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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.
KPFA is in crisis. A judgment of $1.8 million against our sister station in New York, WBAI, and the Pacifica Foundation has created the possibility that the assets of all Pacifica stations, the buildings and their signals, will be seized. The Pacifica National Board continues to struggle with conflicts that have kept it from taking … Continued
What is a blessing? Host Timothy Regan’s take on it is this: “A blessing is an act or words that amplify the life force, within yourself or anyone else. A blessing acknowledges or names something essential for someone, and brings a wish that this be fulfilled–a wish of loving kindness for the fulfillment of someone’s … Continued
Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn get personal and share stories from colleagues that show the practice and possibility of human presence, especially when it’s challenging in the moment. They focus on what we each can do within the sphere of our own power and influence to help grow a culture of collaboration and understanding.
We know we need to make core changes in the way things are to create a world that works for everyone. But how do we do that? Host Marlena Willis is in conversation with Chris Moore-Backman, author of the book, The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto For The Age Of The Great Turning, to explore … Continued
Host Timothy Regan harvests wisdom and the voices of a 9-day international intensive study event in nonviolent communication, with a focus on power, privilege, and the body.
Are you interested in hearing how the practice of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) across differences such as gender, race, class, power and privilege contributes to global social movements? Host Nancy Kahn explores this with Ashley Davis, a young black queer poet, activist, educator and student of NVC, who recently accompanied Nancy on a trip to Sao Paolo, … Continued
Language can hurt, and it can save lives. Language that serves life is language that reconnects us to nature, to each other, and to ourselves, because it is infused with meaning and awareness and care. Host Marlena Willis and co-host Timothy Regan offer words and language spoken in poetry that can inspire us in our … Continued
This edition of Talk It Out Radio is devoted to you if you are a man who does violence—if you are a man who hurts your family, your intimate partner, your children, and yourself. We are talking about Domestic Violence, or Intimate Partner Violence, from the perspective of you, the man behind the hurtful actions. … Continued
In spiritual circles, one often hears people say that they don’t see color or gender, but this ignores what many of us in marginalized communities face in each present moment of our lives. Larry Yang, a queer, gay man, Asian-American teacher of Buddhism, says “The path toward freedom does not go around the experience of … Continued
How do we embody the principles and practices of nonviolence with youth who connect through hiphop culture? Host Nancy Kahn interviews Leo Mercer, a co-founder of the Mercer Brotherhood and an AmeriCorps member working with underserved youth in Oakland. Leo Is a dynamic emcee and independent artist from Oakland, who is passionate about music and where it … Continued
