Dear Kindred,

What to do during the holiday break, and as our world braces for possibly the most pivotal year in human history? Let’s reimagine our world in less than 30 minutes with the Evolved Nest’s short film collection. See the film descriptions below and follow the links to watch them. Then register to join our live discussion with Darcia Narvaez on January 8 at 12 p.m. ET.

Below you will find highlights from 2023, dates for live discussions, and new resources introduced this year. Don't forget to join us on our dedicated platform at www.KindredCommunity.org.

We've created and shared many resources with you this year, and connected you with worldview-shifting, consciousness-raising Wayfinders, New Cycle Makers, and Trancebreakers. You've told us in our Great Nonprofit Reviews how much you rely on and appreciate our work, and that they are free of charge.

Please help us keep our materials coming in another banner year. With our upstream vision of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society in mind, please consider supporting our work with your year-end annual or monthly donation. If you do, we will send you a beautifully created collection of Darcia's essays, Moving Towards Kinship Worldview and Wisdom in PDF form (see more below).

Thank you for your companionship on our journey together. We look forward to seeing you in the coming year in our live gatherings and forthcoming virtual classroom programs. In the meantime, enjoy this year's highlights below, carefully curated to support our Interbeing and Interconnection as we plan another year of reimagining humanity.

Warmly,

Lisa Reagan

Kindred Media,Editor

Kindred World, Co-founder

[email protected]

Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for a discussion of the Evolved Nest's short films, Breaking the Cycle, the Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children, and Reimagining Humanity. Watch the films at www.EvolvedNest.org.

REGISTER for the January 9, 2024 at 12 noon ET discussion.

Bring your questions and insights to the live discussions!

Save the 2024 Dates!

January 9, 2024 at 12 noon ET - REGISTER

February 8, 2024 at 2 p.m. ET - REGISTER

March 20, 2024 at 4 p.m. ET - REGISTER

April 15, 2024 at 6 p.m. ET - REGISTER

May 14, 2024 at 8 p.m. ET - REGISTER

Read the foreword to the new book, The Evolved Nest,

by Gabor Mate, MD, here.

Read the first chapter of The Evolved Nest here.

By Lisa Reagan

Why are Suzanne Zeedyk's insights important to the emerging global wellness and trauma-informed movements? Because her work shows that when a relational approach (based in attachment science) exists as a frame for trauma-informed insights (ACES), cultural transformation possibilities are very real. In contrast, in cultures that are not relationally–informed, such as the United States, reactions to ACES’ trauma-informed science operate without the context/worldview needed to lead us toward wellbeing and wholeness.

Read the editorial.

By Stephanie Mines, PhD

In this interview you will travel an arc from acknowledgement of grief, despair, and paralysis so many of us feel in the face of climate change to a practical, assessable plan of action ground in regenerative healthcare practices that can activate your own Original Brilliance. As Stephanie shares, “As our inner climate becomes congruent with Original Brilliance then our activism at this juncture, when all of us are needed, is in integrity to our Original Brilliance.”

Listen to the podcast interview.

By Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Human sexuality is a complicated biological affair. There are both organizational and activational aspects that occur in utero and at puberty that affect post-puberty sexuality. Brain circuits and body appearance are influenced separately. As a result, the brain may be oriented one way but the body appear as the other gender. Brain circuits and body appearance are actual separable effects.

Read the post.

By Four Arrows

This comparison of the Palestinian struggle to that of the Indigenous peoples on the North American continent allows an understanding of the structures of power and domination that settler states share. Until we can realize that settler colonialism “destroys to replace” and that such destruction of cultures and the ecological systems the original inhabitants preserved, all of life on earth is doomed. If higher education fails the decolonial/Indigenizing movement that seek a healthy balance between the worldview precepts behind colonialism and those that guided us for 99% of human history, perhaps leaders will emerge to rebuild in ways that do not look like most of the post-apocalyptic movies I’ve watched that tend to start where we left off.

Read the post.

By Spring Cheng, PhD

As we more and more awaken the Healer within and enliven it with devotion, there is less and less victimhood. Instead, agency, power and sense of choice and responsibility arise. We may grow appreciative or even honored for these imprints that used to be called wounds. When that happens naturally (without forcing it to happen), the imprints, or the wounds are transformed into a personalized source of medicine available for the healer to perform healing in the world. 

Read the post.

By Jessica Carew Kraft

In a world filled with advanced technologies and conveniences, why would anyone want to learn the ancient skills of our ancestors, especially when a digital utopia seems imminent? Yet our bodies and brains are still fundamentally the same as those of early humans who lived as hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years.

Read the post.

By Jane Stevens

Understanding the science of childhood adversity opens the door to the change in mindset that occurs in healing, says Dave Lockridge, CEO of ACE Overcomers and a former pastor. People learn that:



• They weren’t born bad.
• They had no control over their childhoods.
• They coped with the stress of their ACEs understandably, given that they were not provided healthy alternatives. That coping includes drinking, violence, rage, over-eating, engaging in thrill sports, and addiction to sex, gambling, and shopping, among other coping mechanisms.
• They can change.

“Learning about the ACE Study showed them that they’re not crazy, that they’re not weak, that they were primed for choices and behaviors,” she says, “And now this knowledge gave them an opportunity to boost their esteem in a healthy way and to build in resilience.”

Read the post.

We’ve been creating and compiling Evolved Nest educational resources for you for six years! And now you can find them in an interactive PDF, organized by the nine components of our evolved nest. The 58-page PDF includes links to the many self-nesting tools, baby care campaigns, Evolved Nest Explained videos, and hundreds of posts, research articles, and podcasts with Darcia Narvaez, ENI’s founder and Kindred World’s president We’re grateful for the team of reviewers that carefully and conscientiously gave us feedback about this material and its final form before sharing it with you. We will be updating this curriculum PDF with more resources, but you can find it here now on the front page of the Evolved Nest website.

Watch Darcia's video introduction, and read the welcome and introduction to the curriculum here.

You're invited to join the newly forming Evolved Nest Book Club on our private social media platform at www.KindredCommunity.org. 

This book club is facilitated by volunteers and held in a protected space on Mighty Networks. A collection of materials and resources are provided, and Darcia will pop in when she can to answer questions. (The first chapter of the book is free online, so please purchase a copy.)

The book club will study the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Rasising Children and Creating Connected Communities.

Join the Evolved Nest Book Club.

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