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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.
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
Gratitude – the state of celebration about the fulfillment of life. It is medicine and fuel for living. It is a physical sensation, a feeling, and a way of thinking that strengthens us. But how do we actually DO gratitude? In this episode of Talk It Out Radio, we look deeply and clearly at some … Continued
Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn of the 14th Annual New York Intensive in NVC 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 … Continued
Most people, when heard with empathy, want more of it. What if the value of empathy permeated our culture? This is the vision that guest, Edwin Rutsch, brings to us. Host Marlena Willis dialogues with him about his vision for how to create a world where the value of empathy permeates all our institutions. Edwin … Continued
Right speech or wise speech is one of the precepts in the Buddha’s teaching, and an aspect of the Eightfold Path. For host Marlena Willis, this was the hardest to practice until she learned Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Marlena shares how NVC can support us in speaking honestly, with kindness and depth.
Have you ever felt the call to community, in your bones? Do you know deep down that you are built to live with a wider family, a neighborhood, a village, where people know eachother and care about eachother? Do you dream of having neighbors who share your investment in the neighborhood and the people there? … Continued
Because Nonviolent Communication steps out of the right/wrong paradigm and helps people connect across differences rather than get caught in blame, host Marlena Willis has found it to be one of the most effective tools in raising awareness around racism in all of her years of working on this issue. Marlena interviews Edmundo Norte and … Continued
