The Evolved Nest

Breaking the Cycle illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. breakingthecyclefilm.org #EvolvedNest #film #BreakingtheCycle

Join the Monthly LIVE Nested World Discussion in 2026 on April 14 at 4 p.m. ET: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #EvolvedNest #BreakingtheCycle #ReimaginingHumanity

“A wellness-informed pathway requires understanding and knowing how to fulfill humanity’s basic needs. This is ancient knowledge that helped our ancestors adapt. For young children, the evolved nest meets all needs.“ kindredmedia.org/2021/05/wellne… #TheEvolvedNest

This film expands human imagination based in deep history & transdisciplinary science of human potential. We have not always been mindlessly destructive. For most of our species existence we lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates this. reimagininghumanity.com

Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity With Our #EvolvedNest A Short Film Visit the site for a film discussion guide, more educational materials, and science references at BreakingtheCycleFilm.org

Men Nurture Babies Too All it takes is a little practice. “With the exception of lactation, there is no evidence that women are biologically predisposed to be better parents than men are.” #fathers #babies #alloparentng kindredmedia.org/2026/03/men-nu…

What’s of true value is what makes us more human: loving presence, positive touch and social free play. What’s of true value fosters flourishing of our humanity, of our placefulness on Earth, of our partnership with the rest of Nature. kindredmedia.org/2026/03/the-da…

How Positive Childhood Experiences Affect Your Wellbeing Later in Life: cogco.co/how-positive-c…

An interview on Character and Flourishing with Dr. Darcia Narvaez offers a rich opportunity to explore how moral development, early life experience, and cultural context shape human wellbeing: youtube.com/watch?v=w4ytpM…

Coming up on March 21 + 22: A Kinship Worldview — with Majid Vowells and special guests Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows. Discover how kinship lifeways facilitate becoming and maintaining our full humanity. Register now: events.humanitix.com/exploring-kins…

Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths And What To Do Instead: A New Academic Anthology This guide draws together evidence from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and human development to make a compelling case for why you shouldn’t be using CIO kindredmedia.org/2026/03/dispel…

There is a lot of focus on the importance of mothers nurturing babies to promote attachment and wellbeing. But our heritage is broader than mother-child alone (e.g., Morelli et al., 2017). kindredmedia.org/2026/03/men-nu…

#JaneGoodall taught us what it means to protect a species by understanding its way of life. As we mourn her passing, we might ask: Who is doing the same for us? Who is conserving human wellbeing? #DarciaNarvaez #evolvednest kindredmedia.org/2026/03/who-wi…

Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes. A short film and meditation. kindredmedia.org/2023/06/reimag…

What is our evolved nest? This is a great video from one of our interns who left us for law school, but created this awesome video to explain to any generation the critical importance of our evolved nest. Thank you, Renee! youtube.com/watch?v=XantSr…

Gabor Mate, MD, champions Darcia Narvaez's award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality. Read the introduction and first chapter to the book here: evolvednest.org/the-book-neuro… WATCH: youtube.com/shorts/QNtr-WY… #DarciaNarvaez #GaborMate #EvolvedNest

The Nested World Film Launches: Integrating the Trilogy and Its Messages – Kindred Magazine - Darcia Narvaez introduces each of the Evolved Nest's films and reveals their interconnected messages - kinship worldview kindredmedia.org/2025/11/the-ne…

Nested World for Maternal Gift Economy with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan – Kindred Magazine kindredmedia.org/2025/11/nested…

Just as the North Star has dependably guided explorers across seas/continents for thousands of years, our unchanging, millions year-old Evolved Nest, provides a baseline for “species-typical”, normal human lifeways: kindredmedia.org/2026/02/human-…

In a world of whirlwind change and shifting ground, are you looking for something solid to stand on? Join the Nesting Movement and link arms with others to dance into community and world transformation. nestedworld.org