Relational Kaleidoscope

Episode 5 : What Leads Us with Suzanne Cridge

Suzanne Cridge's experience and time with relational content is expansive and it is easy to tell when you sit down and chat with her. Sue has lived both in New Mexico, and also in Australia. Having experience in both spaces gives her some interesting perspectives that I think every listener will find thought provoking and also hopeful. So sit down with us! Let's get to know our cousins from down under, learn more about Sue, and keep making this Kaleidoscope more dynamic and beautiful with each added perspective.

Episode 4: Creating Change Together with Miguel Angel Acosta

In Episode four I get to sit down with none other than the wonderful Miguel Angel Acosta Munoz. Miguel was born and raised in Chicago. He moved to New Mexico in 1991. He has 30 years experience advocating for educational and social justice in poor, working-class and Chicano/Latino communities. Miguel Angel received his BA from the University of Illinois, being the first in his family to attend college. Miguel Angel’s work includes teaching in alternative high schools, developing and directing youth leadership programs, developing, teaching in and coordinating adult basic education programs, coordinating community health initiatives and recruitment and retention work in higher education. On top of all this, Miguel also happens to be an associate with us at the Center for RelationaLearning and Leadership. I met Miguel many years ago, when a mutual friend of ours noticed just how much we needed to get together for a meeting of the minds. Our ideas, passion and work have always inspired one-another, and for this reason I'm sure hearing his messages in this episode will inspire some of you. Miguel is running for City Council here in Santa Fe very soon, and I sure am glad to know that men like him still strive to make a difference. Give this one a listen if you'd like to learn why a Relational mindset is the key to creating very real change. Even politics can become collaborative again if we all take a beat and think with a relational intention.

Episode 3: Roles, Intention & Love As a Superpower with Zoe Otero-Martinez

Welcome to the third installment of Relational Kaleidoscope, featuring guest Zoe Otero-Martinez. Zoe works for Family Friendly New Mexico where the importance of relationships between leadership and other staff takes a front and center seat. They do the important work of encouraging and supporting local business leaders in providing a workplace that meets the needs of the whole family through policies that put the focus where it truly matters. In addition to her involvement with a business I can truly get behind, Zoe is also my youngest daughter and so, of course, I am one of her biggest fans. Join us as we talk about her career path and the serendipity that lead her to the work she does now. This will be the episode to listen to if you are anything like Zoe, a lover of all, a feminist powerhouse, and a star to all.

Episode 2: Humanity and The Power of Relational Context with Susan Chambers-Otero

The powerful duo behind the Center for RelationaLearning George and his wife Susan Chambers-Otero, sit down for the second episode of Relational Kaleidoscope. Episode 2 explores the beginnings of what has become the life's work of the couple and dives into how that work applies to the world we live in today. Join the team to contemplate the answers to some of the world's most pressing questions:
"What makes us human?"
"How do we change the way we value one another?"
and "What other ways of looking at the world might we want to consider as we reform and re-frame our shared experience?"
Make sure you listen to the full episode so that you don't miss the way that Woody Allen somehow fits into the answers for these questions!

Episode 1: Building Quality Relationships with Bob Sparks

In this first episode, I invite my close friend Bob Sparks to have a free-flowing chat about the importance of relationships in life, learning, and leadership. We explore the layers of our life to create a kaleidoscopic image of how our relationships make a difference. Listen through our conversation to add more color to your understanding. Join us as we discover just how much the quality of relationships determines the quality of our lives.
https://relationalearning.com/relationaleadership/