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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 […]

First published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, March 2026 Issue ABSTRACT This article introduces the mnemonic, CAT‐FAWN. CAT stands for Concentration‐Activated Transformation as a tool for family therapy that emphasises trance‐based learning and self‐hypnosis mastery. FAWN refers to contrasting understandings of pre‐colonial and dominant worldview precepts that relate to Fear, […]

By Cameron Sprague and Daniel Burton This document introduces the philosophy, origins, and transformative purpose of the ‘Nested Nursery’ Award, a progressive, tiered framework designed to elevate Early Years settings into true partners for optimal child development. The ‘Nested Nursery’ Award emerged directly from the success of the beta run of the Nested World Initiative’s Nesting […]

Introduction In nursing mothers, breast milk becomes available for feeding the baby through a physiological process called the let-down reflex, mediated by the hormone oxytocin, which is produced in the pituitary gland. As the let-down occurs, many women experience a tingling sensation in their breasts, and often the nipples begin to leak. This reflex takes […]

As noted in multiple earlier posts, we’ve been somewhat blindly undernurturing half our brains, leading to a diminished understanding of intelligence. Specifically, we neglect to provide the evolved nest care needed to nourish the right hemisphere (RH) which is scheduled to grow more rapidly in the first years of life. As a result, the RH […]

Most children are required to attend school, but if you haven’t noticed, it historically moves against species-normal evolved nest principles. There is: Minimal welcoming of students’ unique interests. A lack of self-directed freedom to learn and play through whole-body experiential learning. Absence of welcomed affection, multi-age peer groups, and a village of trusted mentors. Thus, […]

The challenges we see in classrooms today may begin long before children arrive at school, shaped by early development, caregiving, and the conditions of modern life. By Dan Warren, Ph.D and Amy Warren, Ph.D. When a recent New York Times Magazine article (“America’s Children are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?”) examined the growing […]