BREAKING THE CYCLE Short Film in German The Evolved Nest 2024-02-29 | This version of the Breaking the Cycle film is in German. Come back soon for transcript translation!Visit the Breaking the Cycle website for film discussion guides, resources, and more: www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org Visit the Evolved Nest website: www.EvolvedNest.orgRead posts by Darcia Narvaez at www.KindredMagazine.org
Misperceptions About Baby Needs The Evolved Nest 2024-01-26 | Darcia Narvaez converses with psychotherapist Elizabeth Barrett, host of The Reluctant Therapist podcast. They discuss questions like what is a baby? What do babies need for healthy development? What is harmful about sleep training? And, what can adults do if they were raised unnested?Read Darcia's Evolved Nest's posts on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nestLearn more about the Evolved Nest on www.EvolvedNest.org
The Evolved Nest: Natures Way of Raising Children, in Spanish The Evolved Nest 2023-12-02 | This short film is an accompaniment to the newly released book by Darcia Narvaez, PhD, and G.A, Bradshaw, PhD. The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Connected Communities is a beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the Animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives.Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal's parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their "evolved nests." You'll learn:- How Wolves build an internal moral compass- How Beavers foster a spirit of play in their children- How Octopuses develop emotional and social intelligence- How, when, and whether (or not) Brown Bears decide to have children- What their lessons can teach you--whether you're a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or childfreeBuy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-evolved-nest-natures-way-of-raising-children-and-creating-connected-communities-g-a-bradshaw/19178497?aid=24475&ean=9781623177676&listref=restoring-our-humanityRead Chapter One of the book here: kindredmedia.org/2023/08/34998Read the Foreword by Gabor Mate, MD, here: kindredmedia.org/2023/07/gabor-mate-on-the-evolved-nest-foreword-to-the-new-bookListen to a podcast interview with the authors: kindredmedia.org/2023/08/repairing-the-primal-tear-how-our-evolved-nest-heals-us-our-animal-kin-and-our-planetVisit the Evolved Nest Initiative's website to learn more: www.EvolvedNest.orgJoin our private, dedicated platform to receive invitations to monthly live calls with the book author: www.KindredCommunity.org
The Evolved Nest, Returning to Natures Way of Raising Connected, Nurtured Children The Evolved Nest 2023-11-05 | The Evolved Nest, Returning to Nature's Way of Raising Connected, Nurtured Childrenpresented at the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative meeting in Washington, DC on November 2, 2023Darcia Narvaez describes how our evolved wellness-informed pathway follows the cycle of connected cooperative companionship. This pathway shifted over time to the trauma-inducing pathway that dominates the planet and pressed us into a cycle of destructive competitive detachment. She shows how we can return to wellness by following our species' evolved nest. She integrates a description of humanity's species-typical evolved nest with Indigenous wisdom.Read more about the Evolved Nest: kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nestVisit the Evolved Nest website: www.EvolvedNest.org
Nested World LIVE Discussion with Darcia The Evolved Nest 2023-10-25 | We're sharing this month's Nested World LIVE call with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan to help you experience these intimate and informational gatherings of our Kindred Community. The resources shared in the chat room are also shared below. Visit www.KindredMedia.org's landing page to register for the monthly calls.Please support our nonprofit work with your tax-deductible monthly or annual donations here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Follow Darcia’s posts and podcasts on Kindred here: kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nest Visit the Evolved Nest Learning Center here: evolvednest.org/nine-components-overview Save the dates for the next upcoming meetings at www.KindredMedia.orgFind a list of resources shared during this call here: kindredmedia.org/2023/10/35286
Reimaginando la Humanidad The Evolved Nest 2023-09-15 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comRead and share the release: kindredmedia.org/2023/06/reimagining-humanity-launches-a-new-short-film-and-sequel-to-breaking-the-cycleWhen 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.(June 1, 2023) Kindred World is proud to launch the Evolved Nest’s educational, short film, Reimagining Humanity. The goal of the moving and inspirational 12-minute film is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species’ existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.Reimagining Humanity names and illustrates many of the Indigenous/Kinship Worldview precepts, from trust in Spirit to trusting the cycle of life, from respecting diversity to avoiding rigid hierarchy. Through our Evolved Nest, our evolutionary and neurobiological pathway to lifelong wellbeing, we develop the Kinship Worldview. When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.Reimagining Humanity is based on Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015, and the American Educational Research Association’s Moral Development and Special Interest Group Award in 2016. Reimagining Humanity was made possible through the Expanded Reason Award’s award monies.
The Evolved Nest: Natures Way of Raising Children, the Film The Evolved Nest 2023-09-13 | This short film is an accompaniment to the newly released book by Darcia Narvaez, PhD, and G.A, Bradshaw, PhD. The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Connected Communities is a beautiful resource for Nature advocates, parents-to-be, Animal lovers, and anyone who seeks to restore wellbeing on our planet, The Evolved Nest reconnects us to lessons from the Animal world and shows us how to restore wellness in our families, communities, and lives.Each of 10 chapters explores a different animal's parenting model, sharing species-specific adaptations that allow each to thrive in their "evolved nests." You'll learn:- How Wolves build an internal moral compass- How Beavers foster a spirit of play in their children- How Octopuses develop emotional and social intelligence- How, when, and whether (or not) Brown Bears decide to have children- What their lessons can teach you--whether you're a parent, grandparent, caregiver, or childfreeBuy the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-evolved-nest-natures-way-of-raising-children-and-creating-connected-communities-g-a-bradshaw/19178497?aid=24475&ean=9781623177676&listref=restoring-our-humanityRead Chapter One of the book here: kindredmedia.org/2023/08/34998Read the Foreword by Gabor Mate, MD, here: kindredmedia.org/2023/07/gabor-mate-on-the-evolved-nest-foreword-to-the-new-bookListen to a podcast interview with the authors: kindredmedia.org/2023/08/repairing-the-primal-tear-how-our-evolved-nest-heals-us-our-animal-kin-and-our-planetVisit the Evolved Nest Initiative's website to learn more: www.EvolvedNest.orgJoin our private, dedicated platform to receive invitations to monthly live calls with the book author: www.KindredCommunity.org
Evolved Nest, The Book: An Interview with the Authors, Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw The Evolved Nest 2023-08-15 | Learn about the new book, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities, from the authors, Darcia Narvaez and Gay Bradshaw. The interview is by Meghan Armstrong-Abrami, Ph.D., Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at theUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst.Read the foreword to the book by Gabor Maté, MD, here: kindredmedia.org/2023/07/gabor-mate-on-the-evolved-nest-foreword-to-the-new-bookLearn more about the book and read stellar endorsements by Bruce Perry, Dan Siegel, Vandava Shiva, and more, here: evolvednest.org/the-evolved-nest-book“This gem of a book, vast in erudition and insight and rich in mind-boggling scientific observation, will leave the reader both humbled and grateful.”--Excerpt from foreword by Gabor Maté, author of The Myth of Normal"This is the most thought-provoking, fascinating, challenging, beautiful book I’ve read in years. With remarkable scholarship and compelling storytelling, the authors examine the consequences of humanity’s arrogant, and, ultimately, futile rebellion from the natural world. There are qualities of the human brain which have allowed our species to invent ourselves into our modern world and live as if we are apart from, and ‘above,’ the rest of the natural world."--Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D.Principal, The Neurosequential Network
