KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

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.

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“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 welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication around topics related to social justice and our society. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower each of us to connect across differences.

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Host Timothy Regan shares detailed guidance on how to forgive, in 3 parts:

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.

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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 together co-founded two Non Profits, Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa in 2000 and Sacred Mountain Sangha in California in 2017. They run a two-year training focusing on “Depth Dharma for Our Times”, and are currently on the Spirit Rock Teacher Council.

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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 in to the show at 7:45 pm (dial 1-800-958-9008 or 510-848-4425) to participate in this conversation.

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