Restoring the Kinship Worldview
Restoring the Kinship Worldview:
Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
Book cover of Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Author: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez, PhD
A conversational journey through 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth and returning to a kinship way of being and seeing the world.
Core Premise
This 28-chapter book documents conversations between Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez as they reflect on the profound written and spoken quotes from various Indigenous voices around the world. In these conversations they expound on the learnings and bring in some of their own experiential knowledge and expertise to further build on the 28 precepts presented. The whole purpose of this book is to invite us and help us as we remember what it means to practically live with a Kinship Worldview.
Connection to Eutierria Therapy
This book is essential to Eutierria Therapy because it provide glimpses into what daily life could look like if we were to return to a kinship way of being. It also provides a very useful table that contrasts Dominator Worldviews from that of Indigenous Worldviews. This table highlights 40 manifestations that tend to come from embodying these worldviews.
Each precept from this book reminds us that we are part of an interconnected web of existence. But it’s not enough to understand that in a spiritual or metaphysical since, we need to also embody it in order for material changes to occur in the way we craft this world around us. This book helps us to imagine how we can begin to materialize this reality, together, through kinship.
Read our full Eutierria Philosophy here.
Key Takeaways & Application
• For the Embodied Self: If you want to practice materializing a Kinship Worldview, kincentrism is the first step. This means beginning where you are, where you currently live and begin relocalizing yourself to your space by learning local place-based knowledge. Learn how to become a steward, a tender, a caretaker, and a custodian of place. If you care for the Land, she will care for you in return.
• For the Practitioner: Bring in place-based knowledge into your practice. Teach your participants how caring for the land in the way she wants to be cared for is a practice in relationality, which is something we must cultivate for all of our relationships and our collective wellbeing.
