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Welcome Trance-breakers, Wayfinders, New Cycle Makers, Stewards, Weavers, and Nurturers!
Kindred World began as a grassroots, consciousness-raising organization of parents and professionals in 1996, twenty-five years into America’s decline to the bottom of all international indicators for family, maternal, and child health. After a total fifty-year race to last place of every family wellness indicator, today, Kindred World’s mission and vision are more relevant and important than ever.
Kindred World was inspired by a collective, living consciousness-raising movement begun by many researchers, practitioners, authors, parents, and activists to bring attention to America’s dramatic abandonment of babies, children, mothers, fathers, and family wellness. Our expansive Wisdom Archives, Oral History Series, and Wisdom Teaching Collections, represent the efforts of thousands to turn America away from an unsustainable Cycle of Competitive Detachment and toward a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed Society. We are still working to this end, guided by a strategic vision and mission, and the award-winning Evolved Nest research of Darcia Narvaez. Today, Kindred World’s quarter century of investigating and sharing a New Story of Our Human Family is a blazed path to wholeness and wellness ready for others to follow.
If you are “Following The Call” to work with like-heartminded souls to re-imagine humanity, take some time to investigate our many offerings and opportunities for you to get involved with us in Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World.
Watch Lisa Reagan and Darcia Narvaez share the historical context of Kindred’s nonprofit work, involving hundreds of contributors over decades, to result in Kindred World’s newest integrative initiative: the Nested World Initiative, home of the Nesting Ambassadors Program. Learn how to become a Nesting Ambassador here.
Discover Kindred World’s Ecology of Strategic Initiatives and Projects
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
Meet the Wayfinders: An Oral History Series
Be A Part Of Kindred Magazine’s Impact
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
Kindred Magazine, as a nonprofit alternative media platform and emergent praxis, 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:
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1. Redefining Cultural Narratives
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.
2. Supporting Conscious Parenting & Early Childhood Development
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.
3. Bridging Science and Wisdom Traditions
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.
4. Empowering Social Change & Advocacy
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.
5. Nurturing a Regenerative and Cooperative Future
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. You are welcome to submit your ideas or articles for publication to editor@kindredmedia.org.
Follow and Subscribe to Our New Story on Kindred
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” – Socrates
Kindred has chronicled the breakthroughs and insights of the New Story of Our Human Family for over 20 years. Our wisdom archives and oral histories present and preserve this living, consciousness-raising movement’s efforts to help our human family thrive. Kindred is a collaboration of over 200 contributors and organizational partners who areWelcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed World. Subscribe to Kindred’s e-zine and the Evolved Nest science newsletters to join us in authoring a new and wondrous story for humanity.
Subscribe to receive Kindred Magazine’s issues by email here.
Subscribe to the Evolved Nest newsletter to follow Darcia Narvaez’s research into the Evolved Nest.
Watch the Nested World Film and Evolved Nest Trilogy
Reimagine your world in less than 30 minutes.
In the Nested World film, Darcia Narvaez introduces and expands on the messages of the trilogy of films created by the Evolved Nest Initiative over the past three years. The footage of Darcia introducing and exploring the films was shot on the beautiful campus at the University of Notre Dame in fall 2024. Kindred World is grateful to UND’s media officers for their help in staging the film shoot by Reagan Studios. Watch and find resources: The Nested World Film
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 USA, the opposite pattern is in place: children’s basic needs are not met, ill-being and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachmentgoing. The United Nations ranks the USA as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.
See film discussion guide and resources on this website, www.BreakingtheCycleFIlm.org
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children. From the immense Whale to the intriguing Octopus – all Animals share with humans brain structures and processes that give us the capacities for life’s rainbow of experiences: consciousness, thinking, feeling, loving, and dreaming. Perhaps most importantly, we share common ways of raising our young: what is called the evolved nest. Evolved nests are practices that nurture physical and psychological wellbeing. Each child is “nested” with mother, family, community, and the rest of Nature as one seamless whole. Passed from generation to generation over millions of years, each Animal’s nest has been perfected to meet and match the needs of their young. Nestedness is evolution’s way of ensuring that everyone thrives. Each Animal’s evolved nest shares basic similarities but also unique differences.
The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children is the second short film in a series that includes Reimagining Humanity and Breaking the Cycle. This short film in an accompaniment to the acclaimed book, The Evolved Nest, by Darcia Narvaez and G.A. Bradshaw.
Reimagining Humanity. The goal of this film is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.
Discover the sections of the short film, script, explanations, discussion questions, and bibliography at www.ReimaginingHumanity.org
Join our monthly LIVE Nested World discussions about the films, and the science of the Evolved Nest by registering for these events below, and on the front page of Kindred, and in our quarterly issues.
