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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 in San Francisco. She is a Clinical Psychologist licensed in CA, and has been in private practice in Palo Alto for 28 years. Barbara has spent much of her life exploring women’s social, psychological, and spiritual development, with an emphasis on intergenerational trauma. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled: Quest for Wholeness; The Individuation Process of Seven African American Women. Barbara’s study of Etty Hillesum began in 2000, culminating with a presentation at the 2008 International Transpersonal Congress, New Delhi, India, entitled Being in the Face of Annihilation: Transformation Through Writing as Inquiry in the lives of two Dutch Women During the Holocaust: Etty Hillesum (1914-1943) and Jetteke Frijda (1925-present). Her continued study has been about the Evolution of Consciousness as well as a spiritual practitioner with The Diamond Approach with A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson for 14 years. She presented on Unfolding Toward Being; Etty Hillesum and the Evolution of Consciousness in January, 2014 at the Second International Congress of the Etty Hillesum Research Center at Ghent University in Belgium.  This was published in the on-line Journal, Integral Review in 2015.  Barbara presented at the Third International Congress in September, 2018 in Middelburg, Holland: The Contours of These Times; Etty Hillesum as Chronicler of Love Transcending Hate in Her Times, for Our Time, For All Time. This article will be published in a book entitled: The Lasting Significance of Etty Hillesum’s Writings in November 2019 published by the Amsterdam University Press. Her Masters work was done at Boston College and Doctoral work at the former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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