“That we are shaped by the culture we create makes it difficult to see that our culture is what must be transcended, which means we must rise above our notions and techniques of survival itself, if we are to survive. Thus the paradox that only as we lose our life do we find it.”
1. Discover Kindred World’s Ecology of Strategic Initiatives and Projects
Kindred World’s Ecology of Initiatives and Projects Include:
Kindred Magazine: Sharing the New Story. Because we are discussing our millions year-old biology, and species-typical nesting, our copy, over decades, is “evergreen” or always relevant to our current individual, cultural, and planetary events.
Evolved Nest Initiative: The Home of the Science of the Evolved Nest
Nested World: The Home of the Nesting Ambassador Program
Worldview Literacy Project: Resources for Shifting Your Worldview
Parenting as a Hero’s Journey: A Wisdom Teaching Collection
2. Be A Part Of Kindred Magazine’s Impact
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
Kindred Magazine, as a nonprofit alternative media platform and emergent praxis, plays a crucial role in shaping and sharing the “New Story of the Human Family.” Kindred Magazine’s impact can be seen across several key areas:
1. Redefining Cultural Narratives
Kindred challenges dominant societal narratives that emphasize competition, separation, and materialism by promoting a holistic, interconnected vision of humanity. It brings attention to how early life experiences, conscious parenting, and social structures influence well-being.
2. Supporting Conscious Parenting & Early Childhood Development
By sharing research and stories on attachment parenting, holistic child development, and indigenous wisdom, Kindred helps parents, caregivers, and educators make informed choices that align with the biological and emotional needs of children.
3. Bridging Science and Wisdom Traditions
Kindred integrates insights from neuroscience, epigenetics, psychology, and ancestral knowledge, providing a platform for discussions that merge modern scientific understanding with traditional wisdom about human connection and thriving.
4. Empowering Social Change & Advocacy
The platform supports social movements that seek to transform education, healthcare, and environmental policies by providing information that challenges mainstream, corporate-driven narratives. It encourages readers to become advocates for systemic change.
5. Nurturing a Regenerative and Cooperative Future
Rather than reinforcing fear-based, scarcity-driven media, Kindred fosters hope, resilience, and cooperative solutions for future generations. By reframing how we see human relationships and society, it contributes to a more compassionate and sustainable world.
In essence, Kindred Magazine’s impact lies in its ability to inspire and empower individuals, families, and communities to embrace a more interconnected, conscious, and thriving human experience. You are welcome to submit your ideas or articles for publication to editor@kindredmedia.org.
BONUS: Kindred’s Wisdom Archives
During America’s slide to the bottom of all international wellness indicators during the past 50 years, a grassroots movement of researchers, scientists, practitioners, parents, caregivers, and activists served the human family, pioneered new fields of science and advocated for nurturing our species as a way to create sustainable humans.
Here are Kindred’s most impactful interviews, podcasts, and features with Wayfinders, Trance-breakers, and New Cycle Makers.
Learn more about America’s last place rankings for international health indicators, and Kindred’s quarter century history of educating and empowering families, on our About Us page.
3. Follow and Subscribe to Our New Story on Kindred
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
Kindred has chronicled the breakthroughs and insights of the New Story of Our Human Family for over 20 years. Our wisdom archives and oral histories present and preserve this living, consciousness-raising movement’s efforts to help our human family thrive. Kindred is a collaboration of over 200 contributors and organizational partners who are “Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed World”.
Subscribe to Kindred’s e-zine and the Evolved Nest science newsletter to join us in authoring a new and wondrous story for humanity.
Subscribe to receive Kindred Magazine’s issues by email here.
Subscribe to the Evolved Nest newsletter to follow Darcia Narvaez’s research into the Evolved Nest.
4. Watch the Nested World Film and Evolved Nest Trilogy
Reimagine your world in less than 30 minutes.
In the Nested World film,Darcia Narvaez introduces and expands on the messages of the trilogy of films created by the Evolved Nest Initiative over the past three years. The footage of Darcia introducing and exploring the films was shot on the beautiful campus at the University of Notre Dame in fall 2024. Kindred World is grateful to UND’s media officers for their help in staging the film shoot by Reagan Studios. Watch and find resources: The Nested World Film
Breaking the Cycle contrasts the two basic ways societies can function: the optimal approach, which most human societies through time have followed, is the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship where children’s basic needs are met; they grow into well-functioning, cooperative community members (from neurobiology and on up); and as healthy adults, they maintain the cooperative system. Currently in the USA, the opposite pattern is in place: children’s basic needs are not met, ill-being and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachmentgoing. The United Nations ranks the USA as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.
See film discussion guide and resources on this website, www.BreakingtheCycleFIlm.org
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children. From the immense Whale to the intriguing Octopus – all Animals share with humans brain structures and processes that give us the capacities for life’s rainbow of experiences: consciousness, thinking, feeling, loving, and dreaming. Perhaps most importantly, we share common ways of raising our young: what is called the evolved nest. Evolved nests are practices that nurture physical and psychological wellbeing. Each child is “nested” with mother, family, community, and the rest of Nature as one seamless whole. Passed from generation to generation over millions of years, each Animal’s nest has been perfected to meet and match the needs of their young. Nestedness is evolution’s way of ensuring that everyone thrives. Each Animal’s evolved nest shares basic similarities but also unique differences.
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children is the second short film in a series that includes Reimagining Humanity and Breaking the Cycle. This short film in an accompaniment to the acclaimed book, The Evolved Nest, by Darcia Narvaez and G.A. Bradshaw.
Reimagining Humanity. The goal of this film is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.
