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Talk-It-Out Radio
This is a collaborative program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, awareness, and authentic and effective communication. Our intention is to provide skills, knowledge, and resources that empower listeners to effectively connect across differences so that we can all work together to create a world that works for life.
Hosted by Nancy Kahn, Timothy Regan, and Marlena Willis.
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Elia Paz, creator and leader at the Wise Heart Community.
She is the author of the new book, Life Serving Boundaries: 6 Skills for Creating Thriving Relationships. She also hosts “The Wise Heart Podcast: Relationships as Spiritual Practice.”
We explore the current efforts within our U.S. Federal Governement to implement extreme policies with extreme impact, and how to respond through the lens of healthy human relationship principles and truths.
This episode is about your own power to respond with life-serving awareness and action to the big issues of our collective time in history.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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All three of your Talk It Out hosts get together to remind eachother of our choices and power to create the world of care and consideration that we want to see.
Timothy, Lev, and Nancy invite you to join us as we speak from our hearts, listen deeply to eachother, and amplify our shared wellbeing with you.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Today’s episode of Talk-It-Out Radio is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2024 Holiday Fund Drive.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Join host Timothy Regan as he gathers wisdom from the people in the streets of Washington DC.
Timothy spoke with people from all over the States and beyond, and asked this timeless and essential question: “What is the most important thing to consider and do to help heal divisions between people when they have to live together?”
This episode is some good medicine to help us all recover from this last election, and be re-grounded in the truths of healthy human relationships.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Intergenerational Approaches to Social Justice Work: Learning from the Past to Advance Future Conversations Across Values Divides
Talk It Out Radio: Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:00 pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (Berkeley and beyond) or livestream at kpfa.org:
Host Nancy Kahn welcomes guests Aparna Rajagopal and Raju Rajagopal to a timely conversation about intergenerational approaches to social justice work across values divides. Both guests have worked at the intersection of human rights, and bring their voices of resistance to caste, racism, and all forms of bigotry and oppression. As father and daughter, they dedicate time to sharing their work with one another and engaging in conversations about their perspectives and approaches across a generational divide.
At a time when this country needs champions with both the experience, wisdom, and deep sensitivity around ways to engage people in generative and respectful dialogue. Aparna and Raju share their generational approaches to holding difficult conversations (differences/similarities), particularly in the wake of the even more deeply divided America that we are facing with the Trump re-presidency. This conversation brings the best of humanity to the table to expand and reimagine new possibilities for how we advance civil and human rights advocacy and environmental justice work.
Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes!
APARNA RAJAGOPAL
Aparna Rajagopal (she/her) is an agitator, artist, and advisor at the confluence of social justice and the environmental movement. She is cofounder of DEI consulting firm the Avarna Group, and advises Oregon’s Governor Tina Kotek through her roles in the Oregon Advocacy Commission for Asian & Pacific Islander Affairs and the Oregon Environmental Justice Council. In her many roles, she provides coaching, training, facilitation, presentations, strategic consulting, and thought leadership around DEI and the environmental movement. She is also writing a book that explores her story as a daughter of immigrants and nature lover to demonstrate how those of us who are not Indigenous to North America can nevertheless find belonging in this landscape.
RAJU RAJAGOPAL
Raju Rajagopal, Co-Founder, Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR). Raju has spent over three decades working with Civil Society groups in India and has been active on a range of issues such as rural development, disaster management, governance and transparency, inter-faith harmony, and human rights. He shares his time between Berkeley, CA and Chennai, India and writes on social causes. Prior to engaging with the non-profit sector, he spent over three decades in the corporate world, retiring as the Chief Operating Officer of a publicly traded healthcare company in the U.S. Raju co-founded HfHR in 2019, whose mission is to “advocate for pluralism, civil and human rights in South Asian and North America, rooted in the values of our faith: shanti (peace), nyaya ( justice) and satya (truth). We provide a Hindu voice resistance to caste, Hindutva (Hindu nationalism), racism, and all forms of biogtry and oppression.”
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Join host Timothy Regan as he gathers wisdom from the people in the streets of Washington DC.
Timothy spoke with people from all over the States and beyond, and asked this timeless and essential question: “What is the most important thing to consider and do to help heal divisions between people when they have to live together?”
This episode is some good medicine to help us all recover from this last election, and be re-grounded in the truths of healthy human relationships.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan and IFS Therapeutic Coach Kara Stella present an authentic demonstration of how to face and resolve the breaks of family relationship around politics that so many of us are experiencing.
It turns out that where you have power to heal separation and contempt is within yourself. So we show you how to approach this, through an internal mediation, guided by Timothy, and shared by Kara.
Tune in if you want to hear a real and delicate exploration of the tender aspects of the suffering of not being seen by your own family members.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge, and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Today’s episode of Talk-It-Out Radio is preempted by a 2024 fall fund drive special.
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Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn shares stories and tools for making peace with yourself and others. She covers the foundation of Nonviolent Communication and highlights the importance of identifying universal human needs that are at the core of everything people do and say. She shares how people can build the skill set that equips people with greater capacity to connect with care, clarity, and authenticity. She covers practices and tools that are effective in the workplace, at home and everywhere people spend time.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 3:20 pm (510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions or provide comments related to the show’s topic.
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Enjoy the voice of the late progenitor of Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as he introduces the foundational principles of healthy human connection and a language of empathy.
Hosted by Timothy Regan.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Join host Nancy Kahn and guest Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP for a conversation on the impact of homophobia and racism on couples. Akilah brings a trauma-informed approach to this important conversation about how systemic and racialized trauma affect intimate partnerships.
About Akilah
Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP is a published researcher, Relational Healing Facilitator, couples therapist and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She has been a helping professional for seventeen years and has experience working with couples and persons practicing consensual non monogamy, both in the Caribbean and internationally. Akilah also specializes in work with sexual minorities and racial minorities. As an educator and facilitator, she has provided consultancy services to organizations such as NASTAD (National Alliance for State and Territorial AIDS directors), I-TECH (International Training and Education Center for Health) and CVC (Caribbean Vulnerable Communities). She has presented in various spaces including the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, the Academy of Therapy Wisdom and the Black Mental health Symposium. She has been a Social Work Educator at the University of the Southern Caribbean since 2012. She is the founder of the Relational Healing Institute and creator of the P.R.I.D.E model.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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You need a break from people? There is a circle of balance: walking one half, one connects deep into the human world. Walking the other half brings equal and different gifts – being held and beheld by creation.
This episode, guest Chris Morasky of Wisdomkeepers shares story and philosophy and freely shares the gifts of a 30-year journey into wilderness and stone-age skills, and back to human community.
Join host Timohy Regan and Chris Morasky for some good reminders on humility and mystery and the intelligent beyond-human world, and community.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Today’s broadcast of Talk-It-Out Radio is preempted by special spring fund drive programming.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes colleague Peggy Smith, Nonviolent Communication and Buddhism Practitioner, Teacher, and nonprofit Founder who offers the world exactly what we offer here on Talk It Out Radio: The Deep Wisdom of Buddhism and Mindfulness, and the healing language and awareness of Nonviolent Communication!
In this conversation, we ask and begin to answer this question: What is this break in humans that allows so much violence and tragedy, and how to we bring ourselves and eachother back to our capacity to enhance and protect life together?
Peggy’s business in workshops, facilitation, mediation, and coaching in open and compassionate communication is called Clarity Services. She is based in Maine, but her workshop offerings are all online.
She offers curricula and tools for free at opencommunication.org.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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How Do We Navigate the Impact of Identity Surprises Later in Life?
What would you do if you experienced your world being shattered by a big family secret and you had to pick up the pieces and attempt to put them all together? Maybe you too have also experienced something similar to this.
Join host Nancy Kahn and special guest Jon Baime, independent producer and director of the movie Filling in the Blanks, for a meaningful conversation about parts of Jon’s story, as depicted in his film, of discovering a big family secret later in life. Jon’s full identity had been concealed by his parent’s for 54 years. Jon provides us with a window into his journey to uncover the layers of his whole identity and navigate the emotional impact. He shares how he has been able to make sense of what happened and provides moving examples of life changing choices he has encountered since his initial discovery.
Guest
Jon Baime is an Atlanta-based independent producer with a specialty in non-fiction projects. Jon’s work encompasses reality series and lifestyle programming on one end and science, environment, and socially conscious content on the other. Over the past 20 years, some of Jon’s work as a producer has included the nationally syndicated travel TV series “Small Town Big Deal” and the motorsports series “Caffeine and Octane.” He has also edited training videos for the Centers for Disease Control and a series of web videos called “Science Nation” for the National Science Foundation. Jon also produced segments for “This American Land,” a PBS series covering environmental issues.
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Have you ever heard of the Drama Triangle?
Victim – Perpetrator – Rescuer … 3 roles that people play when pain and fear are activated, that can lead to so much suffering and tragic outcomes.
Where do you play one of these roles in your life? And would you like more freedom and relief from the tension that thrives in these roles?
There is another relational triangle that creates more freedom and creativity…
Host Timothy Regan welcomes two eloquent and wise guests to help you help yourself and others out of this challenging relational dynamic: Kara Stella, Personal Internal Family Systems and Nonviolent Communciation Coach, and Kristin Masters, Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, and leader of the Work That Reconnects.
We apply the powerful principles of mindfulness, self-empathy, and Nonviolent Communication to begin to recognize and then step into a more life-serving relationship dance.
You can find Kara in the IFS Institute Practitioner Directory.
You can find Kristin Masters at NVC Santa Cruz.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host and Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer Timothy Regan, and Kara Stella, Personal Internal Family Systems and Nonviolent Communication Coach, take you on a road trip to read and reflect on the Tao Te Ching.
We apply a Christian Mysical approach called Lectio Divina to reveal the life-giving gems in this ancient Chinese book of how to live, while using the language of Nonviolent Communication to bring it to life.
We read from the Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell, 1988.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes the Youth Outreach Coordinator for San Francisco Suicide Prevention, Anthony Satariano, to help us all grow in our capacity to honor and respond to suicide as a concern in our young people.
Anthony shares stories and insights on how to respond to suicidal thinking in youth, as parents, and teachers, and caring adults. He has been speaking at high schools all around the Bay Area for 4 years.
San Francisco Suicide Prevention is a holistic, compassionate, and trusted organization that has been providing human kindness to people in need of mental and emotional support for many years.
Anyone can call SFSP any time of day or night to talk with a trained fellow human being at 415-781-0500.
You can also Text CRISIS, YOUTH or HIV to (415) 200-2920 to talk to a counselor.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan explores and practices the principles of healing trauma on the collective, community level with special guest Kosha Joubert, the CEO of the Pocket Project, a global team of people dedicated to creating a culture of trauma informed care.
There are pockets of trauma within us and our world – “hot” trauma where harm is actively happening, and embodied personal/ancestral trauma, which profoundly interferes with the fulfillment of our lives and relationships and societies. And where there are pockets of trauma, the Pocket Project helps to create pockets of trauma healing. These are coherent and safe spaces where people bear witness and mourn and integrate trauma so that we are made more whole and our capacities return for relationship, creativity, enjoyment, and so much more.
Kosha guides us through the felt experience of healing through her stories and images, and offers essential reminders of how to approach and engage in collective healing.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Talk It Out Radio: Friday, December 15 at 3:00pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org)Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused PopulationJoin Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn with special guest Kristie Fairchild, Executive Director of North Beach Citizens, in a poignant discussion, Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused Population.Kristie shares her experience as a longtime community leader supporting critical programs for the unhoused in San Francisco’s North Beach and surrounding communities. She outlines critical data and ways to bring compassion and hope to those who are in need of housing security.About Kristie: Kristie Fairchild has served as Executive Director since 2002. In this position she is tasked with ensuring short and long-range strategies. Throughout her career she has actively participated in local working groups addressing homelessness and poverty issues including the Local Homeless Coordinating Board and recently serving on the ALL HOME Regional Impact Council’s Technical Committee. In 2014, San Francisco Commission and Department on the Status of Women in partnership with Mayor Ed Lee and the SF Board of Supervisors celebrated Kristie at a City Hall celebration honoring Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment. In 2014, she was recognized with the National Jefferson Award for Social Impact.Listen live or, after the show, visit the show archives on KPFA, or listen on iTunes.The post Deepening Compassion and Hope: A Conversation About Supporting the Unhoused Population appeared first on KPFA.