Join the Nested World LIVE Monthly Discussions
Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachmentand returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.
Discover dates and times for these live, monthly meetings by joining dedicated platform at Mighty Networks, www.KindredCommunity.org
Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for monthly LIVE discussion of the Evolved Nest Initiatives’s short films, Breaking the Cycle and Re-Imagining Humanity. You can watch the films and find resources, including a film guide on the Evolved Nest website.
Visit and Explore the Evolved Nest Learning Center
What is our Evolved Nest?
Children are biosocial creatures such that their biology is constructed by their social experience. The evolved nest or evolved developmental niche (EDN) is the ecological system of care provided by families, teachers and communities that aligns with the maturational schedule of the child, satiating the evolved needs of infants and children, allowing them to flourish and develop compassionate spiritualities. The EDN consists of soothing gestation and birth, on-request extensive breastfeeding and positive moving touch (no negative touch), a welcoming social climate, self-directed play with multiple aged mates, warmly responsive nurturing from mother and others, nature immersion and connection, and healing practices to repair miscommunication or hurts. Well-nested children and adults demonstrate social and moral flexibility, adapting to situations and others with emotional and spiritual intelligence.
You will find links to each of the nine components of humanity’s Evolved Nest in this learning center that features Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning research.
You will also find here the checklists for nested early childhood, childhood, and adulthood. This self-directed, virtual learning center is still growing, so be sure to subscribe to the Evolved Nest’s monthly newsletter to keep up with our additions!
Visit the Evolved Nest Learning Center.
Join Kindred Community’s Mighty Network’s Platform
Welcome seekers, trance-breakers, thought leaders, change makers, social change artists, artivists, accelerators and cultural creatives! Kindred’s Community Forums and Salons are where we can learn, share, and grow together with like-minded individuals and groups who want to be a part of something greater than ourselves. In this safe space on Mighty Networks, we want to hear about YOUR skills, organization, community story, and mastery of some aspect of social change. Please tell us your story when you join!
By joining the Kindred Community Mighty Networks platform, you are agreeing to model nonviolent communication, kindness, and curiosity. Please take a moment to introduce yourself when you join.
We are happy to offer this safe space without the distractions of ads, or algorithms deciding for you what you will see.
Join Kindred Community at Mighty Networks.
Become a Nesting Ambassador
The Nested World website and ambassador program were launched on Kindred’s nonprofit partner, the Maternal Gift Economy’s, 88th Salon on November 15, 2025. A video presentation by Lisa Reagan, Kindred World founder, and Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World president, share the history and foundation of Kindred World’s consciousness-raising ecology of initiatives and projects from over two decades of nonprofit activism now integrating the award-winning science of the Evolved Nest and its Kinship Worldview.
Support Our Work and Independent Booksellers
Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world.
We believe local bookstores are essential community hubs that foster culture, curiosity, and a love of reading, and we’re committed to helping them thrive.
Every purchase on the site financially supports independent bookstores. Our platform gives independent bookstores tools to compete online and financial support to help them maintain their presence in local communities.
The books in our Kindred World BookShop have been curated for you. Send your suggestions for books to include to Hello(a)KindredWorld.org. Visit the Kindred World Bookshop here.
Kindred’s Wisdom Archives
During America’s slide to the bottom of all international wellness indicators during the past 50 years, a grassroots movement of researchers, scientists, practitioners, parents, caregivers, and activists served the human family, pioneered new fields of science and advocated for nurturing our species as a way to create sustainable humans.
Here are Kindred’s most impactful interviews, podcasts, and features with Wayfinders, Trance-breakers, and New Cycle Makers.
Learn more about America’s last place rankings for international health indicators, and Kindred’s quarter century history of educating and empowering families, on our About Us page.
Visit Kindred’s Wisdom Archives.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kindred a parenting magazine?
Source: Darcia Narvaez
No. Kindred was founded by Kelly Wendorf as the first global eco-parenting magazine in 2002 in Byron Bay, Australia. Over the past two decades, Kindred’s vision for our human family evolved into a whole systems worldview. We look at issues from top down, how systems and stories perpetuate a mythology of rugged individualism in Western Culture. And from the bottom up – how can we create sustainable, compassionate human beings from the beginning of life.
As Kindred World’s president, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, founder of the Evolved Nest, writes, “In an individualistic society like the USA, it is sometimes hard to realize that disconnection is contrary to the evolution of our species. We evolved to develop well when supported within a network of connections. Here is an ‘ecological systems theory’ that helps explain why we are all so miserable, and suggestions for what we can do.”
