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Host Nancy Kahn and guest, Dr. Meg Jordan, a global medicine hunter and chair of the M.A. program in Integrative Health Studies at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) discuss the benefits of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Across Differences in Health and Wellness. Dr. Jordan is a world-traveled medical anthropologist, holistic RN, educator and journalist specializing in integrative health and behavioral medicine. Dr. Jordan realizes that good medicine is the one that works for the person, no matter if it’s alternative, complementary or conventional. Dr. Jordan incorporates the practices of NVC Across Differences into the Health and Wellness Coaching Programs at CIIS, recognizing that the healing process requires the ability to transform judgments and self-judgments into universal human needs/core values. Dr. Jordan’s work as a behavioral medicine specialist helps people adjust their immediate environments as well as their inner psycho-emotional terrain to make lasting, positive changes.

Listeners are invited to call in​ to the show at 7:30 pm (1-800-958-9008) to ask Dr. Jordan questions.

Professor Meg Jordan, PhD, RN, CWP, ACC, NBC-HWC, is department chair of Integrative Health Studies at CIIS, where her focus is preparing graduate students to be catalysts for positive change in health care, wellness, and health promotion. Dr. Jordan is a clinical medical anthropologist, an award-winning international health journalist, behavioral medicine specialist, RN, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, author, and President of Global Medicine Enterprises, Inc. In 2018, she was awarded the William B. Baun Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Wellness Institute (NWI) for her contributions to the field of health and wellness and to NWI.

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Often, to contribute in the world in the way we want, we must unburden ourselves from the weight of regret and shame over things we have done to harm others and the pain and resulting reactivity that comes when others have hurt us. Host Marlena Willis shares and explores ways that nonviolent communication and meditation practices can support us in making amends to others and in healing from the harm others have done to us.

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How to meet your Impact with dignity and healing:

Using a live and intense example with guest Warren Hooley, indigenous activist, educator, and Nonviolent Communication trainer from British Columbia, we offer you a radical and healing way to respond if you are faced with anger and blame because something you said or did stimulated pain in someone or a whole group of people. Especially if you care about your impact, and your intention was not to harm anyone. This is tough territory, and we want to share some inspiring insights with you. Timothy Regan hosts collaboratively with Mr. Hooley.

Warren Hooley is a half-Okanagan-Indigenous, half-Caucasian man from the Syilx (Okanagan) Territory in Penticton, British Columbia.

For the past 5 years, Warren has passionately chosen a path of intensive facilitation training, delivering workshops across BC and performing as an Inspirational Hip Hop Rapper/Beatboxer.

Today, currently living in Vancouver, Warren reflects on ‘why’ he has chosen to do youth empowerment work. He says: “I realized that I do this because it’s what my heart calls for. I wake up everyday and remember that my passion comes from my story. I used to be the very youth that I am now dedicating my life to support…it gives my life meaning…and brings me much love.” With a humble heart and passion for what he does, Warren continues to deliver youth workshops as a fun, genuine and empathetic facilitator.

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Host Nancy Kahn talks with guest Jair Valley, a dynamic 21-year-old African American artist and full-time professional​. Jair talks about ​a​ recent experience of implicit racial bias in his workplace and the process he is actively engaged in to reclaim his dearly held values for wholeness and compassion.

Starbucks recently shared materials with the public on the nationwide training they provided to all employees and defined Implicit Bias as the automatic association of stereotypes or attitudes with particular social groups, and they referenced the source Banaji & Greenwald, 2013.

Patricia Devine, a psychology professor and director of the Prejudice Lab said, “ There are a lot of people who are very sincere in their renunciation of prejudice, yet they are vulnerable to habits of mind. Intentions aren’t good enough.”  (Nordell, “Is This How Discrimination Ends”, atlanticmonthly.com)​.

This show ​offers insights and practices into how to recover from the impact of racial implicit bias, and how to connect to the range of choices we have about what conversations we want and need to pursue after an incident.

Listeners are invited to call in​ to the show (1-800-958-9008) at 7:30 pm  to ask focused questions about how to navigate experiences related to racial implicit bias in the workplace and are encouraged to request coaching on how to support their own​ resilience.

Jair Valley, 21-year-old artist born and raised in Oakland, is aspiring to be a public figure. He enjoys life and he loves each experience and lesson that comes with every moment. Jair is motivated by growth, focuses on keeping an open mind, and pours his body and soul into bettering himself and the world around him. Jair is employed full-time at a national corporation and intends to open his own art-based business in the future.​

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When we are unable to imagine solutions that can meet the needs of more people (and other beings), it can be due to a poverty of imagination. Poetry can spark our imagination. It can feed us with the inspiration in our journeys to awaken and in our efforts to make the world a place with more care for all. Host Marlena Willis talks with and shares poetry with Barry Spector, a member of Rumi’s Caravan.

Barry Spector writes about American history and politics from the perspectives of myth, archetypal psychology and indigenous wisdom. He is the author of Madness At The Gates of The City: The Myth of American Innocence. He’s been involved with the mythopoetic men’s movement for 25 years. He is also a member of Rumi’s Caravan which performs in Oakland on July 14  as a benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance.   Rumi’s Caravan offers live, recited poetry and music performed in the ecstatic tradition, celebrating the art of Rumi, Hafiz, and other mystic poets.

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Are you holding the conversations you want to have in your intimate relationships? Do you have transparent dialogues that support connection, closeness, and clarity about the agreements you hold within these core relationships, or do you find yourself avoiding conversations about important issues out of fear of conflict? Are you satisfied with the agreements you have within your relationships?

If you are finding it hard to talk with your partner, and rarely feel connected or experience your conversations as easy, host Nancy Kahn can help you learn new communication skills.

Nancy shares proven strategies for holding important conversations and sheds light on the common rabbit holes people end up in because they lack essential communication skills to talk about their needs and make clear, direct requests of one another.

Nancy takes live calls, inviting callers to share their relationship issues and receive coaching or input.

Listeners are invited to call in​ to the show at 7:30 pm (1-800-958-9008) to ask focused questions about personal relationship issues relating to the topic.

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