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Building a Nested World, Together

When we understand what it means to create and become a Whole Human, we will understand how to be in relationship with a Whole Earth.

Re-Imagining Humanity with the Integrated Science of Nestedness

In a world of whirlwind change and shifting ground, are you looking for something solid to stand on?
 
Evolved Nest theory, principles and practices offer a millions-year-old framework rooted in Nature’s kinship ways.
 
Join the Nesting Movement and link arms with others to dance into community and world transformation.
Discover what nestedness looks and feels like

Welcoming a
Wellness-informed World

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Take a Step into the World of Deep Nestedness

Deep Nestedness is the wellness-informed approach for human flourishing and planetary wellbeing. Reflecting, ancestral wisdom, humans raised and living nested enhance the life-giving flow of dynamic life. Watch the 12-min film, Reimagining Humanity.

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It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

The Developmental Evolved Nest forms the communal support of mothers and children that fosters healthy brains, bodies, and psyches, building the capacities to be cooperative community members. Watch the 8-min film, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children.

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Break The Cycle

Learn about our heritage, the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship, and how it contrasts with contemporary life, the Cycle of Competitive Detachment. Watch the film, Breaking the Cycle.

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Explore The Evolved Nest Learning Center

To help you start to understand our species evolved nest, we’ve provided brief descriptions of the nine components and resources for learning more.

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Become Wellness- and Trauma-Informed

To heal, one must understand our species-normal, wellness-promoting pathway which contrasts with the trauma-inducing pathway of modern life.

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Restore Our
Kinship Worldview

Those raised in deep nestedness develop a preconquest kinship worldview which contrasts with the dominant postconquest worldview.

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Become a Nesting Ambassador

The Nesting Ambassador Program guides enrollees in developing a nesting worldview and knowhow to go with it. Enrollees learn and develop tools for nestedness in their walk of life and, as certified Nesting Ambassadors, help others re-nest into wellness and compassion. Nesting ambassadors empower others—e.g., parents, teachers, and/or professionals—to decolonize trauma-inducing systems and to move back onto our species-normal wellness-promoting pathway. The Evolved Nest and Kinship consciousness represent the ways all our deep ancestors lived and understood the world and their place in it. They arise from a holistic Living Earth consciousness, which is sorely needed today. Join us as an active participant in the planet’s arising immune system!
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Take up the mantle of a wellness leader.
The Nesting Ambassador Program facilitates mindset change in participants who then, through their efforts, encourage mindset changes in others.
watch the nested world film

Introducing the Nested World Film

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Join Monthly Live Discussion

Join the Monthly LIVE Nested World Discussion in 2026

January 30, 2026 at 3 p.m. ET 

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February 12, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET 

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March 18, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET 

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Watch the full Nested World Film, with Darcia Narvaez introducing the Evolved Nest’s trilogy of films and summarizing their messages above.

The trilogy includes, Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest, and Reimagining Humanity.   

Then join the LIVE discussion with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan. Bring your questions and insights to share.

Our Evolved Nest and Kinship Worldview: Reclaiming Our Roots

"When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. The Nested World resources, and our Evolved Nest Short Film Collection gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes." – Darcia Narvaez, PhD
What is Our Evolved Nest?

Learn more about the science of our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing in the Evolved Nest Learning Center.

What Is Our Kinship Worldview?

"To shift from the dominant worldview to the original Indigenous worldview takes some 'decolonizing' of the mind. Our minds have been suckled on the milk of civilization’s domination and coercion of life with industrialization and capitalism increasing disconnection and alienation from earth consciousness." – Four Arrows

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How Are the Evolved Nest and Kinship Worldview Interrelated?

“When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. The Evolved Nest Short Film Collection gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.”

– Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World President; Evolved Nest Initiative, Co-Founder

“To shift from the dominant worldview to the original Indigenous worldview takes some ‘decolonizing’  of the mind. Our minds have been suckled on the milk of civilization’s domination and coercion of life with industrialization and capitalism increasing disconnection and alienation from earth consciousness.”  

– Four Arrows, Restoring the Kinship Worldview; Worldview Literacy Project, Founder

“The dizzying view from the Mother Tree’s canopy exists, seemingly, in its own world. Eighty feet below, the dark, earthbound root system also thrives in its own world, with its own stories, legends, and mysteries. And yet they form one sentient being: one thriving, colossal, intelligent Mother Tree whose mastery of Grounded Expansion supports her own life, and many lives around her.”

What the Mother Tree Said: How Our Evolved Nest Supports Our Grounded Expansion/Kinship Worldview, Kindred Magazine, Lisa Reagan

Watch the live launch of the Nested World website and Nesting Ambassador Program at the Maternal Gift Economy’s #88 Salon on November 15, 2025.

 

Watch the first lecture in the Nesting Ambassador Program 2026, Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness?The lecture was a part of the Nested World Fall 2025 Lecture Series by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.

The Nesting Ambassador Program is now accepting applications for the 2026 Cohort. 

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