Talk It Out Radio is a how-to/what-to-do program dedicated to sharing Mindfulness practices and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) by modeling practices for present, empathic and collaborative communication and hosting discussions with dynamic guests to further explore NVC and Mindfulness principles in action and application. Our hosts are Nancy Kahn, Timothy Regan, and Fresh Lev White. We welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, self-awareness, and collaborative communication with us. Our intention is to cover skills, concepts, and transformative frameworks to offer listeners resources that can empower all of us to connect across differences and to create genuine understanding, so that we all work together to create a world that works for life.
Nancy Kahn is a seasoned consultant, coach, trainer, mediator, and facilitator leading change management processes and trauma-informed practices to create equitable and inclusive organizations. With over 25 years of advanced practice as a professional coach, consultant, facilitator, and mediator, she works from an integrative approach to Nonviolent Communication that includes trauma informed frameworks, somatic practices, and applied critical thinking. Nancy coaches individuals and teams to learn and integrate transformative communication and collaboration skills and practices at all levels (C-suite, board, staff, middle and upper management). Nancy develops leaders, guides culture change processes, and engages organizations as a culture and communication strategist and innovator advancing organizational systems, policies and practices along with professional development at all levels. Nancy identifies as an indivdual from the Global Majority.
Timothy Regan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He has been coaching individuals and groups for over 15 years as a Healthy Lifestyle Counselor in a large medical clinic, where he helps people find their motivation, create healing and change, and choose a healthy life. In private practice, where he most comes alive, he provides integrated training and services in many aspects of peacemaking, informed by deep study of Nonviolent Communication, interpersonal neurobiology, permaculture, ceremony, and music.
Fresh “Lev” White is a love and compassion activist. He offers mindfulness, coaching, mediation, and diversity trainings as tools for shifting towards more authentic, conscious, and passionate living. He works with individuals, households, and professional teams. As a certified coach, and professional trainer, Lev has offered over 300 diversity trainings in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond. He earned his coaching and leadership certifications through the Co-Active Training Institute. Lev is also mindfully grounded at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership program. Lev offers secular mindfulness, and non-secular meditation in addition to talks on Compassion in both corporate, spiritual, and other private settings. He credits his ability to reach diverse audiences to his years growing up in multi-ethnic communities in New York.
Publications: Lev aka Fresh!, is contributor to Real World Mindfulness for Beginners; Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices; Trans Bodies; Trans Selves; Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and NB People & Their Families (May, 2023)
Learn more on LinkedIn: “Fresh “Lev” White” and https://affirmativeacts.org/