Nested World Live Lectures
Sept 23-Dec 20, 2025
Hey, here is an opportunity for you all!
Join the singular opportunity to attend online live lectures from me, Darcia Narvaez, PhD, during fall 2025. She will lecture on each of the nine components of our evolutionary pathway to wellness, our Communal Evolved Nest, a transdisciplinary set of insights. Most component experiences are needed throughout life to maintain health and social wellbeing.
Join the live lectures. You will be able to submit questions in the Q&A during the session and questions will be addressed at the end of the presentation.
Recordings will not be shared.
You can register for individual lectures or for the 11-lecture set. Gift economy prices begin at $10 per lecture, or $99 for the series. Please donate more, if possible, to help support our nonprofit work.
Sessions will be presented on Saturdays from 10-11:15 am ET. Sign up now!
DATES AND TOPICS
Human Pasts, Human Futures: Wellness or Trauma?
Saturday, September 27
We review the shifted baselines and cultural shifts that have moved us from our millions-year-old wellness-promoting pathway to a trauma-inducing death march. We examine how culture altered child raising to domesticate humanity, diminishing human potential and instead fostered destructive humans and societies. We examine capacities in need of restoration.
Nature Immersion & Partnership:
Saturday, October 4
Modern humans have moved away from partnership with Nature in part because they feel separate from it. But we evolved with the rest of Nature, which heals and preserves us. We learn ways to reconnect and partner. We need to re-wild and re-indigenize ourselves to Earthways.
Special Session: Indigenous Worldview:
Saturday, October 11
Four Arrows and Lisa Reagan discuss the integral aspects of the Evolved Nest and Kinship Worldview. Four Arrows is an international scholar of Indigenous Studies and Worldview. Lisa Reagan is the founder of Kindred World and the co-founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative. You will discover how our evolved nest is the neurobiological scaffolding necessary to develop our Kinship Worldview and its capacity for our full human potential.
Regular Restorative Healing:
Saturday, October 18
Throughout life, we need regular, sometimes daily or hourly, rebalancing practices. We can get out of balance physically, emotionally, psychologically or spiritually—caught up in thinking too much, striving too much, trying to control others. We restore our ability to be present in the moment and to others. We return to the path to fulfilling our deeper purpose.
Social Free Play:
Saturday, October 25
Play shapes and grows our brains in childhood. Self-directed social play facilitates emotion regulation development, including controlling aggressive urges. Throughout life, play grows our social flexibility and social intelligence.
Responsive Relationships:
Saturday, November 1
Responsive caregivers, in mutual co-regulation, shape the infant brain for self-regulation within and across multiple sensory systems. Throughout life, we need friendships to co-regulate us and nurture our best selves.
Positive Touch:
Saturday, November 8
Every age can benefit from positive, welcomed touch for calming and connectedness. Infants need touch to grow in a healthy manner. Babies should never be forced into isolation but should be in arms, or have nearly constant touch.
Welcoming Social Climate:
Saturday, November 22
Humanity evolved to live in supportive communities throughout life, ensuring a feeling of belonging and mattering to others. Babies expect to feel welcomed 24/7.
Multiple Nurturers:
Saturday, December 6
Moms and babies need 24/7 support from a village of support. Throughout life, we each need mentors as we move into new areas of life. We need people who listen, who care about us, who offer welcome advice.
Soothing Perinatal Experiences:
Saturday, December 13
Gestational experiences shape brain function. If a mother is extensively distressed, fetal brain development can be impaired. Medicalized birth practices typically interfere with nature’s design for birth. Skin-to-skin contact after birth helps mom and baby recover from the mobilizing hormones of birth and relax into the bonding hormones that help both heal.
Breastfeeding:
Saturday, Saturday, December 20
Breast milk is an amazing elixir which evolved to promote optimal health. Mammalian milk is species specific for each of the over 4,000 mammalian species. Human milk is thin, rather than thick, and so much be ingested frequently to bathe body and brain in growth-promoting elements.