The

Murmuration 

Community of Practice

The Murmuration Community of Practice seeks to create a living space where participants can actively practice cultural transformation together. Inspired by the phenomenon of murmuration in nature, where starlings coordinate their movement through relational responsiveness rather than centralized control, the Murmuration offers a distributed and participatory approach to learning, collaboration, leadership, and change.

Rather than a traditional program, the Murmuration is designed as a shared practice space where participants experiment with collective leadership, relational responsibility, and gift-based ways of working together. Through regular gatherings and collaborative exploration, participants develop the internal and relational capacities needed to transform their work, organizations, and communities.

Murmuration Community of Practice?

What is the

This initiative builds on the momentum of the Nature Culture Fellowship 2025, which revealed a powerful and growing demand for spaces focused on cultural transformation. Kinship received over 850 applications from young leaders around the world for just 65 fellowship places, demonstrating the deep interest among practitioners seeking to explore new ways of thinking, relating, and acting in response to the social and ecological crises of our time. The Murmuration is designed both as a continuation of this work and as an expansion of it. It creates an ongoing space where the fellows from the Nature Culture Fellowship can continue learning together while also opening the circle to a broader, intergenerational community of practitioners, organizers, and cultural leaders from around the world.

At its core, the Murmuration recognizes that many people are searching for ways to unlearn inherited systems of superiority and separation from the web of life, and to cultivate deeper relationships with human and more-than-human kin. Through dialogue, reflection, storytelling, creative expression, and shared practice, participants explore how shifts in culture and narrative can reshape how we live, organize, and care for the Earth and for each other.

In this way, the Murmuration becomes not only a community of practice but a space where people can collectively imagine, rehearse, practice, find solidarity, and nurture new cultural possibilities, helping to seed the kinds of relationships and worldviews that more regenerative futures require.

Programmatic Vision:

  •  Provide a recurring space where participants can explore and practice new ways of relating to each other and the more-than-human world, rooted in reciprocity, care, and collective responsibility.

  • Support fellows and practitioners working at the intersection of nature, culture, and social change to continue learning together, share practices, and nurture a growing community of cultural leaders.

  • Use storytelling, dialogue, creative expression, and collective reflection to challenge dominant narratives of separation and superiority, and cultivate stories and cultural practices that reconnect people with the web of life.

  • Create recurring spaces of solidarity and accountability where participants meet regularly to reflect, experiment with new ways of thinking and working together, and support each other in integrating culture change into their lives and work.

  • You value culture, art, traditional wisdom, and embodied learning as tools for transformation.

  • You see yourself as part of a larger web, willing to share, support, and learn with others.

  • You believe in the power of stories and embodied curiosity to shift worldviews and inspire collective action. 

  • You are committed to ongoing community engagement and cultivating partnerships beyond the program.

Yes this program is right for me!

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What we’re hearing…

  • Thank you for curating such a sacred space. This is not just a fellowship, it an answer to the questions I could not answer for long time. I carry it in my spirit and work forward with renewed clarity.

    Macdonald Khozomba (Malawi)

  • I’m truly grateful for the care, intention, and thoughtfulness behind this Fellowship. It’s more than a learning space—it’s a community that inspires growth, empathy, and courage. Your work is planting seeds of change that will continue to grow beyond these sessions.

    Zabihullah Rahmani (Afghanistan)

  • I was deeply moved by the radical tenderness and vulnerability shared in the sessions. It surprised me how quickly a sense of trust and connection emerged across distances, and how much strength there is in pausing together to grieve, imagine, and dream beyond our current realities.

    Laura Zarta (Colombia)

  • Deep awe for the wisdom shared, grief for what’s been lost, and moments of peace in feeling seen and connected. At times, discomfort arises when touching painful truths, but it is softened by hope and the collective strength of this healing journey.

    Kwabena Gyapong (Ghana)

Fellowship Projects Around the Globe

  • Green Memory Project: storytelling, art, culture and nature connection

    Zabihullah (Afghanistan)

  • Manguo Wetlands: Restoring ecological and ancestral knowledge systems

    Tex (Kenya)

  • Diwa’t Dalamhati: restoring kinship between nature and people

    Bricx (Philippines)

  • 'চর ও প্রকৃতি' (Char and Nature): reconnecting children with their local ecosystems

    Shanjida (Bangladesh)

  • Seeds of Connection: a collaborative nature-based board game

    Aurora (Mexico)

  • Evening Fire time Awakening: ancestral traditions & storytelling inspires community-led conservation

    Macdonald (Malawi)

  • Listening to the Mountain and the Sea: sound and visual earth-based healing

    Laura (Brazil)

  • Voices of the Land: reviving ecological memory through story and ritual

    Kwabena (Ghana)

  • Eddagala ly'obutonde: revitalizing and preserving traditional knowledge of herbal medicine

    Derrick (Uganda)

  • Alas, raíces y memoria: youth, art, endangered birds and earth-based wisdom

    Mar (Ecuador)

  • Land that moves: connection with nature in urban areas

    Milosz (UK)

  • Reweaving Stories of Land and Life: elders, women, and youth share ancestral ecological stories, create art, and plant trees

    Ismael (Kenya)

  • Voices of the Land: unites elders and youth to preserve oral traditions and inspire land stewardship

    Dawit (Ethiopia)

  • Back to my roots (Pomar nativo em Atibaia): Planting and protecting native species

    Marina (Brazil)

Constellations of Change

Learning and Impact of the 2025 Fellowship Program