Welcoming Spring and the Renewal It Brings...
Dear Kindred,
As I've shared in past posts, it’s always a good idea to remember that Spring celebrations in ancient traditions and mythologies surrounded the ascent of deities, like Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, to the upper world where the work of integrating shadow and light begins a new cycle of growth. In more recent history, Yeshua ascends to Christ Consciousness after his resurrection. The teaching at the core of these stories of rebirth can be missed if we’re focused on chocolate rabbits and hiding Easter eggs, but as our recent Breaking the Cycle group mused, without the experience of wholeness – awareness of our shadow and light through discernment – wisdom is not possible.
In our Breaking the Cycle gatherings, we hear from people around the world who are naming and noticing in their own homes and communities what does and does not support life, bring joy, and foster wellbeing. These monthly Zoom calls provide evidence that there are more of us than we know dedicated to the humble work of moving ourselves toward wholeness. There is more courage and strength remaining in these times in ourselves and others who are unflinchingly intent on extracting all that can be learned from our unsustainable Dominant Worldview before transmuting this experience of wholeness into the wisdom needed for a New Cycle.
In this issue of Kindred, our family of contributors are offering kind and compassionate guidance for moving with awareness from our individual and collective shadow into the light of our full potential as a human family (see the curated content below). We’re especially interested in creating sustainable humans (children who do not need to recover from their childhoods), and grateful to feature the award-winning science of Darcia Narvaez's Evolved Nest.
Did you know? For 25 years, Kindred World’s nonprofit mission has been to explore and create a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. If you identify as a Trance-Breaker, New Cycle Maker, or Seeker, welcome home.
Warmly,
Lisa Reagan
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See the Evolved Nest's Short Film - Breaking the Cycle! |
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Below is your invitation to LIVE discussion about Breaking the Cycle, the Evolved Nest's short film, with Darcia Narvaez, PhD, and Lisa Reagan.
"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 United States, the opposite pattern is in place—children’s basic needs are not met and ill-being and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachment going. Not surprisingly from a transdisciplinary perspective on childhood adversity and its effects, the United Nations ranks the United States as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.
See the Evolved Nest's six minute film and discover resources, including a film guide and a Spanish version of the film, at www.breakingthecyclefilm.org
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Featured PODCAST & RESOURCE |
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Why Do Babies Need A Bill Of Rights? |
In this podcast, Lisa Reagan talks with Darcia Narvaez about the science behind the Evolved Nest’s new Baby Bill of Rights poster, available here. In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood. However, as Darcia explains in this interview, children’s basic needs are not the basic needs of babies. A Baby’s Bill of Rights are really the baby’s basic needs for brain, immune system, and even spiritual development (nature connection). If these basic needs aren’t meet when a baby’s biology expects them to be met, we are looking at a lifetime of compensating for these deficiencies as adults.
The Baby’s Bill of Rights was first presented in the academic book, Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential, by Darcia in 2018. The 14 rights of babies presented on the poster reflect the science of the nine components of our Evolved Nest – a few components were broken down into smaller parts. You can listen to Darcia discuss each of these baby’s rights in the podcast interview. Visit the Evolved Nest’s Learning Center to discover more about our nine components for lifelong wellbeing.
In this interview, you will learn:
- Why a Baby’s Bill of Rights is needed.
- Why is the Baby’s Bill of Rights speaking to communities and not parents?
- How is a baby’s developmental needs different from a child’s needs?
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How does a Baby’s Bill of Rights contribute to the creation of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society?
- What is the science behind each of the rights? Darcia shares these insights in the interview.
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By Darcia Narvaez, PhD
How do we grow a healthy organism? We provide the kind of environment that helps the entity thrive. Whether a Ficus house plant, a Doberman puppy, fermenting homemade beer, the environment must provide what the organism has evolved to expect—if it is going to turn out well. We accept the basic needs of plant, puppy, and beer and we humble ourselves to those needs. Babies deserve the same; babies are not machines.
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This One Spiritual Principle Can Dramatically Shift Your Relationships |
By Kelly Wendorf
Right relationship does not mean everything is rosy and wonderful. It means it’s honest and upright. You can have right relationship with someone you’ve chosen never to see again. You can have right relationship to a set of circumstances that you will never enter into. Your decision to not be in relationship to someone or something, if it is in alignment with your integrity, is to be in right relationship to them or it. Right relationship to cancer might be to surrender to its reality and find the right doctors. Right relationship to an ex-partner may mean to forgive yourself finally for the relationship’s failure. Right relationship to an in-law may mean to give up expectations that they accept you.
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Ancient Wisdom for Modern World: Do You Remember? |
By Pegi Eyers
It can be very challenging, if not impossible, to assume that we can reclaim our Indigeneity as European peoples. The trail is very cold, Empire building has been going on for a very long time, and we may have to reach back in time to find pre-colonial societies. But the good news is, that fragments of paganism and animism have been kept alivethrough the centuries in every European country, and this knowing has been passed down to us today, or we would not have the capacity right now to understand ourselves as earth-connected people. Deep-time knowing continues to live on in our dreams, in our souls, in our creativity, in our hearts, and even in our DNA as ancestral memories. As we revive our traditional practices – the songs, dances, foods, medicines, folk magic, ceremonies, and worldviews of our European ancestors – it is helpful to develop a foundation of pre-colonial animist or Indigenous Mind, that we may embrace as we continue on our path to cultural revival.
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Using CAT-FAWN “De-Hypnotizing” Technology: Four Arrows On Trance-Based Self-Learning |
This interview with Four Arrows provides for an overview of this breakthrough method for communications, collaboration, peak performance and shared experience for executives, entrepreneurs and professionals in the Creator Economy.
