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Welcome to Talk it Out Radio, your local, live, community call-in, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Mindfulness, and Social Justice Radio Show here on KPFA, 94.1 FM .
We believe that the best place to create a more equitable and compassionate world is to practice being the world we envision right here inside ourselves and with the people in front of us. We are dedicated to sharing practices and skills for effective and meaningful communication which includes deep listening, compassion, and collaboration. We are passionate about supporting dialogues across sensitive and important topics without doing harm to one another in the process. We integrate NVC with anti-racist and anti-oppression practices.
Our hosts Nancy Kahn, Timothy Regan and Fresh Lev White are NVC facilitators, Buddhist practitioners, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Justice (DEIBJ) coaches, consultants, strategists and/or mediators.
We welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, awareness, and effective communication with us. Our intention is to share tools, knowledge, and resources that empower all of us to effectively connect across differences and create understanding, so that we can all work together to create a more just experience for our own lives, our communities, and for the planet.
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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.
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.
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 … Continued
