The evolved nest provides the species-normal pathway to full humanity and integration with Earth’s community.

In this post, I posit a refreshing new understanding of bonding and attachment. When I explored this in a program with therapists last year, the result was exhilaration. Please share how this lands with you.

"Suzanne Zeedyk and other educators in Scotland worked for years to get the word out there and finally it took off. It’s wonderful (ethical!) when a government educates and funds wellbeing in its people as the Scots are doing." – Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World, President, and Evolved Nest Initiative, Founder

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. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.

To not receive the EDN in early life can be perceived as an injustice to a child, with serious ramifications for the child’s future. If brain and body system thresholds are established suboptimally in early years—not by trauma, but simply by not providing care that children evolved to need, then children may not reach their full potential but remain cognitively and socially underdeveloped. - Darcia Narvaez, PhD

New Study: Evolved Nest Experience In Childhood Buffers The Negative Effects Of ACEs

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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. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.