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Kindred World’s Ecology of Strategic Initiatives and Projects

Wholeness, Worldview & Wisdom. Kindred has been sharing the “New Story of Childhood, Parenthood and the Human Family” as a global, alternative media platform, emergent praxis, and story hub for two decades.  As a nonprofit educational outreach initiative of the award-winning 501C3 nonprofit, Kindred World, we are committed to finding and presenting those leading human evolution from the future. We provide an online immersion experience into the New Story for readers who are seeking the practical wisdom and soul-lifting inspiration for trance-breaking, village making, weaving, new cycle making, and wayfinding.

Kindred readers, according to social scientists Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, are Cultural Creatives. Our challenge in transforming our worldview and culture are supported by Kindred World’s ecology of strategic initiatives and projects. Learn more about Kindred World’s quarter century of service to humanity on the Kindred World website.

Kindred World’s Ecology of Initiatives and Projects Include:

Kindred Magazine: Sharing the New Story

Evolved Nest Initiative: The Home of the Science of the Evolved Nest

Nested World: The Home of the Nesting Ambassador Program

Worldview Literacy Project: Resources for Shifting Your Worldview

Parenting as a Hero’s Journey: A Wisdom Teaching Collection

The Nested World Film and Evolved Nest Film Trilogies

 

How Kindred Magazine Began

In 2002, Kelly Wendorf began publishing the world’s first eco-parenting magazine called byronchild in Australia. Four years later, due to its success and positive endorsements, byronchild relaunched as Kindred magazine. In 2009, Kindred stopped publishing as a print magazine, and moved to an exclusively online format as an initiative of the  award-winning and venerable American nonprofit, Kindred World.

Today, Kindred Magazine is proud to archive hundreds of the magazine’s timeless articles as well as host an ongoing cyberspace gathering and revolutionary party. Kindred’s former US Contributing Editor, Lisa Reagan, and her national nonprofit, Kindred World, are carrying forward Kindred’s vision of connecting our human family around virtual campfires to author our new story of wholeness, worldview & wisdom, in a complex and evolving world.

The Mission and Vision

Kindred  Magazine and Community serves as a gathering place for families to explore and share their experiences of writing a new story of childhood, motherhood, fatherhood and the ever changing and evolving adventure of being fully human. Kindred Magazine explores social, political, spiritual, global and environmental issues. Kindred also recognizes the inherent importance and worth of our shared custodianship of the future of our world through our children, not only as parents but also as members of the human family. We support the quest of conscious parenting through considering the needs of children and parents within a world that is rapidly changing. Understanding that there are immense forces through which we direct our lives and make our own choices for ourselves and our children, Kindred respects each parent’s unique journey and the choices made along the way. We understand that there is no formula for meeting each person’s individual challenges and therefore trust each parent’s innate ability to know and intuit what is right for their child, for themselves and their families.

Our Readers

Kindred readers are thoughtfully exploring the disintegration of the Old Story, the emergence of a New Story and the space we, as Cultural Creatives, now occupy between these stories. Kindred readers trust our belief that the human reach for wholeness as individuals and in community is always happening, even if we can’t find that story shouted from the 24 hour droning mainstream media – which is why Kindred exists! We’re here to serve you.  Please contact us with your questions at info@KindredMedia.org.

Find out more about Kindred readers and Cultural Creatives in Lisa Reagan’s interview with social scientist Paul Ray, PhD, in Same Planet, Different Worlds.

 

Why We Need A New Story

For over 20 years, Kindred Magazine and its sister initiatives have been exploring this New Story from the ground up, in grassroots’ communities, and from the top down, with frontier science researchers and social changemakers.  Kindred’s nonprofit work has been led by diverse and brave humans who have sought out insight and solutions to shifting their own awareness from the limits of the Old Story to the practical wisdom for conscious living emerging from a New Story.

This New Story comes with its own language, phrases like Cultural Creatives, Grounded Expansion, Mindful Parenting, and the Ecology of the Child. You can see our collection of New Story language, the New Story Glossary, at Kindred here.

What is needed at this time is a gathering place, a sanctuary, created with great compassion and willingness to call upon our imaginations, to engage in open dialogue, to create community and to identify resources that support an adventurous exploration of holistic, peaceful and sustainable living.

Kindred has served as a critical cultural catalyst in the conscious parenting movement in America. We served as a vital emergent praxis platform to translate, amplify, and integrate the work of researchers, clinicians, Indigenous wisdom keepers, and parents into an accessible, grassroots parenting revolution. Kindred contributes uniquely to the visibility and legitimacy of conscious, attachment-based, holistic, and sovereignty-affirming parenting models.

Kindred is supporting the critical need to re-imagine and rebuild our world.

 

What Is Kindred’s Impact?

Kindred Magazine, as a nonprofit alternative media platform, plays a crucial role in shaping and sharing what it calls the “new story of the human family.” Its impact can be seen across several key areas:

Kindred challenges dominant societal narratives that emphasize competition, separation, and materialism by promoting a holistic, interconnected vision of humanity. It brings attention to how early life experiences, conscious parenting, and social structures influence well-being.

By sharing research and stories on attachment parenting, holistic child development, and indigenous wisdom, Kindred helps parents, caregivers, and educators make informed choices that align with the biological and emotional needs of children.

Kindred integrates insights from neuroscience, epigenetics, psychology, and ancestral knowledge, providing a platform for discussions that merge modern scientific understanding with traditional wisdom about human connection and thriving.

The platform supports social movements that seek to transform education, healthcare, and environmental policies by providing information that challenges mainstream, corporate-driven narratives. It encourages readers to become advocates for systemic change.

Rather than reinforcing fear-based, scarcity-driven media, Kindred fosters hope, resilience, and cooperative solutions for future generations. By reframing how we see human relationships and society, it contributes to a more compassionate and sustainable world.

In essence, Kindred Magazine’s impact lies in its ability to inspire and empower individuals, families, and communities to embrace a more interconnected, conscious, and thriving human experience.

 

Meet Kindred Magazine’s Editor and Kindred World’s Founder, Lisa Reagan

On a Mother (of a) Quest for 23 years as an award-winning journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, Lisa Reagan explores the space between our unsustainable, industrial Old Story and the emerging New Story of what is possible for Cultural Creative families – who are listening to their children, while envisioning and exploring the way forward.

Lisa’s interviews with conscious parenting thought leaders, collaborations with organizational partners, and the creation of parent support programs over 23 years is available on the Kindred Media site as a living wisdom archive and oral history chronicles.

She is a co-founder of the nonprofit Kindred World and the executive editor of Kindred. Her unrelenting passion for our home planet, Earth, and her belief in the unfolding capacities for our human family drive her vision for Kindred, but it is her beloved community of friends, family, and fellow activists who have made the Mother (of a) Quest, below, possible and joyful.

Read Lisa’s full bio, and current projects, here.

Listen to her podcasts and read her features on Kindred here.