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Fresh “Lev” White hosts Friends Dr. Samantha Coleman and Sandria Washington both discovered as adults they were adopted. Each quickly learned that Black Adoption is common, but taboo to speak about in private or publicly. The voices of Black adoptees – especially those adopted by Black families – are rarely heard. In 2019, Dr. Sam and Sandria partnered to create Black to the Beginning to disrupt the legacy of secrecy, stigma, shame and silence about Black Adoption. In 2020, they launched the critically-acclaimed The Black Adoption Podcast. Their work as culture-shifting podcasters makes them sought after speakers, consultants, and most recently contributors to a new anthology, A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan explores and practices the principles of healing trauma on the collective, community level with special guest Kosha Joubert, the CEO of the Pocket Project, a global team of people dedicated to creating a culture of trauma informed care.
There are pockets of trauma within us and our world – “hot” trauma where harm is actively happening, and embodied personal/ancestral trauma, which profoundly interferes with the fulfillment of our lives and relationships and societies. And where there are pockets of trauma, the Pocket Project helps to create pockets of trauma healing. These are coherent and safe spaces where people bear witness and mourn and integrate trauma so that we are made more whole and our capacities return for relationship, creativity, enjoyment, and so much more.
Kosha guides us through the felt experience of healing through her stories and images, and offers essential reminders of how to approach and engage in collective healing.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan sits down with the one and only elder statesman and two-term San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. to explore principles and stories on how to get along and make healthy decisions for the good of all.
Enjoy a warm conversation and some deep wisdom from someone who has served and led in public service for 40 years.
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What do Unions stand for? How and why do Unions work? And how exactly have Unions made life better for millions of workers and their families?
Host Timothy Regan welcomes 6 Union leaders to share from the heart about what Unions are all about. We take a deep dive into Union principles, and hear several stories about successes of Union work.
Hear from:
Keith Brown, Educator and Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Alameda Labor Council AFL-CIO.
Vilma Serrano, Oakland Teacher and Lead Negotiator/Bargaining Chair of the Oakland Education Association Union.
Tanzil Chowdhury, Graduate Student Research Assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the Unit Chair for the Berkeley Unit of UAW Unit 2865, representing 36000 student workers across the University of California.
Sarah Arveson, PhD, Vice President of UAW 5810, union for post-doc and academic researchers across the University of California system.
Doug Jones, Political Organizer for SEIU-UHW and health care worker of many years, representing 85,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente and across California
Michael Sommers, Actor and union member of SAG-AFTRA, currently on strike.
The participants ask that you visit these websites for more information:
Unionize California
Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
SAG-AFTRA
Oakland Education Association
United Auto Workers
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Dr. Roxanne Manning and Sarah Peyton, for a clear conversation based on their new books arriving this week: How To Have Anti-Racist Conversations by Dr. Manning, and with Sarah Peyton, The Anti-Racist Heart.
We explore essential principles of anti-racism, and as always, Roxy and Sarah demonstrate live through an authentic exchange throughout the conversation.
Listen to this episode if you are interested in how to have conversations that are both compassionate and fierce that embrace our full humanity and dismantle the harms and roots of racism in us all.
For free guidance from Roxy and Sarah drawn from these books, visit their website here.
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This episode is part 2 of “Back to Basics” with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in his own words.
Host Timothy Regan shares an exerpt from Marshall’s teaching, where through stories and clear examples, he demonstrates how to apply the “language of life” to the work of expressing what we want to change, in ourselves and others.
Surprising and powerful insights await you! Enjoy!
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The Role of Critical Thinking for a Just World
Host Nancy Kahn talks about the role of critical thinking for creating a just world. Critical thinking skills support us in making better decisions and interrupts patterns of thinking that empowers us to question our assumptions and to think of ourselves instead of being influenced by cognitive biases, assumptions, and logical fallacies. We can be more effective at meeting important human needs and finding effective and equitable solutions to important issues. Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 3:30 pm (1-800-958-9008)
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Host Timothy Regan presents a public service broadcast of the late Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, founder and global teacher of Nonviolent Communication, explaining the fundamentals of Nonviolent Communication.
This is an excellent introduction of the principles and language that Marshall refined and blessed the world with in his many years of teaching across the globe.
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This episode Timothy Regan shares a recording of Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D, founder and global teacher of Nonviolent Communication, with a focus on how to effecively create change in ourselves and others using the power principles of empathy and the “language of life” that is Nonviolent communication.
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The Politics of Aging on Women and The Medicine to Treat It
Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn is in conversation with guest, Asara Tsehai, African Medicine Woman, on the politics of aging, the impact on women in society at large, and the medicine to treat it.
Asara has worked for decades to support the health & wellness, empowerment, and self-esteem of women, and sees their self-esteem, self-acceptance and joy being undermined by the mental imprisonment of anti-aging propaganda deeply conditioned throughout society. Asara shines a light on how the second half of life can be the most fulfilling for women. Keep Them Guessing Your Age (myancienttreasure.com). 510-268-1720.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show after 7:30 pm (510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions or provide comments related to the show’s topic.
Sunday, June 11 from 7-8 pm KPFA, 94.1 FM. (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org)
OR CATCH Talk It Out Radio after the show airs on the KPFA.org archives or iTunes!
Guest Asara Tsehai
Asara Tsehai plans to be fit, fine and fabulous at 100 years old and beyond, and believes that you can too. She believes in redefining and embracing ourselves at any age. As an African Medicine woman and healer for more than forty years, she has supported more than 10,000 women. At 64 years young, she is living her best life and is a newlywed. Asara facilitates wellness retreats for women in locations held around the world, is a proud Chicago Stepper and recently danced for 30 hours over a period of four days.
Asara is the founder of Ancient Treasure, a wellness company for women from 40+ and leads a Whole-body Wellness Reset Course https://wholebodywellnessreset.carrd.co/
Talk It Out Radio: Sunday June 11, 2023, 7:00 pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or livestream at kpfa.org.
Starting July 7,2023, Talk It Out Radio airs live on Friday afternoons at 3:00 pm -This is a Permanent Change.
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Host Timothy Regan, the real O.I. (organic intelligence) Timothy Regan, welcomes you and many callers to wrestle with this question: What does A.I. mean for healthy human relations with eachother, ourelves, and all life? Will it “save us” from the worst in ourselves, or might it destroy the social foundations of our societies? Of course, the possibilities are as endless as the billions of interactions humans are having with the latest very powerful “large-language model” A.I.s released to the public just a few months ago.
Timothy shares his very interesting exchange with a Chat GPT based A.I. “Peacetalk.ai” on the practice of human empathy, and receives equally interesting calls from fellow humans.
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Join host Nancy Kahn for a dynamic conversation with Stephan Berwick, on
Lou Reed’s Art of the Straight Line: Tai Chi as the Ultimate Wellness Practice for Life.
What was it really like for Lou Reed to practice, heal, and grow from Tai Chi? Renowned for its physical and mental benefits, Tai Chi as a practice comes in many forms that address almost any goals.
In part two of our exclusive interview with Chinese martial arts master, Stephan Berwick, learn more about Lou Reed’s Tai Chi training. From Reed’s story, Berwick details how to begin Tai Chi, how to maximize your practice, and recognize its amazing benefits. Berwick shares his personal experiences of how Tai Chi contributes to meeting essential human needs that include wellness, protection of the body and the freedom to change your energy.
Stephan Berwick is a martial arts instructor, performer, and researcher, specializing in Chen Tai Chi and Chinese swordsmanship. As an original student of Master Ren, Berwick conducted primary research at Tai Chi’s birthplace in Henan, China over two decades ago. From that research, Berwick published the first English language profiles of the emerging Chen village masters, and other works on traditional martial arts. Before devoting himself to Chen Tai Chi, Stephan was one of the two first Americans – with Asia’s top action star, Donnie Yen – to train in Xian, China under its national martial arts champion, Zhao Changjun and his coach, Bai Wenxiang. With Yen, Berwick went on to perform in Hong Kong action films under the tutelage of the director, Yuen Woping, as one of the few Western martial artists to star in Chinese action films. Years later, he met and befriended Lou Reed in 2003 at a national martial arts event with Master Ren.
To learn more about Lou Reed’s book, The Art of the Straight Line, My Tai Chi, visit www.harpercollins.com/pages/ArtoftheStraightLine (new website on Lou Reed’s Tai Chi)
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[ This is Part 2. Part 1 aired on KPFA on Sunday Feb 19, 2023 7-8 pm. That episode can be found in the KPFA archives HERE ]
Host Timothy Regan welcomes back Amie Leigh, who shares in this episode her vision for universal knowledge and skills that everyone can use to help fellow humans who are going through mental or emotional crisis.
Amie shares specific steps and shining gems of guidance for anyone who wants to be there for others who are overwhelmed by disaster. This episode is for you especially if you want to grow your confidence and skills to enhance mental and emotional balance and stability in people who have lost these and more.
Amie Leigh is Founder and CEO of Capacity Path, which provides trainings and consultations and direct service to help humans restore mental and emotional balance during and soon after disaster strikes. She is also the Clinical Director for the Florida State Emergency Response Team for Mental Health.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Roxanne Manning, Ph.D to provide clear and practical guidance for us about a central principle of the Kingian Nonviolence movement: “Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil.”
We explore the nature of forces of evil, then hear a successful example of this principle in action. Roxy then explains the vision behind active nonviolence: The Beloved Community. Finally Roxy shares specific steps to keep in mind when we are speaking up and taking action to stop harm, and at the same time holding deep compassion and empathy for those doing harm.
Click here to learn about two guidebooks Roxy has just finished to be released soon:
How to Have Antiracist Conversations – Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy
and with Sarah Peyton,
The Antiracist Heart – A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook
Connect with Roxy here too.
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(Part 2 of 2. The first part aired on Sunday September 25, 2022)
This episode offers a cultural and spiritual treasure – a primary source of wisdom from some of the First Peoples of the Eastern stretches of North America. This is the story of the Peacemaker who brought together the Iroquois Confederacy with the Great Law of Peace almost 1000 years ago in dark times of division and violence.
This sharing of the Peacemaker Story was offered to the public in 2010 at a Permaculture and Peacemaking training at DQ University by the late Jake Swamp-Tekaronianeken, the Wolf Clan Mohawk diplomat, author, teacher, chief, husband, father, grandparent and great-grandparent, who passed into the spirit world soon after this recording was made.
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(Part 1 of 2. The second part aired on Sunday October 2, 2022)
This episode offers a cultural and spiritual treasure – a primary source of wisdom from some of the First Peoples of the Eastern stretches of North America. This is the story of the Peacemaker who brought together the Iroquois Confederacy with the Great Law of Peace almost 1000 years ago in dark times of division and violence.
This sharing of the Peacemaker Story was offered to the public in 2010 at a Permaculture and Peacemaking training at DQ University by the late Jake Swamp-Tekaronianeken, the Wolf Clan Mohawk diplomat, author, teacher, chief, husband, father, grandparent and great-grandparent, who passed into the spirit world soon after this recording was made.
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Host Fresh Lev White brings us back to unconditional love for ourselves and eachother with an opening meditation, and a lively conversation with special guest Tina D’Elia – award winning Bay Area queer lesbian mixed race Mexican solo permormer, actor, casting director and screenwriter, who is performing her 4th solo show ‘Overlooked Latina’ October 6-29 2022 at the Marsh in SF.
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Host Nancy Kahn brings caring and thorough attention to explore the nature of the universal needs of Emotional and Physical Safety with callers, to support mental wellness for all of us.
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Host Timothy Regan presents a guiding process to prepare to speak to someone in power, have an impact, and receive a response.
What do you crave to speak out about today? If you could be heard by anyone today, what would you like to express and who would you want to hear you? This episode can help you prepare to speak up and speak out in a way that makes it more likely you will make a difference.
Timothy welcomes callers to practice these principles together.
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Host Timothy Regan shares an authentic mediation conversation with a woman who is in conflict with her ex-husband who is taking their child to unmaksed children’s gatherins against the agreement that she thought they had.
Timothy follows a process of good questions and good listening to support her finding some relief from this conflict. Timothy pauses the recording to share insights and gems about what is happening through the lens of Nonviolent Communication and empathy.
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Host Nancy Kahn warmly welcomes callers to be in conversation about our experience of the universal need for safety on all levels.
