Hello, I’m A.M. Alpin.

I’m an educator, facilitator, information scientist, storyteller, and experience designer interested in how people change—and what helps us change well.

For more than twenty years, I’ve designed workshops, learning experiences, public programs, and collaborative storytelling initiatives for universities, nonprofits, libraries, museums, creative organizations, and mission-driven teams across the United States and abroad.

My work lives at the intersection of:

• storytelling

• creativity and learning

• organizational culture

• emotional intelligence

• facilitation

• identity and transition.

I’m especially interested in the moments when the old ways of doing—or understanding—things stop working.

A team is changing.
A career no longer fits.
Someone becomes a parent.
A project fails.
A community needs to reconnect.
A person or organization has to figure out what comes next.

Those are the moments (M)othershift is built for.

For organizations, I design interactive workshops, retreats, facilitated conversations, and story-centered experiences that help people think differently, build trust, experiment, and navigate change together.

For individuals, I offer the Lifelong Learner Library: a growing collection of research-backed, self-paced courses for the parts of life nobody ever handed us a syllabus for.

My background spans higher education, digital storytelling, filmmaking, research, and organizational leadership. Projects I’ve developed have received support from organizations including the Sundance Institute, the Independent Filmmaker Project, the Austin Film Society, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Southern Humanities Media Fund.

I’ve also spent much of my career building collaborative learning communities—including co-founding and directing an independent nonprofit devoted to experimentation, professional development, and culture-building for information professionals.

(M)othershift grew out of a long-standing fascination with transition: how identities shift, how people and organizations evolve, and how creativity, care, reflection, and connection can help us make meaning of what comes next.

Because whether you’re changing a workplace, making a life, raising a person, rebuilding after failure, or becoming someone you haven’t quite met yet—change is rarely just logistical. It’s human.

And that’s the part I’m interested in.