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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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 1-800-958-9008) to participate in this conversation.

Nayaa Lacy, daughter of a retired CCC African-American History teacher and a Black Panther co-founder and community activist mother.  Born in Accra in 1965 to two American parents, Nayaa calls herself a World Activist and has traveled to many, many countries: China, Nigeria, The Congo, France, England, Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Canada. Her passion is to be involved in presenting an alternative mindset to marginalized children in our area but not as a vacation, as a living experience.  Visioning a year of living, learning, eating, worshiping, working (defining business opportunities) abroad beginning in Ghana.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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