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Mission and vision
The Evolved Nest's nonprofit mission is to:
• Restore human nature to its cooperative orientation, its original and "normal" human heritage.
• Cultural Imperatives of the industrial era have undermined child development so much we think disregulated people are “normal.” A return to and honoring of our Biological Imperatives, especially in child development, will help us shift culturally toward wellness and wholeness.
• Restore humanity's connection to nature.
• Honor the primal continuum for wellness and wholeness that starts in pre-conception and babyhood.
• Honor the needs of the mother, father, providing community support systems that optimize normal psychosocial development.
• Become aware of the damaging, culturally accepted ideologies of nuclear family parenting by moving toward village-mindedness.
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About our Parent Nonprofit
Kindred World is the parent nonprofit of The Evolved Nest. As an award-winning 501C3 nonprofit, Kindred's leadership in the Conscious Parenting Movement has provided a solid foundation for pioneers, scientists, authors, activists, parents and professionals to share their sustainable and peaceful visions for humanity since 1996.
We invite you to visit our website at www.KindredWorld.org.
And our Great Nonprofits page, where you can read multiple endorsements and success stories about our work.
Read our alternative media outlet supporting the New Story of Childhood, Parenthood and the Human Family at Kindred Media.
And please consider supporting our nonprofit work financially with your tax-deductible donation.
Lisa Reagan, Evolved Nest Communications
“The profound and needed significance of Darcia Narvaez's work through the Evolved Nest is not lost on parents, professionals, and activists who have waited decades for a wayfinder to research and present the science of the integrated, interdisciplinary worldview supporting our human family's path to wholeness and wellness. Her work shines an unflinching light on the damage inflicted by our dominant culture's disconnected worldview, and provides a clear path for creating sustainable humans and a Wellness-Informed Society."
Lisa Reagan
Kindred World, Co-Founder, Board of Directors, Secretary
Evolved Nest, Collaborator and Communications
Kindred Media, Executive Editor
Introduced as a “force of nature” by Cassandra Vieten, IONS president, at the first Mindful Motherhood Conference in NYC in 2011, Lisa Reagan’s passionate dedication to empower American activists, professionals, and families to envision and create a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society has led to the founding of multiple inspired nonprofit initiatives and collaborations since her transformative motherhood initiation in 1997.
Lisa’s Mother-of-a-Quest began with co-founding a grassroots organization of Wayfinders, Trance-breakers, and New Cycle Makers fiercely intent on protecting American’s children with educational initiatives to counter the country’s freefall to the bottom of all developed nations’ wellness indicators. Today, Kindred World is an award-winning nonprofit whose vision and mission are more relevant and critical than ever. (Read Kindred World’s Great Nonprofits’ reviews here.)
Integrating a quarter century of cultural transformation insights into grounded Wayfinder Wisdom, Lisa currently shepherds Kindred World in carrying out its ongoing nonprofit work through multiple initiatives and partner collaborations, including:
The Evolved Nest, a virtual learning center featuring the award-winning science and research of Darcia Narvaez, PhD. Lisa and Darcia collaborate on the creation of virtual educational outreach projects of the Evolved Nest, including the short film, Breaking the Cycle, Mighty Networks discussion groups, as well as monthly live discussions. Darcia Narvaez is ranked among the top two percent of scientists worldwide. Her research into humanity’s Evolved Nest reveals our “evolutionary pathway to wellbeing”. Darcia currently serves as Kindred World’s president.
Kindred Media is an alternative media platform championing a New Story of the Human Family. Lisa serves as Kindred’s executive editor, working with contributors to create podcasts, interviews, special feature series, and the expansion of Kindred’s New Story Glossary (because a new story needs new language). Kindred’s innovative media platform allows the many Kindred World initiatives and partner collaborations to interact and integrate personal stories, shifting worldviews, and cultural transformation victories. Our challenge, to bring visibility and coherence to cultural transformation, is achieved through Kindred Media’s holistic storytelling strategies.
The Meet the Wayfinders Oral History Series was produced at the request of La Leche League International for their 65th Conference in 2021. This series integrates both Kindred’s many years of tracking unheralded victories of cultural transformation as well as introducing the concept of Kindred Activism, which explores both how the activists were successful in their quests and how their wayfinder advocacy can be duplicated. Kindred Activism is further explored in the Kindred Fellowship Program.
The Kindred Fellowship Program captures insights from Lisa’s 25 years of activism and explores the need for a more sustainable approach to social justice education and cultural transformation advocacy. KFP’s instructors are leaders in their fields of human development and consciousness. This live program integrates Lisa’s decades of allyship with minorities and women to change the lives of children, her Worldview Literacy Facilitator training from IONS, and her professional experience as an educational program director with multiple nonprofits. KFP’s work with college-level fellows and facilitators resulted in the creation of Kindred Activism, a childhood-centered, worldview-based activism that equips and empowers a new generation to create a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society.
Lisa continues to shepherd Kindred World’s original vision of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society as the award-winning nonprofit serves Wayfinders, Trance-breakers, and New Cycle Makers, expands its collaborations with partners, and welcomes new board members. To see all of Kindred World’s initiatives, visit the site here. To volunteer or partner with Kindred World, please contact Lisa and Kindred World’s board at hello@kindredworld.org. And please support Kindred World’s ongoing nonprofit work with your tax-deductible donation here.
Discover Lisa's work on Kindred Media.