Reimagining Humanity Trailer The Evolved Nest 2023-07-07 | CONTACT: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comWatch the full version of Reimagining Humanity at www.ReimaginingHumanity.comRead and share this release: kindredmedia.org/2023/06/reimagining-humanity-launches-a-new-short-film-and-sequel-to-breaking-the-cycleWhen 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.(June 1, 2023) Kindred World is proud to launch the Evolved Nest’s educational, short film, Reimagining Humanity. The goal of the moving and inspirational 12-minute film is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species’ existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.Reimagining Humanity names and illustrates many of the Indigenous/Kinship Worldview precepts, from trust in Spirit to trusting the cycle of life, from respecting diversity to avoiding rigid hierarchy. Through our Evolved Nest, our evolutionary and neurobiological pathway to lifelong wellbeing, we develop the Kinship Worldview. When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.Reimagining Humanity is based on Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015, and the American Educational Research Association’s Moral Development and Special Interest Group Award in 2016. Reimagining Humanity was made possible through the Expanded Reason Award’s award monies.Narvaez hosted interdisciplinary conferences at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience and human development in 2010, 2012, and 2014. (Click on the links to see the full conferences.) In 2016 she organized a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing from which an academic book emerged (Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom) but also a partnership with Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa). They collaborated on the popular 2022 book, Restoring the kinship worldview: Indigenous voices introduce 28 precepts for rebalancing life on planet earth. Reimagining Humanity is also inspired by their ongoing collaboration.A Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, Narvaez emerged in the top two percent of scientists worldwide in a 2020 analysis. Of the eight million scientists in the world, the analysis concerned those who had at least five articles published in scientific journals between 1996 and 2017. Individuals were ranked according to various criteria, including number of citations of their work.Narvaez is the president of the venerable American nonprofit, Kindred World, a contributing editor to Kindred, the first global eco-parenting magazine, an advisory board member of Attachment Parenting International and Self-Reg. She is former executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She has been quoted and her work cited in The Atlantic, Time, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Indianapolis Star, as well as in international media.Viewers of the Reimagining Humanity short film are welcome to host public screenings of the film with the Reimagining Humanity Film Discussion and Resources on the website, www.ReimaginingHumanity.org.Narvaez is available for interviews and presentations about the film and her work. You may contact her at evolvednestinitiative@gmail.com.Kindred World is an award-winning American nonprofit providing public education on creating a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society through multiple initiatives, projects, and conferences since 1996. The Evolved Nest is an educational initiative of Kindred World.Join monthly LIVE discussions with Darcia Narvaez by joining the Kindred Community ad-free, Mighty Networks platform here.Visit the Evolved Nest Learning Center: https://evolvednest.org/nine-componen...Read more posts and podcasts about the Evolved Nest on Kindred.See the original short film in the series, Breaking the Cycle.Join the Kindred Community to become a part of an ongoing discussion, and monthly live discussions with Darcia Narvaez, at www.KindredCommunity.org. This space is an ad-free, Mighty Networks platform.
Reimagining Humanity: The Sequel to Breaking the Cycle The Evolved Nest 2023-06-26 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comRead and share the release: kindredmedia.org/2023/06/reimagining-humanity-launches-a-new-short-film-and-sequel-to-breaking-the-cycleWhen 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.(June 1, 2023) Kindred World is proud to launch the Evolved Nest’s educational, short film, Reimagining Humanity. The goal of the moving and inspirational 12-minute film is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species’ existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.Reimagining Humanity names and illustrates many of the Indigenous/Kinship Worldview precepts, from trust in Spirit to trusting the cycle of life, from respecting diversity to avoiding rigid hierarchy. Through our Evolved Nest, our evolutionary and neurobiological pathway to lifelong wellbeing, we develop the Kinship Worldview. When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.Reimagining Humanity is based on Narvaez’s award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015, and the American Educational Research Association’s Moral Development and Special Interest Group Award in 2016. Reimagining Humanity was made possible through the Expanded Reason Award’s award monies.Read and share the release: kindredmedia.org/2023/06/reimagining-humanity-launches-a-new-short-film-and-sequel-to-breaking-the-cycle
Education in a Time of Human-Caused Ecological Devastation The Evolved Nest 2023-06-03 | Abstract:The world today is in a bad way. Humanity forgot how to raise children to live well on Earth. Dr. Narvaez discusses holistic education, which contrasts with typical schooling practiced today. She describes what a nested, healing classroom does, and what schooling that promotes ecological literacy and ethical development can look like. To change from trauma-inducing ways, child raising and schooling must return to fostering ecological wisdom, wellbeing and inclusive ethics.Read the post here: kindredmedia.org/2023/04/what-is-education-forListen to the audio here: soundcloud.com/evolvednest/education-in-a-time-of-human-caused-ecological-devastationVisit the Evolved Nest site at www.EvolvedNest.orgRead Darcia Narvaez on Kindred at www.KindredMedia.orgVisit Kindred World's nonprofit website to support our work at www.KindredWorld.orgPresented at the Sustainable General Education, Humanities in Medicine and in STEAM Education. Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Congress on College General Education, Taiwan.
Worldview Chart Introduction: With Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez The Evolved Nest 2022-12-20 | Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez introduce Kindred readers to the illuminating Worldview Chart they explore in their current book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts For Rebalancing Life On Planet Earth. About the Worldview Chart:This chart is not intended as a rigid binary, but a true dichotomy best viewed as a continuum. It is meant to encourage seeking complementarity and dialogue. Absolutism is discouraged with the realization we are all participating in DW precepts to some degree. The chart assumes that all diverse cultures, religions, and philosophies can be grouped under one of the two worldviews. “Indigenous Worldview” does not belong to a race or group of people, but Indigenous cultures who still hold on to their traditional place-based knowledge are the wisdom keepers of this original Nature-based worldview. All people are indigenous to Earth and have the right and the responsibility to practice and teach the IW precepts. All have the responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and use of traditional lands.For non-Indians who are concerned about misappropriation, see the peer reviewed article,“The Indigenization Controversy: For Whom By Whom.” Worldview Chart and introduction by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), a.k.a. Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Originally published in The Red Road (chanku luta): Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview, 2020. Featured inRestoring the Kindship Worldview, 2022, by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Find Four Arrows and more on Indigenous Worldview at www.KindredMedia.orgAbout the Book:Restoring the Kinship Worldview examines 28 of the 40 precepts presented on the Worldview Chart. This book is about worldview and the consciousness it creates and reflects. It is a topic of utmost importance for the continuation of humanity. “Worldview is a concept ‘whose time has come, ’and its increasing appearance in the contemporary climate change and global sustainability debates can be understood as both response to, and reflection of, the challenges of our time and the solutions they demand.” Everyone acts according to their worldview, an implicit set of assumptions that guide behavior. About Four Arrows:Born in 1946 with the given name, Donald Trent Jacobs, in honor of his Uncle who died on VJ day in WWII, Four Arrows was made a relative of the Oglala, Lakota and a member of the Medicine Horse Tiospaye after completing his Sun Dance vows while living and on the Pine Ridge Reservation and serving as Director of Education at Ogalala Lakota College. His mother and her family claimed Cherokee heritage but he had no exposure to the culture while growing up. After his experiences with the Raramuri of Mexico as described in his book, Primal Awareness, he obtained a doctorate in education focusing on Indigenous worldview from Boise State University. He was selected by AERO for their text Turning Points as one of 26 visionaries in education and his many books, chapters, peer- reviewed papers, journal articles and online presentations have made him an internationally recognized and respected authority on decolonizing, counter-hegemonic democracy and Indigeneity. His work has been endorsed by such notables as Vine Deloria, Jr., Greg Cajete, Daniel Wildcat, Ed McGaw, Rebecca Adamson, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Thom Hartman, John Pilger and many others. Recipient of a Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his activism in behalf of American Indians, he is currently a professor at Fielding Graduate University where he has chaired many dissertations for Indigenous students and others interested in Indigenous life ways. He and his wife, Beatrice Angela, live in Mexico and British Columbia, where eco- activism, surfing, handball, horses, music and grandchildren are important focuses.About Darcia Narvaez:Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Darcia Narvaez researches moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. She has numerous publications, including more than 20 books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing; Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential and Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination. A recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award. She blogs for Kindred Media and hosts the Kindred World initiative, The EvolvedNest.org.