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Host Timothy Regan deeply explores and acknowleges graffiti as a form of growing and complex and dynamic communication and honors the human experience behind it.
Callers offer their insight as well.
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All 3 hosts of Talk It Out – Lev, Nancy, and Timothy – hang out and look deeply at our human nature.
We each savor one or two of or most cherished human needs, for the purpose of reconnecting ourselves to life again and renewing ourselves to bring strength and vitality to our actions and words in the world.
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Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn holds a conversation on The Power of Words and Language, how to practice embodied Nonviolent Communication and why this practice requires presence and attention in all relationships. We can use words and language to lift and support others, or we can unintentionally contribute to disconnection and harm others.
Listeners are invited to call into the show at 7:30 pm (510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions, provide comments related to the show’s topic, or request coaching on practical and life-enriching ways to communicate with others. You can live stream Talk It Out Radio at www.kpfa.org on Sunday nights from 7-8 pm.
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Host Timothy Regan and callers together savor where community and cooperation and solidarity and interdependece and trust are happening in our world.
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Host Nancy Kahn reminds us of our many human capacities to regulate and balance our minds and hearts.
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All 3 hosts of Talk It Out – Lev, Nancy, and Timothy – hang out and look deeply at our human nature.
We each savor one or two of or most cherished human needs, for the purpose of reconnecting ourselves to life again and renewing ourselves to bring strength and vitality to our actions and words in the world.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes James Fishkin PhD of the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy to tell stories of success in bringing different people together to talk and make decisions together in true inclusive democracy.
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Host Fresh Lev White welcomes Ace Morgan, fitness trainer, health advocate and parent, who coaches people of all ages toward fitness of body and mind. Check his podcast: “Move Better, Feel Great.” Ace shares his coming out stories and wisdom about fitness and success.
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Host Nancy Kahn welcomes callers to explore the nature of freedom within the meaning of Juneteenth.
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Host Timothy Regan explores the nature of the human need for pace with callers in this episode.
Exactly what is this human requirement for pace? What is it’s nature, it’s flavor and sensations, and how do we honor our own and others’ pace? What is possible when we honor pace in ourselves and others and nature?
This and more we explore in this episode.
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Timothy Regan hosts and facilitates the second congressional candidate empathy circle ever, for our US House of Representatives, CA District 11, San Francisco, currently represented by Nancy Pelosi.
Mike Zonta, a citizen from District 11, invited all candidates and Nancy Pelosi to participate. 2 candidates accepted this bold and courageous invitation: Shahid Buttar and Bianca Krieg.
Shahid and Bianca sit down together and talk and listen to eachother with respect, civility, honesty, and depth, in a simple process of speaking and listening directly to eachother called an empathy circle.
These candidates met on May 22 , 2022 by Zoom for this unique dialogue, to answer one question: “Why should people vote for you?” and to speak to what is on their minds and hearts.
Check out this conversation – it’s inspiring! This is what is possible in politics these days! If you are caught by the dangerous illusion that people can’t talk anymore with respect and collaboration – listen up! This is what’s possible: listening, and being heard, and honest and civil dialogue between competing election candidates! This is a kind of leadership that is inclusive, collaborative, and actually interesting – because respectful dialogue brings the best out of all of us – and we need our best these days.
Candidate Participants:
Shahid Buttar (D) – Challenger
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Bianca Von Krieg (D) – Challenger
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Host Nancy Kahn explores the nature of change and social evolution by asking, “How do we change without mirroring the patterns of thinking and behavior that can hinder real growth?” and “How can we explore root causes so we can support change in ways that don’t reinforce current systems and patterns that keep us where we are?” Callers join the conversation.
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And for this episode, Mika Maniwa and host Timothy Regan (and you listener) get to desconstruct procrastination as a serious individual and collective challenge for living fully and taking care of ourselves and eachother and our Earth.
Not only do we come to a refreshing understanding, but we bring deep compassion to the experience of procrastination and help you crack the human codes of your own procrastination so you can become more free in your own life.
Mika Maniwa is a Japanese Canadian Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and she leads passionate and honest explorations of living fully through the mind, the heart, the body, and our collective humanity.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes 3 international pratitioners of Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL).
We together explore the possibility of applying the life-saving and life-serving principles of Nonviolence to systems all around us. This episode takes us beyond the usual interpersonal skills that are so often associated with Nonviolent Communication, and toward the evolution of unjust and destructive systems with truth, courage, collective power, and love.
Verene Nicola is from Scotland, originally from France, Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication and a founding member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) Project.
Kevin Dancelme, from France, is a Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication and an NGL Friend and Apprentice
Menaka Neotia calls in from Delhi, India. She is an associate of Nonviolent Global Liberation.
To reach them, you can write them at: tools-for-liberation@nglcommunity.org
You can learn more about the class they offered together, Tools for Liberation, here: https://baynvc.org/event/tools-for-liberation/
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This may be the first time candidates for the United States House of Representatives competing for the same seat have agreed to sit down simply to listen to eachother – instead of debating or arguing.
Timothy Regan welcomes 3 candidates who want to represent California Congressional District 8 in Washington DC. Each spoke several times to the question, “How might we bridge the social and political divides in our communities and country?”
3 of 5 candidates participated: Edwin Rutsch, who helped design the empathy circle process and invite everyone, Cheryl Sudduth, and Christopher Riley.
Rudy Recile and the incumbent John Garamendi both were unable to participate despite multiple invitations.
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Join host Nancy Kahn to explore what we have learned about anger in our families and from one another. We experience and express anger differently. Anger is a subjective experience and it is also an emotion that is often judged negatively. We discuss the role of anger within us, between us, and the gift of anger. Callers are invited to join this conversation.
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Host Timothy Regan guides you through a process that can help you be honest with yourself, get unstuck, and take an action that you have not been able to take. This episode may just help you resolve your ambivalence, help you take yourself seriously and make a decision so that you can access your power and act.
This episode is founded in the principles of empathy, honesty, and Motivational Interviewing, a research-based approach to dialogue that helps humans make life-serving decisions in alignment with their values.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Marlena Willis interviews Christina Cleveland.
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Talk it Out Radio, Sunday, March 13, at 7:00 pm on KPFA Radio, (94.1 FM (Berkeley and beyond) or live stream at www.kpfa.org.
How to heal the Sisterhood between Black and White Women: The Black Madonna’s Call for Remembering, Healing, and Rebirth
Host Nancy Kahn interviews guest, Anasuya Isaacs, to discuss the call of and from the Divine Sacred Feminine to RISE UP and RETURN to our THRONE. This show is about healing the Sisterhood between Black and White Women: the Black Madonna’s Call for Remembering, Healing, and Rebirth in celebration of International Women’s Day.
Listeners are invited to call to join the show at 7:40 pm (1-800-958-9008) to join our conversation on this topic.
Join us on Sunday nights at 7:00 pm, on KPFA (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org)
OR CATCH US after the show airs on the www.KPFA.org archives or iTunes!
Anasuya Isaacs. Cultural Ambassador, Mystic Midwife for Empowered Women and Artists
Anasuya Isaacs is a globetrotting Alchemical Transformation Coach Trainer, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Writer, and Painter. As a Cultural Ambassador, she has developed empowerment programs for people to speak the unspeakable, love their broken selves, and own their innate power by combining the power of storytelling, empathy, and the creative arts/theater to teach the power of Words to manifest your desired outcomes now. She has empowered women and young people through her programs all across New York City as a Teaching Artist as well as in France, Kenya, Italy, South Africa, and Germany. Trained in the Stanislavsky Method of acting in Paris, France, Anasuya co-founded a theater company in Paris with friends to perform classical French theater in the Commedia dell’Arte style.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Jim Fishkin, PhD of the Stanford Center for Deliberative Democracy, for a thrilling and inspiring storytelling session on successful democracy experiments all around the world and here in the U.S.
Jim and his team have produced profound and proven benefits and changes in people’s opinions and governmental policy all across the world as a result of bringing different people together from across society to talk.
Jim shares his inspirations and the successes of events like America in One Room, and brings us back to the truth of the power and will of the people.
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Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, February 13, 2022, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or
live stream at kpfa.org ):
The Importance of Establishing Community Elderhood
Host Nancy Kahn talks with Ted Marsh, whose life’s purpose as a visionary BIPOC community elder and activist, is to inspire and collaborate with elders in living the values of support, collaboration and alliances together.
Ted shares his awareness of how we have been conditioned to think, communicate and act in ways that disempower us as individuals and community elders from choosing to support one another at core levels.
We explore what it means to establish community elderhood, why it matters, and what gets in the way of living these values.
Ted Marsh is a community elder for Alameda County. He is a master coach to leaders faced with the challenges of evolutionary, revolutionary or transformative change.
Listeners are invited to call in at 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.
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Host Timothy Regan warmly shares inspiring quotes, deep reflections, and helpful practices for our collective wellbeing, from the rich worlds of Nonviolent Communication and Mindfulness.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy some friendly inspiration for healthy relationships with ourselves and eachother.
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Rebroadcast:
Host Timothy Regan shares evidence-based principles and tips to help you talk to someone who disagrees with you about getting the Covid-19 vaccine. Timothy wants these important conversations to be easier for everyone, so we can work together to serve life for ourselves, eachother, and our world.
The first half of this episode is for YOU if you don’t want to get the vaccine but you have to talk to people who strongly want you to get it.
The second half of this episode is for YOU if you want other people to get vaccinated, and they don’t want to.
Timothy draws upon both Motivational Interviewing and Nonviolent Communication to offer you effective things to say and do in this challenging discussion.
photo: Pixabay
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Host Timothy Regan reminds us all of our power to bless eachother – and offers a step-by-step process to bless another person, with words and love, offering several warming examples for your consideration.
Who needs YOUR blessing today?
What is a blessing? According to Timothy,
“A blessing is a COMMUNICATION that is given, and received, that amplifies the life force, within yourself or someone else. A blessing accurately acknowledges something that is essential for someone, and at the same time brings forth the possibility and the felt experience of that essential need being fulfilled.
It introduces us for the first time to, or reminds us of, our true ever-growing nature: that we have power, that we have value, that we belong, that we are not alone. A blessing brings us back home to the truth of our place in the family of life.
A blessing, when it is received, directly affects us. The body comes alive and the heart fills up with rejuvenation, strength, groundedness, buoyancy, tenderness, warmth, relief, serenity, happiness, love, energy, courage, and gratitude.
At the heart of every blessing may be this message: “I behold you, I care, I am here with you, you are not alone, you make sense, you matter, and you belong.”
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Join host Nancy Kahn for a talk on the language of dehumanization and the power we have to support change through communication.
photo: Pixabay
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Host Lev White talks about mindful living during the holidays with Ruthie Levin, BIPOC Coordinator at Kehilla Community Synagogue.
We talk about the challenges of staying grounded when being with our families, and finding home within ourselves when we don’t have families. The conversation goes deep into self-compassion, and dismantling white supremacy every day, since this kind of thinking brings so much suffering.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes storyteller, mythologist, and mentor Michael Meade in for some help to wrestle with the nature of accountability in our time.
You can visit MosaicVoices and tune in to his Living Myth Podcast to learn more about what Michael is currently offering our struggling world.
The questions we take on in this episode, with rigor and love, are:
1. What is accountability? What does it mean to be accountable? And if we are accountable, what are we accountable to?
2. How do we hold ourselves accountable? Hold other people accountable? Hold whole groups, corporations, governments accountable? In a life serving way, without more destruction, violence, murder, and trauma?
3. What does NOT work to hold others accountable?
4. What DOES work? What is a truly inspiring and empowering vision of accountability that we all can take heart in and begin to practice?
Join us to stoke your imagination of how accountability is possible in our interconnected, interdependent, mutually vulnerable and uncertain world.
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…with a focus on the Q-anon experience with someone who has gone in and come out again
Sarah Peyton shares her recent insightful and compassionate webinar with Talk It Out listeners.
In this episode, Sarah brings brain science and compassion together to help us all understand the human vulnerability to and recovery from the effects of conspiracy beliefs. And, “Alice” eloquently and intimately shares her story of “going down the rabbit hole” of Q-Anon, and how she has been able to come out again.
Learn about Sarah Peyton here.
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Host Timothy Regan reminds us about capacity to bless one another as human beings. Timothy defines what a blessing is, explains how it works and feels, offers several examples, and invites you to create a blessing that you can offer to someone who you care about who needs a blessing now.
