KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

Host Marlena Willis talks with Jill Nagle, a widely published author on personal growth, parenting, and social issues. Jill founded Wisdom of the Body: Beyond Talk Therapy to provide multidimensional counseling that includes the possibility of intimate, nonsexual restorative touch. She works with individuals, couples, communities and groups who want to get past the what’s tripping them up, to the deeper connection, flow, and ease that’s always underneath. She also provides mediation and training to individuals, couples, and groups, including a nine-month Immersion each October.

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What is implicit bias? How do we become aware of implicit bias, and how does implicit bias unconsciously affect our behaviors and attitudes towards other people?

Recently in the news, there have been two trending stories across the country reporting on the impact of implicit bias resulting in law enforcement being called by employees of public businesses. The employees called the police to have male patrons of color removed from the premises, believing they had not acted lawfully, but who in fact, had not broken the law or the policies of the respective establishments. As people, we harbor implicit bias without being aware it is occurring. When people holding positions of power are unaware of their own active implicit bias, their thinking and behavior may result in discrimination, racism, prejudice, and/or even cause in physical harm.

Host Nancy Kahn talks with Lisa Dettmer, co-producer of Talk-it-Out Radio, about how the tools of Nonviolent Communication can first, empower people to hold self-compassion if/ when they realize they have acted out of implicit bias and their actions negatively impacted another person. We can choose our NVC practice, to empathize and communicate around unmet needs when we observe other people acting from implicit bias in ways that do not align with dignity, respect, safety, consideration, fairness, and equity for all people.

It is important to build skills to talk about implicit bias, to raise awareness with others through nonjudgmental dialogue, instead of shaming and blaming other people in our attempts to get them to take responsibility for their unconscious bias.

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Be delightfully inspired, play some peacemaking games and listen to some positive music live from the KPFA studios – with the leaders and kids of the Mosaic Project from Oakland, California. Timothy Regan hosts Khemnes Fisher and Emily Abad with young students and musicians from Mosaic. Experience some powerful and compassionate “gametivities” that have helped over 39,000 children and 9,000 adults since 2001 build their capacity and skills in empathy and conflict resolution, so they can help create the diverse, inclusive, and peaceful communities that they envision, and that we envision! [Rebroadcast]

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In order to be happy and productive in making the world a better place, we need to be free of the ways we avoid and numb out using alcohol, drugs and other behaviors. Many have been helped by the 12-step programs but many do not resonate with these God-centered programs. Host Marlena Willis talks with Vimilasara (Valerie) Mason-John, co-author of the award-winning book Eight Step Recovery – Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction, and Shahara Godfrey, core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, who has initiated events there for people in addiction recovery center programs.

Vimalasara Mason-John (Valerie) is president of the Buddhist Recovery Network and cofounder of a secular mindfulness program for addiction. She is also the author of the new revised edition of Detox Your Heart – Meditations For Emotional Trauma. She is a leading African Canadian voice in the field of Mindfulness for Emotional Trauma and Addiction.

Shahara Godfrey is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center who has initiated events there for people in recovery from addictions. She has trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for over 20 years. Other influences have been spiritual teachers from various cultures and traditions as well as the creative arts. Shahara has a PhD in Humanities with a focus on Transformative Learning and Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and currently works as an educator.

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