You can read more about The Layers of Structures That Support Individuals and Families here.
You can find out more about our Evolved Nest and its baselines for lifelong human thriving here on Kindred, and on the initiative’s website.
Why is your site different?
Maybe you’ve noticed something about Kindred’s website by now. We do not have ads on the website. As a holistic nonprofit, we understand the importance of your experience here. We understand that the digital world can be brutal on our most valuable possession: our attention. We’re not interested in making you run through a gauntlet of flashing or distracting advertisement. We’re interested in helping you find the information and inspiration you want.
As an educational nonprofit, we are dependent upon our reader and donor support. Please consider contributing your tax-deductible donation here. You are also welcome to find other ways to support our work here.
Read over 125 five-star reviews of our nonprofit work on the Great Nonprofits’ website here.
Learn More About Our Grassroots History
You can visit our About Us page here, to learn more about the founding of Kindred World a quarter century ago and in the middle of America’s 50-year fall to the bottom of all international indicators for children and adult health and wellness. As the only developed nation, and one of six developed and undeveloped nations, to not support mothers and babies after birth with an appropriate amount of time for recovery and bonding necessary for infant brain development and maternal mental health, America is perpetuating a Cycle of Competitive Detachment, an epidemic of mental illness and violence, and maternal and infant morbidity rates. At Kindred, we have explored the path out of this cycle and toward healing and wholeness with hundreds of contributors, thought leaders, researchers, and activists. Here are a few resources to help you discover our history as a nonprofit, and our vision for creating a Wellness-Informed Society.
Watch the New Story of Childhood, Parenthood, and the Human Family presentation by Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s executive editor, to the prenatal students of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
In this presentation, Breaking the Cycle: The Grassroots History and Award-Winning Science Behind the New Film, Lisa Reagan shows how uniquely positioned Kindred has been to contribute to the grounded vision of the new Breaking the Cycle film and resources.
What have we learned in a quarter century of grassroots activism for family wellness? Discover our history and its context in America’s 50-year decline to the bottom of all developed nations’ health indices for wellness
So, How Do I Use This Website?
Kindred Media and Community is a nonprofit educational initiative of Kindred World. We are parents, professionals, grown children (by now) and seekers trying to wake ourselves from an enculturated trance. We are cycle breakers, new cycle makers. There is something here for you in this decades old treasure hoard, compiled for you by hundreds of contributors and editors. We hope you will allow yourself to spend time feeling what you are drawn to explore on the website, and let us know how it is going when you get stuck. Here’s a big button you can push to send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you. Happy seeking…
RESOURCES
Kindred has archived a variety of resources on our website from nearly 20 years of thought leader articles and interviews, activist reports, and editors committed to chronicling the Conscious Parenting Movement. Our website materials are used frequently in educational settings and with our blessing. Please contact us if you have requests or suggestions for more resource developments at info@kindredmedia.org.
POPULAR CATEGORIES
Our most popular post categories are below. Click on a category title to go to that collection. You are welcome to print out and share the articles with full attribution to the author and Kindred.
Breaking the Cycle Film
Breaking the Cycle illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.
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 USA, the opposite pattern is in place: children’s basic needs are not met, ill-being and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachment going. The United Nations ranks the USA as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.
Visit the website and discover the film guide and resources.
Watch and share the Spanish version of the film here.
KINDRED WISDOM ARCHIVES
During America’s slide to the bottom of all international wellness indicators during the past 50 years, a grassroots movement of researchers, scientists, practitioners, parents, caregivers, and activists served the human family, pioneered new fields of science and advocated for nurturing our species as a way to create sustainable humans. Here are Kindred’s interviews, podcasts, and features with a few of these wayfinders.
Learn more about America’s last place rankings for international health indicators, and Kindred’s quarter century history of educating and empowering families, on our About Us page.
Visit Kindred’s Wisdom Archives.
NEW STORY GLOSSARY
As an educational nonprofit and alternative media platform, Kindred’s mission is to Share the New Story of Childhood, Parenthood and the Human Family. This means attuning our efforts to stories and concepts as they emerge, as our new story needs new language! This New Story Glossary will help us navigate and author/become the authority of a narrative that serves our highest good, as interdependent and evolving individuals, families, communities, and nations.
The New Story Glossary terms appear throughout the website in articles. Readers can scroll over the terms to see a short definition or click on the term to visit the term’s page in the glossary.
You are welcome to contribute your terms to the glossary as well!
Visit the New Story Glossary.
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS
Kindred works with a number of sister-initiatives from our parent nonprofit, Kindred World, to create integrative, dynamic social media educational campaigns. Here are a few of our growing collection.
