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Host John Kinyon guides guests through conflicts in their lives and the larger social-political world toward bridging differences and healing hurts using processes and principles rooted in empathic communication.

In the delicate balance between standing for justice and promoting empathy, I struggle with how to hold these two together simultaneously.  At the heart of this challenge for me is the recognition that when calling out (or “calling in,” as it’s now said) what I see as an injustice, it’s easy to fall into promoting…

It’s so interesting to me how what’s new builds on what has been, but in unseen ways. I see now how what is emerging in me about what is needed in the world has been growing and developing since early in my life and in the early roots with Nonviolent Communication and Mediate Your Life…

Bridging our differences is, I believe, what we humans now need to do to survive and support the flourishing of Earth, yet it seems impossibly out of reach. We may think we need to choose between pessimism or optimism, but why not be both? What happens if we hold the paradox? There is much to…

Today in the U.S. is the holy-day each year we celebrate and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., his nonviolent approach to social change calling society towards the soaring ideals enshrined in the U.S. Declaration of Independence of freedom and equality for all. Dr. King was a tremendous light shining out…

Are you, like me, more and more often feeling a depth of grief seeing ways that we humans are relating to each other and to this beautiful living Earth? As we stare into the abyss, what can give us the strength and courage to hold the enormity of the pain and conflict, and transform it…