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 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.

​​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.


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Benefits

  • 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.

Eligibility

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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

Click here to apply


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For more information, visit Nature Cultural Fellowship.

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