shared experience, not a hierarchy of expertise. It is a place to be human. To show up as you are.
What to expect
No PowerPoint presentations. No unsolicited advice or information dumps. Just a group of people who care about this work as much as you.
Together we will:
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Honor our stumbles and successes: Share the "sticky" situations we face in our facilitations and navigate through them together. Celebrate successes, whether they feel “bite-sized” or “massive.”
Practice without a pedestal: Explore, play with, and perhaps try out new approaches, perspectives, and skills through no-pressure debrief and role/real plays.
Evoke our wisdom in the room: Sharing tips, skills, tools, and breakthroughs with one another.
Who this is for
Facilitator Fridays are specifically for those who:
Have completed Evoking Change Institute's Facilitator Training course or another motivational interviewing train-the-trainer/facilitation-specific training (MINT TNT).
Already conducting MI training for any type of helping community.
Already facilitating in other MI practice groups
Is the point person or “MI Champion” at your workplace where you are facilitating practice sessions.
Meet your facilitators
Facilitator Fridays is co-hosted by two people whose primary goal in life is to help others. Every Friday, participants will join a rotating group of hosts, including MINT members, educators, learning and development practitioners, and individuals dedicated to motivational interviewing.
Brendon Ross
Brendon is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and a facilitator of Motivational Interviewing (MI) learning and practice experiences. He’s spent the last 15 years in schools, and for over a decade, MI has been his primary way of navigating the frequent, brief, pivotal moments he shares with students, families, and staff.
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As a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) with experience facilitating and training MI, he’s learned that the most impactful learning environments prioritize both skill and presence, honoring both preparation and what comes up naturally in the moment.
Hart Thorson
Hart is an educator, learning experience designer, and motivational interviewing practitioner who helps schools turn everyday conversations into catalysts for change. With nearly two decades of experience in adult education across various roles, he understands the kinds of conversations educators have not only with students but also with parents, guardians, families, and colleagues.
Hart is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), and as a facilitator, teacher, and practitioner, he focuses on a simple belief: people are the experts on their own lives. His goal is to bring structure, tools, and curiosity, not to prescribe answers but to prioritize partnership, genuine respect, and autonomy support, creating spaces where educators, leaders, and learners feel heard, not judged, and can discover that they already have many of the resources they need for change.