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Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez discuss their new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview. Learn more about worldview and discover Four Arrows' Indigenous Worldview Chart on Kindred here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/glossary/indigenous-worldview/

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future.

Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors’ own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts like:
 

   • Egalitarian rule versus hierarchical governance

   • A fearless trust in the universe, instead of a fear-based culture

   • The life-sustaining role of ceremony

   • Emphasizing generosity and the greater good instead of pursuing selfish goals and for personal gain

   • The laws of nature as the highest rules for living
 
The editors emphasize our deep need to move away from the dominant Western paradigm--one that dictates we live without strong social purpose, fails to honor the earth as sacred, leads with the head while ignoring the heart, and places individual “rights” over collective responsibility. Restoring the Kinship Worldview is rooted in an Indigenous vision and strong social purpose that sees all life forms as sacred and sentient--that honors the wisdom of the heart, and grants equal standing to rights and responsibilities.
 
Inviting readers into a world-sense that expands beyond perceiving and conceiving to experiencing and being, Restoring the Kinship Worldview is a salve for our times, a nourishment for our collective, and a holistic orientation that will lead us away from extinction toward an integrated, sustainable future.

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: A Discussion with Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez

Lisa Reagan talks with Darcia Narvaez about the science behind the Evolved Nest’s new Baby Bill of Rights poster, available below.

In 1989, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.  It’s become the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, with 195 countries on board and only two abstaining: the United States and Somalia.  However, as Darcia explains in this interview, the convention does not reflect the basic needs of babies. Baby’s rights are really basic needs for brain, immune system, and even spiritual development (nature connection). If these basic needs aren’t meet when a baby’s biology expects them to be met, there may be a lifetime of compensating for these deficiencies as adults.

A version of the Baby’s Bill of Rights was first presented in Darcia’s 2018 academic book, Basic Needs, Wellbeing, and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential. The 14 rights of babies presented on the poster reflect the science of the nine components of our Evolved Nest – a few components were broken down into smaller parts. You can listen to Darcia discuss each of these baby’s rights in the podcast interview. Visit the Evolved Nest’s Learning Center to discover more about our nine components for lifelong wellbeing.

In this interview, you will learn:

1. Why a Baby’s Bill of Rights is needed.
2. Why is the Baby’s Bill of Rights is written for communities rather than parents?
3. How are baby’s developmental needs different from a child’s needs?
4. How does a Baby’s Bill of Rights contribute to the creation of a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society?

Buy the poster here: https://society6.com/product/babys-bill-of-rights_poster?sku=s6-26707336p66a213v756

Why Do We Need A Baby's Bill of Rights? Interview with Darcia Narvaez

Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, talks with Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw the authors of the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature’s Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities. Darcia is the founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative here at Kindred World and Gay is the executive director of The Kerulos Center in Jackson, Oregon. Gay is also the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity. Their integrative efforts to produce this work is generating acclaim from many fields of science and sustainability.

Gabor Mate has written the foreword to the book, which you can read on Kindred. Gabor champions the book for being “rich in mind-boggling scientific observation, will leave the reader both humbled and grateful.” The book has received numerous enthusiastic endorsements from leaders in neuroscience such as Bruce Perry, Allan Schore, Dan Siegel, and Vandava Shiva.

You can also read the first chapter of the book at KindredMedia.org and read Darcia’s posts on the Evolved Nest exclusively at Kindred.

Read the foreword: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/07/gabor-mate-on-the-evolved-nest-foreword-to-the-new-book/

Read the first chapter of the book: https://kindredmedia.org/2023/08/34998/

Repairing the Primal Tear: How Our Evolved Nest Heals Us, Our Animal Kin, And Planet

Riane Eisler talks with Kindred on Creating a Post-Pandemic Caring Economy and Culture. 

Riane is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future shows how to construct a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination.

Riane is internationally known for her bestseller and seminal work The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, which Ashley Montagu called “the most important book since Darwin’s Origin of Species” 

Currently, Riane is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), which is dedicated to research and education.

A transcript of this interview will be available on www.KindredMedia.org asap.

Visit the Center for Partnership Studies for more resources: https://centerforpartnership.org

Repairing the Primal Tear: How Our Evolved Nest Heals Us, Our Animal Kin, And Planet

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