KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

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  • Power, Privilege, Awareness, Kindness, and Action
    This edition of Talk It Out Radio is for you if you have power and influence in your life, and if you care about your impact on other people. We all have power – to speak, to act, to create, and to destroy. And yet, some of us have more freedom than others to exercise our power to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. This happens for many reasons.
    Guest and Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer and Ambassador Bob Wentworth and Host Timothy Regan openly explore the realities and challenges that power and privilege create in relationships, families, work places, and beyond.
    Our goal is to help reduce the suffering that comes from injustice when power and privilege differences are not addressed. We present specific principles from the practice of Nonviolent Communication that bring awareness, kindness, and useful action for all human relationships where power and privilege differences are present.  Listeners are invited to call in and help us explore this challenging terrain.
    Bob Wentworth played a lead role in initiating and supporting the CNVC (Center for Nonviolent Communication) New Future Process, a multi-year community-based process in which the Nonviolent Communication movement was invited to re-envision how it would like to organise itself globally. That process resulted in a plan to assimilate CNVC into a new global NVC organization founded on self-management and evolutionary principles, with a commitment to awareness and care regarding issues of access, power, and systemic marginalization.
    Bob once asked himself the question, "Is there a single key that could make a difference in addressing all the world's problems?" It seemed to him that if we could find ways to more reliably partner to work together, instead of battling or working at cross-purposes, then this could make all the difference. For him, NVC offers some critical pieces of the puzzle, concerning how we can be together in more satisfying ways. NVC powerfully contributes to making new things possible interpersonally (between people), intra-personally (in how we relate to ourselves), and potentially on larger scales (institutionally and politically). At the same time, Bob continues to search for a complete answer to his question. He has spent years looking at issues of trauma and skillfully relating to ourselves, and is also deeply interested in the functioning of groups and institutions.
    Bob is a CNVC Certified Trainer, and former CNVC Board member. He co-founded Family HEART Camp, a week-long NVC camp for parents and children, currently active in six states in the U.S. He earned a Ph.D. in Applied Physics, and worked as a technologist before shifting to focus his attention on improving our collective experience of the human condition.
    1 hr
  • Embracing Grief and Mourning

    In a world where we can experience deep joy, wrenching grief, and mourning that can feel exhausting, how do we actually tend to our grief and mourning? Host Nancy Kahn offers practices that support us in recognizing grief and mourning. Why do we often hear people tell us not to feel sad, to be strong and not to wallow in our grief? Nancy guides us in examining the barriers that keep us from embracing the critical roles of mourning and grief work in our lives. If you are curious about the roles of grief and mourning in social justice work, this segment offers key insights and perspectives.

    The post Embracing Grief and Mourning appeared first on KPFA.

    18 min
  • Embracing Grief and Mourning
    In a world where we can experience deep joy, wrenching grief, and mourning that can feel exhausting, how do we actually tend to our grief and mourning? Host Nancy Kahn offers practices that support us in recognizing grief and mourning. Why do we often hear people tell us not to feel sad, to be strong and not to wallow in our grief? Nancy guides us in examining the barriers that keep us from embracing the critical roles of mourning and grief work in our lives. If you are curious about the roles of grief and mourning in social justice work, this segment offers key insights and perspectives.
    1 hr
  • How to Make Authentic Amends

    This edition of Talk It Out Radio is Part 2 of “Repairing Relationships when you Care.”

    Part 1 (“How to Forgive for Real”) aired on Sept. 24, 2017, and addressed how to dissolve the enemy images we carry around of other people. You can hear that episode in our archives, or on iTunes.

    This show, Making Authentic Amends, is about how to apologize and ask for forgiveness when an action or words of mine have had a painful impact on another person, and I care about this person and my relationship with them.

    Host Timothy Regan, Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, explains and illustrates the principles of making amends with a specific step-by-step process. He is joined by Talk It Out Team member Marlena Willis.

    Your calls are welcome.

    The post How to Make Authentic Amends appeared first on KPFA.

    18 min
  • How to Make Authentic Amends
    This edition of Talk It Out Radio is Part 2 of "Repairing Relationships when you Care."
    Part 1 ("How to Forgive for Real") aired on Sept. 24, 2017, and addressed how to dissolve the enemy images we carry around of other people. You can hear that episode in our archives [1], or on iTunes [2].
    This show, Making Authentic Amends, is about how to apologize and ask for forgiveness when an action or words of mine have had a painful impact on another person, and I care about this person and my relationship with them.
    Host Timothy Regan, Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, explains and illustrates the principles of making amends with a specific step-by-step process. He is joined by Talk It Out Team member Marlena Willis.
    Your calls are welcome.
    [1] http://www.kpfa.org/program/talk-it-out-radio
    [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kpfa-talk-it-out-radio/id1210876397?mt=2
    1 hr
  • Composting Shame into Self-Love

    How can we cease being caught in shame and awaken self-love within us so that we can be both happy and more effective in our lives and our work for social justice? Host Marlena Willis is in dialogue with Nonviolent Communications teacher and coach, Marina Smerling, about shifting from shame and blame to love and self-acceptance. Marina will also share about how Nonviolent Communication can support us in being a white ally to people of color.

