Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture? Reimagining And Rebuilding With The Evolved Nest And Partnerism
A Powerful Conversation with Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez

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In this powerful conversation, Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez explore the synergy between Eisler’s Partnerism framework and Narvaez’s Evolved Nest model. Narvaez’s and Eisler’s lifelong scholarly works intersect in their call for a shift towards nurturing, relational, and balanced models of existence that revalue the feminine and kinship bonds, seeing these as essential for creating a sustainable, compassionate future. Their work advocates for a profound cultural transformation, grounded in the rediscovery of ancient values and practices that honor interconnectedness and the sacredness of all life.

In defining the complimentary relationship between the Evolved Nest and Partnerism, Riane points out in the video below that alloparenting, one of nine key components of our Evolved Nest, isn’t possible without economic shifts toward gender parity and valuing caregiving. Her insight provides critical guidance for cultural creatives and Nesting Ambassadors who may risk burnout in an effort to create a modern village based on a Cycle of Cooperative Companionship in a decaying culture based on a Cycle of Competitive Detachment. While Narvaez’s work restores our baselines for typical species wellbeing, Eisler’s work expands practical guidance/insights that protect activists from entering into draining Hamster Wheel Activism (acting unconsciously from the Dominant Worldview to engender social change).

Darcia Narvaez & Riane Eisler Compare the Evolved Nest and Partnerism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_mLqTdiyI

Creating A Slave The Psychological Impact Of Child Abuse Darcia Narvaez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPU9fzwBeO0&list=PLy5Xf1bSSus_-1963d2vX2Re-J3PlX3TM&index=2

The Ripple Effect Podcast #112 (Dr. Darcia Narvaez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzqRoeJH1M&list=PLy5Xf1bSSus_-1963d2vX2Re-J3PlX3TM&index=5

Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio W Darcia Narvaez - February 28, 2016

Darcia Narvaez

Development and Epigenetics - Darcia Narvaez and Stefan Molyneux

EP 8: OUR PRIMAL NEST / Dr. Darcia Narvaez

https://www.scu.edu/character/resources/fostering-conscience-and-moral-character/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLmcDBw_Mo

Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology and director, Collaboration for Ethical Education, University of Notre Dame, spoke at Santa Clara University on March 12th about conscience and the classroom. The focus was on an approach called "The Common Morality Model," for integrative ethical education. Highlights included:

    Qualifications of those with "ethical expertise"
    Ethical sensitivity skills for students
    Establishing caring relationships with students and a caring classroom community
    Teaching through the apprenticeship approach
    Self-monitoring of ethical skills development

The presentation was part of "The Project on Conscience in Roman Catholic Thought," a series of talks exploring inner morals in the face of contemporary challenges, sponsored by The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and funded in part through the generosity of Phyllis and Mike Shea.

Mar 12, 2014

Fostering Conscience and Moral Character through Classroom Teaching Darcia Narvaez

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Two Worldviews - Sustainable Wisdom, Integrating Indigenous Knowhow for Global Flourishing

Saturday Keynote Darcia Narvaez

Interview with Darcia Narvaez - Evolutionary Parenting

The Evolved Nest is a breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior.  The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.

Darcia Narvaez & Riane Eisler Compare the Evolved Nest and Partnerism

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