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Narvaez, D., & Bradshaw, G.A. (2023). The Evolved Nest: Nature\u2019s Way Of Raising Children And Creating Connected Communities<\/em><\/a>. North Atlantic Books. Foreword by Gabor Mate<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A beautiful resource for nature advocates, parents-to-be, animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest<\/em><\/strong> reconnects us to lessons from the animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives.<\/p>\n

Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal\u2019s parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their \u201cevolved nests.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Quotes and Reflections for Healing Our World <\/em><\/a>(2022, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books) by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez<\/h2>\n

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Restoring the Kinship Worldview<\/em><\/strong>: Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors\u2019 own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating First Nation Knowhow for Global Flourishing\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>Edited by Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows, Eugene Halton, Brian Collier, Georges Enderle<\/h2>\n

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Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing<\/em>‘s contributors describe ways of being in the world that reflect a worldview that guided humanity for 99% of human history: They describe the practical traditional wisdom that stems from Nature-based relational cultures that were or are guided by this worldview. Such cultures did not cause the kinds of anti-Nature and de-humanizing or inequitable policies and practices that now pervade our world. Far from romanticizing Indigenous histories, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom<\/em> offers facts about how human beings, with our potential for good and evil behaviors, can live in relative harmony again. Contributions cover views from anthropology, psychology, sociology, leadership, native science, native history, and native art.<\/dt>\n
ISBN: 978-1-4331-6364-7<\/dt>\n
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Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a>Edited by Darcia Narvaez<\/h2>\n

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Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one\u2019s potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske – which includes belonging, understanding, control\/competence, autonomy, self-enhancement, trust, purpose and life satisfaction – this book demonstrates that the fulfilment of basic needs predicts adult physical and mental health, as well as sociality and morality. The authors suggest that meeting basic needs in childhood vitally shapes one\u2019s trajectory for self-actualization, and that initiatives aimed at human wellbeing should include a greater emphasis on early childhood experience. Through contemporaneous and retrospective research in childhood, the authors argue that basic need-fulfilment is key to the development of the self and the possibility of reaching one\u2019s full potential. This book will be of interest to scholars of human wellbeing and societal flourishing, as well as to health workers and educators.<\/p>\n

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Embodied Morality: Protectionism Engagement and Imagination<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>by Darcia Narvaez<\/h2>\n

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In this book the broad, interdisciplinary theory of Triune Ethics Meta-theory is explored to demonstrate how it explains the different patterns of morality seen in the world today. It describes how human morality develops dynamically from experience in early life and it proposes that the methods in which humans are raised bring about tendencies towards self-protective or open-hearted social relations. When the life course follows evolutionary systems, then prosocial, open-hearted capacities develop but when the life course goes against evolutionary systems it should not be a surprise that self-focused values and behaviors develop such as violent tribalism, self aggrandizement and a binary orientation to others (dominance or submission). Many humans alive today exhibit impaired capacities in comparison to humans from small-band hunter-gatherer societies, the type of society that represents 99% of humanity\u2019s history. TEM is rooted in ethical naturalism and points out how to optimize human moral development through the lifespan\u2014toward the ethics of engagement and communal imagination.<\/p>\n

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Developing the Virtues: Integrative Perspectives\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/em>Edited by Julia Annas, Darcia Narvaez and Nancy E. Snow<\/h2>\n

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