Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program 2025 – YOA

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

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For extra data, go to Nature Cultural Fellowship.