Naia is an animist trust dedicated to creating the conditions on Earth for all beings to thrive.
Our mission is to reunify humans as “nature” and to advance a worldview of interbeing.
Naia Trust invests with a philosophy: with every flow of capital, we enquire as to whether it may bring those it touches into a meaningful, engaged and potentially enchanting relationship with the more-than-human-world.
We are passionate about equipping human and ecological communities with inner and outer resilience, empowering them to live in dignity and act with agency within the context of the current metacrisis. This could manifest as regenerative agricultural systems, thriving biodiversity, the advancement of scientific knowledge, new ecological economics, innovative earth law, future architectures and poetic spaces to breathe and heal.
It pains us to bear witness to the widening fault lines and rifts in society; the ‘othering’ that arises from a psychology that perceives duality between self and world; the multiple planetary boundaries that we are exceeding; and underneath this all, a profound estrangement of humanity from a living, sentient and sacred Earth.
Yet amidst times of great upheaval rests extraordinary potential. The world is pregnant with narratives waiting to be written. Our hope is rooted in an active engagement with the world, despite unknowable outcomes. We believe that what is ours to do is to help foster islands of coherence, tangible and embodied existence proofs that sow the seeds of cultures to come.
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Our Investments
The creative tension in our work lies in bridging systems and generating new models that align with nature’s principles.
We consider how every approach and investment we make may appear if experienced from the perspective of ecosystems, species and life-processes.
To that end, we champion not only biocentric ventures but also novel economic models, redefinitions of value, and collective stewardship paradigms.
Our Thinking
Alongside our investment activities, we care deeply about generating new cultural expressions, communications and movement building around the restoration of human relations to nature.
Our podcast Lifeworlds delves into perceiving the world through nature’s perspectives. We regularly give talks, publish essays and thought pieces to refine our work and engage different fields of practice.