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Does AI mimic human intelligence? Only if you are half-brained. If you have any sense of embodied wisdom, experiences of oceanic feeling of oneness with All, any deep social and emotional intelligence understanding the complexity of face-to-face responsive human relationships, or any working creative artistic bones—all of which means your right hemisphere is working at […]

World renown anthropologist, Richard Lee (1979), recounted his experiences living with the !Kung, a San Bushmen hunter-gatherer group in the Kalahari whose culture has been around for at least 150,000 years. They are fiercely egalitarian with several tools to maintain it. One tool is ‘rough leveling’ or teasing. Hunters use relentless teasing against a successful […]

How do we welcome babies to enhance their wellbeing? Mbuti mothers of the Congo invent a unique song for their womb-child, singing about the maternal generosity of the forest. Sperm Whale mothers too invent a [clicking] song for their child and when they sing it, the rest of the pod stays silent so the baby […]

With deep nestedness, one feels part of the Whole, senses oneness with others, human and non-human. It starts in the womb, feeling part of Mother, an oceanic feeling of oneness. Birth of course breaks that feeling but with communal evolved nested care, it is restored. After birth, the child needs to be wooed back to […]

Editor’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Amy Warren’s new article featured in Resurgence & Ecologist’s Radical Hope special issue (Issue 355 • March/April 2026). You can read more about Kindred’s tribute to Jane Goodall, who passed earlier this year, here. Learn more about Darcia Narvaez and the Evolved Nest here.  Become a Nesting Ambassador and […]

There is a lot of focus on the importance of mothers nurturing babies to promote attachment and wellbeing. But our heritage is broader than mother-child alone (e.g., Morelli et al., 2017). Around 13 million calories are needed to raise a human child until their late teens when they can produce as much as they consume. […]

In this Nesting Ambassador Program’s Praxis Gathering, Cathy Myers of the venerable nonprofit, Family and Home Network, shares her four decades of public policy education and advocacy for family leave and childcare. As a Certified Nesting Ambassador, Cathy guides us through potential and needed shifts in cultural norms and public policy based on the science […]

Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World’s president, and Mary Tarsha, KW board member, have contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book, Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths and What to Do Instead. Narvaez’s and Tarsha’s chapter is entitled, The Evolved Nest: Sleep Training Violates Humanity’s Baselines for Child Raising. Contributing editors to the book include: Jennifer G. Rosier, […]

Release date March 10, 2026 Get Your All Our Relations Gratitude Deck   From Indigenous author, scholar, and activist Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa)—cultivate your own earth-based gratitude practice with this 52-card oracle deck. For readers of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rae Diamond, Jessica Hernandez, and Sherri Mitchell All Our Relations, a 52-card oracle deck, guides readers […]

Through a series of online conversations, Living One brings speakers from around the world to address core questions facing society today. Each gathering brings together thinkers and practitioner to explore critical ethical, ecological, and spiritual questions rooted in lived experience. Instead of abstract debate, Living One is grounded dialogue – conversations that integrate body, story, and […]