Mary Tarsha, Evolved Nest Researcher, Podcaster
“Kindred World helps bridge the vast gap between scientific research and practice, what is happening within the culture that often cuts against scientific evidence regarding ways to promote human thriving and flourishing. Parents and families deserve to know the best ways to raise healthy, happy, socio-emotionally developed, loving children and this is exactly what Kindred provides!”
Mary Tarsha
Kindred World, Director-at-Large
Evolved Nest, Collaborator and Researcher
Kindred Media, Contributing Editor and Podcaster
Mary Tarsha is a PhD student in Developmental Psychology and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Research at the University of Notre Dame. She conducts research investigating human flourishing and moral development in the Evolutionary Moral Psychology Laboratory under the directorship of Dr. Darcia Narvaez.
Listen to Mary Tarsha’s podcast series with Darcia Narvaez on the Evolved Nest.
And listen to her book reviews with Dr. Narvaez on Kindred.
Levy Farías, PhD
Levy Farías, Educator, PhD in Social Sciences, Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Psychology Department of the University of Notre Dame (2012-2013), is an associated researcher in the Laboratorio de Ciencias Sociales (LACSO), of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). He is author of the book “La comunidad en carne propia: Un estudio biográfico del altruismo y la madurez moral en barrios caraqueños” (2008). [The Community in Own Flesh: A biographical study of moral maturity and altruism in Caracas’ working-class sectors]. He shared the Chacao Award to Research on Childhood and Adolescence (2010). Founder and coeditor (2010-2017) of Postconvencionales: Ética, Universidad, Democracia, an electronic open-access Journal. Specializing in moral psychology and moral education, he coordinated the collaborative projects Educating in citizenship: moral development, discipline and school climate (2016); and Common Ground: Fostering moral development through the teaching of English as second language (2015). His more recent publications include peer-reviewed articles about the interdisciplinary and social challenges of contemporary moral psychology (2017); the challenges of new and pervasive technologies for moral and citizenship education (2020); and the use of podcasts in moral education (2021). He has also translated into Spanish influential works about moral development and moral education, by authors such as Lawrence Kohlberg, Ann Higgins D’Alessandro, Anne Colby, Darcia Narvaez, Daniel K. Lapsley, John C. Gibbs, Clark F. Power, and Larry Nucci, among others.
He is a champion of Kindred World's vision through his volunteer contributions to translate the materials for the Evolved Nest's Breaking the Cycle film guide and resources into Spanish. Watch the Spanish-version of the film and download the guide here.
Contact: fariaslevy@gmail.com / levy.farias@fulbrightmail.org
What People Are Saying
Read over 88 five-star reviews, endorsements, and stories of collaborations from our partners on Kindred World's Great Nonprofits' page. Kindred World has received the Great Nonrprofits' Top Rated Nonprofits Award every year since 2014.
“I heartily applaud Darcia Narvaez and Kindred World for the excellent and important work they are doing to show how to change our values to support the children of the present and the future. The challenges that are facing Mother Earth and all species including our own are difficult and daunting but Narvaez shows the ways and the direction in which we can move towards survival and thrival.I am grateful for her down to Earth and intelligent leadership and initiative..” – Genevieve Vaughan, Founder, Maternal Gift Economy Movement and Salons, Homo Donans: For A Maternal Economy, Author
“I discovered Kindred World through the work of Dr. Darcia Narvaez after reading her book Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality. It greatly advanced my thinking on the importance of child development and even the fundamental reality of who we are as a species and how we best flourish in balance with other human and non-human selves. It was through my familiarity with Dr. Narvaez that I then came to know of Lisa Reagan's work in eduction, advocacy, and media, and that led me to Kindred World. Kindred World plays an essential role in advancing our understanding of human flourishing and advocates for the shifts necessary to align our cultures with our optimal development as a species in balance with the world.” – Benjamin, political scientist and peace ethologist, global social justice educator at the University of Michigan
“Thank you Kindred World for working tirelessly to get the word out that a healthy world begins with a healthy child, which begins with a healthy mother and family supported by the community. As our culture seems to spin out of control, the voices for truth you provide and promote give parents a healthy, sane place to turn for support in raising attached, secure babies. One such voice is Dr. Darcia Narvaez who also works tirelessly to expand our culture's understanding of these critical issues. It has been said, ‘It's darkest just before the light’. Thanks to all of the Kindred World light workers for helping to usher in a new dawn!” – Diane Hansen, professional with expertise in the field
“Darcia’s work is invaluable! Her research reveals human-nestedness is paramount to a worthwhile and wholesome existence, alongside, within and as-part-of nature. Our species’ ‘true’ societal norms are broken, as revealed through her research of the “Evolved Nest” or the evolved developmental niche. What’s needed is to realign modernity with our species’ typical biological nature. As a biologist who sees all things in nature as animate, it is without a doubt what we’ve been missing and why we humans are experiencing so much unrest, prevalent and normalized psychosis in the form of depression, deep seated aggression, resentment, learning disabilities and so much more.
“My conversations with Darcia have felt like the reunion of kindred spirits. Her research and words have pointed towards that innate truth I’ve worked hard to try to share with others. Our true human nature is so much more then we are experiencing in these times. We need to nest our children well, as naturally as we did for ten’ of thousands of years of our evolutionary and prehistoric past. Hope for humanity lies within restoration of our species’ evolved nest. As soon as humanity resumes it’s place, once again, within the niche in which we evolved, only then will we gain true sustainability and a better, more wholesome existence. We owe our children and the future of humanity the nested-ness that is a part of who we really are.” – Wild Feather Jane, a parent
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