Podcast - Center for RelationaLearning

Relational Kaleidoscope

The Quality of your Relationships Determines the Quality of your Life

Exploring the Shifting Layers of our World to Uncover the Power of Relationships

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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.

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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 looki Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 a Read More

Episode 6: The Opportunity Generation with Sofia Martinez

Episode 6 is incredibly special, as the guest is my very own Granddaughter Sofia Martinez. Sofia is the producer of this podcast, a program development assistant for the Center for RelationaLearning, and our head Marketing and Communications team member. Sofia has done so much since joining the Center, and working with her adds a new layer to our relationship as well. Hear more about it in this episode, and also hear about how Sofia, a member of Gen Z feels about the world and her generations pl Read More

Episode 7: Optimistic Evolution - with Jan Clifford

Jan Clifford is a life long friend of my wife Susan and for that reason, I have had the honor of becoming her friend over the years as well. If you listen to this episode I think you will find, as I have, that Jan speaks with a sense of deep respect, and also wonder for life's sometimes messy journey. Not only does she accept its flaws, but she embraces them and says thank you. Jan, Susan and I get to some of the nitty gritty in this episode, and our dear friend articulates perfectly what a rela Read More

Episode 8 - Study Tour Reflections

After a September full of Study Tour experiences, I have sat down with our latest group of visitors from Australia to discuss their takeaways from the experience. During a Study Tour with the Center for RelationaLearning, I take visiting educators to the schools, museums, cultural and natural wonders of New Mexico. We discover what might be the same between our approaches to education as well as what may be different. This group of study tour visitors approached the entirety of their visit with Read More

Episode 9: Storytelling - A Natural Way of Learning - with Bob Kanegis & Liz Mangual

For this episode, I'm joined by Storytellers and Story Coaches Bob Kanegis and Liz Mangual. Storytelling is a huge avenue and strategy for connection, learning, and even healing. Bob & Liz have spend many years spreading the word about the power of story telling. Their experience, what they have shared with the community, and all the connections story has to relationships are shared in this latest installment of Relational Kaleidoscope. If you could have joined us in the room for this record Read More

Episode 10: The Relational Model to Find Joy - with Bob Sparks

For our tenth episode, we are delighted to have back the guest from Episode 1 Bob Sparks. Bob and I have worked together for years, and he is so helpful to me when it comes to my own relational journey. He is a relational guide for me, and so each time I have him on the episode I am sure the content will shine that much brighter. In this episode, we discuss in depth our relational model, and the impact that coaching to put the relationship first has had on peoples lives. Take a look at our mo Read More

Episode 11: The Big & Little Letters of Education through Relationships - With Bryan Garcia

Diving back into the kaleidoscope this episode with my colleague, Bryan Garcia. Bryan is the current Community Schools Development Specialist for our local school system. He and I have had the privilege of developing a working relationship discussing the importance of Relationships, especially when it comes to fostering the community surrounding a school. I am so glad he was able to join me for this 11th episode to discuss his own life's kaleidoscope and the important relationships all around hi Read More

Episode 12: Our RelationaLeadership Institute with Anne Henderson

We're finally back with another installment of Relational Kaleidoscope! In this episode, a much appreciated work partner of mine Anne sits down with me to reflect and recap a RelationaLeadership Institute we just held here in Santa Fe. Anne Henderson works in Connecticut, where the 20 some participants of the institute also hailed. We spent so much time building a program these participants could appreciate and leave with a more relational perspective as a result. In this episode you'll get t Read More

Episode 13: Dialogue for Democracy with Lois Vermillya & Steve Preskill

Lois Vermilya, Steve Preskill, and I have been lifetime thinking partners & relational friends. We have been learning with and from one another for 25 years now and our friendship has many deep levels. In this episode, we get to sit down to explore the levels of our longtime friendship, and my fellow co-authors and I discuss our latest edition of the book "Dialogue for Democracy". Steve, Lois and I wrote the first edition of Dialogue for Democracy in the early 2000s and have recently had t Read More

Episode 14: Who Said So with guest Lisa Otero

In this episode, I get to sit down with my daughter Lisa. When I first started Relational Kaleideoscope, it was a video series, and Lisa was kind enough to be my very first guest. She is just phenomenal at speaking to the power of RelationaLearning and she is one of the most impactful RelationaLeaders I know. Listen in to the episode, and hear about Lisa's next phase of life, her philosophies on teaching and putting the relationship first, and to hear her wise words on following your true passio Read More

Episode 15: Voices From the Next Generation

We recently published a blog called "The Real Mental Health Crisis Behind Concerns From The Surgeon General". In that blog we explore the recommendations by Dr. Vivek Murthy surrounding social media and its effects on mental health. A majority of the Surgeon General's Advisory, which can be found on our website, focused on youth and particularly, on teenagers. The Center for RelationaLearning has decided it's time we all start asking those young people to join in the conversation about their own Read More

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