Nesting Ambassadors

“We are immersed in species-atypical spaces growing species-atypical human beings. Our baselines for what we think is normal have shifted so much we do not realize how atypical we are. Atypical environments leave us dysregulated, easily upset, and disruptive. Species-typical childhoods nurture a healthy neurobiology, sociality, and compassionate morality. Species-typicality, our evolved nest, is needed for species and planetary wellbeing.”

– Darcia Narvaez, PhD, author of the award-winning book,Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom

Applications for the January 2026 Cohort are now closed.

If you are interested in applying for the August 2026 Cohort,

add your name to the waiting list now by emailing us at nestedworldinitiative@gmail.com

Visit the Nesting Ambassadors Global Directory to Meet our 2025 Cohort Graduates.

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A Letter from the Founders

Join Us in Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World

It is with great joy and hope for our future we share with you the long-awaited Nested World Initiative and Nesting Ambassador Program. The Nested World launched live on November 15, 2025 on the Maternal Gift Economy’s 88th Salon (see video presentation).

As a small, grassroots nonprofit, we at Kindred World (and Evolved Nest Initiative) have relied on our commitment to embody our values of integration, strategic vision, and radical acceptance of both grace and boundaries to complete our mission. Over the years, we’ve developed initiatives and projects based on need, your expressed needs, presented through our Kindred World Ecology (see KW’s Ecology Map here).

How can we transform the future together? We can bring forth a Nested World. Humanity’s millions year-old pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest, supports our heart wisdom, provides a scaffolding to becoming whole humans, and connects us to all of life, reclaiming our belonging to the Earth and our Kinship Worldview.

Want to see how it’s done? Read Field Reports from the 2025 Cohort Nesting Ambassadors themselves, and discover their plans and projects for integrating the science of the Evolved Nest and deep wisdom of Kinship Worldview right where in they are: in their own families, communities, fields of study, professional realms, and public policy. You can meet Certified Nesting Ambassadors and discover their Community Projects in the Global Certified Nesting Ambassador Directory.

Below you will find gifts from us to you in celebration of our shared vision for transforming the future together.

Nested World Launch Presentation. Watch the video presentation here.

Nesting Ambassador Program. Learn more about the Nesting Ambassador Program and apply for the 2026 Cohort below.

Nested World Film. Watch the newly released Nested World film, featuring video footage of Darcia introducing each of the Evolved Nest’s trilogy of films from the University of Notre Dame campus here.

Nested World First Lecture for Free. Watch the intrduction to the Fall Lecture Series free here: Human Pasts, Global Futures: Trauma or Wellness?

As Ilya Prigogine, a Nobel Laureate, states, “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”

We have a plan. We can do this, together.

In peace and gratitude,

Darcia Narvaez, PhD, President, Kindred World

Lisa Reagan, Founder and Executive Director, Kindred World

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Become a Nesting Ambassador

What is a Nesting Ambassador?

The Nesting Ambassador Program facilitates mindset change in enrollees who then, through their efforts, encourage mindset changes in others. Nesting Ambassadors help others to not only shift in mindset but develop knowhow for promoting wellness. As the wisdom of the nest is promoted more widely, objectives of systems will begin to change. Nesting ambassadors empower parents, teachers, and/or professionals to take up their power to decolonize trauma-inducing systems related to child raising, adult health, institutional practices, promoting the wellbeing of All. We together promote the new/old story that we co-create a living Earth.

The Evolved Nest and the Kinship mindset that accompanies it are wellness promoting. They represent the ways all our deep ancestors lived and understood the world and their place in it. They arise from a planetary consciousness, which is sorely needed today. You can take up this consciousness, participating in the planet’s arising immune system.

In order to shift the dominant culture from its trauma-inducing systems to wellness-promoting systems we need to:

1.

Change mindsets.

In this case, understanding our evolutionary history as cooperators who jointly raise children with love (according to evolved nest principles) is key. Also important is taking up the Kinship Mindset or Indigenous Worldview—this will be the focus of an additional ambassadorship module created later.

2.

Alter the objectives of the trauma-inducing systems.

We need to move away from the Sacred Money and Markets Story that has been forced upon us and return instead to the Sacred Living Earth Story that is part of our ancestral wisdom (Korten, 2015). The objectives of the latter story are to foster wellbeing in individuals and communities, human and non-human, and to keep Life flourishing and flowing into the future.