Discover the sections of the short film, script, explanations, discussion questions, and bibliography at www.ReimaginingHumanity.org
Join our monthly LIVE Nested World discussions about the films, and the science of the Evolved Nest by registering for these events below, and on the front page of Kindred, and in our quarterly issues.
5. Join the Nested World LIVE Monthly Discussions
Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachmentand returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.
Discover dates and times for these live, monthly meetings by joining dedicated platform at Mighty Networks, www.KindredCommunity.org
Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for monthly LIVE discussion of the Evolved Nest Initiatives’s short films, Breaking the Cycle and Re-Imagining Humanity. You can watch the films and find resources, including a film guide on the Nested World’s front page.
6. Visit and Explore the Evolved Nest Learning Center
What is our Evolved Nest?
Children are biosocial creatures such that their biology is constructed by their social experience. The evolved nest or evolved developmental niche (EDN) is the ecological system of care provided by families, teachers and communities that aligns with the maturational schedule of the child, satiating the evolved needs of infants and children, allowing them to flourish and develop compassionate spiritualities. The EDN consists of soothing gestation and birth, on-request extensive breastfeeding and positive moving touch (no negative touch), a welcoming social climate, self-directed play with multiple aged mates, warmly responsive nurturing from mother and others, nature immersion and connection, and healing practices to repair miscommunication or hurts. Well-nested children and adults demonstrate social and moral flexibility, adapting to situations and others with emotional and spiritual intelligence.
You will find links to each of the nine components of humanity’s Evolved Nest in this learning center that features Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning research.
You will also find here the checklists for nested early childhood, childhood, and adulthood. This self-directed, virtual learning center is still growing, so be sure to subscribe to the Evolved Nest’s monthly newsletter to keep up with our additions!
Visit the Evolved Nest Learning Center.
7. Discover the Worldview Chart and Worldview Literacy Project
Worldview literacy has been at the core of Kindred’s work since 2010, when Lisa Reagan, Kindred World’s founder and Kindred Magazine’s editor, was trained as a Worldview Literacy Facilitator at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, IONS. Read her story of the early days of worldview literacy at Kindred and its tie-in to presenting our nonprofit work’s framing from a holistic worldview:
Moving Toward Wholeness: Are We?
How Worldview Literacy & Evolved Nest Science Supported One Family’s Journey Toward Wholeness
Tyson Yunkaporta: Poetry (Done Right) Reveals The Indigenous Worldview
Our “Science-Fictiony” Worldview Lens: Do We Ever Know What Is Happening?
In 2020, Lisa, as Kindred’s editor, was honored to work with Four Arrows to present the Worldview Chart to the Kindred Community and world. You can download the poster as a PDF below.
Read more about decolonizing and re-indigenizing ourselves – a worldview shifting process here.
WORLDVIEW LITERACY PROJECT RESOURCES
Check out Kindred’s Worldview Literacy Project to discover a 90 day engagement guide for self-study or community learning with the Worldview Chart by Four Arrows: www.WorldviewLiteracy.org.
The Worldview Literacy Project features interviews and presentations by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez on their book discussing the Worldview Chart’s precepts: Restoring the Kinship Worldview. Read the introduction to the book here.
Download the Worldview Chart in German and Spanish at the bottom of the page here.
How Does Worldview Literacy Support Kindred’s New Story?
Storytelling shapes how humans understand reality, our place in it, and how we should live. It transmits values, identities, relationships, and possibilities across generations. If we accept that premise, then shifting worldviews—from a Dominant Worldview (often characterized as separation-based, hierarchical, and extractive) to a Kinship Worldview (relational, interdependent, and reciprocal)—fundamentally rewrites the “story” that guides human behavior and culture. This creates a “New Story of the Human Family” rooted in belonging, responsibility, and mutual flourishing rather than domination and individualism.
This shift, from Dominant to Kinship Worldview, is powerful because stories are sticky and generative. Once internalized, a kinship worldview changes what we notice, value, and create. It doesn’t erase diversity but orients it toward harmony. Evidence from Indigenous resilience, ecological restoration projects, and movements for rights of nature shows practical outcomes: healthier ecosystems, stronger communities, and greater well-being.
The transition is ongoing and requires active choice—through the stories we tell our children, the policies we support, and the relationships we cultivate. Storytelling doesn’t just describe the world; it helps build it. A kinship lens invites us to tell (and live) a story where the human family belongs, contributes, and prospers together with all our relations.
8. Join Kindred Community’s Mighty Network’s Platform
Welcome seekers, trance-breakers, thought leaders, change makers, social change artists, artivists, accelerators and cultural creatives! Kindred’s Community Forums and Salons are where we can learn, share, and grow together with like-minded individuals and groups who want to be a part of something greater than ourselves. In this safe space on Mighty Networks, we want to hear about YOUR skills, organization, community story, and mastery of some aspect of social change. Please tell us your story when you join!
By joining the Kindred Community Mighty Networks platform, you are agreeing to model nonviolent communication, kindness, and curiosity. Please take a moment to introduce yourself when you join.
We are happy to offer this safe space without the distractions of ads, or algorithms deciding for you what you will see.
9. Become a Nesting Ambassador
10. Support Our Work and Independent Booksellers
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We believe local bookstores are essential community hubs that foster culture, curiosity, and a love of reading, and we’re committed to helping them thrive.
Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. Our platform gives independent bookstores tools to compete online and financial support to help them maintain their presence in local communities.
The books in our Kindred World BookShop have been curated for you. Send your suggestions for books to include to Hello(a)KindredWorld.org. Visit the Kindred World Bookshop here.
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