A Kindred World Nonprofit Initiative
Building a Nested World, Together
Re-Imagining Humanity with the Integrated Science of Nestedness
“When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest, our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, we develop the Kinship Worldview.”
– Darcia Narvaez, PhD, author of the award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom
Discover what nestedness looks and feels like
Welcoming a
Wellness-informed World
Take a Step into the World of Deep Nestedness
Deep Nestedness is the wellness-informed approach for human flourishing and planetary wellbeing. Reflecting, ancestral wisdom, humans raised and living nested enhance the life-giving flow of dynamic life. Watch the 12-min film, Reimagining Humanity.
It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
The Developmental Evolved Nest forms the communal support of mothers and children that fosters healthy brains, bodies, and psyches, building the capacities to be cooperative community members. Watch the 8-min film, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children.
Break The Cycle
Learn about our heritage, the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship, and how it contrasts with contemporary life, the Cycle of Competitive Detachment. Watch the film, Breaking the Cycle.
Explore The Evolved Nest Learning Center
To help you start to understand our species evolved nest, we’ve provided brief descriptions of the nine components and resources for learning more.
Become Wellness- and Trauma-Informed
To heal, one must understand our species-normal, wellness-promoting pathway which contrasts with the trauma-inducing pathway of modern life.
Restore Our
Kinship Worldview
Those raised in deep nestedness develop a preconquest kinship worldview which contrasts with the dominant postconquest worldview.
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Become a Nesting Ambassador
How can we reimagine humanity? The Evolved Nest and the Kinship mindset that accompanies it are wellness promoting. They represent the ways all our deep ancestors lived and understood the world and their place in it. They arise from a planetary consciousness, which is sorely needed today. You can take up this consciousness, participating in the planet’s arising immune system as a Nesting Ambassador.
watch the nested world film
Introducing the Award-winning Holistic Theory and Emergent Praxis of a Nested World
"All humans have a two million year-old person inside and if we lose contact with that part of us, we lose our real roots." — Carl Jung
Our Evolved Nest and Kinship Worldview: Reclaiming Our Roots
Learn more about the science of our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing in the Evolved Nest Learning Center.
"To shift from the dominant worldview to the original Indigenous worldview takes some 'decolonizing' of the mind. Our minds have been suckled on the milk of civilization’s domination and coercion of life with industrialization and capitalism increasing disconnection and alienation from earth consciousness." – Four Arrows
How Are the Evolved Nest and Kinship Worldview Interrelated?
“When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. The Evolved Nest Short Film Collection gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.”
– Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World President; Evolved Nest Initiative, Co-Founder
“To shift from the dominant worldview to the original Indigenous worldview takes some ‘decolonizing’ of the mind. Our minds have been suckled on the milk of civilization’s domination and coercion of life with industrialization and capitalism increasing disconnection and alienation from earth consciousness.”
– Four Arrows, Restoring the Kinship Worldview; Worldview Literacy Project, Founder
“The dizzying view from the Mother Tree’s canopy exists, seemingly, in its own world. Eighty feet below, the dark, earthbound root system also thrives in its own world, with its own stories, legends, and mysteries. And yet they form one sentient being: one thriving, colossal, intelligent Mother Tree whose mastery of Grounded Expansion supports her own life, and many lives around her.”
– What the Mother Tree Said: How Our Evolved Nest Supports Our Grounded Expansion/Kinship Worldview, Kindred Magazine, Lisa Reagan
Watch the live launch of the Nested World website and Nesting Ambassador Program at the Maternal Gift Economy’s #88 Salon on November 15, 2025.
Watch the first lecture in the Nesting Ambassador Program 2026, Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness?The lecture was a part of the Nested World Fall 2025 Lecture Series by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.
The Nesting Ambassador Program is now accepting applications for the 2026 Cohort.
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Are you already a part of the New Story of the Human Family? Share in our work, join our online communities, and follow the unfolding of our vision of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society in Kindred and the Evolved Nest's newsletters.
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