Nesting Ambassadors
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2026 Cohort. DEADLINE IS JULY 15, 2026. See the dates below.
Contact our Nested World team at nestedworldinitiative@gmail.com for questions.
“The communal evolved nest represents love in action, shaping inner human nature with a biology of love, which archeological studies confirm in our deep ancestry. Loving treatment shapes the child’s biopsychosociality to be one of a loving nature. Growing up with ubuntu, ‘I am because we are,’ is foundational to species-typical human being and becoming. In this view, everything of import is rooted in relationship; the depth, breadth, and qualities of connections influence all one is and does. From the beginning of life to its end, loving interbeing fosters well-being, at the psychological, bio- logical, and social levels… Nestedness, then, provides a cultural commons for the development of a prosocial human nature and flourishing.” – Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Ecopsychology Journal
Join Us
A Letter from the Founders
Join Us in Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World
It is with great joy and hope for our future we share with you the long-awaited Nested World Initiative and Nesting Ambassador Program. The Nested World launched live on November 15, 2025 on the Maternal Gift Economy’s 88th Salon (see video presentation).
As a small, grassroots nonprofit, we at Kindred World (and Evolved Nest Initiative) have relied on our commitment to embody our values of integration, strategic vision, and radical acceptance to complete our mission. Over the years, we’ve developed initiatives and projects based on need, your expressed needs, presented through our Kindred World Ecology (see KW’s Ecology Map here).
How can we transform the future together? We can bring forth a Nested World. Humanity’s millions year-old pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest, supports our heart wisdom, provides a scaffolding to becoming whole humans, and connects us to all of life, reclaiming our belonging to the Earth and our Kinship Worldview.
Want to see how it’s done? Read Field Reports from the 2025 Cohort Nesting Ambassadors themselves, and discover their plans and projects for integrating the science of the Evolved Nest and deep wisdom of Kinship Worldview right where in they are: in their own families, communities, fields of study, professional realms, and public policy. You can meet Certified Nesting Ambassadors and discover their Community Projects in the Global Certified Nesting Ambassador Directory.
Below you will find gifts from us to you in celebration of our shared vision for transforming the future together.
Nested World Launch Presentation. Watch the video presentation here.
Nesting Ambassador Program. Learn more about the Nesting Ambassador Program and apply for the 2026 Cohort below.
Nested World Film. Watch the newly released Nested World film, featuring video footage of Darcia introducing each of the Evolved Nest’s trilogy of films from the University of Notre Dame campus here.
Nested World First Lecture for Free. Watch the intrduction to the Fall Lecture Series free here: Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness?
As Ilya Prigogine, a Nobel Laureate, states, “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”
We have a plan. We can do this, together.
In peace and gratitude,
Darcia Narvaez, PhD, President, Kindred World
Lisa Reagan, Founder and Executive Director, Kindred World
want to do more?
Become a Nesting Ambassador
In order to shift the dominant culture from its trauma-inducing systems to wellness-promoting systems we need to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Meet Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Nesting Ambassador Program Instructor
DID YOU KNOW?
Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She is the president of Kindred World.
In 2024, Dr. Darcia received the Presidential Citation Award from Division 24, the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, of the American Psychological Association (APA).
The 2024 award is the second time the APA has recognized Narvaez’s work. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, won the APA’s 2015 William James Book Award.
A trilogy of films featuring the science of the evolved nest, narrated by Dr. Darcia, are: Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children; and Reimagining Humanity. All films are subtitled in 15 languages. The films have been translated into German, Spanish, and Turkish.
In 2022, Narvaez was elected a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest international body of professional scientists in the world
In a 2020 analysis of top scientists, Narvaez emerged in the top 2% of scientists worldwide. Of the approximately eight million scientists in the world.
In 2017, Narvaez won the inaugural Expanded Reason Award for research, beating out more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries.
In creating coherence for the transdisciplinary, holistic science of the Evolved Nest, she held four symposiums at the University of Notre Dame in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.
Read Darcia’s full bio here.
Visit her University of Notre Dame page for publications.
Watch the Nested World film, shot at Notre Dame, here.
Read Darcia’s posts on Kindred here.
What Is the Nesting Ambassador Program?
Nesting Ambassadors are emissaries to the world, local and global. A Nesting Ambassador is one who has learned the principles of the evolved nest and integrates them into their lifestyle, workplace and/or community, using their enhanced skills to lead others to follow evolved nest principles.
The first level of the program involves study and completion of the Evolved Nest Curriculum and a self-chosen course project.
Prerequisite: High school/secondary school diploma or equivalent.
Application: Documentation needed for application: (a) A resume regarding one’s life experiences and (b) a paragraph or two about what motivates you to become a Nesting Ambassador.
Material provided: Online classroom with recorded lectures, resources, and the capacity to communicate with your cohort members. Available resources include decades of resources from multiple Kindred World initiatives and projects, including Kindred Magazine, the Evolved Nest Initiative, and the Worldview Literacy Project.
