Kindred Activism

By Kindred Media
ALL0-9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Share This
Share
« Back to Glossary Index

What is Kindred Activism?

Kindred Activism is activism that is rooted, connected, and imaginative.

Kindred Activism is a concept originally explored and refined by the participants in the Kindred Fellowship Program, an initiative of Kindred World and a sister initiative of Kindred Media. The KFP pilot project launched in 2021. The program introduces a new generation to Kindred World’s quarter century of insights into worldview literacy, regenerative wisdom, and our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest, as paths to cultural transformation. Kindred Activism goes upstream to address social and cultural issues by centering childhood in cultural transformation work while equipping advocates with worldview literacy. 

The opposite of Kindred Activism is Hamster Wheel Activism, which is a more traditional approach to taking action without realizing our need for decolonizing ourselves, shifting our worldview, and acting to restore our human baselines for wellbeing, our Evolved Nest.

You can also learn more about Kindred Activism in the Meet the Wayfinders Oral History Series here. 

 

 

Related Glossary Terms:
  • Hamster Wheel Activism
    Our worldview determines if our intentions to create cultural change are sustainable, regenerative, and wise.
« Back to Glossary Index
Related Terms:
Kindred Media

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

You might also like More from author

Comments are closed.