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Healing From Social Toxicity: Re-establishing the Value of Support in Community   Host Nancy Kahn talks with Ted Marsh, who’s life’s purpose as a visionary community elder and activist, is to inspire and collaborate with elders in living the values of support, collaboration and alliances together. Ted shares his awareness of how we have been conditioned to think, communicate and act in ways that disempower us as individuals and community members from choosing to support one another at core levels. We explore what it means to support one another in today’s world, why it matters, and what gets in the way of living these values. Ted Marsh is an Alameda County community elder. He is a master coach to leaders faced with the challenges of evolutionary, revolutionary or transformative change. As a community activist, he was able to link critical strategic issues facing commercial and non-profit organizations including cultural diversity, performance enhancement, and creative learning.   Listeners are invited to call

Host Timothy Regan invites listeners to help unpack a powerful principle given to us by the nonviolence movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. This principle is:  “Attack forces of evil, not persons doing evil.”  In other words, “direct all of your wrath, your fury, your outrage, and your passion at systems and conditions that harm life, and direct your empathy, understanding, tenderness, and compassion toward the people caught in the enactment of those systems and conditions.” The question is:  “How do you do this?”  A good question is a guide and a gift, and this is a worthy question for our times. Timothy offers insights to answer this question, with the help of live callers who share their stories and perspectives. The post Unwrapping a Key Gift of Nonviolence appeared first on KPFA.

Tonight’s show invites us to take personal inventory of our personal and professional relationships to explore the warning signs of an emotionally abusive relationship. How do you know if you are in an emotionally abusive relationship in your personal life or at work? Our host offers the warning signs and patterns of emotionally abusive relationships; as well as Self Empathy practices to support self-care and choice in how we navigate these relationships. Talk It Our Radio is an 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.   Callers are invited to call in for support or to share examples of relationships that they are worried may be emotionally abusive. Callers can dial  1-510-848-4425  or 1-800-958-9008 to join the conversation.   Listene

​Host Nancy Kahn ​is joined by Dr. Barbara Morrill who presents Part II of our series on the life of​ ​Etty Hillesum​. Etty was a ​young Dutch Jewish woman of twenty-seven, ​who ​found an inner path to liberation, and ‘union with the ground of her being’ in the face of the horror of her times, the Nazi genocide sweeping across Europe, which ultimately engulfed Etty and her family in late 1943.  The life of Etty Hillesum moved from chaotic family dysfunction, to the healing of her own inner distress, depression, mood swings and somatic complaints, toward a vast inner life of spaciousness and presence, even with the awareness of the Nazi ​​horrors that awaited European Jewry.  Her mode of resistance was journal writing, and contributing to others, and as Denise de Costa says, ‘It was with her pen, rather than with her sword that she battled to save humanity.’ (de Costa, 1998​). Dr. Morrill​ explores aspects of Etty Hillesum’s process of transcending the ​​hate ​of​ her time, by “reposing in herself” which may b

Host Timothy Regan explores how to respond effectively and peacefully to some wild and challenging situations with his friends Paige Zarganis-Williar, an NVC certification candidate who guides families, communities and companies in building collaborative cultures, and Tanya Bezreh, writer and coach.     The post Playing in the Peacemaking Sandbox with Paige and Tanya appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan goes deep, and calls in some strong support, to approach what may be the heart of peacemaking:  making peace with death. Join Timothy at the kitchen table with his mom, Catherine Regan, Ph.D., retired therapist, spiritual director, teacher of Centering Prayer, and retreat leader at the Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA. Timothy and his mom explore making peace with death through wisdom, poetry, and reflections on their own experience of the death of Timothy’s father last year. The post Making Friends with Death appeared first on KPFA.

Host Nancy Kahn presents part one of a two part series with Dr. Barbara Morrill, who provides a window into the intimate writings of Esther “ Etty” Hillesum.  Etty Hillesum was a Dutch author of a diary (abridged copy first published as “An Interrupted Life”) and letters from Westerbork during the German occupation of Amsterdam in 1941.  Dr. Morrill shares her personal journey to Amsterdam to walk in Etty’s footsteps and the outline of Etty’s short life. Part-one covers the evolution of Etty’s development as seen through her writings and letters as she learned to love, reflected on her struggles to meet her needs, focused on her own healing, and faced her imminent death during the Holocaust. Part two of this series airs on Sunday, November 17, 2019. Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation. Barbara Morrill, PhD, is core faculty and former chair of the Integral Counseling Psychology Program at The California Institute of Integral Studies

Host Timothy Regan welcomes guide, author, teacher, podcaster, and birth doula Staci Boden, host of the podcast Turning Dead Ends Into Doorways. In this episode we explore a brilliant simple map that names how humans get stuck in perpetual drama, ongoing division, and repeated abusive patterns. And, we experience some medicine for this disconnection between people, as we learn how to move out of the painful drama triangle into authentic relationship.  Staci even shares some live work with a client in a clip from her podcast. Staci has been facilitating individuals and groups through practical spirituality providing guidance, energy healing and ceremony for over 15 years. Staci has a Master’s from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Philosophy & Religion with a focus in Women’s Spirituality. The post Moving Through Obstacles to Heartfelt Connection 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 – Oct 13, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

