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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.
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 … Continued
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; … Continued
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 … Continued
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.
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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.
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
