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 join a three-month immersive learning journey (May-July 2025) with 55 other participants from 30+ countries around the world. From August to November 2025, 40 selected Fellows will receive financial support to implement community-based projects that blend art, ancestral knowledge, intergenerational exchange, and bold imagination.
About Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program
Opportunity Details
- Date Published: April 26, 2025
- Application Deadline: May 02, 2025
- Category: Fellowship
Throughout the Kinship Fellowship, participants will engage in storytelling, embodiment practices, values-based reflection, and dialogue to address the cultural and systemic drivers of ecological crises, emphasizing healing our separation from nature, spirit, and community. This co-creative learning journey fosters the development of art-based projects rooted in community, where Fellows explore profound questions of identity, place, grief, transformation, reciprocity with human and more-than-human beings, and multi-generational relationships.
Benefits of Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program
- Cultural & Creative Growth: Learn how artistic and cultural practices can shift worldviews and drive meaningful collective change.
- Space for Mystery & Experimentation: Explore outside conventional structures, embrace the unknown, and unlearn limiting frameworks.
- Wisdom-Led Learning: Engage with Indigenous knowledge, social science, and traditional wisdom as essential lenses for transformative change.
- Ongoing Support: Dedicated time for learning (3 months) and guided implementation of your project (4 months), with support from a global cohort and Kinship's ecosystem.
Kinship Nature Cultural Fellowship Program Requirements
They are looking for individuals who are:
- Rooted in Community - You have a network or circle you can engage, inspire and influence locally.
- Self-Motivated & Committed - You take initiative, follow through, and can dedicate time to this 5-month journey, including creating and implementing a community project.
- Openness, Unlearning & Humility - You're curious, reflective, and willing to sit with discomfort, mystery, and not knowing.
- Connectors - You can connect across cultures, generations, and disciplines, and are committed to dismantling systemic barriers.
- Creative & Courageous - You value culture, art, traditional wisdom, and embodied learning as tools for transformation.
- Collaborative & Generous - You see yourself as part of a larger web, willing to share, support, and learn with others.
- Story-Weavers & Sense-Makers - You believe in the power of stories to shift worldviews and inspire collective action.
- Future-Oriented - You are committed to ongoing community engagement and cultivating partnerships beyond the program.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
02 May, 2025
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