The Eco Attachment Dance
You, your children, your family are invited to discover ways to connect with nature, renew your ecological attachment, and restore your living connection to the Earth.
Dr. Darcia Narvaez and her students did an experiment to increase ecological attachment—nature connection—through small daily practices. Each day participants practiced one activity that increased attention to and being grateful for the natural world. See here for the press release about the study, published in EcoPsychology.
Take up the Eco Attachment Dance to expand your own ecological attachment through an Instagram challenge. Each day for 28 days an activity will be posted for you to practice that day. Each activity takes about 5 minutes (though you can go longer).
If you would like to take the anonymous pretest (and later a posttest) you can see how your attitudes and behaviors change after participating in the Eco Attachment Dance.
28 Days of Self-Calming
Why is it important to be calm and learning self-calming away from fear, panic, anxiety or anger? Fear, panic, anxiety and anger are survival-oriented emotions that we are born with but can take over our personality, making it hard to get along with others or even feel well. They are distressing emotions and can put us in mindsets that leave us vulnerable to harmful attitudes and behaviors toward ourselves or others. They are also not good for physical health as they promote inflammation, an underlying cause of many diseases.
These daily practices are intended to give you ways to calm yourself down. You may find that some work better than others. These are ones that you should continue to do.
There is a pre- and post-test available, as well as resources for further reading on self-calming practices.
Visit the webpage for the full 28 Days of Self-Calming campaign.
28 Days of Baby Care
NOTE: Babies are children under about age 2.5 years.
NOTE: The terms motherliness, mothering, mother love, good enough mothers refer to empathic care or nurturing that mothers and other adults can provide.
The Evolved Nest is happy to launch the 28 Day Baby Care campaign in celebration of Attachment Parenting Month, in October 2020. You can find out more about support for your attachment parenting choices on our Evolved Nest Components page, and on the Attachment Parenting International website.
There is a lot of misinformation about babies and their needs, and parents are often encouraged to ignore baby’s signals. Bad idea. Babies are “half-baked” at birth and have much to learn with the help of physical and emotional support from caregivers. Taking care of baby’s needs is an investment that pays off with a happier, healthier child and adult. Here are 28 days of reminders about babies and their needs.
The full 28 day card campaign can be found on the Evolved Nest’s website here under Self-Nesting Tools here.
PRINT MATERIALS
These are materials created to help you navigate between the Old and the New Story, and empower you to author your own story of wholeness. They are also intended to be practical, like the Child Care Check List from the Evolved Nest Initiative. Let us know what else you would like to see in this section at editor(at)kindredmedia.org.
Wordview Chart
Kindred’s Worldview Chart, designed by Four Arrows, author of The Red Road. This chart helps us to see, at a glance, the values and manifestations of our Western, Dominant Culture versus our original programming as an indigenous earth species, or our Indigenous Worldview. When we talk about authoring a New Story on Kindred, and how we’re living in the space between these stories at this time, Four Arrows worldview poster helps us to understand what we mean with words like decolonization and indigenization. You can read Four Arrows work discussing these terms on Kindred.
About the Worldview Chart
This chart is not intended as a rigid binary, but a true dichotomy best viewed as a continuum. It is meant to encourage seeking complementarity and dialogue. Absolutism is discouraged with the realization we are all participating in DW precepts to some degree. The chart assumes that all diverse cultures, religions, and philosophies can be grouped under one of the two worldviews. “Indigenous Worldview” does not belong to a race or group of people, but Indigenous cultures who still hold on to their traditional place-based knowledge are the wisdom keepers of this original Nature-based worldview. All people are indigenous to Earth and have the right and the responsibility to practice and teach the IW precepts. All have the responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and use of traditional lands.
For non-Indians who are concerned about misappropriation, see the peer reviewed article,
“The Indigenization Controversy: For Whom By Whom.”
Worldview Chart and introduction by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), a.k.a. Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Originally published in The Red Road (chanku luta): Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview, 2020. Featured inRestoring the Kindship Worldview, 2022, by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Find Four Arrows and more on Indigenous Worldview at www.KindredMedia.org
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Childcare Check List
We are excited to unveil Evolved Nest’s Child Care Center Checklist. The Checklist has been created to help parents and guardians determine how well a child care center matches up with the components of the Evolved Nest.
The checklist is intended to be supplemental to the other protocols a center has (e.g., infection prevention, abuse prevention, diaper change frequency).
Click here to access a PDF to download.
Please share widely.
Visit the Evolved Nest’s website.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES
Here are pages and pages of local, state, national and international resources to support your conscious living and conscious parenting choices. If you see a missing organization, please let us know at info@kindredmedia.org.