3.

Redistribute power regarding who decides the rules that govern each system.

Global efforts at localization—of food sources, investment, education, etc.—are fundamental to restore the power of decision making to local communities instead of global corporate colonialists (e.g., World Trade Organization) that hamstring nations’ capacities to self-govern towards wellness for its citizens. Evolved Nest ambassadors help grow collective efforts toward democracy and self-governance.

4.

Build knowhow for wellness promotion

Build knowhow for wellness promotion in self-care, relationships with humans and non-humans, and Nature’s ecological systems. The evolved nest provides the infrastructure for growing Kinship knowhow for living well with Earth’s ways of partnership and cooperation across natural systems.

5.

Change the story.

Part of Kindred World’s mission is to dismantle the myths that govern our lives—e.g., that how babies are treated doesn’t much matter (they won’t remember), that children need to be punished to be good, that only research studies can tell us how to treat children, that people are naturally selfish and aggressive, that hierarchy is normal for human communities.

What Is the Nesting Ambassador Program?

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, using their enhanced skills to lead others to follow evolved nest principles.

The first level of the program involves study and completion of the Evolved Nest Curriculum and a self-chosen course project.

Prerequisite: High school/secondary school diploma or equivalent.

Application: Documentation needed for application: (a) A resume regarding one’s life experiences and (b) a paragraph or two about what motivates you to become a Nesting Ambassador.

Material provided: Online classroom with recorded lectures, resources, and the capacity to communicate with your cohort members. Available resources include decades of resources from multiple Kindred World initiatives and projects, including Kindred Magazine, the Evolved Nest Initiative, and the Worldview Literacy Project.

Material needed: internet access for online classroom, a notebook for journaling and creative activities.

Cost: $1500

Course structure: There will be 11 online whole-group meetings, every other week.

On alternative weeks, participants meet with partners to discuss homework assignments and complete activities, integrating course material. Partners will report on their discussions at the online whole-group meetings.

Applications for the January 2026 Cohort are now closed. Place your name on a waiting list for the August 2026 Cohort by emailing us at nestedworldinitiative@gmail.com.

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Nesting Ambassador Posts

The Convention on the Rights of the Child: CRC Re-visioned with the Science of the Evolved Nest

NOTE: This document is a project initiated by Derek Peterson and is not intended for distribution. By Derek Peterson This document is important to me because it reflects a formative moment in my early work as a child and youth advocate. In 1995, I believed that if policymakers clearly understood the intent and content of […]

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Preparing for the Journey Ahead

Preparing for the Journey Ahead: A Conscious Approach to Becoming A Nesting Ambassador By Lisa Reagan Note: The following insights are distilled from over 20 years of direct, living experience. AI did not contribute to its creation, nor could it. This post is the opening letter to Nesting Ambassadors in the online classroom. Before setting […]

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My Path to the Evolved Nest

My Path to the Evolved Nest In the mid-1980s, when I first volunteered with Mothers at Home (the original name of our organization), we were often challenged: “Why does it matter if you’re home? Children do just fine in child care. Responding to questions like this, we focused on simple statements such as: “I think […]

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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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Kindred World is leading us in a new way of nurturing our humanity. Creating peace in the world through the Evolved Nest. Connecting us to our other than human relatives and to the core of who we are. As a writer and artist striving to write stories that exeplify this peace I am supported by their research and work. I have learned a great deal also by their sharing of resources from proffessionals around the world. I have also been supported by there work in my own healing journey and in raising my child in cooperative companionship. Kindred World is providing deeply needed direction for how to nurture whole human beings.

Kindred Media consistently reminds us of what is essential to thriving as individuals and how this is related to our survival as the human race. Our destinies are intertwined & we truly belong to each other; it is not an idealistic construct, but it is an unavoidable part of our biology. The community offers practical constructs for supporting the source of all life in our planet: mothers.

Going onto the Kindred site is like stepping into another world, the world I envision and am working toward. From its illuminating pieces on childhood and parenting to its thoughtful essays on the environment and the critical need to change our worldview and our behaviors, Kindred challenges my mind and nourishes my soul.