Unlike mindset-based programs, MTBL offers a unique worldview orientation which provides greater alignment with reality and support for the practitioner.
This program is based on decades of research and practice by Four Arrows, an Indigenous worldview scholar, hypno-therapist and performance coach to world champion athletes, and developed into a shared experience for the business setting by David Larson Levine.
CAT-FAWN, a mnemonic for “Concentration Activated Transformation” and “Fear Authority Words Nature,” cap be applied to increase revenue, improve performance, and foster teamwork.
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What a Difference a Decade Makes |
Internationally recognized breastfeeding and attachment parenting advocate, Jamie Grumet, revisits her iconic, culture-normalizing breastfeeding cover for TIME Magazine’s centennial celebration issue, A Century of Impact, in March 2023. The TIME Magazine special issue features the iconic 2012 cover of Jamie Grumet and her son, Aram, on their centennial celebration cover in March 2023. The commemorative cover image features at least one cover from each of the last 100 years. The 144 images were selected from the more than 5,000 issues. Jamie and Aram are in the bottom right.
“Attachment parenting itself has been a lot more normalized in the past ten years, and so has breastfeeding. You see breastfeeding toddlers all the time. We now have breastfeeding shoots attached to newborn shoots. The fact that breastfeeding is part of a mainstream photography package now is kind of neat.
“There are so many different issues that the cover brought up. Specifically, the subjugation of women and society trying to control women’s bodies. Trying to tell women how to parent, but then we don’t support them in doing that. A lot of those issues aren’t just about breastfeeding. It’s a lot deeper than that,” said Jamie.
On her Modern Attachment Parenting website, and in the book of the same name, Jamie corrects the controversial headline: “While our modern village is ‘not enough,’ parents are, in fact, enough.”
Jamie is a Kindred World board member. See the 100 Years of Impact TIME cover and read more here.
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The Evolved Nest: Natures Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities |
By Darcia Narvaez and G.A. Bradshaw
Foreword by Gabor Mate, MD
A beautiful resource for nature advocates, parents-to-be, animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives.
Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal’s parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their “evolved nests.” You’ll learn:
- How Gorillas Build an internal moral compass
- How Elephants foster a spirit of play in their children
- How Octopuses work through early life stressors and traumas
- How, when, and whether (or not) Brown Bears decide to have children
- What their lessons can teach you--whether you’re a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or childfree
Psychologists Drs. Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw show us how each evolved nest offers inspiration for reexamining our own systems of nurturing, understanding, and caring for our young and each other. Alongside beautiful illustrations, stunning scientific facts, and lessons in evolutionary biology, we learn to care deeper: to restore our innate place within the natural world and fight for an ecology of life that supports our flourishing in balance with nature alongside our human and non-human family.
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March Is Birth Psychology Month! |
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In celebration of Birth Psychology Month, Kindred is happy to share with you from our Wisdom Archives our interview with perinatal psychology pioneer, Thomas Verny, MD.
In this interview, Dr. Verny shares the meaning behind his well-known quote, “Womb Ecology Becomes World Ecology” and his hope for continued social and public policy change to support pregnant mothers and babies.
Kindred is a proud partner of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, APPPAH. Discover our collection of birth psychology posts and podcasts here.
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Nurturing Begins Before Birth |
By Darcia Narvaez
Lots of people seem to think that an offspring is a bunch of genes that just have to grow up, that a baby is born with a personality and you just have to put up with the inconvenience of their immaturity till they get big and out of your hair. This is the factory model of understanding babies: everything is determined behind the doors of genetic formation. Parents just have to feed and keep safe the product. Even some researchers have regarded prenatal development only as a matter of rapid physical growth with its age-related related reflexes (Hopkins & Johnson, 2005).
As our ancestors intuited and science confirms, this is a hugely mistaken orientation.
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Join Four Arrows and Restoring the Kinship Worldview on Global Bildung Day! |
Starts March 21st at 8:30 p.m. ET
Join Four Arrows on Restoring the Kinship Worldview, his book with Darcia, at the international, virtual Global Bildung Day, March 21!
The Global Bildung Network promotes an approach to living for the 21st century and beyond. The term “Bildung” is a German word, popular in 19th-century German philosophy, that does not translate easily into English but refers roughly to a combination of life-long education, personal character formation, moral development, and maturation. An important aspect of the Bildung movement involves incorporating ideas, practices, and sensibilities from indigenous populations that promote harmony with nature and peaceful human relations. Twice a year on the equinoxes, the Global Bildung Network conducts an online 24-hour Global Bildung Day event that begins in East Asia and ends in the Americas. The North American session, which starts on March 21 at 8:30 PM Eastern time, 5:30 PM Pacific time, features Four Arrows, whose topic will be “Restoring the Indigenous worldview in a globalizing world.”
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The Parental Brain 1.0 Summit |
March 27 - 30, 2023
Join Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World's president, at this free event. This is the first ever summit focused on the parental brain and what we can do to help it thrive. Every presentation is focused on some aspect that is important in the transition to parenthood, and how to apply it to your practice.
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The Wellness-Informed Pathway: Our Evolved Nest and the Importance of Touch |
June 7 - 8, 2023
Darcia Narvaez will be presenting at this event. Here her abstract: Our species’ evolved nest is designed to meet the basic needs of children as part of a wellness-informed pathway. Components include soothing perinatal experience, extensive on-request breastfeeding and affectionate touch, multiple caregivers who provide responsive care and a welcoming climate, self-directed social play in the natural world, and routine healing practices. Positive touch is particularly important in the first few years of life to shape a child’s neurobiology towards a trajectory of health and wellbeing.
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Kindred World Welcomes New Board Members |
Kindred World is proud to welcome four new members to our nonprofit's board of directors. You can see our full board here, and learn more about Kindred World's vision for a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society here.
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