Material needed: internet access for online classroom, a notebook for journaling and creative activities.
Cost: $1500 (one time payment or three payments of $500)
Limited scholarships are available. Contact us for information: nestedworldinitiative@gmail.com.
DEADLINE IS JULY 15, 2026.
Nesting Ambassador Program Dates for FALL 2026
Course structure: There will be 11 online whole-group meetings, every other week on Saturday morning’s from 10 a.m. ET to 11:30 a.m. ET.
The NAP Classroom Tour and Program Orientation will be held on August 8 at 10 a.m. Eastern. The orientation is is required.
Holistic Science Sessions, with Darcia Narvaez, begin on August 1 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. The Holistic Science Sessions with Dr. Narvaez are mandatory for course completion.
Praxis Gatherings, facilitated by Lisa Reagan, are intended to provide support, networking, socializing, and strategizing. NAP graduates share presentations or “Field Reports.” The Praxis Gatherings are not mandatory.
The Program Orientation will be held on August 8 at 10 am Eastern and is required.
Holistic Science Sessions and Praxis Gatherings are held bi-weekly on alternating Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
Here is the schedule (*=mandatory sessions):
*August 1 – Topic: Introduction to Kinship Worldview. Before August 1: Read introductory text and watch Dr. Darcia’s opening lecture, Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness?
*August 8 – Mandatory Course Orientation and Classroom Tour
*August 15 – Topic: Nature Immersion and Partnership, Evolved Nest Component 1
August 22 – Praxis Gathering.
*August 29 – Topic: Restorative Healing, Evolved Nest Component 2
September 5 – Praxis Gathering.
*September 12 – Topic: Free Play, Evolved Nest Component 3
September 19 – Praxis Gathering.
*September 26 – Topic: Responsive Relationships, Evolved Nest Component 4
October 3 – Praxis Gathering.
*October 10 – Topic: Positive Touch, Evolved Nest Component 5
October 17 – Praxis Gathering.
*October 24 – Topic: Welcoming Social Climate, Evolved Nest Component 6
October 31 – Praxis Gathering.
*November 7 – Topic: Multiple Mutual Nurturers, Evolved Nest Component 7
November 14 – Praxis Gathering.
*November 21 – Child-Directed Breastfeeding, Evolved Nest Component 8
November 28 – Praxis Gathering.
*December 5 – Soothing Perinatal Experiences, Evolved Nest Component 9
December 12 – Praxis Gathering.
TBD: Graduation Session.
discover the emerging wisdom of our evolved nest
Nesting Ambassador Field Reports
Discovering the Lived Versus the Learning Experience of Humanity’s Evolved Nest
Few humans have a lived experience of our Evolved Nest. Some have witnessed remnants of a lived, whole Evolved Nest presenting today as siloed, marginalized
Integrating The Holistic Science Of The Evolved Nest: Self, Scholarship, And Teaching
Integrating The Holistic Science Of The Evolved Nest: Self, Scholarship, And Teaching In this Nesting Ambassador presentation and discussion, Jill Brown shares her extensive research
Applied Connection Practices Within The Evolved Nest: With Jon Young And Sarah Fontaine
Jon Young and Sarah Fontaine, Certified Nesting Ambassadors, share their lifelong work and insight into Nature Connection. In this presentation to Nesting Ambassadors, Jon says,
Integrating Evolved Nest Science Into Systemic Family Therapy
Integrating Evolved Nest Science Into Systemic Family Therapy: Tracey Johnston and Peter Robinson By Peter Robinson, Psychotherapist My name is Peter Robinson. I’m a
Integrating Evolved Nest Science Into Nature And Art Therapy, With Kathrine Cays
“When we begin to experience ourselves as necessary members of a living web rather than isolated individuals working on “problems,” our work, whatever that is, becomes a lived experience as intended from the beginning.” – Kathrine Cays
Cathy Myers on Bringing to Life the Evolved Nest
In this Nesting Ambassador Praxis Gathering, Cathy Myers of the venerable nonprofit, Family and Home Network, shares her four decades of public policy education and
“We are immersed in species-atypical spaces growing species-atypical human beings. Our baselines for what we think is normal have shifted so much we do not realize how atypical we are. Atypical environments leave us dysregulated, easily upset, and disruptive. Species-typical childhoods nurture a healthy neurobiology, sociality, and compassionate morality. Species-typicality, our evolved nest, is needed for species and planetary wellbeing.”
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.
Get Involved, Create Community
Join our private, dedicated social media platform on Mighty Networks at Kindred Community! Find Trance-breakers, Wayfinders, and New Cycle Makers. Receive notices of LIVE discussions. You will need to prove you are not a robot to join.
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.
What People Are Saying About Kindred World's Nonprofit Vision
