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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 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 … Continued
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. … Continued
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 … Continued
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