What is a Blessing?Between people, a blessing is a COMMUNICATION that is given, and received, that amplifies the life force, within yourself or someone else. A blessing accurately acknowledges something that is essential for someone, and at the same time brings forth the possibility and the felt experience of that essential need being fulfilled.
It introduces us for the first time to, or reminds us of, our true ever-growing nature: that we have power, that we have value, that we belong, that we are not alone. A blessing brings us back home to the truth of our place in the family of life.
A blessing, when it is received, directly affects us. The body comes alive and the heart fills up with rejuvenation, strength, groundedness, buoyancy, tenderness, warmth, relief, serenity, happiness, love, energy, courage, and gratitude.
At the heart of every blessing may be this message: “I behold you, I care, I am here with you, you are not alone, you make sense, you matter, and you belong.”
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Host Timothy Regan invites listeners into compassionate conversation about what may be the toughest reality that humanity collectively can have right now: how are we adapting, with love, to the distinct possibility of the collapse of life support systems, inclusing ours, across the Earth, happning now and progressing in the near future.
To help us approach this conversation, Timothy welcomes Dean Walker, an Advocate speaker for the Deep Adaptation conversation, being had by people across the world right now. This conversation started in 2018 with a paper written by a professor of Sustainability in the UK: Jem Bendell. You can find this paper here: https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/
Dean Walker has been designing curriculum, facilitating and coaching in the field of Collapse-Awareness, for the past six years – drawing extensively on his prior 30 years of Executive and Personal Development coaching and training. He is the author of The Impossible Conversation: Choosing Reconnection and Resilience at the End of Business as Usual. His body of work now includes: Individual and Group – Transformational Resilience Coaching, Safe Circle Support Groups, Deep Academy online learning series, and workshop design and facilitation. “The calling of these times is for reconnection with the Web of Life.”
You can find inspiring resources and learn more about his work at: https://livingresilience.net/
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Host Timothy Regan shares evidence-based principles and tips to help you talk to someone who disagrees with you about getting the Covid-19 vaccine. Timothy wants these important conversations to be easier for everyone, so we can work together to serve life for ourselves, eachother, and our world.
The first half of this episode is for YOU if you don’t want to get the vaccine but you have to talk to people who strongly want you to get it.
The second half of this episode is for YOU if you want other people to get vaccinated, and they don’t want to.
Timothy draws upon both Motivational Interviewing and Nonviolent Communication to offer you effective things to say and do in this challenging discussion.
photo: Joshua Hoehne via Unsplash
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Tonight’s Show: How To Support Friends When They Have Been Abusive
How do we humanize the conversations about people who have committed acts of inter-partner abuse? Host Nancy Kahn, along with guest Jesse Markus opens up a meaningful exploration of how society fails to rehabilitate people with a history of inter-partner abuse.
Tonight’s guest, Jesse Markus, shares personal stories on his history in drug and alcohol recovery; his experiences of being publicly canceled and shamed; along with his views on this controversial topic that have been informed by his leftist politics, prison abolitionism, and commitment to community and mutual aid. Jesse is collaborating with others to create a burgeoning fellowship for people who are recovering from patterns of abusive behavior.
photo: Marco Bianchetti via Unsplash
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Host and mediator Timothy Regan demonstrates an authentic mediation conversation with a man who is facing a conflict with the leaders at his workplace.
Listen as Timothy and Rick follow a process of good questions and good listening, to help Rick find some more clarity, and power, and action steps for the conflict he is in. Timothy pauses the recording at key moments and explains principles of Nonviolent Communication and empathy for listeners.
This is an opportunity to hear real peacemaking from the inside, so that you can grow in your capacity to bring some more peace to conflicts in your own life.
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Host and certified Nonviolent Communication trainer Timothy Regan demonstrates an authentic conflict mediation session with Sid, a mother who is facing a conflict with her co-parent about protecting their child from Covid-19.
Timothy plays the recording of the session, and pauses throughout to explain the principles of Nonviolent Communication and empathy. This is an opportunity to hear mediation from the inside, and learn skills that you can use to support others in conflict in your own life.
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Host and mediator Timothy Regan demonstrates an authentic conflict mediation session with Sid, a mother who is facing a conflict with her co-parent about protecting their child from Covid-19.
Timothy plays the recording of the session, and pauses throughout to explain the principles of Nonviolent Communication and empathy. This is an opportunity to hear mediation from the inside, and learn skills that you can use to support others in conflict in your own life.
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The Pandemic, Racism, and Violence in America alert us to the need for Self Compassion and the ability to facilitate Post Traumatic Growth in our lives. Join host Nancy Kahn in a conversation on how we navigate the pandemic, racism, and violence in this country. Our ability to develop self-compassion and facilitate post-traumatic growth in our lives is critical to our healing.
Talk It Out Radio – August 8 at 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org.
Listeners are invited to call to join the show after 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation.
Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes.
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Host Timothy Regan demonstrates a peacemaking mediation process with a woman in a real conflict with her mother.
Join us to learn from the authentic application of empathy and the language of Nonviolent Communication.
Hear how good questions, good listening, and empathy can bring relief and clarity and power to one person in conflict, and consider how you can use this in your own life.
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A Multigenerational Conversation-A Nonviolent Approach to Naming and Managing Stressors of Today to Thrive and Live Life to The Fullest
Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, July 25 at 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org):
Join host Nancy Kahn and special guest Eric Jordan, a graduate of the KPFA First Voices Apprenticeship Program, in a discussion that focuses on the experiences of people from diverse generations and backgrounds naming and managing the stressors of today to thrive and live life to the fullest. Hear what people from different generations are grappling with today and how they are meeting their needs to overcome individual and societal stressors in nonviolent ways.
Tonight’s Guest
Eric “DATBOYMEDIA” Jordan, a Richmond California native, is a graduate of the KPFA First Voice Radio Broadcaster Apprenticeship who has been described as a “young, creative force with a passion for producing radio content and creative media projects” (Nancy Kahn, host of KPFA “Talk-It-Out-Radio”). Eric is a Radio Broadcaster, Entrepreneur, Actor, Model, and Producer. He created and hosted the innovative KPFA 94.1 Radio series ‘Durags and Conversations’, which will soon be broadcast on KGPC 96.9 Radio.
Listeners are invited to call to join the show after 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation.
Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes.
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Host Timothy Regan takes listeners into an authentic experience of mediation with a guest experiencing a real conflict.
Our topic this week: “That was a great weekend with the ladies, and now the damages!”
How the Talk It Out Radio Mediation Project works:
We invited people to volunteer to receive a 45 minute experience of Nonviolent Communication Mediation for a real conflict that they are experiencing.
We recorded our conversation, so that we could share it with you, so you can hear how the principles of human empathy actually work to create peace when we practice them for real.
And, to make it easier to follow, Timothy pauses the recording and pointing out key moments and principles for you to learn.
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Host Timothy Regan shares a presentation by a fellow Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication Dian Killian Ph.D.
Dian takes us with wonder and warmth into the language and experience of human empathy, helping us to remember how empathy can make life more wonderful.
You can learn more about her work at: https://workcollaboratively.com/
This recording is offered by permission from The NVC Academy, and Mary McKenzie, our colleague who directs and curates the rich library of recordings there. In both audio and video, you can find training there on the many applications of NVC in all walks of life: parenting, activism, healing, partnerships, romance, business, mediation, and so much more.
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How To Support Friends When They Have Been Abusive
How do we humanize the conversations about people who have committed acts of inter-partner abuse? Host Nancy Kahn, along with guest Jesse Markus, opens up a meaningful exploration of how society fails to rehabilitate people with a history of inter-partner abuse.
Tonight’s guest, Jesse Markus, shares personal stories on his history in drug and alcohol recovery; his experiences of being publicly canceled and shamed; his views on this controversial topic informed by his leftist politics, prison abolitionism mindset, and his commitment to community and mutual aid. Jesse is collaborating with others to create a burgeoning fellowship for people who are recovering from patterns of abusive behavior.
Tune in to KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA (www.KPFA.org for livestreaming) on Sunday nights from 7-8 pm PST.
photo: Breno Machado via Unsplash
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Host Timothy Regan demonstrates a mediation conversation with a woman facing a real conflict in her life. As you listen, the principles of empathy and Nonviolent Communication are explained by Timothy throughout the process.
Timothy’s eloquent guest shares her experience bravely and honestly, as a gift to anyone experiencing conflict, as she follows the process of Nonviolent Communciation mediation. She experiences a shift in her relationship to the other person in this conflict as the process unfolds.
Mild content warning: this is a conflict that involves emotional pain, anger, and the dynamics of racism.
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Wise speech is one of the 5 Buddhist Precepts and is one path of the 8 fold path. Often it seems one of the most difficult, particularly when addressing controversial topics.
Host Marlena Willis shares how Nonviolent Communication can help us speak wisely. Marlena responds to callers on this and other topics. As this is her last regular episode with us, though she may guest host occasionally, we make time for gratitude for her.
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…with a focus on the Q-anon experience with someone who has gone in and come out again
Sarah Peyton shares her recent insightful and compassionate webinar with Talk It Out listeners on Sunday, May 30, 2021, from 7-8 pm.
In this episode, Sarah brings brain science and compassion together to help us all understand the human vulnerability to and recovery from the effects of conspiracy beliefs. And, “Alice” eloquently and intimately shares her story of “going down the rabbit hole” of Q-Anon, and how she has been able to come out again.
Learn about Sarah Peyton here.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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The voices of Asian American Buddhists are often not recognized or heard and assumptions about them do not acknowledge the diversity of thier lived experiences. Host Marlena Willis speaks with Chenxing Han, author of the book, Be The Refuge, Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists.
Chenxing Han is a Bay Area–based writer who holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA in Buddhist studies from the Graduate Theological Union, and a certificate in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. Her first book, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists, was published by North Atlantic Books in January 2021. She recently co-organized May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial for Asian American Ancestors.
Learn more about Be the Refuge and Chenxing here.
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Timothy Regan welcomes all the Talk It Out Radio hosts, to share with the world some wisdom and story about one nonviolent, peacemaking principle has helped us the most in our lives.
Nancy Kahn, Marlena Willis, and the newest member of our team, Lev White, all participate.
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Relationship and Communication Pitfalls: Can We Talk About Invisible Contracts and Deal Breakers?
Have you dedicated time to self-reflect and examine your own communication patterns and relationship dynamics? Have you ever wondered why you communicate the way you do? Tonight’s show offers insights and a range of communication concepts and coaching tips to enrich emotional intelligence and self-knowledge to improve relationships. Join us to learn about common communication pitfalls and how to identify moments to drop into greater self-awareness and choose transformative practices.
Host Nancy Kahn will talk about common pitfalls that include invisible contracts and deal breakers, and the steps that lead to relationships that work. We invite listeners to call in and join the conversation at 1 800-958-9008 or 510 848-4425, and share examples and stories about relationships and communication pitfalls you struggle with and would like to receive coaching on the air.
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Host Timothy Regan presents priciples, tips, and stories, all to help you speak up and interrupt someone else successfully.
A successful interruption happens when you speak up to stop someone else speaking temoporarily, and it increases connection for everyone present. Intentions and needs are seen and honored, as well as those of anyone else in the situation.
Listeners call in and receive tips to help them interrupt a parent assaulting their child in a market, and interrupt a large organization to protect the wellbeing of the workers.
We review 3 parts of a successful interruption: Preparation, Delivery, and Dialogue.
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Those with mental health issues are often defined by professionals, but radical mental health asks that those who are defined as mentally ill have voice and agency. Host Marlena Willis, who herself deals has mental diversity/disability, is in conversation with meditator, Emiko Yoshikami, and psychiatrist, Dr. Rahil Rojiani.
Emiko yoshikami is a mixed-raced, mixed-Buddhist queer who was diagnosed with “Bipolar I with Psychotic Tendencies.” She began practicing Vipassana meditation over three decades ago and comes from a long lineage of Pureland Buddhist priests. She is committed to co-creating a more just and compassionate world and spends a lot of time thinking about power in relationship to the multiple realities we live in.
Dr. Rahil Rojiani (they/them) is a queer, genderfluid, South Asian Ismaili Muslim, and a resident physician in Harvard’s community psychiatry program at Cambridge Health Alliance. They’ve been practicing within multiple Buddhist lineages for over a decade, including as a teacher for primarily BIPOC and activist communities, and as a meditation researcher. They are committed to the intersection of social justice, spirituality, and somatic healing for collective liberation.