Evolved Nest Explained: Soothing Perinatal Experience The Evolved Nest 2022-11-29 | Watch Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha present the first component of the Evolved Nest: Soothing Perinatal Experiences. See more resources in the EN Learning for this component here: evolvednest.org/1-perinatal-experiencesChildbirth is naturally timed to indicate when the child is ready to be born (sometimes exiting the womb early because of problematic development or maternal stress). Modern practices often interfere with nature’s timing. Humans have changed this heritage with psychological interference (e.g., anticipation of pain, causing fear and contraction of muscles instead of relaxation. Natural oxytocin and epinephrine are released by the mother during unimpeded labor, suppressing pain, coordinating uterine contractions and supporting emotional bonding through hormone releases that facilitate memory and social reward (Lévy, Kendrick, Goode, Guevara-Guzman, Keverne, 1995).Vaginal birth may parallel the extensive licking that other newborn mammals receive from their mothers (Montagu, 1978). Similar to mammals who go unlicked, cesarean-birthed babies have respiratory, digestive and elimination problems. In fact, the physiological stress of natural birth triggers high levels of mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) which is related to nutrient utilization critical for normal development and survival of hippocampal and other brain neurons, affecting memory and other functions in adulthood (Simon-Areces, Dietrich, Hermes, Garcia-Segura, Arevalo et al., 2012).
APA 2022 Conference Poster: Womens EDN and Autonomic Regulation The Evolved Nest 2022-08-10 | American Psychological Association Conference, Minneapolis, August 2022The Relation of Childhood Evolved Developmental Niche Experience to Women’s Autonomic Regulation Early life adversity impairs adult health outcomes (Felitti & Anda, 2005) but what experiences support healthy outcomes? The Evolved Developmental Niche (EDN), identified worldwide among human groups, represents the human species’ millions-years-old evolved system of care that meets the basic needs of children and optimizes biopsychosocial development. The EDN includes a set of social ecological characteristics under which human neurobiological systems evolved. EDN components for young children identified by ethnographers (Hewlett & Lamb, 2005) include: (1) touch, being held or kept near others constantly; (2) caregiver prompt and appropriate responses to fusses, cries, and needs; (3) breastfeeding on request frequently; (4) multiple allomothers that is, frequent care by responsive individuals other than mothers (fathers and grandmothers, in particular); (5) multiage self-directed free play in nature; (6) high social embeddedness; and (7) positive social climate and social embeddedness. Emerging evidence suggests that the EDN supports autonomic functioning across the lifespan into adulthood and buffers the effects of adverse childhood experiences (withheld for blind review). Given the possible importance of the EDN in childhood with regards to shaping neurobiological systems across the lifespan, questions then emerge as to which of its components most strongly influence autonomic regulation years later. To address this question, women’s (N = 78) childhood history was assessed according to the EDN in addition to assessment of their respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; cardiac vagal functioning), an online biomarker of autonomic functioning and mental health resilience (Pereira et al., 2020). RSA was measured across both relaxing and stressful conditions, providing indexes of both cardiac vagal tone and cardiac vagal flexibility (vagal rate of change across experimental conditions). Three latent growth curve models demonstrated that childhood history of positive home climate and social embeddedness outperformed the other EDN components in terms of predicting both cardiac vagal tone and flexibility. Positive home climate predicted higher cardiac vagal tone (βstress to recovery=.59, p .03; βlevel of recovery=.50, p=.048) whereas childhood social embeddedness predicted both tonic (βstress to recovery=-.40, p=.035) and flexible cardiac vagal regulation (βbaseline to stress=-.31, p=.008).The results suggest that provision of the EDN in childhood, specifically that of positive home climate and social embeddedness, may promote overall cardiac vagal tone and vagal flexibility in women years later, supporting the neurobiological architecture needed for adult health and resilience. Future research, practice and policy should consider ways to enhance family social embeddedness and home climate as possible factors in supporting autonomic development. ReferencesFelitti, V. J., & Anda, R. F. (2005). The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente.Hewlett, B.S., & Lamb, M.E. (2005). Hunter-gatherer childhoods: evolutionary, developmental and cultural perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Aldine.Narvaez, D., Panksepp, J., Schore, A., & Gleason, T. (2013). Evolution, early experience and human development: From research to practice and policy. New York: Oxford. doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755059.001.0001Pereira, V. H., Campos, I., & Sousa, N. (2017). The role of autonomic nervous system in susceptibility and resilience to stress. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 14, 102-107. doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.01.003Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. (2021). Effects of adverse childhood experience on physiological regulation are moderated by evolved developmental niche history. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 1-13. doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2021.1989419
Biology of Trauma Summit Invitation The Evolved Nest 2022-06-29 | Your Biology of Trauma Summit InvitationFree Registration:biologyoftrauma.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=32419We all know that everyone experiences some life trauma and that trauma is stored in the body. In this free online Summit, host Dr. Aimie Apigian interviews over 40 experts on all kinds of trauma from pre-birth to betrayal in marriage and how it becomes our biology, not just psychology. With the focus on knowledge and tools to accelerate the healing journey, this is a Solution Series on Mental Health, Addictions and Burnout.
Our Millions Year-Old Embodied Wisdom: Indigenous Worldview, With Darcia Narvaez And Four Arrows The Evolved Nest 2022-06-20 | Listen to the authors of Restoring the Kinship Worldview talk about reclaiming our millions year-old embodied wisdom through Indigenous Worldview.Learn more about the book Restoring the Kinship Worldview, from the authors, here: kindredmedia.org/?s=Kinship+Worldview Learn more about Indigenous Worldview, including downloading a worldview chart, here: kindredmedia.org/glossary/indigenous-worldviewSee this article on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/2022/06/our-millions-year-old-embodied-wisdom-indigenous-worldview-a-video-with-darcia-narvaez-and-four-arrowsMost philosophical positions are rooted in western enlightenment assumptions of human superiority to and separation from nature, the notion of human cultural progress, and individualism—all part of what anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called the ‘western illusion of human nature.’ Virtually all prior and contemporaneous cultures had a different orientation, one of human interconnectedness and partnership with the biocommunity and a cyclical panpsychism. Social anthropologist Robert Redfield concluded that there are essentially two worldviews—a set of implicit assumptions that guide one’s values, philosophy, and attitudes towards life. We name these the dominant and the Indigenous worldviews. The dominant worldview considers the cosmos fragmented, amoral and disenchanted and has led to the disruption of ecological systems, including child development, worldwide. The Indigenous worldview considers the cosmos interconnected, moral and sacred, and is associated with greater biodiversity preservation. The Indigenous worldview and corresponding philosophy represent the longest empirical “experiment” ever done in biodiverse and culturally diverse settings. The Indigenous worldview of interconnection and circular effects, sentience and cooperation among natural systems, is supported by scientific evidence today, from physics to biology. We present forty precepts showing how the Indigenous worldview supports biodiversity and the dominant worldview does not.
