Fridays 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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.
How can we cease being caught in shame and awaken self-love within us so that we can be both happy and more effective in our lives and our work for social justice? Host Marlena Willis is in dialogue with Nonviolent Communications teacher and coach, Marina Smerling, about shifting from shame and blame to love and … Continued
Host Nancy Kahn discussed practices of self compassion and exploring needs behind the actions of others we may view as “the enemy.” This show highlights the value in taking empowered action from a place of connection to our deepest values, and not from the thoughts stimulated by enemy images. This show can support listeners in … Continued
Host Timothy Regan explores authentic Forgiveness. Do you have enemies in your life? How does that feel to you? If you are like most people, you might say it’s uncomfortable. Do you know anyone who is having this experience and is tired of it and might want a way out? Might that person be you? It … Continued
In Nonviolent Communication classes, sometimes participants think the class is going to be about communicating with others. But what people often get most out of the class is how to communicate with themselves and how to speak more kindly to themselves. Host Marlena Willis plays excerpts from Buddhist teacher Tara Brach’s CD, Radical Self-Acceptance, while … Continued
On Talk It Out Radio, our intention is to provide everyone with tools and practices that work to increase compassion and kindness in the world. We know that your relationship with yourself may be the most important relationship in which to practice these things. It turns out that each of us has ongoing measurable brain … Continued
Nancy Kahn hosts a show on communication practices that support close relationships: family, partners and friends. Why do people find it so difficult to communicate with the people they have the closest connections with? Dr. Marshall Rosenberg said we lose all of our skill with the people we are closest with when we get triggered. … Continued
Martin Luther King Jr. taught us to attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil. His movement encouraged us to bring our indignation and confrontation to the ideas, the beliefs, the conditions, and the structures of injustice or violence, but to bring our compassion to the people caught in playing out these beliefs and structures. … Continued
Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn speak to the upset, fear and helplessness that many people are experiencing as a result of what we hear reported on the discussions between the leadership of the United States and North Korea. They offer their vision of what restorative dialogue sounds like and contributes to these discussions and … Continued
It has been said that legal mediation is a success if everyone is unhappy with the outcome—that it is fair, because everyone has had to compromise. Bringing Nonviolent Communication to the mediation process contributes to the possibility that all parties involved can be happy with the results because it facilitates connection and care between the parties involved. … Continued
Connection is a human need, and when connection is experienced between people, people are more likely to choose to contribute to one another’s needs. Host Nancy Kahn, a Nonviolent Communication facilitator who specializes in working across differences such as race, gender, and class, explores the power of connection. She offers insights and tools that support … Continued