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Join host Nancy Kahn to learn how to develop empathy in relationships and to hear how empathy impacts personal and work relationships. Empathy is a core practice in Nonviolent Communication and a skill that can be learned and improved the more we choose it!
Nancy Kahn has more than 20 years of experience teaching empathy skills and compassionate communication to individuals, groups, organizations, and families, across differences.
Listen live on Sunday nights from 7-8 pm PST on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, live stream at www.kpfa.org, or visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radior or iTunes.
We invite listeners to call in after 7:15 pm (dial 1800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425). You can listen to previous shows at www.talkitoutradio.wordpress.com. Contact us at www.talkitout@kpfa.org
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Host Timothy Regan shares peacemaking wisdom in the form of “one-liners” from experts on empathy and healthy human relationships.
In this lively episode, callers join in with their own one-liners of wisdom, and find advice for their own current conflicts.
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Join host Nancy Kahn for an important discussion on the emotional journey and the differences that adoptees and members of the adoption triad and extended families face due to different state laws and restrictions. Nancy identifies as a BIPOC, biracial, transracial adoptee who went through a closed adoption and has reunited with her birth parents and some extended biological relatives. She shares the story of another adoptee as told in a recent article in the New York Times as well as her own story. Listeners are invited to call in to share their feelings and needs related to their own experiences around access and equal rights in US and international adoptions. Listeners can call 1-510-8484425 or 1-800-958-9008 to join in this conversation.
Listeners can visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes, or contact our producers and hosts at:
talkitout@kpfa.org.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Amy Wilson, who just released her book, Empathy for Change.
We discuss Amy’s vision for healthy social evolution, her own personal story, and we clear up a few things about empathy. Callers ask their own questions about setting up empathic systems where humans can collaborate and thrive together.
More info:
In her new book: Empathy for Change, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society. Having built cultures of innovation and change across multiple sectors, she knows that when we do not design with compassion, we remove the humanity and closeness we have to one another.
In her book, she explores:
➞ How and why compassion can fuel real change despite its misconceptions
➞ Why change is more difficult in the 21st century and what we must do to instill human connection
➞ How power, culture, and systems shape our reality and how they can be redesigned
➞ What should be combined with empathy to make true positive impact
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Today is International Women’s Day! Join host Nancy Kahn in a conversation to honor the incredible capacity of women to meet needs despite the challenges of this world. If you are a self identified woman, what gems, wisdom or stories can you share with the world to contribute to other women about how to effectively meet needs? Share something you have learned that connects you to your greatness and power in your own world to meet precious needs.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:15 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes his friend Shawn to share a story about how he approached his landlords to ask for a break in his rent – a common experience in these times.
As we hear the story, Timothy reminds us of the helpful tips that come from the world of Nonviolent Communication, so that you listener can be more prepared and successful the next time you have a difficult conversation.
A difficult conversation is one where:
- You care a lot about the outcome
- You might be angry or scared as you approach the conversation
- You care about protecting your relationship as well
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Join host Nancy Kahn to discuss the power of love; love as a value; practices that connect us to love (self love and love of others); and the role love can play in social movements and in politics. This show explores the concept of love as a human need/ core value; what it means to practice self love and to love others; universal love; love and nonviolence; and love as a force for change. We invite listeners to join this conversation and respond to the question on air ” What role can love play in politics?”
Call in after 7:15 pm to join this meaningful conversation (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425).
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Timothy Regan and Edwin Rutsch return to write a letter with Talk It Out radio listeners to President Biden and his team. We are making direct public requests and offering our support to a President who speaks to the importance of empathy.
We review what empathy is, and we hear a history lesson of how and when empathy was debated in the U.S. Senate, and what an opportunity we have now to create government that works.
Then the calls begin! We receive so many inspiring ideas and requests from callers for our Presidential team that we will be including in our open letter. We intend to make the letter somewhat readable, and then send it along and let you know what we hear back!
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For this live episode of Talk It Out Radio, we work on a public letter to the President of our United States, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris, and their team. And we write it with the help of our listeners.
Host Timothy Regan, and special guest Edwin Rutsch of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy, are requesting that our Presidential Administration take action to bring our elected leaders together to talk, listen, and understand each other to their satisfaction. If this can happen, they can create unified and effective national action to meet this moment in history.
We are writing this letter because President Biden has expressed a commitment to work to build unity in our nation, to practice empathy, to heal divides, and to bring decency and inclusion back to government.
We are taking a public stand and making inspiring public suggestions to our national government for the cause of human EMPATHY.
What would YOU ask our President and his team to do right now to forward the cause of effective communiciation and understanding and listening in our national government? Hear several callers answer this question as we work on this letter together.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Join hosts Nancy Kahn and Timothy Regan in a conversation inviting listeners to connect to the power within to create a world that works for all of us. During uncertain political times, we have choice around how we focus our energy and efforts. We can focus on the deficit of unmet needs and we can also call in vision, hope and take nonviolent action. Nonviolent action is a powerful choice and can lead to transformative movements after others have chosen tragic expressions of unmet needs such as violent speech and violent actions.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show after 7:15 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation.
photo: Tabrez Syed via Unsplash
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Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, January 10, 2021, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org):Join hosts Nancy Kahn and Timothy Regan of Talk It Out Radio for today’s show:Deep Listening to What’s Coming Up for You and What You Want the World to Hear Since Insurrection DayWhen we listen to one another, we offer the gift of care and acknowledgement for the collective impact of violence. Violence and tragedy occurred on January 6th, 2021 inside the US Capitol; such events are considered an insurrection.Empathic listening, helps us mourn, recover and open up internal space to learn and generate solutions, as we figure out our next steps together.Call in to join us on the air to share one observation, something you heard, saw, or read since the insurrection on January 6th, 2021 that impacts you the most? We are here to make sure you are heard with empathy.Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:15 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation.
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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In this first episode of 2021, we seem to have had knowledge of what was to come in our nation’s Capital just 3 days later.
Host Timothy Regan welcomed two active, skilled, and devoted people from the DC Peace Team, based in Washington DC: Eli McCarthy and Heather Thompson.
We bring you a glimpse of the wisdom, and power, and action of nonviolent peacemakers, part of a global tradition and current movement across the United States and the world. We explore the grit of peacemaking on the street and the healing that can happen in the restorative justice circle.
What they have to offer is timely, relevant, and life-saving.
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Christian values and beliefs, some of which support care for the oppressed and some of which support dualist thinking and hierarchy and have been used to justify colonialism, slavery and wife battering, permeate our culture. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with social justice educator, activist and writer, Paul Kivel, about his book Living in the Shadow of the Cross, Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony.
PAUL KIVEL is a social justice educator, activist and writer who has worked 50 years for collective healing, transformation and justice. Kivel was a co-founder of the Oakland Men’s Project and also part of the group that started SURJ—Showing Up for Racial Justice and a leader in the anti-racist movement developing resources for white people working for racial, economic and gender justice. Kivel’s most recent books are a revised, updated 4th edition of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice and Living in the Shadow of the Cross. www.paulkivel.com
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Join host Nancy Kahn and guest, Justin Ameen, an abolitionist and student of Transformative Justice, for a conversation about Call Out and Cancel Culture. Justin shares personal stories from their life, along with examples of how they practice Transformative Justice with their peers. Nancy and Justin discuss the implications of Cancel Culture in relationships, in communities with less privilege and power, and as individuals who do not hold privilege and power in this country as we move into a new year with Covid cases at an all time high record in California.
Guest
Justin Ameen (They/Them) is an Arab American clothing designer, abolitionist, and student of Transformative Justice. They are an advocate for police abolition and restructuring how communities respond to harm. They currently live and work in the Bay Area.
photo: Andre Hunter via Unsplash
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Host Timothy Regan offers tips and demonstrations on how to be more free to make requests, especially when you are afraid to hear “no.”
Learn how to prepare yourself, then make an effective request, and then respond with dialogue if you hear “no.”
Hear Timothy make a bold request of listeners, and welcome callers who tell him “no,” as he demonstrates all that can happen if you welcome “no” as a step further into connection.
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Host Nancy Kahn discusses how Nonviolent Communication as a practice connects us to the power within and to our wholeness. This episode focuses on the value of power, the ability to access power within oneself in the service of meeting needs and caring for the whole self. When an individual is connected to power in their own world to meet their needs, they are more effective in all relationships. How does an individual connect to the power within? This show provides insights and opportunities for self reflection. Callers are invited to join the show after 7:20 pm at 1 800 958 9008 or 510 848 4425. You can live stream this show on www,kpfa.org
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When we can heal our own separation and become whole, facing and owning our shadows, we can begin to also heal the separations between us and others. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with meditation teacher, direct action trainer and activist, Nirali Shah.
Nirali Shah is a meditation teacher and her work is strongly informed by the ancient feminine teachings of Tantra from the Himalayas, as well as the principles of mutual liberation, where one intentionally harnesses the energy arising from spiritual practices as a force for uprooting systemic oppression. In the past she served in one of the largest slum communities of Asia for close to five years, part of it, working out of the Gandhi Ashram. She has deeply studied nonviolence from Gandhian Elders in the Nonviolent Freedom Movement of India as well as Kingian Nonviolence. Currently she teaches Dharma at various Buddhist communities, and Direct action at East Point East Academy. For more information: www.niralis.com.
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Host Timothy Regan takes you into the nature of our shared humanity: our universal human needs that describe who we are and why we do what we do.
In this episode, we welcome Mary Mackenzie, Fellow Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and founder of the NVC Academy, who has shared an example of her teaching in this heart of human understanding – the language of needs and the skill of understanding ourselves.
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Developing an Antiracist Inner Practice, an integrative approach that combines Nonviolent Communication with Antiracist & Anti-Oppression frameworks is the topic of our show tonight. Why is it critical to develop an antiracist inner practice? What do we each need to learn and do, to become more aware of the ways we each might contribute to racism and oppression? Join tonight’s host, Nancy Kahn, to compassionately explore how to develop an anti-racist inner practice. We discuss why it is important to build this inner practice along with the skill-sets and knowledge base needed to actively transform racism and oppression on a daily basis, moment by moment. An inner practice empowers us to take action in personal relationships, workplace environments and within our communities.Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn, identifies as African American woman, BIPOC of Nigerian and Russian Jewish ancestry has been actively enhancing her integrative practice of Nonviolent Communication combined with the frameworks of Antiracism, anti-oppression, critical race theory, diversity/equity/inclusion and among others.
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Host Timothy Regan invites listeners to practice empathy – with ourselves, our fellow citizens, and courageously “walk the unarmed walk” to invite dialogue where we thought it was impossible before. Timothy shares stories of empathy, dialogue, and healing, and reads letters from fellow practitioners of Nonviolent Communication in this episode.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Nonviolence with the Body: Health, Healing, Wellness and Self Care
Host Nancy Kahn interviews Denisha Lockett, a local BIPOC healer and Self-Care Wellness Coach, to discuss ways to embody a needs-based transformative healing mindset along and how to establish daily practices that support movement. Denisha is a single mother deeply committed to whole self transformative healing. She openly shares her personal journey to heal and connect to her body, and address trauma through a liberatory and empowering mindset. With the current world pandemic, climate change concerns, upcoming US election and the national reckoning on race in this country, transformative healing is more critical than ever for every human being.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show after 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1-510-848-4425 ) to participate in the conversation and share about the health and wellness issues they experience in the community and within their own lives given the present societal issues.
Tonight’s Guest
Denisha Lockett, with L.E.T Movement ( Life Evolving Techniques) is a healer, self care and wellness coach. She is a trained coach, reiki master, massage therapist, and BARS practitioner and provides chakra education, motivational workshops and a range of services for transformative health and wellness. She is especially passionate about working with communities of color. She identifies as an “entrepre-healer” as she manages multiple small businesses (www.Theletmovement.com).
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Host Timothy Regan reads letters from practitioners and trainers of Nonviolent Communication all over the world who are putting their values into action at this crucial time in world history.
We anwer these two questions: “What matters most to me at this moment in history, and what am I doing about it?”
How would YOU answer these questions today, dear listener?
Callers contribute their own stories and inspiration in this live episode.
