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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 within ourselves and with the people we share space with. We are dedicated to guiding conceptual learning and practical skills that as show hosts, we have developed as inner practices, and we have advanced training and professional experience in coaching others in. We trust in the practices we share, as we have found they powerfully contribute to greater authenticity, compassion, connection communication, effective conflict resolution, and in fact, disrupt patterns of harm that play out in communication patterns. Some of the practices we model are deep listening, empathy, compassion, presence, mindful language, and collaborative dialogue. We are passionate about supporting dialogues across sensitive and complex topics without contributing to more harm to one another in the process. We integrate NVC with anti-racist, anti-oppression, mindfulness, trauma-informed, and advanced critical thinking frameworks and practices to contribute to the values of being heard, psychological safety, caring, and dignity and respect for all people.
Our hosts Nancy Kahn, Timothy Regan and Fresh Lev White hold varied and different titles from Certified NVC facilitators, Buddhist practitioners, professional trauma-informed coaches, consultants, strategists and/or mediators.
We welcome guests and callers to practice with us. Our intention is to share world-class tools, conceptual frameworks, and personal and professional resources to empower all of us to more confidently and skillfully connect across differences and foster genuine understanding in all settings.
Talk It Out Radio show hosts long for a world in which we can all connect and work together to create a more just experience within our individual lives and all of our relationships, across our communities and the collective society, as well as the world, for the benefit of our planet, one conversation at a time.
Be delightfully inspired, play some peacemaking games and listen to some positive music live from the KPFA studios – with the leaders and kids of the Mosaic Project from Oakland, California. Timothy Regan hosts Khemnes Fisher and Emily Abad with young students and musicians from Mosaic. Experience some powerful and compassionate “gametivities” that have helped over 39,000 children and … Continued
Anger can be a scary emotion–both when we are angry and when someone is angry at us. In many predominantly white and privileged communities doing spiritual practice or emotion work, when facing the danger of anger, the tendency is to suppress it and project it onto others, to blame people of color and other disenfranchised … Continued
If you are searching for that special partner to date and/or share your life with (as in your boo, bae, partner, primary partner, spouse, or friend with benefits), or if you are already in a relationship/partnership with someone special, tonight’s show is for you. Host Nancy Kahn shares key Nonviolent Communication practices that improve relationships. … Continued
Explore the essence of love as a universal human need, and the difference between love as a feel and love as a need. Host Timothy Regan hunts for the essence of love in the modern artistic form of the love song. What does your favorite love song actually say about love? Callers share their favorite … Continued
Host Nancy Kahn talks with Regina Shipman about her practice of Mindfulness–the beauty and benefits of Mindfulness in her life, as a woman of color and as a nonprofit professional, and how her practice has helped her respond to challenges across differences. They discuss how practices in Mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication support people across differences.
Host Timothy Regan welcomes fellow counselor and healer Orlando Zuniga to apply the essential balm of empathy to our current painful national struggle to address immigration in the United States. We practice our skills and intentions to understand the humanity of people with different perspectives on immigration, from Mr. Trump himself, to the people Orlando … Continued
KPFA is in crisis. A judgment of $1.8 million against our sister station in New York, WBAI, and the Pacifica Foundation has created the possibility that the assets of all Pacifica stations, the buildings and their signals, will be seized. The Pacifica National Board continues to struggle with conflicts that have kept it from taking … Continued
What is a blessing? Host Timothy Regan’s take on it is this: “A blessing is an act or words that amplify the life force, within yourself or anyone else. A blessing acknowledges or names something essential for someone, and brings a wish that this be fulfilled–a wish of loving kindness for the fulfillment of someone’s … Continued
Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn 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 help grow a culture of collaboration and understanding.
We know we need to make core changes in the way things are to create a world that works for everyone. But how do we do that? Host Marlena Willis is in conversation with Chris Moore-Backman, author of the book, The Gandhian Iceberg: A Nonviolence Manifesto For The Age Of The Great Turning, to explore … Continued
