Xenia Economidou, a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner, speaks on kaleidHERscope about her transition from the corporate world to becoming certified as a Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner, about ‘Being Enough’, and about the profound connection between our past experiences and current self-perceptions and how with the right tools we can transform the stories that dictate our lives.

Editor and translator Maia Tabet speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about being a global nomad and how it helped her recognize her true identity, about her love of languages and words, about Cyprus and about the horror of the situation in Palestine now

Within the context of the ‘RESPECT - Toward a culture of Respectful Maternity Care (RMC): Enhancing Provider-Client Shared Decision Making and Informed Choice’ project, Ioli Orphanides Spokesperson on RMC & Nicos Middleton, Principal Investigator & Scientific Coordinator of the project, speak to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope podcast about the overall objective of this project, what Respectful Maternity Care actually means, the methodology used and expected deliverables. This project was co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education…

Susana Malcorra, president and cofounder of GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion, former Argentinian foreign minister, Chief of Staff for UN SG Ban ki Moon and Co-Chair of the Crisis Group speaks on kaleidHERscope about how and why GWL Voices is gathering support from countries and leaders and committed to achieving equality and working towards ensuring that UN member states appoint the first-ever Madam Secretary-General and having women in the Presidency of the UN General Assembly. For more information about the ‘Madam Secretary-General’ and other campaigns, click here https://gwlvoices.com/

Israeli peace activist Yael Treidel, who has worked with both Women Waging Peace (https://www.womenwagepeace.org.il/en/) and The Road to Recovery (https://www.allmep.org/allmep_member/road-to-recovery/) speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about the political climate in Israel and the occupied territories now, about how being a peace activist is not a choice but a way of life for her and about how despite the conflict in Israel, she tries to build peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians one person at a time.

Huda Abu Arqoob, a strategic advisor for women participation in conflict zones & an independent consultant on Palestine/Israel Conflict speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope from her home in the West Bank about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank today, the mistakes made by both the Israelis and the Palestinians over the years, what the case brought before the ICJ by South Africa against Israel means for the Palestinians & where she feels the international community should be focusing.

Nedie Antoniades, actress, producer, and writer with over twenty years of experience performing on stage and screen in Cyprus, UK, US, and Greece, speaks on kaleidHERscope about the Cyprus-based theatre company ‘Project Season Women’ that she co-founded to give a platform to stories and artistic projects from a female perspective, about the experience of appearing on the big screen in ‘Smyrna My Love’, a Greek production and about the hit verbatim play she co-wrote and produced, ‘Women Walk Home’.

Elisabeth Nauclér, a member of the Nordic Women Mediators Network from the autonomous region of Åland speaks to kaleidHERscope about the unique status of the region of Åland, about minority-majority relations from a legal and political point of view, about the meaning of the word autonomy in different contexts and about her experience having served as a legal officer with the UN in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990’s and being included in the consultations in the period leading up to Cyprus’s accession to the EU.

Events/ festival organiser in Greece and Cyprus, Petra Terzi, speaks on kaleidHERscope about how in 2016 she had a career change, how she views the arts as a key communication channel for promoting culture, about the award-winning documentaries she has directed including ‘She Should Run –Cyprus’, scripts that are under development and the documentary she hopes to do about inspirational women within the Turkish Cypriot community. Follow Petra Terzi at https://www.petraterzi.org/en/

Within the context of the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, kaleidHERscope speaks with Susana Pavlou, Director of MIGS and Mine Atli, Project Coordinator at KAYAD about the link between custody cases, violence against women and violence against children and about raising awareness about the red flags of abusive relationships - kindly sponsored by the EU through the WAVE Regranting 2023 programme.