    Marina Smerling is a former attorney turned life and relationship coach for women, and a trainer with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC). Marina draws upon her decade of training in NVC, Hakomi mindfulness-based therapy, and nondual spiritual practice to support women’s evolution through the composting of shame into radical self-love. A co-founder of Talk It Out Radio, she is a recent transplant to Gainesville, FL, from Berkeley, CA, and is honored to return to KPFA’s studio to share about her work with NVC and its implications for metabolizing shame, being with uncertainty, fostering racial justice, and more.

    The post Composting Shame into Self-Love appeared first on KPFA.

    18 min
  • Composting Shame into Self-Love
    How can we cease being caught in shame and awaken self-love within us so that we can be both happy and more effective in our lives and our work for social justice? Host Marlena Willis is in dialogue with Nonviolent Communications teacher and coach [1], Marina Smerling, about shifting from shame and blame to love and self-acceptance. Marina will also share about how Nonviolent Communication can support us in being a white ally to people of color.
    Marina Smerling is a former attorney turned life and relationship coach for women [2], and a trainer [3] with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC [4]). Marina draws upon her decade of training in NVC, Hakomi mindfulness-based therapy, and nondual spiritual practice to support women's evolution through the composting of shame into radical self-love. A co-founder of Talk It Out Radio, she is a recent transplant to Gainesville, FL, from Berkeley, CA, and is honored to return to KPFA’s studio to share about her work with NVC and its implications for metabolizing shame, being with uncertainty, fostering racial justice, and more.
    [1] http://www.shamelessheart.com
    [2] http://www.shamelessheart.com
    [3] http://baynvc.org/trainers/marina-smerling-23/
    [4] http://www.baynvc.org
    1 hr
  • Compassionate Action: Working Through Enemy Images in Today’s World
    Host Nancy Kahn discussed practices of self compassion and exploring needs behind the actions of others we may view as “the enemy.” This show highlights the value in taking empowered action from a place of connection to our deepest values, and not from the thoughts stimulated by enemy images. This show can support listeners in moving beyond enemy images that block our ability to experience inner freedom and creativity to move into empowered compassionate action.
    This edition of Talk It Out Radio offers insights and practice with examples from the host and live callers. Host Nancy Kahn is live on air with listener calls and her commitment to support callers in learning practices and transforming enemy images.

    The post Compassionate Action: Working Through Enemy Images in Today’s World appeared first on KPFA.

    18 min
  • Compassionate Action: Working Through Enemy Images in Today’s World
    Host Nancy Kahn discussed practices of self compassion and exploring needs behind the actions of others we may view as "the enemy." This show highlights the value in taking empowered action from a place of connection to our deepest values, and not from the thoughts stimulated by enemy images. This show can support listeners in moving beyond enemy images that block our ability to experience inner freedom and creativity to move into empowered compassionate action.
    This edition of Talk It Out Radio offers insights and practice with examples from the host and live callers. Host Nancy Kahn is live on air with listener calls and her commitment to support callers in learning practices and transforming enemy images.
    1 hr
  • How to Forgive for Real

    Host Timothy Regan explores authentic Forgiveness.

    Do you have enemies in your life? How does that feel to you? If you are like most people, you might say it’s uncomfortable.

    Do you know anyone who is having this experience and is tired of it and might want a way out? Might that person be you?

    It turns out that Forgiveness comes from deep understanding of your own humanity AND your enemy’s humanity as well.

    We offer hope in these troubled times as we explore a map to authentic Forgiveness that is built on understanding and empathy. We move beyond just saying we forgive someone to actually experiencing the relief and freedom that forgiveness offers us.

    Hear stories of forgiveness, and specific steps to take. You are invited to practice along with us for a relationship in your own life.

    “Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed.  This is the ancient and eternal law.”

    – “The Practice of Forgiveness” by Jack Kornfield

    The post How to Forgive for Real appeared first on KPFA.

    18 min

About KPFA - Talk-It-Out Radio

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Welcome to Talk it Out Radio, your local, live, community call-in, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Mindfulness, and Social Justice Radio Show here on KPFA, 94.1 FM.