Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute

About Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute

Welcome to Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, where we explore, define, and dream out loud about capacity building as an act of world building. In each episode, we explore insights, strategies, and transformative practices that empower individuals and organizations to create resilient, healing-centered environments. Join us to discover how capacity building can equip your team and community to thrive in the face of today’s challenges—and to co-create the impactful future you envision.

Publisher

Dr. Angel Acosta

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2024

Latest episode

6 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Jul 2026

   S2 EP7: Trauma, Harm, and Society: Healing Solutions for a Unified Future with Tracey Lenhardt, Lori Glazebrook, and Lisette Torres-Gerald

   In this episode, Acosta Institute Fellows Tracey Danielle Lenhardt, Lori Glazebrook, and Lisette Torres explore how trauma, systemic harm, captivity culture, and institutional violence shape bodies, identities, and communities. Drawing from their respective frameworks — Lori’s Raised in Captivity and Liberation Wheel, Tracey’s SPEAK™ methodology and “Return to Sender” approach, and Lisette’s research on STEM trauma and contemplative crit collage — they offer healing-centered pathways for recl...

2. 

   6 Jul 2026

   S2 EP6: Healing-Centered Leadership & Inner Work with Aubrey Valencia, Crissy Mombela, and Tami Farber

   In this episode of Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, Acosta Institute Fellows Aubrey Valencia, Crissy Mombela, and Tami Farber explore the inner work required to practice healing-centered leadership with integrity. Drawing from their own personal healing journeys, they reflect on how trauma, identity, belonging, spiritual depletion, and systems of harm shape the way leaders show up in schools, nonprofits, helping professions, and human-centered workplaces. Together, they ask what i...

3. 

   6 Jul 2026

   S2 EP4: AI, Purpose, and the Future of Leadership with H.L. Ray, and Rachel Jean Davis

   In this episode of Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute, Acosta Institute Fellows Celeste Barretto Milligan, H.L. Ray, and Rachel Jean Davis explore the future of leadership in a time of artificial intelligence, accelerating technology, and deep social change. Drawing from their experiences in education, technology, mental health, organizational transformation, Indigenous knowledge, and healing-centered practice, the fellows ask what it means to lead in a way that remains grounded in p...

Who has been a guest on Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Wakanyi Hoffman
• Darlene Cordero
• Amy Elizabeth Fox
• Dr Sará King
• Anu Gupta

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

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Quality

22

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

0