Grounded Expansion

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See the story by Lisa Reagan describing the term here.

Below is an excerpt:

What new stories would be tell if our lives were informed by deep rootedness as well as a worldviewthat transcended cultural mayhem and degradation? How would our culturally programmed limited beliefs be easily transformed by a greater vision, a New Story of our Human Family if we, like the Mother Tree, became masters of Grounded Expansion? In human development, our rootedness in Life is developed by providing our Evolved Nest, our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing. And our innate Big Picture capacity our Evolved Nest provides makes possible our Kinship Worldview. We explore both of these concepts, and their practical individual and collective applications, at Kindred.

If you are feeling a need to stretch beyond the din of our current cultural contraction and move into a more expansive worldview, here are a few resources for you to explore.

Or, as Ents are still allies of the free peoples of Middle-earth, and this Earth, you could just find your local Mother Tree Ent and sit with her for a while. She can also help you go deep and rise above this season.

Resources for Grounded Expansion

  1. Reimagine your world in less than 30 minutes with the Evolved Nest’s trilogy of short films, including Breaking the Cycle, the Evolved Nest, and Reimagining Humanity. Find film discussion guides on each of these links.  JOIN US  for free monthly discussions! Register for November’s call.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, Wisdom.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. Read the foreword to the book by Gabor Maté, MD, here, and the first chapter of the book, here. Both are exclusively found on Kindred.The goal of Reimagining Humanity 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.
  2. Download for free the Evolved Nest Self-Study and Communal Learning Curriculum to learn more about the nine components of our Evolved Nest, and how we can normalize nurturing.
  3. Discover our collected resources for worldview literacy and shifting at the Worldview Literacy Project. You can download free Worldview Charts, study guides, and participate in a worldview chart survey.
  4. When you’re ready, join the discussions on our dedicated Mighty Networks platform at www.KindredCommunity.org.
  5. Help us with our own Grounded Expansion at Kindred World with your generous donation!
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Kindred World began as a grassroots, consciousness-raising organization of parents and professionals in 1996, twenty-five years into America’s fifty year decline to the bottom of all developed nations' indicators for family, maternal, infant, and children's health. Today, Kindred World’s nonprofit mission and vision of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society, are more relevant and important than ever.

During the current climate crisis, pandemic, and political upheaval, 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. With a consistent dedication to serve, Kindred World's leaders, contributors, volunteers, and community participants have explored the interconnectedness of the “categories” you will find on this website. This holistic approach – looking for the connections between all of life’s interdependent and diverse forms – has allowed us to discover integrated insights into creating lifelong wellness.

Kindred World, and it's nonprofit initiative, Kindred Media, have explored this New Story from the ground up - in grassroots’ communities - and from the top down - with frontier science researchers and social changemakers. This New Story comes with its own language, phrases like Cultural Creatives, Bio-Cultural Conflict, Grounded Expansion, Harmonic Family Resonance, Phronesis, the Evolved Nest, Original Brilliance and the Ecology of the Child, can be found in our New Story Glossary. If we're going to tell a New Story, we will need new language.

What is needed at this time is a safe gathering place, a sanctuary, created with great compassion to inspire and welcome our imaginations to engage in open dialogue, to create connected community, and to identify resources that support an adventurous exploration of thriving.

Welcome to that safe gathering space.

Visit our parent nonprofit at www.KindredWorld.org
Join the discussion at www.KindredCommunity.org

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