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It has been said that legal mediation is a success if everyone is unhappy with the outcome—that it is fair, because everyone has had to compromise. Bringing Nonviolent Communication to the mediation process contributes to the possibility that all parties involved can be happy with the results because it facilitates connection and care between the parties involved. Host Marlena Willis interviews Nonviolent Communication teacher and mediator Lisa Montana on how we can formally or informally resolve conflicts using Nonviolent Communication.

Lisa Montana came to conflict resolution from the corporate world, where she witnessed frequent disputes, most of them handled in ways that nobody liked. Working with collaborative communication, she found a model in which everyone’s needs matter and against all odds, has seen wildly antagonistic foes find common ground. Lisa began teaching Nonviolent Communication in 2007, and in 2008 she joined the teaching team for BayNVC’s year-long mediation program. Since 2013, she’s been teaching conflict resolution at San Quentin State Prison. Lisa works with individuals, businesses and organizations around the country, offering mediation, executive coaching and group facilitation.

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Connection is a human need, and when connection is experienced between people, people are more likely to choose to contribute to one another’s needs. Host Nancy Kahn, a Nonviolent Communication facilitator who specializes in working across differences such as race, gender, and class, explores the power of connection. She offers insights and tools that support connection between people in everyday situations and across differences.

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Gratitude – the state of celebration about the fulfillment of life. It is medicine and fuel for living. It is a physical sensation, a feeling, and a way of thinking that strengthens us.

But how do we actually DO gratitude? In this episode of Talk It Out Radio, we look deeply and clearly at some detailed steps we can take to grow gratefulness and appreciation in ourselves and our lives right now. Host Timothy Regan, with Nonviolent Communication practitioners Kat Nadel and Liz Hymans, call you to join us to find our own way to authentic gratitude.

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Hosts Timothy Regan and Nancy Kahn of the 14th Annual New York Intensive in NVC get personal and share stories from colleagues that show the practice and possibility of human presence, especially when it’s challenging in the moment. They focus on what we each can do within the sphere of our own power and influence to help grow a culture of collaboration and understanding.

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Most people, when heard with empathy, want more of it. What if the value of empathy permeated our culture? This is the vision that guest, Edwin Rutsch, brings to us. Host Marlena Willis dialogues with him about his vision for how to create a world where the value of empathy permeates all our institutions.

Edwin Rutsch is the founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and the International Empathy Trainers Association. The center’s website, CultureOfEmpathy.com, is the internet’s most comprehensive portal for empathy-related material, including interviews with over 300 experts on the topic. He is a world traveler, a “seeker,” a documentary filmmaker and has worked in the computer technology field. In his travels, he has interacted with a wide variety of cultures and peoples from all walks of life and learned to see and feel the common humanity of all people on the planet.

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