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Self Acceptance, Mindfulness and Mental Wellness
Join host Nancy Kahn and her extraordinary guest, Emilio Osorio, LCSW, a Bay Area therapist of color, to delve into the core need for self acceptance; the benefit of Mindfulness practices to support Mental Wellness, along with strategies to cope with the challenges of our times (racial, political, health, climate)
Listeners are invited to call in to the show after 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation on self acceptance and mental wellness through the challenging times we are in today.
Emilio Osorio, LCSW, identifies as a cisgender male of El Salvadorian heritage. He has been a social activist in San Francisco for decades and is a priest in his spiritual practice of IFA.
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Can we change only one person, ourselves, and still effectively change the world? Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Dr. Renato Almanzor about his work as a Transformation Catalyst, where he draws on lessons learned from 30 years of activism for social change and on Buddhism and 12-step recovery programs.
Renato Almanzor is committed to transformative social change. As a leadership development expert, he delivers university courses, programs, keynote addresses, and seminars on issues related to leadership, equity, and organization design and his work has particularly been dedicated to supporting leaders working with and in low-income communities and communities of color. He has a PhD and MA in organizational psychology, an MS in counseling, and BA in psychology, as well as certifications in coaching and Zumba Instruction. He serves on the Boards for East Bay Meditation Center and the Oakland Peace Center.
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Can we change only one person, ourselves, and still effectively change the world? Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Dr. Renato Almanzor about his work as a Transformation Catalyst, where he draws on lessons learned from 30 years of activism for social change and on Buddhism and 12-step recovery programs.
Renato Almanzor is committed to transformative social change. As a leadership development expert, he delivers university courses, programs, keynote addresses, and seminars on issues related to leadership, equity, and organization design and his work has particularly been dedicated to supporting leaders working with and in low-income communities and communities of color. He has a PhD and MA in organizational psychology, an MS in counseling, and BA in psychology, as well as certifications in coaching and Zumba Instruction. He serves on the Boards for East Bay Meditation Center and the Oakland Peace Center.
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Host Timothy Regan returns with guests Paul Himmelstein and Anthony Jackson of Soul Shoppe to explore powerful peacebuilding skills with honest, authentic practice. In this second episode, we continue to practice the “I message,” and then we work wtih the steps of the “Clean Up” to repair the break in relationship when our actions have caused pain in someone else.
Soul Shoppe is a Bay Area nonprofit with a beautiful VISION: “A world where respect and empathy are the norm, and every child can thrive and shine!” Their MISSION is: “to create safe learning environments that bring forth a culture of compassion, connection and curiosity—eliminating bullying at the roots.”
Part 2 of 2 episodes.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes you to learn peacebuilding skills along with the people and stories of Soul Shoppe – our own Bay Area peacebuilding children’s educational fun-team! This nonprofit teaches healthy relationship and conflict management skills to thousands of children K-8th grade every year, with colorful, fun events.
Soul Shoppe team members Anthony Jackson and Paul Himmelstein share stories and demonstrate what we all needed to learn in grammar school – simple, powerful, reliable skills to understand ourselves and eachother, and to handle conflict so we can thrive together.
Soul Shoppe is a Bay Area nonprofit with a beautiful VISION: “A world where respect and empathy are the norm, and every child can thrive and shine!” Their MISSION is: “to create safe learning environments that bring forth a culture of compassion, connection and curiosity—eliminating bullying at the roots.”
This is PART 1 of 2 episodes.
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Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, September 13, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org ):
The Gift of Deep Listening During Difficult Times
Host Nancy Kahn holds a show for the community, inviting listeners to call in and share feelings and to connect to their needs about all that is going on in our country. She offers empathy, care and reflections to listeners impacted by the fires, pandemic, political climate in a highly racialized world. If you are a parent going through the challenges of online learning with your children, someone who is displaced because of the fires, if you are worrying about your friends or family members during this time, experiencing anti-blackness or racism in your workplace, if you are struggling with feeling blue, addiction, or your mental wellness, call in and be heard with empathy and compassion. Listeners are invited to call in to the show (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510 848 4425) to participate in this conversation.
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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[Replay] Things are getting pretty intense around this here world. This is when we humans turn toward a higher power, to seek guidance and solace, as well as strength from spirit.
Host Timothy Regan invited 2 Chaplains to Talk It Out Radio, who work in large hospitals and health care centers in the Bay Area: Margaret Gelini, and Lisa Schilbe.
Margaret and Lisa share exactly what they do to help with people facing all sorts of challenges, no matter who someone is or where they are from. They teach how we can be in service to each other in the practical spirit of healing. They also share their path to become a chaplain, and they offer blessings of resilience for us all.
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Host Nancy Kahn holds a timely discussion with guest, an extraordinary guest, Emilio Osorio, LCSW, a Bay Area therapist of color, to hear what he has learned about the importance of listening and validating people’s experiences.
Mr. Osorio shares his perspective and experience on the need to voice unmet needs, and to attend to pain and trauma related to the personal, community and world conditions we face (racism, oppression, hate speech, violence, inequity), and the roles of self empathy, mindfulness and spirituality.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1 510-848-4425 ) to participate in this conversation.
Emilio Osorio, LCSW, identifies as a cisgender male of El Salvadorian heritage. He has been a social activist in San Francisco for decades and is a priest in his spiritual practice of IFA.Thanks to Maria Oswalt for sharing their work on Unsplash.The post Caring for Our Mental Health Through Mindfulness, Nonviolence and Spirituality appeared first on KPFA.
Join host Timothy Regan, with guests Jim and Jori Manske for this live episode with callers.
Dialogue and human connection is essential for the basic functioning of our families, our workplaces, and our democracy. It is more important than ever with forces of deception and fear actively trying to sow division and chaos in the union of our country.
Too many of us decline to discuss “politics” with the very people we know most and love. Relationships get strained when we don’t know how to have a good dialogue.
So, to help you out this evening, Nonviolent Communication trainers Jim and Jori Manske will share some skills that will help you respond when someone says something hard to hear. You have choices when someone says words that throw you off, get you mad, sad, scared, or disturbed.
SO! Please kick back, give yourself the gift of some time to learn and reflect, because we are going to demonstrate 4 ways to respond to a hard-to-hear message.
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Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, August 16, 2020 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org):
A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery- A Two-Part Series
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017. Substance use addiction impacts an individual’s life and their families. Host Nancy Kahn interviews expert guest, Kelvin Luster, Associate Director of Baker Places, to hear his personal story, professional perspective on addiction and recovery and strategies for identifying the signs of addiction along with tips for supporting someone in recovery. We address the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on addiction and recovery. Nancy and Kelvin examine how compassion and empathy are integral to healing and recovery, and the ways to own clear boundaries. This is the second segment of our two-part series; the first part airs on July 26, 2020 and can be found in our archives.
Call 1-800 -958 -9008 to join the conversation about the role of compassion and empathy in recovery, and your challenges and celebrations with addiction and recovery.
About Kelvin Luster
Kelvin Luster is a Bay Area native tried and true. Born in San Francisco on day one, day two, raised in the trifecta of the East Bay, namely Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond by a hard working single mother and his sister. Kelvin grew up in the budding “heyday” of all three cities. In his teens, and referring to himself as a “back of the bus kid”, that’s where all the action was, Kelvin was exposed to things he may have not needed to see so early on. That is where he learned first rate street action; It was all educational. But Kelvin was fortunate. He had interests. He liked to write. Landing a major label recording deal, doing voice over work on a Grammy winning album, and production work for various up and coming Bay Area artists, Kelvin was on FIRE!!! Then tragedy struck in his family and Kelvin turned to street drugs for relief. And just like that, it all disappeared! Now with 13 years sobriety under his belt, Kelvin gives back to others as it was given to him. He says, “It was not easy, but nothing worth having ever is”.
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Often the spiritual teachings that guide us are presented in ways that reflect the dominance of men in our society and do not take into account women’s experiences. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Buddhist teacher, Pamela Weiss, about her new book, A Bigger Sky, Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism which weaves memoir with stories of early Buddhist women seeking to be included in the Buddha’s community.
PAMELA WEISS is a Buddhist teacher and the author of “A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism.” She is authorized in two traditions—Zen and Theravada, is a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher Council, and a guiding teacher at San Francisco Insight. Pamela is also an executive coach, entrepreneur, and pioneer in bringing Buddhist principles and practices into the workplace. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and little dog, Grover.
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Often the spiritual teachings that guide us are presented in ways that reflect the dominance of men in our society and do not take into account women’s experiences. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Buddhist teacher, Pamela Weiss, about her new book, A Bigger Sky, Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism which weaves memoir with stories of early Buddhist women seeking to be included in the Buddha’s community.
PAMELA WEISS is a Buddhist teacher and the author of “A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism.” She is authorized in two traditions—Zen and Theravada, is a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher Council, and a guiding teacher at San Francisco Insight. Pamela is also an executive coach, entrepreneur, and pioneer in bringing Buddhist principles and practices into the workplace. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and little dog, Grover.
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Host Timothy Regan describes a pattern of human thinking and communication that seems to be increasing in our society that can lead to violence by civilians toward other citizens. We then explore some forms of medicine for civilians caught in this pattern, so we can create connection and dialogue instead of tragic violence.
There are at least 3 ingredients to violent action from Timothy’s perspective: unmet human needs, combined with the pain of these unmet needs, combined with certain kinds of thinking (beliefs, blame, and enemy images).
Timothy’s detailed presentation reviews these three ingredients, and he offers medicine for relief from this pattern, and listeners call in live to help clarify this pattern.
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Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, July 26, 2020 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org):
A Nonviolent Approach to Addiction and Recovery (A Two-Part Series)
Part I: Compassion, Empathy and Knowledge
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 19.7 million American adults (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in 2017. Substance use addiction impacts an individual’s life and the lives of their family members. Host Nancy Kahn interviews expert guest, Kelvin Luster, Assistant Director of Baker Places, and hears his personal story and professional perspective on addiction and recovery. We address the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on addiction and recovery and examine how compassion, empathy and knowledge support the stages of healing and recovery. We discuss when setting clear boundaries is critical to recovery. This is the first segment of a two-part series; the second part airs August 16, 2020.Kelvin photo
About Kelvin Luster
Kelvin Luster is a Bay Area native tried and true. Born in San Francisco on day one, day two, raised in the trifecta of the East Bay, namely Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond by a hard working single mother and his sister. Kelvin grew up in the budding “heyday” of all three cities. In his teens, and referring to himself as a “back of the bus kid”, that’s where all the action was, Kelvin was exposed to things he may have not needed to see so early on. That is where he learned first rate street action; It was all educational. But Kelvin was fortunate. He had interests. He liked to write. Landing a major label recording deal, doing voice over work on a Grammy winning album, and production work for various up and coming Bay Area artists, Kelvin was on FIRE!!! Then tragedy struck in his family and Kelvin turned to street drugs for relief. And just like that, it all disappeared! Now with 13 years sobriety under his belt, Kelvin now gives back to others as it was given to him. It was not easy, but nothing worth having ever is.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show beginning at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1-510-848-4425 ) to participate in this conversation.
Listen live or, after the show airs, visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes.
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Host Timothy Regan explores the meaning and power of “enough” with callers and stories. In this episode, we seek to answer these questions:
How do we know that we have enough so we can rest, and we can share?
OR,
When did you realize that you had TOO MUCH of something, and you made a correction in your choices and actions? What helped you realize this, and what did you do?
Why?
Because many people don’t have enough, and too many people have too much. And this is moving our nation closer to chaos.
And, there is something truly magical and powerful that happens when we have enough: We humans get quiet, and we start to get creative and generous and collaborative. All our best qualities come out when we are calm – when we have enough.
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Host Nancy Kahn talks with WolfHawkJaguar, aka Adimu Madyun, a visionary cultural artist and community activist, about his life’s work inviting people to love as activism. At a time with so much uncertainty, in our world, the Covid-19 pandemic and a national discourse on the reality of systemic and structural racism, anti-blackness, and the choice to focus on love . The choice to love is within all off us and is vital to our efforts to transform our communities and world. How do we develop the consciousness to love and what are the barriers to self love and loving one other?
