Kinship

investing in conservation and regeneration that protect the ecosystems, communities, beings, and cycles that sustain your work and wellbeing; restoring pollinator habitats; planting native species; contributing to rewilding, mycorrhizal restoration, or wildlife corridors; partnering with the species and systems you rely on through habitat care, legal protection, or long-term stewardship; co-developing initiatives that meet shared needs across species, such as tree planting that supports both climate resilience and food security, or creating spaces used by both humans and birds; reinvesting a portion of profits, harvests, or infrastructure into the renewal of the systems that support you.

fostering team cultures where relational care is actively practiced - checking in, covering for each other, or adapting to changing needs; adapting activities to support wellbeing of non-human kin and systems; acknowledging and supporting team members in their roles as caretakers for more-than-human kin; recognising when a person, whether a landscape, human or non-human being, is in stress or decline and shifting practices to support recovery or rest.

respecting planetary boundaries and limits; having strong ethical and low-impact procurement policies; refusing ingredients or materials linked to habitat destruction, toxicity, cruelty and extraction; ensuring research, knowledge production and education are non-extractive; offering gratitude or ceremony for harvests, lives taken and energy used; naming and thanking more-than-human contributors in reports or presentations.

practicing voluntary simplicity, sufficiency and restraint in consumption; setting aside a portion of harvests, land, or resources for more-than-human kin; donating food, tools, or materials into commons; participating in sharing and surplus redistribution systems; aligning production and consumption with the needs of the wider web of life, not just human goals.

facilitating workshops or gatherings where human and more-than-human relationships are explored together, such as through participatory ecology, nature constellations, or shared seasonal learning; creating cross-cultural and cross-species learning events that bring indigenous knowledge holders, community educators, and local ecosystems into dialogue; designing learning experiences that cultivate awareness of multispecies relationships and interdependence; offering facilitator training or peer exchange focused on hosting relational, inclusive spaces; sponsoring or supporting Earth-centred education programmes, allocating learning budgets to ecological or indigenous-led training, or hosting internal sessions that explore shared responsibility with the living world.

cocreating agreements that guide how we live, learn, and show up for each other and the wider web of life; forming peer learning groups or interspecies communities of practice, sanghas or stewardship circles that support practice and transformation over time; embedding reflection on kinship and interdependence into team or community rhythms; making space to unlearn inherited patterns of domination such as control, extraction, or exceptionalism and practise new ways of relating to self and others; using shared moments like check-ins, reviews, or retreats to revisit collective purpose and nurture accountability toward both human and more-than-human kin.

piloting, supporting, or co-creating shared land stewardship, food systems, mutual aid initiatives, solidarity economies or housing models grounded in kinship with humans and Earth others; initiating small-scale experiments or contributing to community-led efforts that challenge extractive systems and offer more life-affirming ways forward; documenting and sharing place-based, indigenous, or organisational experiments that offer insight into how kinship might be lived at scale; designing policies, practices, or spaces that serve as public demonstrations of kinship with all life.

forming long-term partnerships that respect indigenous governance and sovereignty; supporting indigenous- or community-led land restoration, rematriation, or legal recognition of rights for nature; amplifying frontline voices without co-opting them; aligning with movements defending sacred sites, endangered ecosystems, or more-than-human kin; dedicating resources or capacity to support community monitoring, ecological self-determination or resistance to extractive industries; honouring indigenous protocols and ways of life in conservation or project design.

advocating for ecosystems and beings in governance and decision-making; supporting nature rights legislation or protection campaigns; challenging narratives or practices that harm or erase non-human voices; intervening in narratives or decisions that perpetuate harm or erasure; speaking up in conversations, meetings and spaces where voices of kin are not present; speaking up for and following the leadership of beings or communities directly impacted by ecological destruction.

referring to rivers, fungi, other animals, human beings and places as kin, relations, elders, teachers or community members; using relational terms like “pollinator partners” or “forest neighbours” in meetings, newsletters, or at events; avoiding objectifying language like “it” when speaking and experimenting with personhood-affirming language, such as "they," “who,” or kin-based pronouns; naming more-than-human beings as participants or stakeholders; allowing affectionate, respectful, or ceremonial language in both formal and informal communications; countering all types of othering of human kin.

making commitments to kinship with all life explicit in public communications, policies, and onboarding materials; sharing kincentric practices and approaches openly so others can learn or adopt them; celebrating interspecies relationships in internal storytelling or visuals; and participating in campaigns, art, or advocacy that reflect and promote a kincentric worldview.