Power in Our World, Trauma and Powerlessness: Practices for Creating Power-within and Power-with Relationships   Host Nancy Kahn shares concepts and practices in Nonviolent Communication that support the ability to experience power in our world, power with others, and to attend to moments when we experience the trauma of powerlessness.   Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation. The post Power In Our World, Trauma and Powerlessness: Practices for Creating Power-within and Power-with Relationships appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan welcomes colleague Karen Martinsen to explore fear, and how the process of mindfulness and empathy can turn fear into excitement. We share a 7-step process which listeners can use to work with the kind of fear that emerges from our own imaginations.  This is the fear that comes from our own thinking as we anticipate suffering, and it fuels anxiety, tension, and freezing responses, and it keeps us from taking action to live from our own deepest values. Timothy and Karen offer stories and examples, and share a live demonstration of these steps and the language of Nonviolent Communication. The post Using Fear to Become Free 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 – September 22, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

  Host Nancy Kahn holds a timely discussion with guest,  Nayaa Lacy, a self described World Activist, to discuss Nayaa’s call to our communities to invite full presence and awareness to the degree of violence African American males experience across the United States. Nayaa focuses on shifting our current habits and conditioning, our patterns of anesthetizing and placating ourselves with “anti” social media, drugs, alcohol, sex, food, religion, sports, and shopping,to becoming active participants examining the actual data related to the death rate of African American males in all communities across the country. Nayaa founded a project in Ghana to offer a safe place for African American males to live without the level of threat for their lives, and instead with full possibility of meeting their needs. She shares strategies for shifting the current trends of numbing out  and disconnection from the devastating violence in our communities.   Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-

Host Timothy Regan concludes his series on facing our climate and extinction emergency with a direct conversation with you, our Talk It Out Listener. If you know yourself, you are more free to choose actions that serve your deepest values.  Timothy presents the latest facts of the climate and extinction crisis, and asks you: What is happening in your body and your heart as you hear these facts?  Are you reacting?  Or are you responding with your power and choice?  And what’s the difference?  How ready are you to take meaningful action? Timothy welcomes many callers who express their passionate human response to facing the truth that our Earth is nearing her limit to support life as we know it. The post Responding Instead of Reacting To Life Changing News (Climate #4 of 4) appeared first on KPFA.

Non Violent Communication can help us connect across differences but it can also help us more deeply experience the companionship and understanding that comes with being heard by others in similar situations.  Host, Marlena Willis, is joined by members of her Chronic Illness and Disability Non Violent Communication Practice Group that happens on a conference line on the phone.  Tina, Peni, Sandy, Misha, Ludmilla and Marlena will demonstrate the learning and supportive environment of an NVC practice group. The post COMPANIONSHIP AND CONNECTION appeared first on KPFA.

Non Violent Communication can help us connect across differences but it can also help us more deeply experience the companionship and understanding that comes with being heard by others in similar situations.  Host, Marlena Willis, is joined by members of her Chronic Illness and Disability Non Violent Communication Practice Group that happens on a conference line on the phone.  Tina, Peni, Sandy, Misha, Ludmilla and Marlena will demonstrate the learning and supportive environment of an NVC practice group. The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun, 9/1, 7pm: COMPANIONSHIP AND CONNECTION 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 – August 25, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan brings you on a journey into the stars to reveal our precious human nature, and to expore essential truths that can help us respond to our global climate heating emergency and extinction crisis. We are guided by the powerful stories and insights of special guest Laura Jackson, a professional Interpretive Naturalist and Environmental Educator in Yosemite National Park, who made the long journey from Yosemite Valley to share with us. Listeners also call in to share their challenges and inspiration. (Laura Jackson can be reached at yosemitelocals@gmail.com)   The post The Stars and Us: Human Value, Influence, and Belonging (Climate #3 of 4) appeared first on KPFA.

For those who are incarcerated, meditation can offer the possibility of inner freedom when there isn’t outer freedom.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with meditation teacher Walt Opie who teaches meditation in the prisons and with formerly incarcerated inmate, Kenny Glaude. Walt Opie is a Buddhist meditation teacher trained in the Insight Meditation (vipassana) tradition. For the past five years he has served as a volunteer prison facilitator with Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (BP3) in California at CSP-Solano in Vacaville. Walt is currently Board Chair for the organization, and previously served as BP3’s Executive Director.  His writing appears in the book collection Still, In the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos.  He lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and daughter. Kenny Glaude is a formerly incarcerated person currently living and working in San Francisco, CA. He participated in the Buddhist program at CSP-Solano offered by Buddhist Pathways Prison Project (BP3).     The post FREED

Host Timothy Regan takes us into baseball practice to help us strengthen our catcher’s mitt to respond to intensity from other people around the topic of Climate and Extinction Emergency. We detail some powerful choices that we all have in responding to whatever people express:  anger, shame, denial, and more. Kristin Masters joins us with her warm, authentic guidance to help us practice.  She is also a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, a leader of “The Work That Reconnects” by local elder Joanna Macy, and a powerful force against oppression of all kinds. The post How to Catch People When They Express Intensity (Climate #2 of 4) appeared first on KPFA.