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Host Marlena Willis discusses how the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practice that values the beauty of our needs complements the Buddhist practice of loving kindness, compassion, joy in the joy of others, and equanimity. When combined together, these practices can create a base of well-being that can heal and rejuvenate us. In the practice of NVC, NEEDS are seen as supporting and enriching our lives. In mindfulness meditation, planting the seeds of LOVING KINDNESS, COMPASSION, JOY and EQUANIMITY can create more ease in being present in each moment. Bringing these practices together can support, nurture and strengthen us in difficult times. This will be an interactive show with calls taken early and throughout the show.

Marlena Willis is one of the hosts of Talk It Out Radio. She has studied NVC for over 15 years, completing and assisting in immersion and leadership programs. She has taught NVC and Buddhism at the East Bay Meditation Center, taught NVC to those who are chronically ill or disabled over the phone and leads a drop-in NVC practice group in Oakland. She has practiced meditation for over 40 years, including intensive practice. She initiated bringing awareness of race and class to Buddhist communities in this country as well as organizing the first day-longs of meditation for people of color.

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Do you want a world that works for everyone, that includes all of us? Host Marlena Willis interviews Jess Schlesinger, who teaches Access-Centered Movement, and Mushim Patricia Ikeda, a meditation teacher who has been a leader in bringing meditation to all bodies. Whether you are someone who lives in a body that has variations or limitations or you have friends or family who do, this show inspires a vision of how we can include everyone in all that we do.

Jess Dene Schlesinger is a graduate from Niroga Institute’s Trauma-Informed Yoga Teacher Training and Integral Health Fellowship. She began practicing yoga 16 years ago in an attempt to manage physical and emotional pain resulting from various disabilities and traumas. She found that most yoga classes were not accessible for her needs so she practiced yoga on her own and explored various spiritual, psychological, and physical tools for healing. Access-Centered yoga combines the trauma-informed language she learned from the Niroga Institute, Disability Justice (a movement started by disabled queer women of color), and her lived experience as a sick and disabled queer.

Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a nationally known Buddhist teacher, social justice activist, author, and diversity and inclusion consultant. Her practice experience includes both monastic and lay practice in North America and in Asia. She is known for her humorous, down-to-earth, direct style of teaching that includes spiritual dimensions of parenting, community building, and everyday activities.

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Do you believe that it’s our human job to take care of nature instead of use it up?  (And to take care of eachother instead of use eachother up?) If so, you are not alone. Most people agree with you. But how do we do this? The answer is simple: Fall in love with nature by making friends with soil, birds, animals, water, fire, light and dark, and all our relations. Host Timothy Regan introduces you to the fun and powerful world of “Relational Education,” with two guests from the Weaving Earth Center in Sebastopol, CA, Lauren Dalberth-Hage, and Sam Edmundson.  They share stories of wonder and connection, and offer backyard practices for you and your children to come alive at a time in history where the skills of relationship are most needed.

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Nancy Kahn, a facilitator with the 2017 NY Intensive in Nonviolent Communication will focus on how empathy and self empathy enrich our relationships. Nancy will talk about what empathy is, how to practice self empathy and empathy with others, and what empathy offers us within our relationships. If you are in a partnered relationship, co-parent, and/or have siblings, parents, extended family, children, or colleagues, this show will provide practical ways to intentionally choose to respond with empathy in your daily life.

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Host Nancy Kahn will interview a visionary Brazilian social artist, Priscilla Bertucci, president and director of SSEXBBOX, who identifies as gender queer, to discuss how he integrates Nonviolent Communication in his global advocacy work, in Brazil and Russia, for basic human rights for LGBTQIA.

A social artist who identifies as gender queer, Priscilla directs documentaries, is a photographer and art director, and is the founder of [SSEX BBOX], a social justice project in San Francisco, São Paulo, Berlin and Barcelona,  focusing on rights, inclusion and vociferation of the LGBTQIA population. He is responsible for the design, curation and production of the the International[SSEX BBOX] & MIX BRASIL Conference. In addition to these artistic skills, Priscilla develops somatic work and uses nonviolent communication approaches to work with people and organizations in their communities, bring new ways of thinking and being, and proposing social challenges to the world.

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Are you concerned that youth today are spending too much time on tech devices and not enough time developing their emotional, spiritual and physical capacities? Are you worried about how difficult it is for young people today to understand their needs and full range of choices available to meet needs in the moment? Do you feel some urgency about exposing young people to self-awareness practices that help them increase emotional intelligence?

In this show we hear how the practices of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Indigenous Mindfulness empower youth to slow down and connect to themselves more fully, understand their own feelings and needs, and experience a wider range of choices and strategies in any moment.  Host Nancy Kahn talks with Gerardo Omar Marín about the range of practices he personally uses and shares with youth across the nation, such as inner-resilience practices to recharge young people’s souls and bodies, stress-relief breathing techniques and meditation. Hear the powerful benefits of these practices from Gerardo’s vast experience working with youth.

Gerardo Omar Marín mentors youth, community organizers, and educators in indigenous mindfulness practices, ritual, and inner-resilience practices. He has served and organized in schools, in the outdoors, churches, youth detention centers, prison, homes, and in the streets.

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Practicing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can contribute to deepening and enriching our friendships by supporting us in being more authentic with each other. Host Marlena Willis talks with Integrative Counselor, Suz Strasburger, about how to increase connection with our friends using the tools and principles of NVC, such as empathy, authenticity, and focusing on what we truly need, rather than what is “wrong” with ourselves or the other person. Marlena and Suz look at and celebrate Suz’s friendship with Nancy, whom Suz recently accompanied in her dying process. (This show is a tribute to Nancy, who was an avid practitioner of Nonviolent Communication.)

Susan Strasburger, PhD (Suz) blends counseling and coaching in working with individuals, couples and organizations. She has a multidisciplinary approach which includes Nonviolent Communication, somatic counseling, mindfulness and meditation.

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