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Even before the Corona Virus there were incidents of violence against Asian people and now with the Corona Virus they have increased. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with anti-Asian violence activist, Sasanna Yee, as well as a couple of her co collaborators in her work, Josephine Zhao and Seeyaw Mo. Sasanna Yee is the co-founder of Communities As One, Asians Belong and Masks For All SF. She authored “Grace of Pain” in the yoga anthology Practice: Wisdom From the Downward Dog.  She combines her ten plus years of social justice experience with her indigenous knowledge of healing pain and trauma to create multi-modal community healing protests. She asks, “What can pain teach us and how can we channel it for positive change?”     The post SILENCE AGAINST VIOLENCE appeared first on KPFA.

Even before the Corona Virus there were incidents of violence against Asian people and now with the Corona Virus they have increased. Host, Marlena Willis, speaks with anti-Asian violence activist, Sasanna Yee, as well as a couple of her co collaborators in her work, Josephine Zhao and Seeyaw Mo. Sasanna Yee is the co-founder of Communities As One, Asians Belong and Masks For All SF. She authored “Grace of Pain” in the yoga anthology Practice: Wisdom From the Downward Dog.  She combines her ten plus years of social justice experience with her indigenous knowledge of healing pain and trauma to create multi-modal community healing protests. She asks, “What can pain teach us and how can we channel it for positive change?”     The post Talk It Out Radio: Sun 4/19, 7pm: SILENCE AGAINST VIOLENCE appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes Rachel Kaplan, therapist and creator and host of the Healing Feeling Sh*t Show podcast, to share her practical, warm, expert, and down-to-earth guidance for making friends with our emotions and getting relief from emotional pain – so we can go out and thrive.  She calls this Emotional Potty Training, and yes she brings all her wit and humor as she offers life-saving wisdom. The post Emotional Potty Training with therapist Rachel Kaplan of the Healing Feeling Sh*t Show appeared first on KPFA.

Co-hosts and producers Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn take you on a journey into the skills and art of embracing another human being with our presence, and empathy, and love, even when we can’t touch. The post How To Hold Someone When You Can’t Hold Them appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes and argues about the title of this episode with his mentor Steve Malcolm Berg-Smith, an expert trainer, consultant, and coach in the art of helping people change through Motivational Interviewing. How Do you Get Someone to do what you want Peacefully and Effectively? The answer comes from some valuable research on how people work, and it may surprise you! This episode is for you if you make requests of other human beings in your life! It will be especially helpful for those of you who are parents, or coaches, or teachers, or counselors, or activists too! Stories and wisdom are offered to help us all influence eachother in positive and effective ways.   The post How to Get Someone to Do What You Want Peacefuly and Effectively appeared first on KPFA.

Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn share stories that take listeners into the actual experiences of the heart of human connection. Sit back, relax, and learn about peacemaking through storytelling. The post Story Time appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes calls from listeners as they express their honest experience on the verge of the Covid-19 California-wide shelter in place order that occurred the next day. Timothy practices the art of listening using the basic structure of empathy as provided by Nonviolent communication:  What did you see or hear?  How did that affect you? What does that reveal about what you care most about?  What do you want to happen based on what matters to you?   The post Hearing You as you face Covid-19: Call In and Be Heard appeared first on KPFA.

A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – March 1, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan is back with the voices of your fellow citizens speaking up at local City Council meetings to help you find your voice when it matters in your own town. Timothy presents key ingredients and language and principles for you to use when you have 2 minutes to address people in power.   Then Timothy welcomes callers and plays examples from towns around the Bay Area so you can imagine yourself making a difference with your voice. The post Part 2: How to Speak up Powerfully, Politically, and Peacefully at Your City Council appeared first on KPFA.

When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training.  Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice. Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.     The post Training To Create A Just World appeared first on KPFA.

When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training.  Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice. Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.     The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun, 2/16, 7pm: Training To Create A Just World appeared first on KPFA.

A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – February 9, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan offers helpful tips on how to express yourself politically, powerfully, and peacefully at your own City Council, in a way that you are more likely to have an impact. With many examples and several callers, Timothy helps listeners with the skills and inspiration to practice democacy in their own town. Democracy is founded on our human needs to be heard and seen, to matter, and to work together for a better world.  We encourage you to take the mic and make the case for what is most important to you… at your next City Council meeting! The post How To Speak Up Powerfully, Politically, and Peacefully at Your City Council appeared first on KPFA.

A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – January 26, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences. The post Talk-It-Out Radio – January 19, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes local Nonviolent Communication leader and trainer Meganwind Eoyang, to bring you into the experiences of healing and empowerment that happen for people in prison where she and her team lead Nonviolent Communication training groups with the Safer Communities Project of BayNVC. Many people are being released from prison different than they went in, grown in skill and compassion, and with so much to contribute to our world, and Meganwind and her team help these people grow through the practices of NVC. Meganwind shares with us stories and insights from her 15 years leading NVC classes and managing the Safer Communities team, and helps us to begin to extend our compassion to everyone affected by tragic crime and violence, and the prison experience (people in prison, families, correctional officers, and all of us who want protection and safety). The post Nonviolent Communication in California Prison: Healing and Empowerment from the Inside appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes David Morton, Founder and Director of Men Against Violence. This episode is designed just for you if you are a man who does violence – if you hurts your family, your intimate partner, your children, and yourself. There is a way out. The violence in your family can stop with you. Thousands of men have successfully completed the journey from the nightmare of living in their heads, to experiencing the joy of life in healthy relationship. We offer a clear roadmap to recovery from violence and we are offering you an invitation to join other men who are traveling a path toward healing. The post For Violent Men: A roadmap for Creating Peace in Yourself and Your Family appeared first on KPFA.

“Can We All Just Get Along?”, how Rodney King’s question can serve as personal invitation for all in 2020   Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, December 29, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or live stream at kpfa.org): Host Nancy Kahn shares tools for getting along with others. She explores connection and compassion as human needs/values we can choose to attend to with others in any given moment and the range of ways to do this. She reflects on the question posed by Rodney King “Can we all just get along?”, and shares her experience as a communications coach over the past twenty years, and highlights the importance of building the skill set to get along. She covers practices and tools for experiencing connection, peace and compassion in our conversations and relationships at home and at work. Listeners are invited to call in to the show beginning at 7:20 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.     Talk It Radio is a “a how-to and what-to-do” program where skilled hosts welcom

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 returns energy and freedom to us where it was once lost.   The post How To Forgive and Be Forgiven appeared first on KPFA.

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. Kittisaro, from Chattanooga TN, is a Rhodes Scholar and was a monk for 15 years in the Thai Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He also practices Chinese Chan and Pure Land informed by Master Hua, and has co-authored, with Thanissara, Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism.       Thanissara, from London UK, spent 12 years as a Buddhist nun of the Thai Forest School. She has an MA in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy Practice, and has written several books, including poetry books. Her latest book is Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth.         Kittisaro & Thanissara have taught Dharma and meditation internationally for 35 years and toget