Kindred’s nonprofit partner, Local Futures, has launched The Bristol Conversations – a podcast and video series featuring Helena Norberg Hodge in deep, soulful dialogue with global changemakers. The first interview in the series begins with Kindred World’s president, Darcia Narvaez. The Bristol Conversations mini-series is based on the filmed discussions that Helena had with Darcia and other presenters at Badminton, after the Summit in Bristol, in 2024. Check out Darcia’s post about this event here.
Watch the discussion below, where Helena asks Darcia to help us envision: What does the Great Awakening Look like in human relationships?
Tune into Local Futures for more stories of hope, inspiration, action, and reflection in the series over the coming months.
About the Interview
Local Futures kicks off the Bristol Conversation series with Darcia Narvaez. Darcia is professor emerita of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She studies morality, child development and human flourishing, and she does so by integrating disciplines like anthropology, neuroscience, developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. Helena, in turn, holds a very compatible perspective on human development thanks to her learnings from many years spent in the indigenous culture of Ladakh.
Their conversation explores who we really are as human beings and the kind of supports we need to develop healthily. They show how so-called ‘human nature’ itself is molded by the economy and culture, and give anecdotes that illuminate some fundamental differences between modern Western (i.e. globalized) culture and more land-based communal cultures. How deep does the damage of disconnection go in the modern world? And how might we begin to reverse that damage through care, touch, play and vulnerability?
Learn more about our Evolved Nest in Darcia’s post and podcasts on Kindred. Check out the Evolved Nest Learning Center for more on the science of our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing.
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