On the Mediate Your Life Podcast, John Kinyon has conversations with thought leaders about the power of conflict to create new and better possibilities for our lives and world, and the intersection of empathic communication (Nonviolent Communication/NVC), mediation/conflict transformation, mindfulness/consciousness, and trauma healing — individual, collective, ancestral.
One of the goals of Mediate Your Life is to not only bridge and heal differences between individuals in personal, organizational, and societal life, it is also to support sharing and integration within and across fields of study and practice of conflict resolution, management, transformation, reconciliation, peacebuilding, trauma healing, and socially engaged spirituality and change work.
On the show, John also guides some of his guests through real life challenges and conflicts with the MYL approach. Each conversation is a forum for learning and healing, not only for the guests, but also for the listener.
The Power of Silence for the Times We Are In with Leigh Marz
In this powerful episode, I sit down with Leigh Marz, collaboration consultant and co-author of Golden, a celebrated exploration of silence that began as a viral Harvard Business Review article and grew into a wide-ranging inquiry into one of the most essential, and endangered, dimensions of human experience.
Together we explore silence not as mere absence of noise, but as a presence unto itself — a doorway to deeper consciousness, shared humanity, and the kind of inner spaciousness that makes genuine connection and conflict resolution possible. We touch on the three facets of noise (auditory, informational, and internal), the relationship between silence and flow states, neuroscience, mysticism, and wisdom traditions, and the inspiring story of Jarvis Masters, an innocent man on death row whose practice of silence became a matter of survival and ultimately of profound creative flourishing.
When we slow down enough to listen from that place, we find something shifts: people remember their connection to themselves and each other, and new possibilities open for the life we truly want.
A nourishing, rich, and timely conversation about slowing down, listening deeply, and the quiet at the heart of healing our world.
— John