KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

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.

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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.

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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.

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Mindfulness meditation and therapy can help us heal from the trauma of internalized oppression, making us more able to effectively change the structures of society that create that oppression.  Host Marlena Willis talks with therapist and meditation teacher, Melvin Escobar about his work with those most affected by oppression.

Melvin Escobar is a Core Teacher at East Bay Meditation Center, licensed psychotherapist, and certified yoga instructor. Melvin has devoted the last 25 years to serving people from marginalized communities, drawing on his life experiences as a queer man of color from an immigrant working-class background. Having found that the wisdom teachings embodied in Buddhism and Yoga are essential to surviving systemic oppression, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.

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Mindfulness meditation and therapy can help us heal from the trauma of internalized oppression, making us more able to effectively change the structures of society that create that oppression.  Host Marlena Willis talks with therapist and meditation teacher, Melvin Escobar about his work with those most affected by oppression.

Melvin Escobar is a Core Teacher at East Bay Meditation Center, licensed psychotherapist, and certified yoga instructor. Melvin has devoted the last 25 years to serving people from marginalized communities, drawing on his life experiences as a queer man of color from an immigrant working-class background. Having found that the wisdom teachings embodied in Buddhism and Yoga are essential to surviving systemic oppression, he continues daily to learn the revolutionary potential of body-centered contemplative practices for personal and social healing.

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