Evolved Nest Explained: Positive Climate The Evolved Nest 2022-04-27 | Positive Social Climate refers to a family or group atmosphere of joy, serenity and connection (rather than dread, anger or despair). A positive climate supports wellbeing of all family or group members. It is one of the nine components of our Evolved Nest.See more on the Evolved Nest Self-Directed Learning Center: evolvednest.org/4-positive-climate
Evolved Nest Explained: Allomothers The Evolved Nest 2022-04-27 | One of the nine components of our Evolved Nest is Allomothers. Allomothers, alloparents or other nurturers support mother during pregnancy and throughout the life of the child, providing responsive care, positive touch and play. Learn more about Allomothers at the Evolved Nest's Self-Directed Learning Center: evolvednest.org/6-multiple-allomothersRead about Allomothers on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/2019/05/allomothers-our-evolved-support-system-for-mothersAbout our Evolved NestChildren are biosocial creatures such that their biology is constructed by their social experience. The evolved nest or evolved developmental niche (EDN) is the ecological system of care provided by families, teachers and communities that aligns with the maturational schedule of the child, satiating the evolved needs of infants and children, allowing them to flourish and develop compassionate spiritualities. The EDN consists of 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. Well-nested children and adults demonstrate social and moral flexibility, adapting to situations and others with emotional and spiritual intelligence.
The Evolved Nest for Children: A Manzanita School Series The Evolved Nest 2022-02-26 | Read more about this video on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/2022/02/the-evolved-nest-for-children-a-manzanita-school-video-series Learn more about the Evolved Nest on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nest Visit the Evolved Nest’s Self-Directed Learning Center: evolvednest.org/nine-components-overviewVisit the Manzanita School: manzanitaschool.orgThe Evolved Nest for children is born of a recognition of human ancestry and a study of the successful practices of nature-based peoples who’s cultures embody practices found for over 99% of our human history. Similarly, at Manzanita School, we recognize that adolescents are in a dramatic transition moment and have vital biological and cultural needs determined by their long evolutionary prehistory. These inputs are what they expect from their world, and from the adults in that world. It is vital that we structure schooling to meet those needs if we want our youth to flourish. Manzanita School is located in Topanga Canyon, in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles County. Manzanita’s Forest Kindergarten through High School program recognizes that young people need educational models which meet them at each formative period of their lives. We are especially sensitive to supporting the healthy transition for adolescents from age 9 to 15, offering a learning context in which adults serve as both teachers and mentors. We know that the healthy maturation of our youth depends upon a strong connection to the natural world, robust challenges, and an academic program that provides intellectual understanding of one’s emerging intimacy with the natural world. By high school, Manzanita students have gained a perspective on their growing connection to the natural world, and understand it as having a historic precedent via our long ancestry as nature-based peoples. As part of our professional development for all of our staff, we examine much of the research on healthy human development from an anthropological context. We are grateful to adapt and extend the work of Darcia Narvaez and other proponents of Evolved Developmental Nest Theory, identifying important ways these ideas can apply to youth.
What Do Babies Need? The Evolved Nest 2022-02-19 | Darcia Narvaez discusses the evolved needs of babies and how to assess the quality of research on baby needs that is conveyed by parenting books. A truly evidence-based approach to child raising requires an interdisciplinary integration of human-relevant sciences. For more details, EvolvedNest.orgRead the blog post on this presentation here: kindredmedia.org/2022/02/parenting-by-experiment-or-evolved-nest-companionship
Wellness-Informed Nurturing Promotes Heart-Minded Virtue: Contrasting Western & First Nation The Evolved Nest 2021-10-10 | This presentation was given to the 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education in November 2021.You can read the full script for the presentation here: kindredmedia.org/2021/10/wellness-informed-nurturing-promotes-heart-minded-virtue-contrasting-western-and-first-nation-morality
We Love The Earth Song Video The Evolved Nest 2021-09-21 | We Love The Earth is a nature connection song written and performed here by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.See more about Darcia's work with the Eco Attachment Dance here: www.edoattachment.danceAnd learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.evolvednest.org
Beyond Trauma Informed, with Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha The Evolved Nest 2021-09-14 | It could be argued that humans have never been so destructive, so violent against a living earth. How did we arrive here? We forgot the wellness-informed pathway to human wellbeing, a holistic wellbeing that leads to peacefulness. We describe the wellness-informed pathway and how it is shaped in peaceful cultures by meeting humanity’s basic needs. We discuss what human thriving looks like in individuals and societies. We describe two cycles of human development: Cooperative Companionship, which is wellness informed, and Competitive Detachment, which is trauma inducing. These cycles are perpetuated by bottom up processes, rooted in neurobiology, and in top-down processes, guided by the stories or narratives we follow. We can change how we raise children and the stories we tell about our human nature and human purpose.Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.orgWatch the Evolved Nest's new short film, Breaking the Cycle, at www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.orgRead Darcia Narvaez's posts on Kindred: kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-parenting/evolved-nest
Breaking the Cycle: The Grassroots History and Award-Winning Science Behind the Short Film The Evolved Nest 2021-05-27 | In this Monday LIVE presentation to the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, APPPAH, Lisa Reagan, Kindred World’s co-founder and Kindred Media’s editor, shares the organization’s grassroots history as context for understanding and appreciating the award-winning nonprofit’s approach to creating initiatives and projects. She shares the consciousness-raising vision of Kindred World for championing the creation of the Evolved Nest Initiative, and its latest project, the Breaking the Cycle short film. Both ENI and Breaking the Cycle are based on the award-winning research of Darcia Narvaez, PhD, who now serves as Kindred World’s president.You can download the PDF of Lisa’s presentation, which is fully hyperlinked. Each photo, graphic, or source will take you to its virtual home page. LINK: bit.ly/3hYeHDpYou can visit the Evolved Nest Initiative at www.EvolvedNest.org to learn more about Darcia Narvaez’s work and discover the new self-directed learning center there. You can visit the Breaking the Cycle film here: www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org. There is a film discussion guide and multiple resources to help you use the film as an educational and activism tool.The film has been translated to Spanish and there are Spanish discussion questions on this page: breakingthecyclefilm.org/spanish-version-of-film You can learn more about Kindred’s history on our What Have We Learned? page: kindredmedia.org/about/nonprofit-work You can learn to navigate the Kindred Media website here: kindredmedia.org/how-to-use-this-website Lisa Reagan’s biography can be found here: kindredmedia.org/about/lisa-reagan-kindreds-editor And, of course, you will want to visit APPPAH and discover their own decade’s long history and educational programs supporting prenatal and perinatal psychology: www.birthpsychology.com.What You Will Learn In This Presentation:-Why it is important to understand Kindred’s grassroot origins to appreciate our unique worldview and initiatives.-Why is it important to recognize Cry-It-Out Baby Syndrome, and other debilitating neonatal, childhood, and trauma patterns in our work as trance-breakers and new cycle makers.-How does Darcia Narvaez’s award-winning, integrative research remove for parents, professionals, and policy-makers many blocks toward cultural transformation?-How are these insights presented in the new Breaking the Cycle Film?-How can this film be used to spark discussions, shift perceptions, and point to practical policy-making needed for systemic change?
