Kindred World Announces Launch of Worldview Literacy Project
Kindred World Welcomes Partnership with Veterans For Peace
Kindred World is proud to announce the launch of the Worldview Literacy Project, a self-directed or community learning program exploring rebalancing life on earth with worldview literacy.
The WLP features the Worldview Chart by internationally renown Indigenous studies scholar, Four Arrows, as well as instructions for how to participate in a 90-day engagement with the Worldview Chart ending with a survey to gather participant’s stories and insights.
In addition to the WLP resources and survey for the public, Kindred World has partnered with Veterans For Peace, VFP, to create and distribute the WLP Survey to their members. Kindred World’s nonprofit partnership with VFP is made possible through a grant for the research project from Fielding University.
Four Arrows will officially introduce the WLP during his opening presentation of the VFP Convention on August 16, 2024. (Register for the VFP Convention here.) The Worldview Literacy Project website features a dedicated page for VFP members to participate in the survey study. (Go to the VFP Member page here.)
"Veterans For Peace is a global organization of military veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Our network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars," shared Susan Schnall, president of Veterans For Peace.
"As military veterans of war, we have been witness to and experienced war and its destruction on all living things; we inform and educate people about its true nature and impact on the earth. It is an honor for us to partner with Kindred World View in this project which will help us both individually and organizationally to becoming nature-centered and interconnected partners with other beings that make up the world," said Schnall.
“We are delighted to partner with Veterans For Peace and for the opportunity to work together to gather their members’ insights and stories,” said Lisa Reagan, Kindred World’s founder and Kindred Magazine’s editor. “Kindred World has focused on bringing worldview literacy to our followers for over a decade. Decades of human consciousness research show the critical need for worldview shifting. Four Arrows’ Worldview Chart and Indigenous Worldview scholarship reveal there are only two essential worldviews: one where Nature is conscious and one where it is not. The WLP can help us discover which world we want to live in.”
Kindred introduced the Worldview Chart by Four Arrows in 2020. The chart has been expanded from 40 to 50 precepts through a collaboration with Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, PhD. You are welcome to download a color or black and white PDF of the chart here. You can also purchase a poster of the chart here. Your purchase will support our nonprofit work.
In addition to featuring the updated Worldview Chart by Four Arrows, the WLP draws heavily from Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Earth, written by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World’s president and founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative. The Worldview Chart was created by Four Arrows and originally published in The Red Road (chanku luta): Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview, 2020.
Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, PhD, are Kindred World board members and contributing editors for Kindred Magazine.
Visit the WLP website to discover extensive resources from Kindred Magazine, including interviews, articles, videos, and podcasts with Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez curated for self-study and community learning: www.WorldviewLiteracy.org.
About Four Arrows
Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is now core faculty at Antioch University’s online Ed.D. in Educational and Professional Practice. He is proud to be part of the educational team maintaining the progressive legacy of Antioch’s original founder, Horace Mann.
He was formerly with Fielding Graduate University for 24 years, Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and tenured Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University. With doctorates in health psychology and in Curriculum and Instruction (with a cognate in Indigenous Worldview) he has authored 21 books and numerous other publications relating to wellness, critical theory, education and Indigenous worldview. His publications have been praised by a number of notable thinkers, including John Pilger, Greg Cajete, Noam Chomsky, Thom Hartman, Henry Giroux, Sam Keen, Bruce Lipton, Dan Millman, Vine Deloris, Jr. and many others.
AERO elected him as one of 27 visionaries for their text, Turning Points, and he is recipient of a number of recognitions for his activism, including the Martin-Springer Institute’s Moral Courage Award.
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About Four Arrows
Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs is now core faculty at Antioch University’s online Ed.D. in Educational and Professional Practice. He is proud to be part of the educational team maintaining the progressive legacy of Antioch’s original founder, Horace Mann.
He was formerly with Fielding Graduate University for 24 years, Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and tenured Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University. With doctorates in health psychology and in Curriculum and Instruction (with a cognate in Indigenous Worldview) he has authored 21 books and numerous other publications relating to wellness, critical theory, education and Indigenous worldview. His publications have been praised by a number of notable thinkers, including John Pilger, Greg Cajete, Noam Chomsky, Thom Hartman, Henry Giroux, Sam Keen, Bruce Lipton, Dan Millman, Vine Deloris, Jr. and many others.
AERO elected him as one of 27 visionaries for their text, Turning Points, and he is recipient of a number of recognitions for his activism, including the Martin-Springer Institute's Moral Courage Award.
He is currently involved in helping create the first No Take Zone Marine Park on the Costalegre in Mexico. Four Arrow was first alternate for the 1996 Olympic Equestrian Endurance Team and placed 4th in the World Championship Old Time Piano Contest. He enjoys a number of ocean sports at his homes in Jalisco, Mexico and British Columbia, Canada with his photographer wife. He is a popular and thought-provoking keynoter and has presented on various topics in Australia, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, South Korea, and Japan and is on the Fulbright list of International Scholars.
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About Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She is the founder of the public and professional educational outreach project, The Evolved Nest Initiative, whose nonprofit mission is to share her science research into developing appropriate baselines for lifelong human wellness by meeting the biological needs of infants. This baseline is imperative at this time as the United States ranks 41st out of 41 developed countries in public policies that support families.
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.
Narvaez’s book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, 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.
The Evolved Nest is a breakthrough concept that integrates findings across fields that bear on child development, child raising and adult behavior. The Evolved Nest promotes optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation, and receptive and sociomoral intelligences. Societal moves away from providing the Evolved Nest have contributed to the ill being and dysregulation we see in one another and society. Learn how to nest your children and re-nest yourself.
Narvaez’s prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about human nature and human development. She publishes extensively on moral development, parenting and education. Recently she has been studying the Evolved Nest and how it influences wellbeing, sociality and morality.
On the Evolved Nest’s YouTube channel, you can view the many interdisciplinary conferences she hosted at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience and human development. In 2016, she organized a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing, and whose essays were published in a book by the same name in 2019.
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