Applications Now Open forThe Nature Culture Fellowship (NCF) 2025

Application Deadline: May 2, 2025

The Nature Culture Fellowship (NCF) 2025, organized by Kinship in collaboration with the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, is now accepting applications. This fully funded program offers a transformative journey for changemakers, artists, and conservationists worldwide.​

Reimagining Our Connection with Nature and Culture

The NCF is designed for individuals passionate about restoring harmony between people, culture, and the natural world. It invites participants to explore how art, heritage, and interconnection can address the deep-rooted challenges facing our planet. The program emphasizes building new narratives rooted in belonging, creativity, ancestral knowledge, and social repair.​

Fellowship Structure: A Three-Phase Journey

The fellowship unfolds in three distinct phases:​

Phase 1: Tending the Soil (May–June 2025)

Participants begin by grounding themselves in cultural narratives and systems thinking. Through storytelling, rituals, and grief work, they reconnect with community wisdom and explore what needs to be released to move forward. Key themes include collective grief, systems of oppression, and relational dynamics with human and non-human beings.​

Phase 2: World of Possibilities (June–July 2025)

In this phase, fellows explore creative emergence through reciprocal listening and imaginative practices. They develop project ideas with peer feedback in collaborative spaces, engaging in co-working sessions and mentored project development.​

Phase 3: Seeding Regenerative Futures (August–December 2025)

Forty selected fellows will receive financial support to implement community-based projects that interweave traditional practices, creative expression, and intergenerational learning. This phase includes monthly mentorship check-ins, cultural actions rooted in ancestral and creative knowledge, and a culminating celebration to showcase fellow projects and shared visions.​

Who Should Apply?

The NCF seeks individuals deeply connected to their communities and ready to step into creative leadership rooted in humility, reciprocity, and cultural transformation. Ideal candidates are those willing to examine dominant systems, explore unlearning, and hold space for uncertainty as a source of growth. This fellowship is for people who see cultural narratives as tools for real, systemic change.​

Program Benefits

• Immersive Learning Experience: Engage in weekly sessions blending storytelling, cultural reflection, embodied learning, and connection with the natural world.​
• Financial Support: Selected fellows will receive funding to implement culturally meaningful projects in their communities.​
• Network: Join a diverse, international cohort of changemakers committed to cultural transformation and ecological healing.​
• Mentorship: Receive guidance and support from experienced mentors throughout the fellowship.​

Application Details

• Eligibility: Open to individuals from all countries.​
• Application Deadline: May 2, 2025
• Program Duration: May to December 2025​

The Nature Culture Fellowship 2025 offers a unique opportunity to explore the transformative power of culture, imagination, and connection. If you are ready to co-create new ways of being and belonging, both personally and collectively, this fellowship is for you. Apply now and join a vibrant, values-aligned cohort dedicated to re-rooting change in community, creativity, and care.

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