WolfHawkJaguar
“There are moments in life when we believe in absolutely nothing and we ask our heart, “Is all this effort really worth it.” WolfHawkJaguar is for those who have lost faith and courage, but still go forward and in the end, faith and courage return.” Passion, Spirit, Prosperity & Pain directly influence the melodic tunes of Urban World Music artist WolfHawkJaguar. His music stirs the soul with Orisa Spirituality, raptured in the heart of Hip Hop, Reggae, Rhythm and Blues. His films explore culture and social responsibility allowing viewers to travel to a place of vulnerability. Currently residing in Oakland, the California native is a prolific musician, actor and filmmaker. His art speaks for itself. Press play…and believe. WolfHawkJaguar-
3 animals..1 name. Blessings R Now. 393films on Youtube.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:45 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation. OR CATCH US after the show airs on the KPFA.org archives or iTunes!
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Things are getting pretty intense around this here world. This is when we humans turn toward a higher power, to seek guidance and solace, as well as strength from spirit.
Host Timothy Regan invited 2 Chaplains to Talk It Out Radio, who work in large hospitals and health care centers in the Bay Area: Margaret Gelini, and Lisa Schilbe.
Margaret and Lisa share exactly what they do to help with people facing all sorts of challenges, no matter who someone is or where they are from. They teach how we can be of service to eachother in the practical spirit of healing. They also share their path to become a chaplain, and they offer blessings of resilience for us all.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes his elder, Molly Brown, leader and guide of The Work That Reconnects, to guide us into practices that bring us into life, so that we can draw upon ancient and powerful consciousness wherever our heartache and activism is taking us.
Molly co-authored the book Coming Back to Life with Joanna Macy, and leads online practice sessions of this work at the Go Wild Institute. You can learn more about the Work That Reconnects here.
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The question many are asking in the wake of the murder of George Floyd is how we can contribute to dismantling the structures of racism. Neighbors For Racial Justice based in the Diamond area of Oakland has been working on this issue with a white awake accountability group, a black advisory council, and a weekly black lives matter vigil in Oakland. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with two members, Sherri Taylor and Jenn Biehn about their work.
Sherri Taylor, Psy.D. (she/they/femme) is a contemplative, scholar, consultant, and facilitator. She is core faculty in the Somatic Psychology department at California Institute for Integral Studies and also teaches in the clinical psychology doctoral program at The Wright Institute. She curates and hosts group trainings, playshops, and workshops for community and professional audiences in the areas of anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, cultural humility, the cultivation of joy and creativity, dream work, and spirituality. Sherri aspires each day to appreciate and hold reverence for the fullness and complexities of the human experience.
Jenn Biehn (she/they) has leveraged her white privilege as an activist for racial and social justice since 1968. An engaged Buddhist, she moves from a place of deep interconnectedness with all beings and a belief that the next Buddha is Sangha. A long time Oakland resident, she currently offers classes in the community and with organizations ready to engage in Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Justice. She also teaches Tai Chi and Qigong embodying the heart qualities.
Neighbors for Racial Justice is a group of Oakland residents in Dimond/Oakmore/Glenview who are committed to racial equity and justice in their neighborhood and in Oakland. N4RJ is a multi-racial group comprised mostly of white women who examine and act to address their own racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. They are supported by a women-led Black Advisory Council. They originally came together to respond to egregious racial profiling on list serves and to educate folks throughout Oakland about racial profiling, which is still one of their top priorities. They are available to offer virtual presentations on interrupting racist profiling, workshops on white privilege accountability, and/or how you can begin organizing with your neighbors against racism. They are happy to support you and offer their resources in the work you’re doing to challenge racism. Please connect!
Find them on Face book – Neighbors for Racial Justice or via their webpage www.neighborsforracialjustice.org
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The question many are asking in the wake of the murder of George Floyd is how we can contribute to dismantling the structures of racism. Neighbors For Racial Justice based in the Diamond area of Oakland has been working on this issue with a white awake accountability group, a black advisory council, and a weekly black lives matter vigil in Oakland. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with two members, Sherri Taylor and Jenn Biehn about their work.
Sherri Taylor, Psy.D. (she/they/femme) is a contemplative, scholar, consultant, and facilitator. She is core faculty in the Somatic Psychology department at California Institute for Integral Studies and also teaches in the clinical psychology doctoral program at The Wright Institute. She curates and hosts group trainings, playshops, and workshops for community and professional audiences in the areas of anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, cultural humility, the cultivation of joy and creativity, dream work, and spirituality. Sherri aspires each day to appreciate and hold reverence for the fullness and complexities of the human experience.
Jenn Biehn (she/they) has leveraged her white privilege as an activist for racial and social justice since 1968. An engaged Buddhist, she moves from a place of deep interconnectedness with all beings and a belief that the next Buddha is Sangha. A long time Oakland resident, she currently offers classes in the community and with organizations ready to engage in Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Justice. She also teaches Tai Chi and Qigong embodying the heart qualities.
Neighbors for Racial Justice is a group of Oakland residents in Dimond/Oakmore/Glenview who are committed to racial equity and justice in their neighborhood and in Oakland. N4RJ is a multi-racial group comprised mostly of white women who examine and act to address their own racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. They are supported by a women-led Black Advisory Council. They originally came together to respond to egregious racial profiling on list serves and to educate folks throughout Oakland about racial profiling, which is still one of their top priorities. They are available to offer virtual presentations on interrupting racist profiling, workshops on white privilege accountability, and/or how you can begin organizing with your neighbors against racism. They are happy to support you and offer their resources in the work you’re doing to challenge racism. Please connect!
Find them on Face book – Neighbors for Racial Justice or via their webpage www.neighborsforracialjustice.org
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan takes you into an amazing success story of human connection across political differences in this election year.
We welcome James Fishkin PhD, to share the story. He is the mind and heart behind “America in One Room,” a gathering of 526 United States voters from across the nation last September, that proved that the people can make decisions together, even in this polarized and divided time. Mr. Fishkin is the Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University. He is also the author of Democracy When the People Are Thinking (Oxford 2018)
What if you heard of a way people could talk that took the animosity and polarization and enemy images out of political discussions in our country? What if you heard that it was tested and proved over 100 times across the world, and right here in the US last September in Texas, with registered voter Americans of all political parties, ages, and backgrounds?
And what if you heard that this process changed people’s minds and hearts toward compromise and openness on the key issues of this year’s election? (immigration, taxes and the economy, healthcare, foreign policy, and the environment)
Join us in this episode to hear the story of America in One room and the hope and practical ideas that it teaches all of us.
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Host Timothy Regan gets bowled over by an honest look at the climate and extinction crisis, and friend and colleague Fred Sly, Ph.D meets him there in his heartbreak in a beautiful demonstration of empathy and love.
They then show you how to communicate about climate emergency with compassion instead of “Right-Wrong Ping-Pong.”
Bill Nye the Science Guy shares his heartbreak too with passionate language.
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Host Timothy Regan offers examples of how to love our selves with empathy and resonance, with selections from friend Sarah Peyton’s Youtube channel, Self-Resonance in a Pandemic. This is a prerecorded funddrive episode to give you some space to quiet down, kick back, and practice understanding yourself and other humans with love during this pandemic experience.
Sarah Peyton is a neuroscience educator, author, certified trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and from our experience, she is a profound artist of healing our minds and hearts from trauma so we can be more free to fulfill our potential and meaning.
She is the author of Your Resonant Self, published by Norton.
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[Replay]
Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn share stories that take listeners into the actual experiences of the heart of human connection.
Sit back, relax, and learn about peacemaking and nonviolent communication through storytelling.
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Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn devote this episode to the essential human need for meaning.
What is meaning? How do we know it when it is present? How to we find it in this changed world? These questions and more are explored with kindness and courage.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes high-school seniors and climate action leaders Kelsey Leet and Natalie Gaffney, who share their power and how they came to it, and offer their insights and successes in climate emergency action. They also share their requests for you to create a healthy world together.
Kelsey and Natalie are students in the Green Focus program of The California Center, a nonprofit in Sacramento, CA with the mission to empower youth to be active and valued participants in decisionmaking at all levels.
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Even before the Corona Virus there were incidents of violence against Asian people and now with the Corona Virus they have increased. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with anti-Asian violence activist, Sasanna Yee, as well as a couple of her co collaborators in her work, Josephine Zhao and Seeyaw Mo.
Sasanna Yee is the co-founder of Communities As One, Asians Belong and Masks For All SF. She authored “Grace of Pain” in the yoga anthology Practice: Wisdom From the Downward Dog. She combines her ten plus years of social justice experience with her indigenous knowledge of healing pain and trauma to create multi-modal community healing protests. She asks, “What can pain teach us and how can we channel it for positive change?”
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Even before the Corona Virus there were incidents of violence against Asian people and now with the Corona Virus they have increased. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with anti-Asian violence activist, Sasanna Yee, as well as a couple of her co collaborators in her work, Josephine Zhao and Seeyaw Mo.
Sasanna Yee is the co-founder of Communities As One, Asians Belong and Masks For All SF. She authored “Grace of Pain” in the yoga anthology Practice: Wisdom From the Downward Dog. She combines her ten plus years of social justice experience with her indigenous knowledge of healing pain and trauma to create multi-modal community healing protests. She asks, “What can pain teach us and how can we channel it for positive change?”
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes Rachel Kaplan, therapist and creator and host of the Healing Feeling Sht Show podcast, to share her practical, warm, expert, and down-to-earth guidance for making friends with our emotions and getting relief from emotional pain – so we can go out and thrive. She calls this Emotional Potty Training*, and yes she brings all her wit and humor as she offers life-saving wisdom.
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Co-hosts and producers Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn take you on a journey into the skills and art of embracing another human being with our presence, and empathy, and love, even when we can’t touch.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes and argues about the title of this episode with his mentor Steve Malcolm Berg-Smith, an expert trainer, consultant, and coach in the art of helping people change through Motivational Interviewing.
How Do you Get Someone to do what you want Peacefully and Effectively? The answer comes from some valuable research on how people work, and it may surprise you!
This episode is for you if you make requests of other human beings in your life! It will be especially helpful for those of you who are parents, or coaches, or teachers, or counselors, or activists too!
Stories and wisdom are offered to help us all influence eachother in positive and effective ways.
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Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn share stories that take listeners into the actual experiences of the heart of human connection.
Sit back, relax, and learn about peacemaking through storytelling.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes calls from listeners as they express their honest experience on the verge of the Covid-19 California-wide shelter in place order that occurred the next day.
Timothy practices the art of listening using the basic structure of empathy as provided by Nonviolent communication: What did you see or hear? How did that affect you? What does that reveal about what you care most about? What do you want to happen based on what matters to you?
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan is back with the voices of your fellow citizens speaking up at local City Council meetings to help you find your voice when it matters in your own town.
Timothy presents key ingredients and language and principles for you to use when you have 2 minutes to address people in power. Then Timothy welcomes callers and plays examples from towns around the Bay Area so you can imagine yourself making a difference with your voice.
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When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training. Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice.
Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.
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When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training. Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice.
Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan offers helpful tips on how to express yourself politically, powerfully, and peacefully at your own City Council, in a way that you are more likely to have an impact.
With many examples and several callers, Timothy helps listeners with the skills and inspiration to practice democacy in their own town.
Democracy is founded on our human needs to be heard and seen, to matter, and to work together for a better world. We encourage you to take the mic and make the case for what is most important to you… at your next City Council meeting!
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes local Nonviolent Communication leader and trainer Meganwind Eoyang, to bring you into the experiences of healing and empowerment that happen for people in prison where she and her team lead Nonviolent Communication training groups with the Safer Communities Project of BayNVC.
Many people are being released from prison different than they went in, grown in skill and compassion, and with so much to contribute to our world, and Meganwind and her team help these people grow through the practices of NVC.
Meganwind shares with us stories and insights from her 15 years leading NVC classes and managing the Safer Communities team, and helps us to begin to extend our compassion to everyone affected by tragic crime and violence, and the prison experience (people in prison, families, correctional officers, and all of us who want protection and safety).
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes David Morton, Founder and Director of Men Against Violence.
This episode is designed just for you if you are a man who does violence – if you hurts your family, your intimate partner, your children, and yourself.
There is a way out. The violence in your family can stop with you.
Thousands of men have successfully completed the journey from the nightmare of living in their heads, to experiencing the joy of life in healthy relationship.
We offer a clear roadmap to recovery from violence and we are offering you an invitation to join other men who are traveling a path toward healing.
