Kindred Activism

What Is Kindred Activism?

This theory of activism involves centering childhood – our Evolved Nest – in social change work, while valuing the inner skills of mindfulness practices to facilitate the worldview shift necessary to move beyond Traditional Hamster Wheel Activism and into an integrated, relational activism strategy. Kindred Activism is being developed and explored through Kindred World's Kindred Fellowship Program and has been feature in the past year in posts at Rutgers University’s Childism Institute and Riane Eisler’s Center for Partnership Studies.

Kindred Activism believes that Kindred’s New Story of Our Human Family, based on the award-winning science of our Evolved Nest, is the foundation for a sustainable strategy for cultural transformation.

Kindred Activism recognizes how and why Social Inequities, Racism, and the Climate Crisis all have their roots in the way our society treats children.

Kindred Activism believes that we will maximize our impact on social justice, and therefore cultural transformation, with the holistic mindset “One Family, One World.”

Kindred Activism believes social change begins in our homes, personal interactions, and how we raise children. Kindred Activism believes an authentic conversation with a family member you disagree with could be as powerful as being a part of a protest, march, or traditional activism approaches to cultural change.

Kindred Activism believes social change happens at the speed of trust and involves the integration of both traditional activism skills and relational activism awareness.

Kindred Activism helps us learn to balance our efforts to be a part of the “larger movements” while also having integrity in our closest relationships.

Kindred Activism believes that opportunities to further social justice can be found in everyday moments within our own journey of self-love to our interdependent relationships with our families, communities, and our larger ecology.

Kindred Activism helps us learn about the ways you can make a difference in your life right now, in the present moment.

Kindred Activism recognizes that advocacy must be catalyzed with a soul attuned to and generated by love and that we can only achieve true social justice if we all work together and acknowledge our interdependent nature. We are not free until we all are free.

Kindred Activism helps us explore the mystical relationship between love and justice through the lens of our interdependence, the New Story of Childhood, and a new story of the sustainable activism we need now to achieve lasting social justice, cultural transformation, and our greatest potential as a human family.

A Social Lab Experiment: Kindred Fellowship Program

What Is KFP?

KFP’s unique mission is to guide students on an innovative educational journey that explores the systemic roots of social (in)justice in childhood through kindred activism: a theory of activism that is authentic, relational, and imaginative, and centers childhood as the first experience of sovereignty or oppression. The program has been featured on the Centers for Partnership Studies Leadership blog, the Rutger’s University’s Childism Institute blog, and in an ongoing series on Kindred Media.

For a quarter century, Kindred World thought-leaders have been exploring the connections among human consciousness, human and nonhuman kin, and ecological systems. As awareness of “One Family, One World” expands, humanity connects more authentically with ourselves, our family, and our world, but also with our capacity to achieve lasting social justice.

Kindred’s new connected story of human kinship is bringing forth the possibility for a new story of activism.

The KFP program ran for a number of years, but disbanded after the quarantine of 2022. We are still developing Kindred Activism principles in preparation for a forthcoming book.