Dear Kindred,

Thank you for sharing your uplifting Statements of Impact on our Great Nonprofit page this fall! As a vision-holder for cultural transformation, Kindred World's success as a change making organization is dependent upon our supporters "getting" the meta view, the enormity of the challenges we're faced with as a human family. In effect, we're building the airplane while we're flying it.

Twenty-five years ago, in the middle of America's 50 year fall to the bottom of all international indices for health and wellness, Kindred World's founders decided to focus our nonprofit work upstream. (See our timeline here.) While most nonprofits are creating impact statements based on short-term, downstream goals, our vision of a Wisdome-based, Wellness-informed Society means we are dependent upon you – Trance-Breakers,Wayfinders, New Cycle Makers, Cultural Creatives, and Imaginal Cells – to share your Statements of Impact with us.b

This year, you told us in monthly live calls, emails, posts in Kindred Community, and on our Great Nonprofit page that you see, hear, appreciate, and utilize our work in your own transformational work in your homes, schools, universities, and churches. You also told us how much you appreciate that our materials and events are free to use and share. We hope to continue for another 25 years, and with your financial support, we will.

With our upstream vision in mind, please consider supporting our work on Giving Tuesday. If you do, we will send you a beautifully created collection of Darcia's essays on Kinship Worldview and Wisdom in PDF form.

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 fall'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

editor@kindredmedia.org

Read and share this letter from the editor on Kindred.

Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for a LIVE discussion of the book,

 The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children

and Creating Connected Communities

and the new short film of the same name and a sequel to 

Breaking the Cycle and prequel to  Reimagining Humanity.

December 6 at 5 p.m. ET

REGISTER

Read the foreword to the new book by Gabor Mate, MD, here.

Read the first chapter of the new book here.

WATCH the new Evolved Nest short film before the meeting here.

This post is a follow-up to Suzanne Zeedyk’s video presentation on ACES and Attachment Awareness in Scotland to the Kindred Fellowship Program in June 2022 and Kindred’s feature with her in 2020. A summary of the same themes and insights from her KFP video presentation appear in a paper Suzanne disseminated to the public this fall.  First published in a professional journal in 2021, the paper is entitled “The Sciences of ACES and Attachment: Their Shared History in Scotland”. You can download the paper here, and read the overview and watch her video presentation below.

Why are Suzanne’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.

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.

Kindred Community is a safe, kind, and vetted space to engage and connect with our Kindred Community through Mighty Networks!

This platform is ad-free, algorithm-free, and owned by us. You can download the app to the network and post and stay up-to-date with group discussions, research, and upcoming events.