About
Affirming Antelope is motivational interviewing (MI) practice for healthcare leaders. You rehearse a hard one-on-one with a simulated employee, then get feedback on the moves you made. Clinicians have their own pathway for patient visits.
Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
Principal, Psychotherapy Clinical Quality
Amanda designed the MI for Leaders program. The 12-week path in the app follows it, and each role-play is written to respond the way her learners' employees do.
Head of Engineering at Big Leap Health
Builds Affirming Antelope
Blake cofounded Prime Menagerie LLC and has written software for more than 20 years. He builds the app and this site from Amanda's program.
Every role-play starts from a scenario spec. The spec says who the person is, what they care about, what they are holding back, what shuts them down, and what opens them up. An AI plays that person and stays in character, so Josh gets sharper when you lecture and slows down when you reflect what you hear.
The AI is your practice partner. It plays the other person and names the MI moves you made, such as open questions, reflections, and affirmations. A trainer is the authority on what good looks like. In a cohort, the trainer assigns practice, reads the role-plays you choose to send, and coaches them.
You can read the library before you start: all 12 fictional people are on the scenarios page, and the guides explain each skill with example dialogue.
Amanda has coached a lot of healthcare leaders through the conversations they dread: the late reports, the quiet team member, the change nobody asked for. The leaders she works with get better at them. But she can only sit in on so many one-on-ones.
So we built a place to put everything she teaches. The 12-week path follows her MI for Leaders program, and every role-play is written to respond the way her learners’ employees do. Now people can practice her approach between sessions, on their own time.
Blake Parkinson
Planning a cohort, or want to see how it would work with your team? Book a call with Blake.