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Trance-breakers, New Cycle Makers, and Wayfinders are in plentiful supply, and Kindred brings you their stories of personal and cultural transformation. Yes, this is really happening!
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For over 15 years, Kindred has collected wisdom from visionaries forging a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. Discover our true human potential in their stories and insights.
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The Evolved Nest
Listen, watch, and follow Kindred's ongoing interviews, presentations, and deep dives by our passionate contributors who explore how we are already reimagining humanity and creating a wisdom-based, wellness-informed society.
The Evolved Nest
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The Evolved Nest
Discover the award-winning science of Kindred World's president, Darcia Narvaez, and our evolutionary pathway to flourishing, our Evolved Nest. You'll find practical educational materials for flourishing!
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Kindred World is an award-winning American nonprofit with over 88 five-star reviews at Great Nonprofits
Welcome Trance-breakers, Wayfinders, & New Cycle Makers
Who Are We?
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' indices 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 posts, podcasts, and interview “categories” you will find on the Kindred Media website.
Over the past 25 years, Kindred World and its nonprofit initiatives have explored this New Story from the ground up, in grassroots’ communities, and from the top down with frontier science researchers, Seekers, Trancebreakers, and New Cycle Makers. 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. Welcome home.
Check out our 105 five-star reviews and please support our nonprofit work on our Great Nonprofits page here.
Our Mission and Vision
Our Nonprofit Vision
A Wisdom-based (Heart-Mind Integrated) Human Family and Wellness-Informed Society.
You can discover more about our nonprofit’s history here, and learn how our many initiatives help ourselves and our culture make the shift from a Dominator Worldview to a Wisdom-based (Indigenous) Worldview.
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Our inspirational and educational materials, projects, and initiatives seek to empower individuals, communities, and organizations to reclaim our human family's birthright to thriving by:
- Restoring our baselines for species-typical wellness through our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest.
- Renewing our connection to Nature (our Kinship Worldview) and ourselves (we are Nature).
- Reimagining humanity, as a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed Society.
Please support our ongoing work with your donation. Learn more about our history.
- Subscribe to the Kindred monthly curated e-zine selections.
- Join the Evolved Nest newsletter, to follow the science and research of our president, Darcia Narvaez, here.
- Join the Kindred World Mighty Networks Discussion Groups here.
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When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. The Evolved Nest Short Film Collection gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.
– Darcia Narvaez, PhD
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A Kindred Media Production for La Leche League International
Meet the Wayfinders: An Oral History Series
Meet The Wayfinders: Nine Oral Histories Of Successful Breastfeeding Advocacy Barrier-Breakers
Meet the Wayfinders is an oral history collection of empowering, personal stories featuring video interviews with nine professionals, parents, and scientists who found ways around breastfeeding advocacy barriers, or just broke them! The series was created at the invitation of La Leche League International in celebration of their 65th Anniversary Conference held October 15-18, 2021. The series was presented live in October 2021 and viewed on LLLI’s website until April 2022. The collection was presented to the public in celebration of National Breastfeeding Month on August 1, 2022 at www.MeetTheWayfinders.org.
The Meet the Wayfinders Oral History Series includes an overview video, where participants learn the five hallmarks of wayfinder advocacy, as well as view highlights of the nine interviews. Participants also receive a resource guide in PDF form which documents the many references discussed in the collection's nine interviews.
In Meet the Wayfinders, participants discover reasons why cultural change through Traditional Activism is difficult and how the Wayfinders - with a new form of advocacy named Kindred Activism - were successful in breaking, transforming, and maneuvering around barriers in:
- The formula company “captured” biomedical field and colonization of populations worldwide: Cecilia Tomori, PhD, Director of Global Health and Community Health, Johns Hopkins University
- The siloed-science of academia and research which doesn’t (can’t) support a whole child wellness model:Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Professor of Psychology Emerita, University of Notre Dame; Founder, The Evolved Nest
- Hospital and medical professional culture’s systemic racism, Kimarie Bugg, DNP, FNP-BC, MPH, FAAN, IBCLC, Founder, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere
- African-American and Indigenous peoples’ colonization created anti-breastfeeding bias, Kimarie Bugg, DNP, Founder, Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere; Wesley Bugg, JD, Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere; and Jasha Lyons Echo-Hawk, Indigenous Milk Medicine Week and Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective, Co-Founder
- Mainstream media cultural bias, Jamie Grumet, TIME cover breastfeeding mother from May 2012
- Workplace and gender equity laws, Joan C. Williams, JD, Founder, Center for Worklife Law, University of California at Hastings
- Inclusion of fathers in breastfeeding and birth advocacy, Wesley Bugg, JD, Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere
- Creating support for families, Patty Kornwolf, RN-C, Kindred World Founding Director
- Performance Arts, using arts for internal and external barrier-breaking, Cathleen O’Malley,playwright, MilkDrunk
All of our presenters address the opportunities awaiting us in our post-pandemic world and how, with an understanding of the hallmarks of successful barrier-breaking, we too, can answer the call to become a wayfinder.
Watch and enjoy the collection at Meet the Wayfinders.
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The Meet the Wayfinder Series was presented live at La Leche League International's 65th Conference in October 2021 and viewed until April 2022. You can now watch the entire collection here during August 2022 breastfeeding month celebrations at MeetTheWayfinders.org.
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The Old Story of Separation that dominates our culture and conditioning today is entering a natural composting stage... it doesn't work anymore. The New Story of Connection, who we've always been, is emerging in our consciousness and marrow. We are all in the space between these stories, exploring the possibilities, deciding what our new narrative will be...