Kpfa - Talk-it-out Radio

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 – July 28, 2019 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 – July 21, 2019 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 – July 14, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan gets bowled over by an honest look at the climate and extinction crisis, and friend and colleague Fred Sly, Ph.D meets him there in his heartbreak in a beautiful demonstration of empathy and love.  They then show you how to communicate about climate emergency with compassion instead of “Right-Wrong Ping-Pong.”  Bill Nye the Science Guy shares his heartbreak too with passionate language. The post When All You Can Do is Swear (Climate #1 of 4) appeared first on KPFA.

Host, Marlena Willis, explores leadership with insights from Non Violent Communication and Mindfulness Meditation as well as looking at who leads in these communities, with particular focus on recognizing the leadership potential of those who grew up working class and those with disabilities.  This show encourages community participation and will welcome call-ins throughout the show at 510 848-4425 OR 1 800-958-9008.   The post Who Leads, Who Follows, Who Decides appeared first on KPFA.

Host, Marlena Willis, explores leadership with insights from Non Violent Communication and Mindfulness Meditation as well as looking at who leads in these communities, with particular focus on recognizing the leadership potential of those who grew up working class and those with disabilities.  This show encourages community participation and will welcome call-ins throughout the show at 510 848-4425 OR 1 800-958-9008. The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun., 6/30, 7pm: Who Leads, Who Follows, Who Decides appeared first on KPFA.

Talk It Out Radio – Sunday, June 23, 7:00 pm, on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM Berkeley and beyond, or livestream at kpfa.org) Inviting the Whole Self In Host Nancy Kahn interviews Dr. Alzak Amlani. Alzak addresses the complexity, joy and challenges of embodying our wholeness.  He offers perspectives, skills and tools to facilitate this inner journey. Moving towards wholeness means coming into more intimate relationship with various dimensions of ourselves. This includes our personality, body and gender, soul-nature, dreams and aspirations, sexuality and racial-ethnic aspects.  Making the unconscious conscious is a meaningful and expansive endeavor. It is also arduous and at times scary. Waking up to our whole self challenges how we see ourselves and who we think we are. Some parts of us are strong and liberate us and and other parts are hurt and afraid.  Coming into relationship with all of who we are requires a kind and curious space.  This invites more of us to be known and integrated. Listeners are invited to call

Host Timothy Regan and colleague Aimee Ryan get together for the sake of hope, possibility, healing, and freedom.  We invite you to practice the most meaningful work of our times with us in this episode:  we explore how to unite human beings beyond right and wrong, beyond polarizing choices of ONLY this or that, yours or mine, them or us.   Aimee shares her passionate, deep awareness and practices to help us see our way through all the divides that run through our lives and our country and world. The post Getting Beyond Right and Wrong: There is Always a 3rd Way appeared first on KPFA.

Buddhism teaches that truly seeing that everything changes can bring us happiness.  Host Marlena Willis, talks with Toni Bernhard, who had her life dramatically change when she got sick and never got better.  She used Buddhist practices to work with the difficulty of this and then went on to share with others about how to do this in the books she wrote. Toni Bernhard is the author of the award-winning  How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers, now in a revised and updated edition (2018). She is also the author of How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow and How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide. Before becoming chronically ill, she was a law professor and dean of students at the University of California—Davis. Her blog, “Turning Straw Into Gold” is hosted by Psychology Today online. Visit her website at www.tonibernhard.com The post How To Be Sick, How To Be Well appeared first on KPFA.

Buddhism teaches that truly seeing that everything changes can bring us happiness.  Host Marlena Willis, talks with Toni Bernhard, who had her life dramatically change when she got sick and never got better.  She used Buddhist practices to work with the difficulty of this and then went on to share with others about how to do this in the books she wrote. Toni Bernhard is the author of the award-winning  How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers, now in a revised and updated edition (2018). She is also the author of How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow and How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide. Before becoming chronically ill, she was a law professor and dean of students at the University of California—Davis. Her blog, “Turning Straw Into Gold” is hosted by Psychology Today online. Visit her website at www.tonibernhard.com The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun., 6/9, 7pm: How To Be Sick, How To Be Well appeared fi

Host Timothy Regan welcomes fellow Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, Bay Area native, and Mediation Expert John Kinyon (mediateyourlife.com) John shares his vision, and describes a simple detailed map of how to mediate between people and between conflicted parts of our own selves. John demonstrates his work as he walks Timothy through a vulnerable and timely inner conflict. The post Mediating for Your Life: Stories and Maps for Peacemaking appeared first on KPFA.

Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, who was the founder of engaged Buddhism. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guests, Antoinette Gonzalez and Victoria Mausisa, co founders of ARISE (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality and Equity), which is a community of mindfulness practitioners and monastics in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh who come together to heal the wounds of racial injustice and social inequity. Antoinette González is, in addition to being one of the co-founding members of ARISE,  a nature lover, racial and social equity advocate, immigration attorney and is exploring ways to bring mindfulness and racial equity practices to her peers, legal advocates.     Victoria Mausisa, also a co founding member of ARISE, is an ordained member of Tiep Hien, the Order of Interbeing, and is trained in trauma resiliency and Buddhist chaplaincy.  She has a passion for cultivating inclusiveness and healing communities of color.   The post ARISE AND AWAKEN appeared first

Thích Nhất Hạnh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, who was the founder of engaged Buddhism. Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guests, Antoinette Gonzalez and Victoria Mausisa, co founders of ARISE (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality and Equity), which is a community of mindfulness practitioners and monastics in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh who come together to heal the wounds of racial injustice and social inequity. Antoinette González is, in addition to being one of the co-founding members of ARISE,  a nature lover, racial and social equity advocate, immigration attorney and is exploring ways to bring mindfulness and racial equity practices to her peers, legal advocates.     Victoria Mausisa, also a co founding member of ARISE, is an ordained member of Tiep Hien, the Order of Interbeing, and is trained in trauma resiliency and Buddhist chaplaincy.  She has a passion for cultivating inclusiveness and healing communities of color.   The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun, 5/19, 7

Host Timothy Regan welcomes colleague Thom Bond, Co-Founder of the New York City Center for Nonviolent Communication and author of The Compassion Course, for some solid practice in the experience of compassion. We guide listeners through “The Exercise,” a process Thom shares to help us all access compassion here and now in our own heart.  And, we explore Thom’s passion for bringing the framework of needs-based compassion to the world. The post Let’s Try A Simple Process to Shift into Compassion! Here and Now! appeared first on KPFA.

Our planet and the life on it are in crisis.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guest Kirsten Rudestam, one of the core faculty of an upcoming year long program, Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program, on how the practice of mindfulness can sustain us and provide the skills to be spiritual caregivers of the natural world and support those who are doing work to face environmental crisis to do so with wisdom and compassion. Kirsten Rudestam is an environmental educator, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher.  She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects and is a graduate from Sprit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program. The post HOLDING THE EARTH IN ARMS OF CARE appeared first on KPFA.

Our planet and the life on it are in crisis.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with guest Kirsten Rudestam, one of the core faculty of an upcoming year long program, Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program, on how the practice of mindfulness can sustain us and provide the skills to be spiritual caregivers of the natural world and support those who are doing work to face environmental crisis to do so with wisdom and compassion. Kirsten Rudestam is an environmental educator, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher.  She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects and is a graduate from Sprit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program. The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun., 4-28, 7pm: HOLDING THE EARTH IN ARMS OF CARE appeared first on KPFA.

Host Nancy Kahn holds a timely discussion with guest, Jim Brulé, spiritual storyteller, about the transformative process of bringing together people from different backgrounds to share their personal stories. Jim shares his vast professional experiences in leading groups of individuals and communities from different faiths and backgrounds in storytelling. He highlights the outcomes of this work, which include enhancing meaning, reducing separation, and strengthening relationships. Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 7:30 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 1-510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation. Jim Brulé is a Maggid – an ordained Jewish spiritual storyteller and mentor – who has been sparking the transformation of individuals, groups, and communities through the use of stories for many years. He leads an online school for Transformational Storytelling and is particularly excited to work in multi-faith dialogue. Visit http://TransformationalStorytelling.org to learn more.   The post

Host Timothy Regan welcomes friend, colleague, and cultural catalyst Karl Steyaert to explore the moment when conflict shifts into understanding and connection.  We look closely at the actual mechanics, the specific happenings, and some steps behind connection in the middle of conflict.  You’ll hear stories and gain some principles to apply if you want to find hope and connection where you might least expect it.  You will also hear callers share their deeply felt experience in real current conflicts. The post How to Enjoy a Good Healthy Conflict appeared first on KPFA.

Like a doctor, the Buddha approached the problem of human suffering by naming it, identifying it’s cause and sharing his insights on how to be free of suffering and the path to take to do this.  Host Marlena Willis talks with retired public health physician and Buddhist teacher, Margarita Loinaz, about how her work as a doctor influenced her spirituality and how she sees spirituality can influence our work to create a healthier world for all. Margarita Loinaz is a retired public health physician and Buddhist teacher with the East Bay Meditation Center .  She has trained in both the Theravadan and Tibetan traditions.  Her current teachings center on the integration of the Great Perfection teachings with social and environmental awareness.   The post The Spiritual Dimension of Public Health appeared first on KPFA.

Host Timothy Regan offers a list of things people say and do in order to control, dominate, manipulate, or abuse other people.  Knowing the moves of emotional and verbal abuse and control helps us all be more free and empowered because it allows us all to catch them and name them when they are happening.  When we can do that, we have the beginning of liberation, because when we see something, we are separate from it, and what we can name loses its power over us, so we can respond on our own terms. Special guest David Morton of Men Against Violence joins Timothy to clarify and explain the list.  (Learn more here about Men Against Violence) Both Timothy and David offer tools and choices that you can use to help you be liberated from verbal and emotional oppression. The post Defense Against Verbal and Emotional Violence appeared first on KPFA.