Our Mission, Vision, & Team

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