Rompiendo el ciclo - Breaking the Cycle, Spanish Version The Evolved Nest 2021-05-02 | Para ver el film y otros recursos: www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.orgPara entrevistas, contactar a: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comUn Mundo Fraternal se enorgullece de presentar el cortometraje educativo, preparado por El Nido Evolutivo, Rompiendo el ciclo. Esta emotiva e inspiradora película de seis minutos ilustra nuestra capacidad para romper con el Ciclo de Desapego Competitivo en el que nos encontramos actualmente y retornar al patrón que se mantuvo durante el 95% de la historia humana: un sano y pacífico Ciclo de Compañerismo Cooperativo. “Rompiendo el ciclo” se basa en el multipremiado libro Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom [Neurobiología y desarrollo de la moralidad humana: Evolución, Cultura y Sabiduría], por Darcia Narváez, PhD.Rompiendo el ciclo contrasta las dos formas básicas en que una sociedad puede funcionar: El enfoque óptimo, seguido por la mayoría de las sociedades humanas a través del tiempo, es el Ciclo de Compañerismo Cooperativo, en el cual se satisfacen las necesidades básicas de la niñez. Así los niños y niñas crecen hasta convertirse en miembros eficaces (desde un punto de vista neurobiológico y también a niveles más complejos) de la comunidad, y como adultos sanos mantienen al sistema cooperativo. Actualmente, en los Estados Unidos, lo que rige es el patrón opuesto. Las necesidades básicas de la infancia no se satisfacen, con los consiguientes malestares y desequilibrios, creando adultos desvinculados y perturbados que mantienen andando este Ciclo de Desapego Competitivo. No en balde las Naciones Unidas han ubicado a los Estados Unidos en el lugar 41 de 41 países desarrollados en relación al bienestar infantil y adulto. “Los seres humanos son tan inmaduros al momento de nacer, que para desarrollarse de un modo saludable y alcanzar su máximo potencial necesitan experimentar el nido evolucionado de la humanidad”, afirma Narváez. “Este contribuye a estructurar sistemas cerebrales y corporales eficaces, como la respuesta al estrés, el sistema inmune y muchos otros sistemas que preparan al individuo para el comportamiento cooperativo y para una moralidad compasiva, que abarca al resto del mundo natural. Con un nido deteriorado el individuo tendrá una o más áreas desequilibradas, lo cual menoscaba la socialidad y la moralidad. El Nido Evolucionado es una responsabilidad comunal e intergeneracional que las sociedades industriales han olvidado en gran medida, especialmente los Estados Unidos”. “Mucha gente se ha creído el cuento de que los seres humanos hemos progresado mucho y de que no hay ninguna otra opción salvo esta cultura deshumanizante, contraria a la vida, que está destruyendo al planeta. En el cortometraje Rompiendo el ciclo y en el sitio web del Nido Evolucionado mostramos otras opciones, y ayudamos a comprender que la vida no tiene porqué ser de la manera en que las sociedades industrializadas la han establecido”.Rompiendo el ciclo se basa en el libro de Darcia Narváez Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom [Neurobiología y desarrollo de la moralidad humana: Evolución, Cultura y Sabiduría], el cual fue elegido como el ganador del Premio a la Razón Extendida de 2017, entre más de 360 participantes, provenientes de 170 universidades y 30 países distintos. Narváez recibió el Premio, que incluyó una suma sustancial, en la Academia Pontificia de Ciencias del Vaticano el 27 de septiembre de 2017. El libro también se hizo merecedor del Premio William James de la Asociación Psicológica Americana (APA), correspondiente a 2015, y el Premio del Grupo de Desarrollo Moral e Interés Especial de la Asociación Americana de Investigación Educativa (AERA), en 2016. Rompiendo el ciclo fue posible gracias a los fondos del Premio a la Razón Expandida. Profesora Emérita de la Universidad de Notre Dame, Narváez figuró entre el dos por ciento más destacado de los científicos en todo el mundo, según un análisis realizado en 2020. De los ocho millones de científicos en el mundo, el análisis consideró a aquellos que tenían al menos cinco artículos publicados en revistas científicas entre 1996 y 2017. Luego estas personas fueron calificadas de acuerdo a varios criterios, incluyendo el número de citas a sus trabajos.Narváez también organizó conferencias interdisciplinarias en la Universidad de Notre Dame sobre las experiencias tempranas y el desarrollo humano, durante los años 2010, 2012 y 2014. En 2016 organizó una conferencia sobre Sabiduría sostenible: Integrando el saber hacer indígena para el florecimiento global. (Haciendo click en los enlaces puede ver los videos de las conferencias completas en el Canal Youtube de El Nido Evolucionado). Además, es autora o editora de numerosos libros y artículos (vea la página de La Ciencia para consultar los listados).
Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest The Evolved Nest 2021-04-28 | Visit the site for a film discussion guide, more educational materials, and science references at www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org See the Spanish version of Breaking the Cycle here: breakingthecyclefilm.org/spanish-version-of-filmFor questions, or to request an interview, contact: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comKindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film 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. Breaking the Cycle contrasts the two basic ways societies can function: the optimal approach, which most human societies through time have followed, is the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship where children’s basic needs are met; they grow into well-functioning, cooperative community members (from neurobiology and on up); and as healthy adults, they maintain the cooperative system. Currently in the USA the opposite pattern is in place: children’s basic needs are not met, illbeing and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachment going. The United Nations ranks the USA as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.“Humans are so immature at birth that to develop in a healthy manner, reaching their full potential, they need to experience humanity’s evolved nest,” states Narvaez. “This helps structure well-functioning brain and body systems like the stress response, immune system and many other systems, preparing the individual for cooperative behavior and compassionate morality, including with the rest of the natural world. With a degraded evolved nest, the individual will have one or more areas of dysregulation, undermining sociality and morality. The evolved nest is an intergenerational, communal responsibility that industrialized societies have largely forgotten, especially the USA.”“Many people believe the tale that humans have made great progress and that there is no other option than this dehumanizing, anti-life, planet-destroying culture. In the short film, Breaking the Cycle, and at the EvolvedNest.org, we show other options. We help people understand that life does not have to be the way industrialized societies have set it up.”Breaking the Cycle is based on Narvaez’s book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015, and the American Educational Research Association's Moral Development and Special Interest Group Award in 2016. Breaking the Cycle was made possible through the Expanded Reason Award’s award monies.A Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, Narvaez emerged in the top two percent of scientists worldwide in a 2020 analysis. Of the eight million scientists in the world, the analysis concerned those who had at least five articles published in scientific journals between 1996 and 2017. Individuals were ranked according to various criteria, including number of citations of their work.Narvaez hosted interdisciplinary conferences at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience and human development in 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2016 she organized a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing. (Click on the links to see the full conferences in video on the Evolved Nest's YouTube Channel.) She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, see The Science page for listings. Narvaez is the president of the venerable American nonprofit, Kindred World, a contributing editor to Kindred, the first global eco-parenting magazine, an advisory board member of Attachment Parenting International and Self-Reg. She is former executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She has been quoted and her work cited in The Atlantic, Time, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Indianapolis Star, as well as in international media.Viewers of the Breaking the Cycle short film are welcome to host public screenings of the film with the Breaking the Cycle Film Discussion and Resource Guide on the website, www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org.Extensive resources, including Next Steps, are also available on the website.
