Host Nancy Kahn invites us to explore how domination systems thinking lives inside us, how we can become aware of it, transform it, and disrupt unconscious patterns of communication that maintain systems of power and privilege. Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication, said that “in domination systems, you have to train people to think a certain way to support the system, so the people fit in the system.” Nancy shares the core ways domination systems thinking permeates our thoughts and conversations and offers strategies and practices to help discrupt and deconstruct these systems within us.

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What matters to you and how are YOU going to speak up today? Tune in for a tune up on your next rant!

Host Timothy Regan takes us on an exploration of how to speak up and speak out nonviolently and effectively so that people will more likely hear us, relate to us, and maybe even join our cause. Whether we are sad, mad, scared, or disgusted, these feelings point to what is most important to us, and speaking up with the tools and language of Nonviolent Communication can help get the message through to where it needs to go. Timothy explains the basic building blocks of a nonviolent rant, and offers several examples from real life.

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We live in a time where the policies of the right are having harmful affects on many, but what about how we harm one another in our interactions among ourselves in the progressive left? If we can acknowledge and clear up some of these harms we can be more effective in our work for change. Host Marlena Willis explores how we can use the Nonviolent Communication tools of empathy and of healing and reconciliation to be heard for harm we have received as well as to express regret for any harm we have done. We also explore celebrations and appreciations.

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Too often in our attempts to raise awareness of injustices, we end up calling out each other in ways that do not increase trust and cooperation, but often result in shame and judgments. We explore the differences between Calling Out and Calling In. Host Nancy Kahn provides skills and examples for the practice of Calling In, aligned with Nonviolent Communication.

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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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