NEWS, updates, new projects...
RESTORING HUMAN NATURE
Last week I let this community of readers know that I am collaborating with Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Developer of the Evolved Nest, author of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, and one of my intellectual heroes, on the creation of a new book provisionally titled Restoring Human Nature: A Relational Neuro Ontology of the Ancestral Future.1
The book is available for preorder in the United States through Metalabel in two versions. A FIRST EDITION will include the hardcover book, and a COLLECTOR’S EDITION will include the book itself, and the videos of our conversations that form the backbone of the book (the manuscript is being revised out of these conversations).
If you are outside of the United States, and interested in preordering the book, please use this direct link on our website. (Metalabel does not have the capability to allow us to set shipping prices for individual countries, so we have to process these orders through our own back-end.) If you are outside the US and want the collector’s edition, order the book with the link below, and then send our support team (support@restorativepractices.com) an email about this. We can invoice you directly and set up a viewing account.
This project is part of Mycelium, an underground artist/scientist collaborative to support collective flourishing. Proceeds will fund book creation and production, be shared with the collective itself, and distributed between myself and Darcia, where hers will be remitted to EvolvedNest.org
GROUND THIRD DRAFT SUBMITTED
Yesterday I sent the third draft of GROUND, which will become our Advance Reader Copies, to our publisher. This is the second book in the Autonomics Trilogy. In the trilogy, I am writing a comprehensive book about each of our primary autonomic systems, of which there are three. The Neurobiology of Connection was our first book in the series, treating on the evolutionarily newest system that undergirds connection and wellbeing. GROUND: How Modernity Disconnected from the Earth, Why it Matters, and How to Fix It is an exploration of the deepest, oldest unmyelinated subdiaphragmatic system known in PVT as the dorsal vagal system. From the back cover:
GROUND is scheduled for publication December 15, 2025. It is available for preorder now. Your support is what allows us to continue to take on these big and ambitious projects.
On Thursday and Friday July 17 & 18 I’ll teach from the new book in the training Grounding as Practice & Process.
NEW AUTONOMICS POSTER
From the team that created the Official Polyvagal Posters, our newest Autonomics poster maps 13 of the most common autonomic states, articulates our revised model of in vivo ANS function, explains how Autonomics conceptualizes state as an integral of neuroception, neurology, and neurochemistry, and differentiates the model from previous autonomic physiology models.
Available in 24 x 36 inch version for your study, home, or office.
On Friday July 14, I’ll teach the Autonomics mandala in Diagnosing your Autonomic Composition for Wellbeing and Healing.
MISCELLANEOUS
There are 4 spaces remaining in the graduate-level autumn seminar I am leading. There are 6 spaces remaining in the Interoceptive Tracking cohort & practice group. And our Autonomics Innovation lab is open for those wanting early access to our newest inventions…
It is possible that we will make the subtitle a little bit simpler…;)