Breaking The Cycle The Evolved Nest 2021-04-26 | Please find an updated version of this film here: youtu.be/d_f4fzzFc8AVisit the site for a film discussion guide, more educational materials, and science references at www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org For questions, or to request an interview, contact: evolvednestinitiative@gmail.comKindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film 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. Breaking the Cycle contrasts the two basic ways societies can function: the optimal approach, which most human societies through time have followed, is the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship where children’s basic needs are met; they grow into well-functioning, cooperative community members (from neurobiology and on up); and as healthy adults, they maintain the cooperative system. Currently in the USA the opposite pattern is in place: children’s basic needs are not met, illbeing and dysregulation ensue, creating adults who are detached and distracted and keep this Cycle of Competitive Detachment going. The United Nations ranks the USA as 41st out of 41 developed countries for child and adult wellness.“Humans are so immature at birth that to develop in a healthy manner, reaching their full potential, they need to experience humanity’s evolved nest,” states Narvaez. “This helps structure well-functioning brain and body systems like the stress response, immune system and many other systems, preparing the individual for cooperative behavior and compassionate morality, including with the rest of the natural world. With a degraded evolved nest, the individual will have one or more areas of dysregulation, undermining sociality and morality. The evolved nest is an intergenerational, communal responsibility that industrialized societies have largely forgotten, especially the USA.”“Many people believe the tale that humans have made great progress and that there is no other option than this dehumanizing, anti-life, planet-destroying culture. In the short film, Breaking the Cycle, and at the EvolvedNest.org, we show other options. We help people understand that life does not have to be the way industrialized societies have set it up.”Breaking the Cycle is based on Narvaez’s book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, which was chosen for the 2017 Expanded Reason Award from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries. Narvaez received the prize, including a substantial monetary award, at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Vatican City on September 27, 2017. The book also received the William James Award from the American Psychological Association in 2015, and the American Educational Research Association's Moral Development and Special Interest Group Award in 2016. Breaking the Cycle was made possible through the Expanded Reason Award’s award monies.A Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame, Narvaez emerged in the top two percent of scientists worldwide in a 2020 analysis. Of the eight million scientists in the world, the analysis concerned those who had at least five articles published in scientific journals between 1996 and 2017. Individuals were ranked according to various criteria, including number of citations of their work.Narvaez hosted interdisciplinary conferences at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience and human development in 2010, 2012, and 2014. In 2016 she organized a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing. (Click on the links to see the full conferences in video on the Evolved Nest's YouTube Channel.) She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, see The Science page for listings. Narvaez is the president of the venerable American nonprofit, Kindred World, a contributing editor to Kindred, the first global eco-parenting magazine, an advisory board member of Attachment Parenting International and Self-Reg. She is former executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She has been quoted and her work cited in The Atlantic, Time, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Indianapolis Star, as well as in international media.Viewers of the Breaking the Cycle short film are welcome to host public screenings of the film with the Breaking the Cycle Film Discussion and Resource Guide on the website, www.BreakingtheCycleFilm.org.Extensive resources, including Next Steps, are also available on the website.
Evolved Nest Explained: Circumcision The Evolved Nest 2021-02-22 | Darcia Narvaez interviews John Geisheker, Executive Director and General Counsel of Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.), about what parents should know about infant circumcision.Visit Doctors Opposing Circumcision for more medical facts here: doctorsopposingcircumcision.org Visit the Evolved Nest at www.evolvednest.org Visit Kindred for a large selection of articles on circumcision: kindredmedia.org/?s=circumcision
Circumcision: Suzanne Arms and Darcia Narvaez The Evolved Nest 2021-01-28 | Darcia Narvaez and Suzanne Arms talk about circumcision. Read the new study about doctors and nurses pressuring parents in hospitals to circumcise their babies: kindredmedia.org/2020/12/survey-finds-doctors-nurses-and-midwives-actively-solicit-moms-to-have-their-sons-circumcisedRead more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org. Visit Suzanne Arms here: http://birthingthefuture.orgAbout Suzanne Arms:Suzanne Arms is an internationally acclaimed author, photojournalist, visionary, and activist, and has been an acknowledged leader of the international birthing movement for over 25 years. Her 1975 book Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth fueled a national movement and was named a New York Times "Best Book of the Year."In 1995 she has received the prestigious Lamaze International Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contributions to the world of birth. She founded does her work through Birthing the Future, based near Durango, ColoradoSince 1975, with the publication of her 2nd book, Suzanne Arms has been challenging the status quo in how we care for childbearing women, bring babies into the world and fail to meet the needs of the mother-baby and the brain and immune development of children. While she has focused her life’s work on the Roots of Love and Violence and creating a different kind of human being, her roots lie in the peace movement and the movement to shift human consciousness. *Arms is a visionary who gets her message out through words, images and film. She’s an inspired teacher, a passionate yet compassionate public speaker who synthesizes earth-based and indigenous wisdom, intuition and modern science with models from around the world, Her mission: optimal human development and thriving children, families and communities.
The Evolved Nest Explained: Birth The Evolved Nest 2021-01-25 | Darcia Narvaez, founder of The Evolved Nest, talks about one of the nine components of the Evolved Nest, birth, with Suzanne Arms.Read more about birth as a component of the Evolved Nest here: evolvednest.org/evolved-nest-componentsVisit Suzanne Arms here: http://birthingthefuture.orgAbout Suzanne Arms:Suzanne Arms is an internationally acclaimed author, photojournalist, visionary, and activist, and has been an acknowledged leader of the international birthing movement for over 25 years. Her 1975 book Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth fueled a national movement and was named a New York Times "Best Book of the Year."In 1995 she has received the prestigious Lamaze International Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contributions to the world of birth. She founded does her work through Birthing the Future, based near Durango, ColoradoSince 1975, with the publication of her 2nd book, Suzanne Arms has been challenging the status quo in how we care for childbearing women, bring babies into the world and fail to meet the needs of the mother-baby and the brain and immune development of children. While she has focused her life’s work on the Roots of Love and Violence and creating a different kind of human being, her roots lie in the peace movement and the movement to shift human consciousness. *Arms is a visionary who gets her message out through words, images and film. She’s an inspired teacher, a passionate yet compassionate public speaker who synthesizes earth-based and indigenous wisdom, intuition and modern science with models from around the world, Her mission: optimal human development and thriving children, families and communities.
