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What our evolutionary heritage reveals about the world we could build — and the principles that could take us there.

No organism on Earth has ever survived alone, not one, not across the more than three billion years that life has been finding ways to persist on this planet. The story handed to most of us about the strong individual who rose through will and discipline is not a biological truth. A single tree with […]

The Nesting Ambassador Program is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Cohort. Visit www.NestedWorld.org for more information and to submit an application. Jon Young and Sarah Fontaine, Certified Nesting Ambassadors, share their lifelong work and insight into Nature Connection. In this presentation to Nesting Ambassadors, Jon says, “Connection is regenerative, but so it disconnection. […]

The Nesting Ambassador Program is currently accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Cohort. Visit www.NestedWorld.org for more information and to submit an application. Listen to Tracey Johnston and Peter Robinson share their experiences of speaking integrating the science of the Evolved Nest into systemic family systems through therapist trainings, journal articles, and speaking at conferences, […]

Lo que todos necesitamos para prosperar y alcanzar nuestro potencial  En los Estados Unidos, la escasez de juego durante la infancia, incluyendo en los jardines de infancia (Miller y Almon, 2009), se ha relacionado con un aumento del estrés infantil y un deterioro del rendimiento (Sahlberg y Doyle, 2019). De hecho, el mejor sistema escolar […]

Un nuevo estudio muestra los efectos del juego sobre el tono vagal. PUNTOS CLAVE El juego libre de los niños y niñas influye en su salud fisiológica y psicológica. Un tono vagal saludable se asocia con todo tipo de resultados positivos. Nuestro estudio demostró que la experiencia reciente de juego libre predice un tono vagal […]

In his book, On Freedom, Timothy Snyder identifies five forms of freedom. The five forms include the capacities to evaluate and change the world (sovereignty or autonomy); the capacity to make choices (unpredictability); the ability to move through time and space following one’s values (mobility); a fact-based apprehension of the world that allows for effective […]

Mothering is a science. Mothers and other nurturers—allomothers—together ‘mother’ or nurture each child’s brain and body. This happens not only inside the womb but postnatally through the quality of care mother and child receive. Virtually every characteristic of a child is influenced by nurturing in early life: from the immune system to stress response, vagus […]

The video below is a presentation by Kathrine Cays, a Certified Nesting Ambassador ’25, to the current cohort in-training. If you are interested in exploring the Nested World Initiative or becoming a Nesting Ambassador, visit www.NestedWorld.org.    Kathrine’s Presentation Script Slide 1) Thank you so much to Darcia and Lisa for inviting me to visit […]

The most common belief in Western societies is that children need to learn respect by following the directives of their parents and other adults. It is presumed that children have to learn to suppress their own impulses and desires to live a good life. This contrasts with the Indigenous perspective that a child with proper […]