Nested World Live Lectures with Darcia Narvaez, Fall 2025

Join the singular opportunity to attend online live lectures from Darcia Narvaez, PhD, during fall 2025. She will lecture on each of the nine components of our evolutionary pathway to wellness, our Communal Evolved Nest, a transdisciplinary set of insights. Most component experiences are needed throughout life to maintain health and social wellbeing.

Join the live lectures. Recordings will not be shared. You will be able to submit questions in the Q&A during the session and questions will be addressed at the end of the presentation.

You can sign up for individual lectures or the full series. Gift economy prices begin at $10 per lecture, or $99 for the series. Please donate more, if possible, to help support our nonprofit work.

SERIES DETAILS:

Saturday, September 27: Human Pasts, Human Futures: Wellness or Trauma?

Saturday, October 4: Nature Immersion & Partnership

Saturday, October 11: Special Session: Indigenous Worldview with Four Arrows

Saturday, October 18: Regular Restorative Healing

Saturday, October 25: Social Free Play

Saturday, November 1: Responsive Relationships

Saturday, November 8: Positive Touch

Saturday, November 22: Welcoming Social Climate

Saturday, December 6: Multiple Nurturers

Saturday, December 13: Soothing Perinatal Experiences

Saturday, December 20: Breastfeeding

About Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Darcia Narvaez is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying child development and human flourishing. Her recent books include Restoring the Kinship Worldview, and The Evolved Nest . Her recent short films are Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest, and Reimagining Humanity. She is the co-founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative (EvolvedNest.org) and serves as president of KindredWorld.org.

In 2024 Darcia received the Presidential Citation Award from Division 24 of the American Psychological Association (APA). Established in 2019, the Presidential Citation Award honors a nationally or internationally recognized scholar who has made significant contributions to the field of psychology or to a body of interdisciplinary scholarship. Narvaez was nominated for the Presidential Citation Award based on her work that supports the flourishing of theoretical psychology in both a distinguished record of publication and teaching and the educational outreach programs and events offered to the general public through the Evolved Nest Initiative.The 2024 Presidential Citation is awarded directly from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Division 24, of the APA.

The 2024 award is the second time the APA has recognized Narvaez’s work. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, also won the APA’s 2015 William James Book Award. The Evolved Nest Initiative, ENI, is based on the interdisciplinary science research and insights found in this book.

A trilogy of films featuring the science of the evolved nest, narrated by Darcia, are: Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children; and Reimagining Humanity. The films have been translated into German and Spanish, and Breaking the Cycle has additionally been translated into Turkish. All films are subtitled in 14 languages.

In 2022, Narvaez was elected a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest international body of professional scientists in the world and publisher of the prestigious journal Science. Narvaez was honored for her distinguished contributions illuminating typical and atypical development in terms of well-being, morality and sustainable wisdom.

In a 2020 analysis of top scientists, Narvaez emerged in the top 2% of scientists worldwide. 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 – over six million scientists. Individuals were ranked according to various criteria, including number of citations of their work.

In 2017, Narvaez’s book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, was chosen for the 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.

Visit the home of the Evolved Nest science at www.EvolvedNest.org

Read Darcia's posts on the Evolved Nest at Kindred Magazine https://kindredmedia.org/author/darcia-narvaez-phd/

Watch the Evolved Nest Film, Breaking the Cycle, below: