Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program 2025
Deadline: May 2, 2025
Applications are open for the Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program 2025. The Nature Cultural Fellowship (NCF) is a Kinship program developed in collaboration with the Global Youth Biodiversity Network. They invite you to affix a 3-month immersive studying journey (May–July 2025) with 55 different members from 30+ international locations around the globe. From August to November 2025, 40 chosen Fellows will obtain monetary help to implement group-based mostly tasks that mix artwork, ancestral information, intergenerational alternate, and daring creativeness.
Throughout the Kinship Fellowship, members will have interaction in storytelling, embodiment practices, values-based mostly reflection, and dialogue to deal with the cultural and systemic drivers of ecological crises, emphasizing therapeutic our separation from nature, spirit, and group. This co-inventive studying journey fosters the event of artwork-based mostly tasks rooted in group, the place Fellows discover profound questions of identification, place, grief, transformation, reciprocity with human and extra-than-human beings, and multi-generational relationships.
Benefits
- Cultural & Creative Growth: Learn how inventive and cultural practices can shift worldviews and drive significant collective change.
- Space for Mystery & Experimentation: Explore outdoors standard constructions, embrace the unknown, and unlearn limiting frameworks.
- Wisdom-Led Learning: Engage with Indigenous information, social science, and conventional knowledge as important lenses for transformative change.
- Ongoing Support: Dedicated time for studying (3 months) and guided implementation of your challenge (4 months), with help from a world cohort and Kinship’s ecosystem.
Eligibility
They are on the lookout for people who’re:
- Rooted in Community – You have a community or circle you may have interaction, encourage and affect regionally.
- Self-Motivated & Committed – You take initiative, comply with by, and might dedicate time to this 5-month journey, together with creating and implementing a group challenge.
- Openness, Unlearning & Humility – You’re curious, reflective, and keen to take a seat with discomfort, thriller, and never figuring out.
- Connectors – You can join throughout cultures, generations, and disciplines, and are dedicated to dismantling systemic limitations.
- Creative & Courageous – You worth tradition, artwork, conventional knowledge, and embodied studying as instruments for transformation.
- Collaborative & Generous – You see your self as part of a bigger net, keen to share, help, and study with others.
- Story-Weavers & Sense-Makers – You consider within the energy of tales to shift worldviews and encourage collective motion.
- Future-Oriented – You are dedicated to ongoing group engagement and cultivating partnerships past this system.
Application
For extra data, go to Nature Cultural Fellowship.