The Evolved Nest Explained: Self Directed Social Play The Evolved Nest 2020-12-12 | Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha discuss one of the nine components of the Evolved Nest: self-directed social play. Find out more at the website www.EvolvedNest.org. SELF-DIRECTED SOCIAL PLAY is free social play with multiple-aged playmates. What to do:Try not to interfere in your child’s natural play instinct. For example, create a space where you can let baby and toddler explore on their own without interference.Build into your child’s day several self-directed social playtimes.Let your child be outside on his or her own.Encourage social play with differently- aged playmates. Although adult-directed sports or other play activities might be good too, self-directed free play is different and important.Why?Humans are mammals. Young mammals play when they feel safe and well. People who have little self-directed social play experience tend to be more aggressive and have other behavior disorders (e.g., van den Berg et al., 1999), as well as diminished academic achievement (Barros, Silver & Stein, 2009).
Evolved Nest Explained: Routine Healing Practices The Evolved Nest 2020-11-18 | Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha discuss one of the nine components of the Evolved Nest: Routine Healing Practices.One of the nine Evolved Nest components is taking up routine healing practices. We all get hurt or angry or uncentered, then we are more likely to hurt others or ourselves. In traditional societies, regular, even daily healing routines are practiced. Here we describe how we get thrown off balance, from early life stress or ongoing or sudden stresses in adulthood. We suggest several ways you can adopt self healing practices.Find out more about the Evolved Nest and its nine components here: www.evolvednest.org
Lysa Parker - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceLysa Parker (Lisa) received both her bachelor’s in education and her master’s degree in Human Environmental Sciences specializing in human development and family studies. She earned her designation of Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) from the National Council on Family Relations in 2004 and was the 2014 president for the Southeast Council on Family Relations. Lysa is also a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM). As cofounder of Attachment Parenting International (API), a nonprofit parent education & support organization, she served as the executive director for thirteen years. Prior to her involvement with API, she was a special education teacher helping children with multiple handicaps and learning difficulties for twenty years.Lysa has dedicated her life to improving the way children are treated and is a recognized authority on parenting. She is the coauthor of a new book titled Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children (HCI, 2013) and the co-developer of a new curriculum based on her book. The first edition of Attached at the Heart won the 2009 Book of the Year Gold award from Foreword Magazine. She is a frequent guest on national, international, and local radio and TV programs. In 2014 Lysa was a presenter at a local TEDx event. Currently Lysa is a writer, speaker and parenting consultant in private practice at www.parentslifeline.com. She is the mother of two grown sons, a stepdaughter and is the grandmother of four grandchildren and lives with her husband in the Huntsville, Alabama area. About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Augustin Fuentes - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAgustín Fuentes is an American primatologist and biological anthropologist at Princeton University and formerly the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses largely on human and non-human primate interaction, pathogen transfer, communication, cooperation, and human social evolution. One of Dr. Fuentes' major impacts on the field of primatology has been his work on human and non-human primate interactions. He has worked extensively with populations of macaques in Bali and Gibraltar, where the monkeys are a large tourist attraction, focusing on the spread of diseases between humans and macaques.He has also done extensive work in the area of human social evolution, particularly relating to the neurological aspects. Dr. Fuentes believes that increased social complexity was necessary for our interaction with the environment and within our own social groups. It is this increased complexity along with primate biology and a changing environment that he believes is responsible for the success of humans in terms of expansion beyond the limits of most animal species.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Jay Belsky - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceProfessor Belsky is an internationally recognized expert in the field of child development and family studies. His areas of special expertise include the effects of day care, parent-child relations during the infancy and early childhood years, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning. Dr. Belsky's research is marked by a focus upon fathers as well as mothers, marriages as well as parent-child relations, and naturalistic home observations of family interaction patterns. It is both basic and applied in its character. He is a founding and collaborating investigator on the NICHD Study of Child Care and Youth Development (US) and that National Evaluation of Sure Start (UK). He is the author of more than 300 scientific articles and chapters and the author/editor of several books, including most recently The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-Based Early Intervention Work (The Policy Press, 2007).Dr. Belsky was ranked in top 0.01% of all scientists based on impact (PLoS Biology, Ioannidis et al., 2019).About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Discussion Day 1 - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Joseph Flanders - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceDr. Joe Flanders is the founder and director of Mindspace. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from McGill University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Flanders is an assistant professor in the McGill University Psychology Department.Joe is a licensed psychologist and a member of the Quebec Order of Psychologists. At MindSpace, he offers Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to individuals, groups, and organizations. Joe works with clients in English and in French.Joe holds the Advanced MBCT Facilitation Certification from The Centre for Mindfulness Studies and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto (FIFSW) and the Advanced MBSR Facilitation Certification from The Centre for Mindfulness Studies. He is an approved MBSR mentor with The Centre for Mindfulness Studies.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Douglas Fry - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceDouglas P. Fry is an American anthropologist. He has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution in his own books and in journals such as "Science" and "American Anthropologist." His work frequently engages the debate surrounding the origins of war, arguing against claims that war or lethal aggression is rooted in human evolution.Fry currently chairs the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is an affiliate of Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, Finland.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Vincent Felitti - Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceA renowned physician and researcher, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti is one of the world’s foremost experts on childhood trauma. Leading the charge in research into how adverse childhood experiences affect adults, he is co-principal investigator of the internationally recognized Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, a long-term, in-depth, analysis of over 17,000 adults. Defying conventional belief, this study famously revealed a powerful relationship between our emotional experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults. In fact, the ACE study shows that humans convert childhood traumatic emotional experiences into organic disease later in life. Revolutionary at its inception, Felitti’s groundbreaking research remains extremely relevant to today’s healthcare models.Founder of the Department of Preventive Medicine for Kaiser Permanente, Felitti served as the chief of preventive medicine for over 25 years. Under Dr. Felitti's leadership, his department provided comprehensive medical evaluations to 1.1 million individuals, becoming the largest single-site medical evaluation facility in the western world. During this time, Felitti’s revolutionary health risk abatement programs incorporated weight loss, smoking cessation, stress management, and a wide range of cutting-edge efforts to reduce patient risk factors. Dr. Felitti also has served on advisory committees at the Institute of Medicine and the American Psychiatric Association. A noted expert on the genetic disease hemochromatosis, as well as obesity, he educates audiences around the country on these two very common, deadly maladies.An engaging speaker, Felitti has traveled the world speaking with audiences and various policy leaders about his research. A well versed medical expert, Felitti also uses his knowledge to speak out against domestic violence and other forms of childhood trauma. Drawing on his years of experience, he has become an important voice advocating for the wellbeing of children everywhere. While time may not heal all wounds, Felitti helps show audiences how we can understand these physical and mental traumas, and ultimately, prevent them.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Pranee Liamputtong Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-06 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperiencePranee is a medical anthropologist and has interests in the health of women, children, immigrants, refugees, older people, and transgender individuals. In terms of health issues, Pranee is very interested in issues relating to motherhood, reproductive health, sexuality, sexual health, and mental health. She has carried out a number of research projects with refugee and immigrant women in Australia and women in Southeast Asia, particularly in Thailand and Malaysia. She has also undertaken qualitative research with women living with HIV/AIDS and women living with breast cancer in Thailand. Pranee’s research interest also includes online research and has carried out research in the area of online dating and implications for sexual health. Recently, Pranee has focused her research on sexuality and sexual health issues of Asian women, refugee/immigrant women, young people, and trans women from CALD backgrounds. Pranee has been supervising a large number of research students, both local and international, who have their interests in conducting qualitative research in the areas of gender, sexuality, reproductive health, sexual health and cross-cultural research. Pranee is a qualitative researcher and has written a number of textbooks on this approach. She has written a nunber of textbooks on health-related issues. Some of her textbooks (Qualitative Research Methods, Research Methods in Health: Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice, Social Determinants of Health & Public Health) have been adopted widely, both in Australia and overseas. Her recent work focuses more on the production of handbook, including Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences and Handbook of Social Inclusion, Research and Practices in the Health and Social Sciences. She has been teaching qualitative research methodology and the social determinants of health units within the postgraduate programs; gender & health; culture, diversity & health; communication in health within the undergraduate programs.