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Evolved Nest
- Why Kids Should Learn the Original STEM: Ancient Survival SkillsIn a world filled with advanced technologies and conveniences, why would anyone want to learn the ancient skills of our ancestors, especially when a digital utopia seems imminent? Yet our bodies and brains are still fundamentally the same as those of early humans who lived as hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years.
- Kindred’s August Issue – Letter from the EditorIn keeping with the spirit of our nonprofit mission to envision and bring forward a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society, we have curated for you a timely, helpful, hopeful, and practical collection of posts, podcasts, videos, and a joyful 28 Days of Solo Play campaign.
- Repairing the Primal Tear: How Our Evolved Nest Heals Us, Our Animal Kin, and Our PlanetAn interview with the authors of the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities
- 28 Days of Solo Play: Learning To Play As An AdultEditor’s Note: Join Kindred and the Evolved Nest Initiative on our social media platforms starting September 2023, for 28 Days of Solo Play! Check out the collection of solo play prompts on the Evolved Nest website here. See the resources below for more ideas to keep spontaneous play going. How to Learn Spontaneous Play […]
- Decolonizing Our Bodies to Liberate Intelligencedis·mem·ber·ment noun 1. the action of cutting off a person’s or animal’s limbs. 2. the action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization. Most of us grew up learning that our body is a flesh and blood object, made up of organs, bones, veins and arteries, and encased in muscle and skin. We learned it is something to […]
- The Evolved Nest Book: Read Chapter One, Nature’s WayEditor’s Note: Below you will find Chapter One, entitled Nature’s Way, of the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities by Darcia Narvaez and G.A. Bradshaw. Listen to the Kindred podcast with the author’s here. Watch a mother ask the authors How To Create Nestedness in an Untested […]
- Facing Our Climate Change Fear With Our Original Brilliance: Stephanie Mines On The Maui WildfiresStephanie Mines, founder of Climate Change and Consciousness and the TARA Approach, moved to Hawaii this summer, days before the Maui wildfires broke. The wildfire in Maui destroyed the historic town of Lahaina and killed over 100 people, making it the worst natural disaster in state history and the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a […]
- How Do We Create Nestedness In An UnNested Culture? A Mother Asks Evolved Nest Book AuthorsThe interview is by Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Ph.D., a mother of a six-year-old child who shares her experience - and questions - about creating nestedness in an untested world.
- Peaceful Co-existence & Unity in DiversityModern civilization has always had its rebels and resisters, but the movement toward living in balance with nature has exploded in recent years. Mother Earth herself is definitely speaking to us, and we are listening, as we seek new connections both to the land and our wildness within. This must be the most important work […]
- Gabor Maté On The Evolved Nest: Foreword To The New BookNo fanciful social utopianism here; only a profound understanding of what our core needs are, right from conception, and what we have to learn from the ancestral human and Animal ways of being as they were formed in the crucible of Nature.
Fresh Eyes
- Unspoken Forms of Communication
- Annoying Babies
- Children Need To Be Fed, Physically and Psychologically
- The Secrets of Raising Infants
- Unspoken Forms of Communication
- Learn to Stop Thinking and Start Being
- John Bowlby and the Need for Attachment
- Want a Better Birth? Go Back to the Basics
- ACES and the Psychology of Chandler from "Friends"
- Incorporating Play Into The Classroom
Contact Info
Address:
Darcia Narvaez
Professor of Psychology Emerita
Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
390 Corbett Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: dnarvaez@nd.edu