Nested World for Maternal Gift Economy with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan
A Video Presentation of the Nested World Initiative and Nesting Ambassador Program
Salon #88 – Nested World for Maternal Gift Economy
with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan
November 15, 2025
The world is deeply in need of nested nurturing, which is what each of us expected in babyhood and childhood. The maternal gift economy is the origin of the evolved nest, shaping human nature and communities. Nestedness is needed throughout life and can be restored by each of us. Nested World.org offers tools and pathways to wellness and world transformation. Listen to the co-founders of the new Nested World Initiative and Nesting Ambassador Program share the insights of humanity’s evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, and how mutliple nonprofit initiatives and projects, including the new Nesting Ambassador program, are integrating our ancestral wisdom with transdisciplinary science to bring to life our evolved nest.
Join Letecia Layson, Genevieve Vaughn, Lisa Reagan, Darcia Narvaez and the audience of the Maternal Gift Economy’s 88th’s Salon to learn more about the new Nested World Initiative and Nesting Ambassador Program. The Maternal Gift Economy is a nonprofit partner and collaborator of Kindred World. Visit the Maternal Gift Economy’s website.
The Nesting Ambassador Program is accepting applications for the 2026 Cohorts at this time. Visit www.NestedWorld.org to learn more.
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About the Maternal Gift Economy
Drawing on Maternal Gift Economy theory, the suppressed wisdom of women, and the traditions and ethics of Indigenous societies, this integrated programme of presentations sponsored by the International Feminists for a Gift Economy Network will offer new insights, perspectives, and challenges to the underlying market-based mentality of the dominant world order.
In this time of crisis and systemic upheaval, the model of the Maternal Gift Economy on which our survival depends at the beginning of life, is being revealed and celebrated. The interdependence of all living beings can now be made visible and honored.
Mother Earth provides the model of an economy based on gifting that we receive as young children from our nurturers—before we are alienated into market exchange. We must make the transition from the exploitive Euro-American patriarchal/dominating and capitalistic ideology to a gift-based economy and culture grounded in the values of nurturing and care rather than competition and greed.
We invite you to join us in exploring the possibilities in this series of presentations and dialogues that bring together those who have been laboring to articulate the principles of the Maternal Gift Economy, protect Indigenous values, and practice peaceful and just community building. The time is now for all humans to cooperate rather than compete. Please join us!
About the Presenters
Darcia Narvaez
Ranked in the top two percent of scientists worldwide in 2020 and recipient of multiple awards for her work developing the science of the Evolved Nest, Narvaez’s transdisciplinary, holistic lens into how we create a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World is bringing coherence and empowerment to a new story of the human family.
Narvaez was the recipient of the 2024 American Psychology Association’s Division 24 Presidential Citation Award. Read the press release here.
Watch the Evolved Nest’s trilogy of films, narrated by Dr. Narvaez, and discover their resources for personal and cultural transformation here.
Read Darcia’s full bio, publications, and academic scholarship here.
Lisa Reagan
For over 20 years, Lisa Reagan, through Kindred World, has served as a synthesizer, translator, storyteller, and amplifier of human consciousness research, especially where it intersects with wellness, wholeness, and worldview transformation. She has been instrumental in integrating consciousness science into lived experience and advancing discussions around the importance of cultural transformation, nurturing, empathetic parenting practices, and the broader implications these practices have for society. Lisa is the founder of Kindred World and editor of Kindred Magazine. Read her full bio here.
Kindred World operates as a platform for sharing knowledge, research, theory, and the emergent praxis that aligns with these values, offering a space for individuals to connect and learn from each other on their journey toward creating healthier family dynamics and communities. Kindred World’s nonprofit vision, stewarded by Lisa Reagan and Darcia Narvaez, reveals consciousness is not only an individual process, but a collective, cultural, and relational one— rooted in early life, family, ecological awareness, and Indigenous knowledge.
