Welcome Trance-breakers, Wayfinders, & New Cycle Makers
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...
Through two decades of nonprofit work and dedication to the wellbeing of our human family, Kindred has gathered frontier science, progressive research, brave thought leaders, social change artists, parent activists and visionary storytellers to our virtual campfire at Kindred Media. As a reader-supported alternative media platform and nonprofit initiative, our mission is to share these insights into our human birthright of connection through multiple creative mediums.
Our dedication to creating a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society is carried out through multiple strategically created initiatives. Learn more about our vision here, and our initiatives manifesting this vision here.
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Trance-breakers, new cycle makers, and wayfinders are in plentiful supply, and Kindred brings you their stories of transformation.
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For over 15 years, Kindred has collected wisdom from visionaries forging a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society.
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New Story Glossary
Listen, watch, and follow Kindred's ongoing presentations on our Evolved Nest and discussions on shifting our worldview.
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New Story Glossary
To author a New Story of the Human Family, we will need new language. The New Story Glossary helps us find new words!
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25 years of nurturing a vision for a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society
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Kindred World is an award-winning American nonprofit with over 88 five-star reviews at Great Nonprofits
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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.
our nonprofit Mission
To Reclaim our Human Family's Wisdom Traditions that make possible a Wellness-Informed Society (which supports a Wisdom-based Worldview).
Today, Kindred World’s mission and vision are more relevant than ever. During the current climate crisis, pandemic, and political upheaval, our quarter century of investigating and sharing a New Story of Our Human Family is a blazed path to wholeness and wellness ready for trance-breakers, wayfinders and new cycle makers. Each of our initiatives were created to meet our human family's needs to transform our culture into a Wisdom-based, Wellness-Informed Society.
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About the Film
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.
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, illbeing 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.
Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for a discussion of the Evolved Nest's short film, Breaking the Cycle. You can watch the film and find resources, including a film guide on this website.
Save the 2022 Dates!
October 27 at 8 pm ET - REGISTER
November 16 at 9 am ET - REGISTER
December 13 at 12 noon ET - REGISTER
The live discussions are free, but you must register to join.
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See dates at www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org
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...