Recent Conferences

Recent Conferences and Resulting Books

Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous Knowhow for Global Flourishing

September 11-15, 2016 // University of Notre Dame

The conference brought together an interdisciplinary set of scholars and artists ready to integrate first-nation and mainstream contemporary understandings to move toward a flourishing planet.

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Pathways to Child Flourishing

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September 27-30, 2014 // Conference Center, University of Notre Dame

An Interdisciplinary Symposium bringing together neurobiology, developmental and clinical psychology, anthropology, prevention and education.

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Philosophy and Psychology of Virtue Development: LINK

May 19-22, 2014 // Conference Center, University of Notre Dame

Speakers at this interdisciplinary symposium discussed the nature of virtue and its development, from ancient notions to contemporary science, evolutionary and religious views, individual and community approaches in a variety of family, schooling and work settings. We will also discuss the possibility of starting an interdisciplinary society on the development of virtue.

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Human Evolution and Human Nature (2012)

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Families and children do not exist in isolation but are embedded in cultures that encourage different parenting practices and offer varying degrees of support. Cultures have shifted over millennia in terms of how much and what kind of social support is provided. The high social embeddedness, multi-aged and leisurely lifestyle of hunter-gatherer culture has been replaced with extensive social and age-related isolation and a work-focused lifestyle. How do these shifts in culture influence parenting and child outcomes?

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Human Nature, Early Experience and the

Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (2010)

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Scholars from multiple disciplines gather to examine what types of early-life care are essential for optimal development of human brain and body systems—and to promote greater understanding in scientific research and theory, public policy, and family practice.

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Evolved Nest

Babies Love Rhyming Time
“Rhymers will be readers; it’s that simple. Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by age four, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight!” – Mem Fox, author Reading Magic I am living proof that this Mem Fox quote is true. […]
Grounded Expansion: What The Mother Tree “Ent” Said
Letter from the Editor Kindred’s November 2024 Issue Read this issue in your browser here. * “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi What does the Mother Tree offer […]
Child Humiliation
We live in a semi-totalitarian system* where most families are forced to under nurture their children and themselves in order to eat and have a place to sleep. Many families fall through the cracks and are broken apart due to addiction, prison, child protective services, and other forms of trauma and its symptoms. We can […]
Contemporary Eliminationism and Fascism
I grew up with the radio on most of the time, tuned into a university radio station with educational shows on the arts, public affairs, cooking, gardening. The shows expanded imagination, for example, providing insights about foreign lands and people from those lands—building empathy and understanding. It was an introduction to a type of cosmopolitanism […]
Thirteen Ways to Enable Free Play and Other Independent Activities for Your Kids
We live in a child-unfriendly world (or at least a child-unfriendly nation), where children are more or less continuously imprisoned. We have increased the pressures and decreased the pleasures of schooling. We have developed largely irrational fears of letting our kids run free outdoors. Neighbors, police, and child protective services often regard what was once […]
How This One OLD Story Keeps Shaping the World: With Four Arrows
If you are curious about discovering your worldview literacy capacities, you’ll love this interview with Claudia Ayuso that covers the basics of exposing the Dominant Worldview, our Old Story, and how we shift to a life-affirming, Indigenous/Kinship Worldview. You can see Four Arrows present in the video at the 14:17 mark. Four Arrows says about […]
10 Ways to Be an Exceptional Listener
Are you a good listener? If you ask any person, they will likely tell you they are good listeners. But if you ask the people in their life, you may get another story. The skill of great listening, the kind that really helps those around you feel met, is essential in all areas of life––parenting, […]
Virtue and Vice, Individual and Cultural
Philosophers have long discussed how one develops goodness. Whereas Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory, rooted in Enlightenment philosophy, emphasized reasoning sophistication with the assumption that aligned action would follow, there was another, older view of goodness—practicing virtue. In fact, Jeffrey Rosen points out that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ that USian male founders wrote about was not referring […]
Why Goddess Feminism, Activism, or Spirituality?
Watch the video interview with Stephanie about this post and her Beyond Attachment post below and here. I consider the word “Goddess” to refer to a state of evolved consciousness. One attains it by being free of trauma and standing unconditionally in one’s Original Brilliance, or empowered selfhood. Women, as I have observed from […]
Using CAT-FAWN “De-Hypnotizing” Technology: Four Arrows On Trance-Based Self-Learning
Download Kindred’s Worldview Chart by Four Arrows here, or BUY a poster-size chart here. Read Four Arrows on Kindred here. About this Video The internet and social media are moving from the post and comment to the shared experience model. Over the course of 23 books and hundreds of scholarly articles, Four Arrows (Donald Trent […]

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Darcia Narvaez

Professor of Psychology Emerita

Department of Psychology

University of Notre Dame

390 Corbett Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Email: dnarvaez@nd.edu

Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Professor of Psychology Emerita

Recent Conferences