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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.
Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, who was the founder of engaged Buddhism. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guests, Antoinette Gonzalez and Victoria Mausisa, co founders of ARISE (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality and Equity), which is a community of mindfulness practitioners and monastics in the Plum Village tradition of Thich … Continued
Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, who was the founder of engaged Buddhism. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guests, Antoinette Gonzalez and Victoria Mausisa, co founders of ARISE (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality and Equity), which is a community of mindfulness practitioners and monastics in the Plum Village tradition of Thich … Continued
Host Timothy Regan welcomes colleague Thom Bond, Co-Founder of the New York City Center for Nonviolent Communication and author of The Compassion Course, for some solid practice in the experience of compassion. We guide listeners through “The Exercise,” a process Thom shares to help us all access compassion here and now in our own heart. … Continued
Our planet and the life on it are in crisis. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guest Kirsten Rudestam, one of the core faculty of an upcoming year long program, Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program, on how the practice of mindfulness can sustain us and provide the skills to be spiritual caregivers of the natural world and … Continued
Our planet and the life on it are in crisis. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guest Kirsten Rudestam, one of the core faculty of an upcoming year long program, Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program, on how the practice of mindfulness can sustain us and provide the skills to be spiritual caregivers of the natural world and … Continued
Host Nancy Kahn holds a timely discussion with guest, Jim Brulé, spiritual storyteller, about the transformative process of bringing together people from different backgrounds to share their personal stories. Jim shares his vast professional experiences in leading groups of individuals and communities from different faiths and backgrounds in storytelling. He highlights the outcomes of this … Continued
Host Timothy Regan welcomes friend, colleague, and cultural catalyst Karl Steyaert to explore the moment when conflict shifts into understanding and connection. We look closely at the actual mechanics, the specific happenings, and some steps behind connection in the middle of conflict. You’ll hear stories and gain some principles to apply if you want to … Continued
Like a doctor, the Buddha approached the problem of human suffering by naming it, identifying it’s cause and sharing his insights on how to be free of suffering and the path to take to do this. Host Marlena Willis talks with retired public health physician and Buddhist teacher, Margarita Loinaz, about how her work as … Continued
Host Timothy Regan offers a list of things people say and do in order to control, dominate, manipulate, or abuse other people. Knowing the moves of emotional and verbal abuse and control helps us all be more free and empowered because it allows us all to catch them and name them when they are happening. … Continued
Mindfulness meditation and therapy can help us heal from the trauma of internalized oppression, making us more able to effectively change the structures of society that create that oppression. Host Marlena Willis talks with therapist and meditation teacher, Melvin Escobar about his work with those most affected by oppression. Melvin Escobar is a Core Teacher … Continued
