Kindred is honored to feature the award-winning, short documentary, Ministry of Surf, in recognition of National Autism Month. Ministry of Surf shares the "story of one perfect day" with world champion surfers and ocean waves "bringing the stoke" to children with autism and their heroic families. The short film illustrates the healing power of nature connection, which is a main focus of Kindred World's nonprofit work (www.KindredMagazine.org and www.KindredWorld.org). Watch Ministry of Surf here: https://youtu.be/hItwb4-4skc?si=n2DabUZA89H_e4Lb Ministry of Surf made the rounds at international film festivals in 2023 and 2024, where it won eight best documentary awards including the Best Humanitarian Short Film at this year's CANNES World Film Festival. You can learn more about the film at www.MinistryofSurfFilm.com. In the interview with Danielle and Izzy, you will learn how Surfers Healing was inspired by their son's regression into autism and their family's discovery of the calming impact of the ocean, a phenomenon recognized as Blue Mind Theory. Izzy and Danielle share their vision for families impacted by autism to have "one perfect day" after many imperfect days of dealing with autism's traumatizing impact on children, their families, and communities. Visit Surfers Healing for more information about their 25 years and thousands of families served by their nonprofit work: www.SurfersHealing.org Visit www.KindredMagazine.org to learn more about Nature Connection and its restorative power through our Evolved Nest. Kindred World is a vision-holder for 26 years for a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. Support our nonprofit work at https://kindredworld.org/donate.

Join the Earth Day Celebration Launch for The Great Physician on April 22 at 3 p.m. ET. Read the press release and register for the event here: kindredmedia.org/2024/03/the-grea…aunch-announced/ Poetry Reading: Who Are You? Timemark 15:30 American Waiting Room, Timemark 21:30 The Texture of Oppression, Timemark 34:40 Kindred World Publishing House is proud to announce the release of The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, the first major collection of poetry by the renowned neuroscientist, healer, and climate activist, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In The Great Physician, Dr. Mines unflinchingly and soulfully moves us beyond transgenerational trauma, war, oppression, planetary collapse, toward the truth of our birthright: our “Original Brilliance.” Purchase your copy of The Great Physician from the publisher for a discounted price. These sales support the nonprofit work of Kindred Magazine and Kindred World. The public is invited to join the live launch party on April 22, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET. The Great Physician will be launched on Earth Day 2024, with virtual poetry readings and a salon discussion with Stephanie Mines and Lisa Reagan, founder of Kindred World and publisher of Kindred World Publishing House. (Register for the live event here.) In The Great Physician’s autobiographical poetry and prose, Dr. Mines shares how her personal and professional background shaped her insights into a fusion of trauma recovery and climate activism. In her global activism through her Climate Change & Consciousness nonprofit, Dr. Mines focuses on humanity’s forward moving direction where inner and outer climates meet. In that place of mystery is our connection with the natural world and the living systems waiting to communicate with us, to give us what data cannot record. Poetry, Dr. Mines says, helps make possible “the spaciousness needed to match our inner experience to the outer catastrophe that is accelerating before our eyes. It helps us to understand.” These poems are inner experiences through which she, and indirectly the reader, find a way to understand planetary experience, personal and generational cause and effect, and hopefully, the courage and energy to change organically—from war, intolerance, fear, ennui. “The invitation I received from Lisa Reagan of Kindred World to assemble a collection of my poems as a chronicle of these times stopped me in my tracks. It led me to an internal retrospective of my life in which I saw that I was born to be a poet as well as a healing artist” writes Dr. Mines in the introduction to The Great Physician. “My life has been marked by irrevocable losses. This is underscored by the crushing impact of the Anthropocene. The loss that is the most brutal, the most devastating, is the loss of our children’s future. I am speaking of the children of the world, born and unborn, as well as my own children and grandchildren.” In more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as a neuroscientist and embryologist, Mines has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinical researcher, and a healthcare provider. Her work has resulted in her nonprofit, The TARA Approach, which provides practical means for the systemic change she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Her training and healing modality is used by individuals internationally and by professional counselors and organizations such as addiction clinics, abuse centers, and refugee charities.

Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, talks with the authors of the book, Attached at the Heart. Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson share their insights from the third editor of their beloved and classic parenting book. Read more about the interview and watch the video version here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/normalizing-nurturing-a-discussion-with-the-authors-of-attached-at-the-heart/ Read the foreword to the book, by Darcia Narvaez, here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/attached-at-the-heart-the-foreword-by-darcia-narvaez/ Learn more about the book here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/35730/ “Our book encourages the nurturing care and emotional connections necessary to build strong, resilient brains for optimal mental and emotional health. It’s revolutionary because the information in this book isn’t found in most parenting books. It counters popular parenting advice in order to empower parents to listen to their babies and young children. These early years are critical to the development of trust and empathy, the necessary ingredients for developing a secure attachment,” said co-author Barbara Nicholson, MEd, CEIM. Attached at the Heart is endorsed by parenting experts, pediatricians and luminary moms such as Alanis Morissette and Mayim Bialik, PhD. “When we co-founded Attachment Parenting International, now known as Nurturings, nearly 30 years ago, we knew that new parents needed evidence-informed education and practical information about how best to nurture their babies. That’s how Attached at the Heart came about – as a guidebook for new parents to help them lean into their caregiving instincts and set their children up for success,” said co-author Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE, CEIM. Attached at the Heart has been a key resource for the attachment parenting movement, encouraging parents to trust their instincts and provide responsive care for their children. “Research has proven that early nurturing experiences transform lives. The Eight Principles of Parenting that are detailed in our book are supported by research and rooted in attachment theory. Attached at the Heart provides science and evidence-backed recommendations to guide new parents in their loving journey,” said Nicholson. The 3rd edition provides new recommendations regarding infant sleep, how to help children and their parents maintain a secure attachment, and how parents can learn to be more emotionally self-aware in order to teach their children emotional regulation strategies.