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“Can We All Just Get Along?”, how Rodney King’s question can serve as personal invitation for all in 2020
Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, December 29, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org):
Host Nancy Kahn shares tools for getting along with others. She explores connection and compassion as human needs/values we can choose to attend to with others in any given moment and the range of ways to do this. She reflects on the question posed by Rodney King “Can we all just get along?”, and shares her experience as a communications coach over the past twenty years, and highlights the importance of building the skill set to get along. She covers practices and tools for experiencing connection, peace and compassion in our conversations and relationships at home and at work.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show beginning at 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.
Talk It Radio is a “a how-to and what-to-do” program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication around topics related to social justice and our society. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower each of us to connect across differences.
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Host Timothy Regan shares detailed guidance on how to forgive, in 3 parts:
- How to forgive yourself
- How to seek forgiveness and make amends
- How to forgive someone else
Forgiveness is a process of deep understanding and acceptance. The application of empathy and Nonviolent Communication can lead to authentic forgiveness that is permanent, life-saving, and returns energy and freedom to us where it was once lost.
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How can we have the clarity of mind and freedom of heart to deal wisely with the difficulties we face, such as climate crisis? Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Buddhist teachers, Thanissaro and Kittisaro, about their journey to engaged Buddhism and how meditation practice can give us tools to make positive change in our world.
Kittisaro, from Chattanooga TN,is a Rhodes Scholar and was a monk for 15 years in the Thai Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He also practices Chinese Chan and Pure Land informed by Master Hua, and has co-authored, with Thanissara, Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism.
Thanissara, from London UK,spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun of the Thai Forest School. She has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice, and has written several books, including poetry books. Her latest book is Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.
Kittisaro & Thanissara have taught Dharma and meditation internationally for 35 years and together co-founded two Non Profits, Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa in 2000 and Sacred Mountain Sangha in California in 2017. They run a two-year training focusing on “Depth Dharma for Our Times”, and are currently on the Spirit Rock Teacher Council.
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Healing From Social Toxicity: Re-establishing the Value of Support in Community
Host Nancy Kahn talks with Ted Marsh, who’s life’s purpose as a visionary community elder and activist, is to inspire and collaborate with elders in living the values of support, collaboration and alliances together.
Ted shares his awareness of how we have been conditioned to think, communicate and act in ways that disempower us as individuals and community members from choosing to support one another at core levels.
We explore what it means to support one another in today’s world, why it matters, and what gets in the way of living these values.
Ted Marsh is an Alameda County community elder. He is a master coach to leaders faced with the challenges of evolutionary, revolutionary or transformative change. As a community activist, he was able to link critical strategic issues facing commercial and non-profit organizations including cultural diversity, performance enhancement, and creative learning.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:45 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation.
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Host Timothy Regan invites listeners to help unpack a powerful principle given to us by the nonviolence movement of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This principle is: “Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil.” In other words, “direct all of your wrath, your fury, your outrage, and your passion at systems and conditions that harm life, and direct your empathy, understanding, tenderness, and compassion toward the people caught in the enactment of those systems and conditions.”
The question is: “How do you do this?” A good question is a guide and a gift, and this is a worthy question for our times.
Timothy offers insights to answer this question, with the help of live callers who share their stories and perspectives.
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Tonight’s show invites us to take personal inventory of our personal and professional relationships to explore the warning signs of an emotionally abusive relationship. How do you know if you are in an emotionally abusive relationship in your personal life or at work? Our host offers the warning signs and patterns of emotionally abusive relationships; as well as Self Empathy practices to support self-care and choice in how we navigate these relationships.
Talk It Our Radio is an how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
Callers are invited to call in for support or to share examples of relationships that they are worried may be emotionally abusive. Callers can dial
1-510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008 to join the conversation.
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Host Nancy Kahn is joined by Dr. Barbara Morrill who presents Part II of our series on the life of Etty Hillesum. Etty was a young Dutch Jewish woman of twenty-seven, who found an inner path to liberation, and ‘union with the ground of her being’ in the face of the horror of her times, the Nazi genocide sweeping across Europe, which ultimately engulfed Etty and her family in late 1943. The life of Etty Hillesum moved from chaotic family dysfunction, to the healing of her own inner distress, depression, mood swings and somatic complaints, toward a vast inner life of spaciousness and presence, even with the awareness of the Nazi horrors that awaited European Jewry. Her mode of resistance was journal writing, and contributing to others, and as Denise de Costa says, ‘It was with her pen, rather than with her sword that she battled to save humanity.’ (de Costa, 1998). Dr. Morrill explores aspects of Etty Hillesum’s process of transcending the hate of her time, by “reposing in herself” which may be seen as a model for engaging the seemingly ubiquitous rise of nationalism, neo-facism or neoliberalism throughout much of Europe and the United States in our time, and in a broader sense, the tension that exists between democratic and fascist principles, or open and closed systems in all times.
Listen live on Sunday, 11/17, at 7 pm on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond) or visit the archives at kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio or iTunes.
Barbara Morrill, PhD, is core faculty and former chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CA, and has been in private practice in Palo Alto for 28 years. Barbara has spent much of her life exploring women’s social, psychological, and spiritual development, with an emphasis on intergenerational trauma. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled: Quest for Wholeness; The Individuation Process of Seven African American Women. Barbara’s study of Etty Hillesum began in 2000, culminating with a presentation at the 2008 International Transpersonal Congress, New Delhi, India, entitled Being in the Face of Annihilation: Transformation Through Writing as Inquiry in the lives of two Dutch Women During the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Jetteke Frijda (1925-present). Her continued study has been about the Evolution of Consciousness as well as a spiritual practitioner with The Diamond Approach with A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson for 14 years. She presented on Unfolding Toward Being; Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness in January, 2014 at the Second International Congress of the Etty Hillesum Research Center at Ghent University in Belgium. This was published in the on-line Journal, Integral Review in 2015. Barbara presented at the Third International Congress in September, 2018 in Middelburg, Holland: The Contours of These Times; Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, For All Time. This article will be published in a book entitled: The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings in November 2019 published by the Amsterdam University Press. Her Masters work was done at Boston College and Doctoral work at the former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University.
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Host Timothy Regan explores how to respond effectively and peacefully to some wild and challenging situations with his friends Paige Zarganis-Williar, an NVC certification candidate who guides families, communities and companies in building collaborative cultures, and Tanya Bezreh, writer and coach.
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Host Timothy Regan goes deep, and calls in some strong support, to approach what may be the heart of peacemaking: making peace with death.
Join Timothy at the kitchen table with his mom, Catherine Regan, Ph.D., retired therapist, spiritual director, teacher of Centering Prayer, and retreat leader at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA.
Timothy and his mom explore making peace with death through wisdom, poetry, and reflections on their own experience of the death of Timothy’s father last year.
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Host Nancy Kahn presents part one of a two part series with Dr. Barbara Morrill, who provides a window into the intimate writings of Esther “ Etty” Hillesum. Etty Hillesum was a Dutch author of a diary (abridged copy first published as “An Interrupted Life”) and letters from Westerbork during the German occupation of Amsterdam in 1941. Dr. Morrill shares her personal journey to Amsterdam to walk in Etty’s footsteps and the outline of Etty’s short life. Part-one covers the evolution of Etty’s development as seen through her writings and letters as she learned to love, reflected on her struggles to meet her needs, focused on her own healing, and faced her imminent death during the Holocaust. Part two of this series airs on Sunday, November 17, 2019.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.
Barbara Morrill, PhD, is core faculty and former chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CA, and has been in private practice in Palo Alto for 28 years. Barbara has spent much of her life exploring women’s social, psychological, and spiritual development, with an emphasis on intergenerational trauma. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled: Quest for Wholeness; The Individuation Process of Seven African American Women. Barbara’s study of Etty Hillesum began in 2000, culminating with a presentation at the 2008 International Transpersonal Congress, New Delhi, India, entitled Being in the Face of Annihilation: Transformation Through Writing as Inquiry in the lives of two Dutch Women During the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Jetteke Frijda (1925-present). Her continued study has been about the Evolution of Consciousness as well as a spiritual practitioner with The Diamond Approach with A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson for 14 years. She presented on Unfolding Toward Being; Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness in January, 2014 at the Second International Congress of the Etty Hillesum Research Center at Ghent University in Belgium. This was published in the on-line Journal, Integral Review in 2015. Barbara presented at the Third International Congress in September, 2018 in Middelburg, Holland: The Contours of These Times; Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, For All Time. This article will be published in a book entitled: The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings in November 2019 published by the Amsterdam University Press. Her Masters work was done at Boston College and Doctoral work at the former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes guide, author, teacher, podcaster, and birth doula Staci Boden, host of the podcast Turning Dead Ends Into Doorways.
In this episode we explore a brilliant simple map that names how humans get stuck in perpetual drama, ongoing division, and repeated abusive patterns. And, we experience some medicine for this disconnection between people, as we learn how to move out of the painful drama triangle into authentic relationship. Staci even shares some live work with a client in a clip from her podcast.
Staci has been facilitating individuals and groups through practical spirituality providing guidance, energy healing and ceremony for over 15 years. Staci has a Master’s from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Philosophy & Religion with a focus in Women’s Spirituality.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Power in Our World, Trauma and Powerlessness: Practices for Creating Power-within and Power-with Relationships
Host Nancy Kahn shares concepts and practices in Nonviolent Communication that support the ability to experience power in our world, power with others, and to attend to moments when we experience the trauma of powerlessness.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation.
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Host Timothy Regan welcomes colleague Karen Martinsen to explore fear, and how the process of mindfulness and empathy can turn fear into excitement.
We share a 7-step process which listeners can use to work with the kind of fear that emerges from our own imaginations. This is the fear that comes from our own thinking as we anticipate suffering, and it fuels anxiety, tension, and freezing responses, and it keeps us from taking action to live from our own deepest values.
Timothy and Karen offer stories and examples, and share a live demonstration of these steps and the language of Nonviolent Communication.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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Host Nancy Kahn holds a timely discussion with guest, Nayaa Lacy, a self described World Activist, to discuss Nayaa’s call to our communities to invite full presence and awareness to the degree of violence African American males experience across the United States. Nayaa focuses on shifting our current habits and conditioning, our patterns of anesthetizing and placating ourselves with “anti” social media, drugs, alcohol, sex, food, religion, sports, and shopping,to becoming active participants examining the actual data related to the death rate of African American males in all communities across the country. Nayaa founded a project in Ghana to offer a safe place for African American males to live without the level of threat for their lives, and instead with full possibility of meeting their needs. She shares strategies for shifting the current trends of numbing out and disconnection from the devastating violence in our communities.
Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.
Nayaa Lacy, daughter of a retired CCC African-American History teacher and a Black Panther co-founder and community activist mother. Born in Accra in 1965 to two American parents, Nayaa calls herself a World Activist and has traveled to many, many countries: China, Nigeria, The Congo, France, England, Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Canada. Her passion is to be involved in presenting an alternative mindset to marginalized children in our area but not as a vacation, as a living experience. Visioning a year of living, learning, eating, worshiping, working (defining business opportunities) abroad beginning in Ghana.
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Host Timothy Regan concludes his series on facing our climate and extinction emergency with a direct conversation with you, our Talk It Out Listener.
If you know yourself, you are more free to choose actions that serve your deepest values. Timothy presents the latest facts of the climate and extinction crisis, and asks you:
What is happening in your body and your heart as you hear these facts? Are you reacting? Or are you responding with your power and choice? And what’s the difference? How ready are you to take meaningful action?
Timothy welcomes many callers who express their passionate human response to facing the truth that our Earth is nearing her limit to support life as we know it.
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Non Violent Communication can help us connect across differences but it can also help us more deeply experience the companionship and understanding that comes with being heard by others in similar situations. Host, Marlena Willis, is joined by members of her Chronic Illness and Disability Non Violent Communication Practice Group that happens on a conference line on the phone. Tina, Peni, Sandy, Misha, Ludmilla and Marlena will demonstrate the learning and supportive environment of an NVC practice group.
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Non Violent Communication can help us connect across differences but it can also help us more deeply experience the companionship and understanding that comes with being heard by others in similar situations. Host, Marlena Willis, is joined by members of her Chronic Illness and Disability Non Violent Communication Practice Group that happens on a conference line on the phone. Tina, Peni, Sandy, Misha, Ludmilla and Marlena will demonstrate the learning and supportive environment of an NVC practice group.
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A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
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