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Discussion Day 2 - Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-11-05 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout the SymposiumThe University of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families is hosted a symposium, Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,’ on October 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Incorporating Play into the Classroom, by Colleen O Leary The Evolved Nest 2020-10-28 | Incorporating Play into the Classroom is a student presentation from Darcia Narvaez's class at the University of Notre Dame. The following is a handout that accompanies the presentation. See more student work at the Evolved Nest website:Ready, Set, Play! Incorporating Play into the ClassroomColleen O’LearyFor Class: Morality, Parenting and Nature Connection in the AnthropoceneInstructor: Dr. Darcia NarvaezHandoutPlay in the Classroom• Why Play is Importanto Stimulates the body Develops the prefrontal cortexo Develops social skillso Child-centered creativityo Promotes productivity• Play is Often Absent in Schoolso Increasing rates of ADHD Less socialization in the classroomo Limited age differences in play o Too much focus on competition-based play• How to Incorporate Play into the Classroomo With other students of all ageso Outdoor walks Encouraged by Richard Louv• Focuses on natureo 5-10-minute breaks Implemented in Japanese school systems after each classo Games “Simon Says Geometry”• Have children make a shape with their arms demonstrating an acute, right, obtuse, or straight angle “Freeze!”• Pass around a ball in a circle with students• When the teacher yells “Freeze!” the student with the ball must pick up a flashcard and use the word in a sentenceo Creating your own plan Keep it fun! It can still be educational The more physical activity the better
Alison Fleming Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-20 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAlison Fleming is a Canadian neuroscientist best known for her work studying mothering instincts and maternal behavior in a wide variety of models, including rats, mice, rabbits, monkeys, and humans. She is the University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Psychology, 2012. She was previously a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Colwyn Trevarthen – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-14 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout Colony TrevarthanAfter training as a biologist in New Zealand at Auckland University College and Otago University Trevarthen researched infancy at Harvard in 1967.Trevarthen has published on brain development, infant communication and emotional health. He believes that very young babies rapidly develop proto-cultural intelligence through interacting with other people, including in teasing fun play. For instance he has demonstrated that a newborn has an innate ability to initiate a dialogic relationship with an adult, and then build up this relationship through eye contact, smiling, and other holistic body functions rhythmically and cooperatively.He studied successful interactions between infants and their primary care givers, and found that the mother’s responsiveness to her baby’s initiatives supported and developed intersubjectivity (shared understanding), which he regarded as the basis of all effective communication, interaction and learning.He has applied intersubjectivity to the very rapid cultural development of new born infants and used the term ‘primary intersubjectivity’ to refer to early developing sensory-motor processes of interaction between infants and caregivers.He believes babies are looking for companionship (including the sense of fun and playfulness), engagement and relationship (rather than using the term attachment), and that companions can include mothers, fathers, other adults, peers and siblings; he has said “I think the ideal companion – and it can be a practitioner or not – is a familiar person who really treats the baby with playful human respect.”In later years his work has focused on the musicality of babies, including its use in communication.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Wenda R Trevathan – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-13 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceDr. Trevathan is a biological anthropologist whose research concerns aspects of human reproduction including childbirth, maternal behavior, sexuality, menopause and evolutionary medicine. Her most recent book is Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives: How Evolution Has Shaped Women’s Health, published by Oxford University Press, 2010.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Welcome and Opening Remarks – Notre Dame Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-13 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Stephen W. Porges - Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-12 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human Experiencetephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017) and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by more than 1400 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
Stephen J Suomi – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-11 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout Stephen SuomiStephen J. Suomi, Ph.D. is Chief of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. He also holds research professorships at the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, College Park, the Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Suomi earned his B.A. in psychology at Stanford University in 1968, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969 and 1971, respectively. He then joined the Psychology faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he eventually attained the rank of Professor before moving to the NICHD in 1983.Dr. Suomi’s initial postdoctoral research successfully reversed the adverse effects of early social isolation, previously thought to be permanent, in rhesus monkeys. His subsequent research at Wisconsin led to his election as Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science ‘for major contributions to the understanding of social factors that influence the psychological development of nonhuman primates.” His present research at the NICHD focuses on 3 general issues: the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in shaping individual developmental trajectories, the issue of continuity vs. change and the relative stability of individual differences throughout development, and the degree to which findings from monkeys studied in captivity generalize not only to monkeys living in the wild but also to humans living in different cultures.Throughout his professional career Dr. Suomi has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, the most recent of which include the Donald O. Hebb Award from the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Primatologist Award from the American Society of Primatologists, and the Arnold Pffeffer Prize from the International Society of Neuropsychoanalysis. To date, he has authored or co-authored over 400 articles published in scientific journals and chapters in edited volumes.About the SymposiumOctober 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
C S Carter – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-11 | Learn more about the Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.orgNotre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout C. S. CarterDr. Sue Carter is a Distinguished University Scientist and Rudy Professor Emerita of Biology at Indiana University. A career biologist, Carter has studied the endocrinology of love and social bonds for more than three decades. She was the first person to detect and define the physiology of monogamy through her research on the prairie vole. These findings helped lay the foundation for the studies of behavioral and developmental effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans.Dr. Carter served as Executive Director of the Kinsey Institute from 2014-2019.About the SymposiumThe University of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families is hosted a symposium, Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,’ on October 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
James Prescott – Notre Dame Symposium Human Nature and Early Experience The Evolved Nest 2020-10-10 | Learn more about The Evolved Nest at www.EvolvedNest.org2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human ExperienceAbout James W. Prescott, PhDJames W. Prescott is an American developmental psychologist whose research focused on the origins of violence, particularly as it relates to a lack of mother-child bonding.Prescott was a health scientist administrator at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the Institutes of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1966 to 1980. He created and directed the Developmental Behavioral Biology Program at the NICHD where he initiated NICHD-supported research programs to study the relationship between mother-child bonding and the development of social abilities in adult life. Inspired by Harry Harlow's famous experiments on rhesus monkeys, which established a link between neurotic behavior and isolation from a care-giving mother, Prescott further proposed that a key component to development comes from the somesthetic processes (body touch) and vestibular-cerebellar processes (body movement) induced by mother-child interactions, and that deprivation of this stimulation causes brain abnormalities. By analogy to the neurotic behavior in monkeys, he suggested that these developmental abnormalities are a major cause of adult violence amongst humans.Prescott also served as assistant head of the Psychology Branch of the Office of Naval Research (1963 to 1966) and as president of the Maryland Psychological Association (1970 to 1971). In 1973 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.About the SymposiumThe University of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families is hosted a symposium, Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,’ on October 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.
