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Kindred’s nonprofit partner, Local Futures, has launched The Bristol Conversations – a podcast and video series featuring Helena Norberg Hodge in deep, soulful dialogue with global changemakers.  The first interview in the series begins with Kindred World’s president, Darcia Narvaez. The Bristol Conversations mini-series is based on the filmed discussions that Helena had with Darcia […]

I want to invite you to bring tenderness and tending to yourself as you explore this way of relating to children. Whether you are new to these ideas or have been walking this path for a while, the emotions they stir in us are worthy of compassion. It’s also important to understand the wider cultural […]

“By carrying babies, we cultivate their capacity to care for all their relations including Mother Earth. We can save the future, one baby at time, by carrying them a minimum of one hour a day for a minimum of one year.” – Pam Leo   “The single most important child rearing practice to be adopted […]

If nurturing didn’t happen for you when you were growing up, you can cultivate those experiences now as part of your healing process. It is part of the healing work we need to do to change the world. While so much of parenting feels like we’re making sure our children eat their vegetables and don’t […]

  Kindred World is delighted to announce Andrea Brooks Dole has joined our board of directors. We welcomed Andrea as a parent representative this past spring. Andrea’s story has been featured in Kindred Magazine and she joined the first Nesting Ambassador’s Cohort this June 2025. Andrea is a recognized advocate for families of children with complex medical […]

And if we can teach our children this—that relationships are messy and worth it, that we can bridge two perspectives to build one path, that love is a daily practice, not a promise—we give them something precious. A map of their own. For life. Before Baby, We Thought We Were Ready We’d done the prenatal […]

The work of normalizing nurturing isn’t just about changing individual families, though that would be enough. It’s about shifting our entire cultural understanding of what children need and what parents can trust.  When we choose the whisperer’s way over the breaker’s way, we model a different possibility for our communities. We show that strength doesn’t […]

Birth Roots’ Facilitation to Flocks redemptive arc restores what clinical models leave out: relational scaffolding, peer attunement, and cohort co-regulation as practices that ripple outward into families, systems, and culture. It is both a return to something ancestral and a path forward to something urgently needed: a culture where survival is not the ceiling, but […]

People sometimes ask or wonder about how to be respectful of Native Peoples while desiring to adopt Indigenous ways. I find it helpful to approach the term “Indigenous” in four ways. First, as some argue, we are all indigenous to Earth. True. We are Earthlings with layers of being that are shared with the rest […]

Although in the USA today, many residents are ego-wilding (see prior post), this is not humanity’s heritage. Eco-wilding is our heritage. Eco-wilding deeply contrasts with ego-wilding. People often misunderstand “wildness,” as if it refers to ego-wildness—unfettered impulsive or planned antisociality. But we are not born to be ego-wild. Ego-wildness comes from undercare (unnestedness), inherited epigenetic […]