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.
Capacity Building with the Acosta Institute
S2 EP6: Healing-Centered Leadership & Inner Work with Aubrey Valencia, Crissy Mombela, and Tami Farber
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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 it means to lead without sacrificing oneself, to distinguish service from servitude, and to create spaces where people can bring their full humanity rather than perform professionalism at the expense of their well-being. The conversation names healing as an ongoing spiral rather than a destination, and reminds us that unhealed trauma can be transferred into the very communities leaders are trying to serve. At its heart, this episode is an invitation to practice accountability, self-awareness, grace, community care, and right relationship as essential foundations for transforming leadership from the inside out.
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