human-nature-and-early-experience

  “When human families become a nested species, the parties they will throw will defy the imagination, odds, and expectations of a Dominant Worldview.” – What the Ghost Pipes Said In six decades of wandering into the woods, I have learned to wait patiently and walk softly until I am welcomed before proceeding into the […]

“The learning we have to do as women, as mothers of humanity, does not come from books or any designated authorities. It certainly does not come from social media. It comes from deep inside the ancestral wells of knowledge that have lived within us alongside the eggs we carry. Our bodies contain the entire future […]

About This Event Join the singular opportunity to attend online live lectures from Darcia Narvaez, PhD, during fall 2025. She will lecture on each of the nine components of our evolutionary pathway to wellness, our Communal Evolved Nest, a transdisciplinary set of insights. Most component experiences are needed throughout life to maintain health and social […]

Meet Cameron Sprague, one of our new Certified Nesting Ambassadors and a part of the elite group of international beta-testers for the Nesting Ambassador Program this summer. If you are interest in learning more about becoming a Certified Nesting Ambassador, go to our sister initiatives website, the Evolved Nest, for more information and to sign […]

By Suzanne Arms and Jennifer Margulis (See their bios at the end.) Babies are most often conceived out of lovemaking, a wonderful and fun activity (as long as it’s mutually consensual) that may take place at home, in a hotel room, or in a private corner off the trail at Mount Overlook in Inverness, California. […]

My husband and I just spent a couple of weeks in Scandinavia, participating in a conference in Finland. Finland is one of the countries that offer vast support of mothers, families and children (in comparison to the USA). But I was surprised by what I saw. Finland is supposed to be the happiest nation on […]

Michel Odent, French surgeon and obstetrician, passed away recently. His gracious presence will be missed. Like anyone speaking truth to power, Michel Odent spoke to us from outside the dominant way of doing things. He was a cultural creative, reminding us of our millions-year-old tried-and-true way of giving birth. Early on, he observed how medicalized […]

Editor’s Note: See the mini-documentary on CAT-FAWN at the bottom of the page. Visit the Worldview Literacy Project, a sister-initiative of Kindred, to learn more about using CAT-FAWN in conjunction with the Worldview Chart by Four Arrows. Friends, hardships pursue me; Fearless of them, I live… Love of my country is why I am doing […]

Editor’s Note: The following is an advanced, and exclusive book excerpt from the forthcoming book, Breaking Up with the Patriarchy: Decolonizing Our Lives and Returning to Kinship Worldview. Presented with the author and Open Spiral Publishing’s permission is Chapter Three: The Return to Wholeness. Chapter Three: The Return to Wholeness On my mother’s word only, […]

I sat alone in the back of the large black SUV, lost in my own thoughts as I gazed out the window into the passing Ohio farm country. Accompanied by four women, we were headed for a road trip adventure. Suddenly, one turned back to me and asked, “So, what is your astrology?” I told […]