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.

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Talk It Out Radio host Nancy Kahn shares stories and tools for making peace with yourself and others. She covers the foundation of Nonviolent Communication and highlights the importance of identifying universal human needs that are at the core of everything people do and say.  She shares how people can build the skill set that equips people with greater capacity to connect with care, clarity, and authenticity. She covers practices and tools that are effective in the workplace, at home and everywhere people spend time. 

Listeners are invited to call in to the show at 3:20 pm (510-848-4425 or 1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions or provide comments related to the show’s topic.

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Enjoy the voice of the late progenitor of Nonviolent Communication, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as he introduces the foundational principles of healthy human connection and a language of empathy.

Hosted by Timothy Regan.

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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.

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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.

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It’s story time!  Enjoy a playful, pun-filled love story that brings some striking clarity to the two directions we can go as partners – apart, or towards ourselves and eachother with empathy.

Created with love and delight and laughter by your host Timothy Regan and his beloved partner Kara Stella on a real Summer backpacking trip in the high country of the California Sierra.

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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.

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Join host Nancy Kahn and guest Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP for a conversation on the impact of homophobia and racism on couples.  Akilah brings a trauma-informed approach to this important conversation about how systemic and racialized trauma affect intimate partnerships.

About Akilah

Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP is a published researcher, Relational Healing Facilitator, couples therapist and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She has been a helping professional for seventeen years and has experience working with couples and persons practicing consensual non monogamy, both in the Caribbean and internationally. Akilah also specializes in work with sexual minorities and racial minorities. As an educator and facilitator, she has provided consultancy services to organizations such as NASTAD (National Alliance for State and Territorial AIDS directors), I-TECH (International Training and Education Center for Health) and CVC (Caribbean Vulnerable Communities). She has presented in various spaces including the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, the Academy of Therapy Wisdom and the Black Mental health Symposium. She has been a Social Work Educator at the University of the Southern Caribbean since 2012. She is the founder of the Relational Healing Institute and creator of the P.R.I.D.E model.

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