We can all become self-protective when we feel threatened and downshift to our survival systems which affect our perceptions and actions. This is part one of a two part podcast: 1. What Is Downshifting? 2. The Scope of Healing Our Evolved Nest is our Evolutionary Pathway to Wellbeing and Thriving Learn more about the Evolved Nest on Kindred Media: https://www.kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nest/ About Darcia Narvaez: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/darcia-narvaez-phd/ About Mary Tarsha: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/mary-tarsha/

Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the interview here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2022/07/our-science-fictiony-worldview-lens-do-we-ever-know-what-is-happening-an-interview-with-marilyn-schlitz-phd/ When it appears that everything is wrong with the world, we know we’re dealing with a worldview issue. Science shows us our worldview creates our world, but what creates our worldview? Welcome to Kindred. This is Lisa Reagan and today I am talking with Marilyn Schlitz, the social scientist and field-based researcher of human consciousness who will answer the questions, what is our worldview, how is it formed, and what does science show us about how to shift our worldview. Kindred World’s nonprofit work and vision of a wisdom-based, wellness-informed society has been supported by the Worldview Literacy facilitator training I received from Marilyn at the Institute of noetic sciences over a decade ago. I will include links below the podcast to resources for this program’s training, as well as the Kindred resources for our ongoing work with Four Arrows and Kindred World’s president, Darcia Narvaez, on Indigenous Worldview and Restoring the Kinship Worldview.

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/ The book features 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.

Kindred’s editor, Lisa Reagan, talks with Isa Gucciardi, PhD, about the seven life initiations needed to move into our full state of wholeness and our full potential for thriving – and what happens when these initiations are broken, interrupted, or culturally unacknowledged. Isa shares her considerable insight into how we are thwarted from completing our seven initiations, and how we can reclaim, and even heal, our innate paths to flourishing. LINK TO POST: www.kindredmedia.org/2022/02/seven-…-reclaim-them/ Editor’s Note: Below are the seven initiations excerpted from Chapter 4: The Seven Initiatory Stages, from Isa’s book, The New Return to the Great Mother. This excerpt is edited for brevity. The complete chapter includes stories from women Isa has worked with over many years as they travel through each stage. We hope you will purchase and enjoy these rich, intimate stories.

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha discuss their studies recent findings in this podcast. “This is a game changer. It points to the fact that it is not enough to be trauma-informed. We must also provide for children’s basic needs, which our evolved nest does by its very nature. Cultures that are not attending to wellness-informed practices are not optimizing human potential, something sorely needed as we face numerous culture-caused crises.” – Darcia Narvaez, PhD KEY POINTS - Adversity in childhood is associated with poor physiologic regulation, seen in measures of vagal tone. - A system of socially supportive childraising known as the evolved nest is associated with healthy vagal tone. Read about the study here: www.kindredmedia.org/2021/11/evolve…fects-of-aces/

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha review the new book by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry. They look at the book through the lens of the Evolved Nest to find if the components for life-long wellness for human wellbeing are found in the book. They give the book two thumbs up! About the book Have you ever wondered Why did I do that? or Why can't I just control my behavior? Others may judge our reactions and think, What's wrong with that person? When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha review Michaeleen Doucleff’s book, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy Helpful, Little Humans. "We give this book two thumbs down in terms of it not being heart-centered and providing the evolved nest." My name Dr. Darcia Narvaez and I’m here with Mary Tarsha. We are both at the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In these book review podcasts, we discuss books aimed at parents and how they align or not with humanity’s evolved nest and with child thriving. First a quick review of the evolved nest, which you can learn more about here: www.EvolvedNest.org. Humans evolved to be nested. Humanity’s nest for young children helps optimize children's development, fostering thriving, flourishing and resilience capacities in children of all ages. The evolved nest includes soothing gestation and birth, on-request extensive breastfeeding and positive moving touch (no negative touch), a welcoming social climate, self-directed play with multiple aged mates, warmly responsive nurturing from mother and others, Nature immersion and connection, and healing practices to repair miscommunication or hurts. Child thriving includes Physical health; Happiness and wellbeing, Self-acceptance and appreciation; Self control; Emotional Intelligence; Sociality & social skills; Empathy; Perspective taking; Kindness; and Active curiosity.