Learn more about how Nature Connection supports our Kinship Worldview in the Evolved Nest's Learning Center: nestedworld.org/8-nature-imm… #NatureConnection is one of nine components of our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing. #EvolvedNest #KinshipWorldview #NestedKinship #DarciaNarvaez

Join the Nesting Movement: Restore the Science of the People & Reclaim Our Nested #Kinship The Origin Story of the Nesting Ambassador Program with #DarciaNarvaez and Lisa Reagan kindredmedia.org/2026/06/joi…

The deeper promise of an #ecocivilization: a new (and ancient) civilizational operating system — one grounded in life’s design principles, consonant with our deepest evolutionary inheritance and adequate to the scale of #transformation our moment demands. kindredmedia.org/2026/05/no-…

No, This Is Not Human #Nature. It’s Deep Conditioning. What our evolutionary heritage reveals about the world we could build — and the principles that could take us there. An Excerpt from the New Book by Jeremy Lent: #ecocivilization #jeremylent READ: kindredmedia.org/2026/05/no-…

Self-Directed Neuroplasticity And Worldview Literacy: Shifting From Dominant To Kinship Ideomotor Neuron Response for Self-Hypnosis: For personal and collaborative transformation By #FourArrows kindredmedia.org/2026/02/sel…

AI Considers Joseph Chilton Pearce’s Work, Decides AI Is Not Living Intelligence But An Intellectual Tool This “counterfeit intelligence” is extraordinarily capable but divorced from the direct experiences of compassion the context for true intelligence. kindredmedia.org/2026/01/ai-…

I was honored to sit with #JonYoung and Sarah Fontaine in our May #Nesting Ambassador #praxis gathering. Jon is a world renowned #Natureconnection leader. Sarah‘s takes us into the #Neurobiology of connection with #nature. Enjoy their stories. youtube.com/watch?v=hFYd1qzR…

“That we are shaped by the culture we create makes it difficult to see that our culture is what must be transcended, which means we must rise above our notions and techniques of survival itself, if we are to survive.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce nestedworld.org/how-to-get-i…

Now accepting applications! Nesting Ambassadors are emissaries to the world, local and global. A Nesting Ambassador is one who has learned the principles of the evolved nest and integrates them into their lifestyle, workplace and/or community. nestedworld.org/nesting-amba…

Welcoming Babies With Near-Heartedness: Being present with love By #DarciaNarvaez Human infants expect a welcoming right-brain-to-right-brain interbeing from the get-go. This helps them grow cellular mitochondria, the energy batteries of the body. kindredmedia.org/2026/03/wel…

Integrating Evolved Nest Science Into Systemic Family Therapy Given the Dominant Worldview’s destructive impact on the planet and all living beings, I consider moving toward decolonising and indigenising psychotherapy an essential ethical imperative. youtu.be/1IrNxScHPh8?si=HzWS…

When our nurturers are well embodied (well-functioning neurobiology from nurturing upbringing), they bring us into ourselves, letting our unique self and gifts unfold. Ubuntu: I am because we are. Democratic character starts in babyhood. kindredmedia.org/2026/05/cul…

The life pathway of the well nurtured. kindredmedia.org/2026/05/fro… #babies #MaternalGiftEconomy #EvolvedNest #mothering @EvolvedNest

Indigenous ways clash with Western ways. 🔗 How Children Learn Respect for Others: kindredmedia.org/2026/04/how…

Thank you to @MidgeRaymond for the review of "The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities": ecolitbooks.com/2026/01/19/b… @EcoLitBooks #bookreview #TheEvolvedNest

AI Considers Joseph Chilton Pearce’s Work, Decides AI Is Not Living Intelligence But An Intellectual Tool This “counterfeit intelligence” is extraordinarily capable but divorced from the direct experiences of compassion the context for true intelligence. kindredmedia.org/2026/01/ai-…

The Nested World Film Launches: Integrating The #EvolvedNest Trilogy And Its Messages #DarciaNarvaez introduces each of the Evolved Nest's films and reveals their interconnected messages. #BreakingtheCycle kindredmedia.org/2025/11/the…

Rooted In Care: Reimagining Motherhood Through The Wisdom Of The Earth Motherhood awakens us to the complex growth that defines our humanity—the same spark of life that animates the natural world and sustains ecosystems through daily acts of care. kindredmedia.org/2025/05/roo…

Bringing The Evolved Nest To Schooling How can classrooms nest children? Schooling is not oriented to fostering species-normal wellbeing. Too often it focuses on preparing students for doing boring tasks and obeying bosses instead of a flourishing life. kindredmedia.org/2026/04/bri…

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.