🌿 Rooted in Secure Attachment
🔹 Before All Else: Mammalian Care
Before there were alphabets, mathematics, nations, or even human speech, there was something older and deeper:
Mammalian care — the first true language.
The instinct to nourish, protect, and nurture life evolved long before civilization.
It is written into the very fabric of mammals — from early ancestors to today — and even appears in ancient dinosaurs.
Care came before the chicken or the egg.
Before conquest.
Before kings.
Before war.
At Corecompass, mammalian care is the original root from which everything else must grow.
We give voice not only to the literate, the strong, or the connected — but also to those who struggle to speak, read, or belong:
- Those with autism or Asperger’s
- Those who are illiterate or dyslexic
- Those whose lives have never been met with secure attachment
🌱 Connection is our first language. Everything else is built on this.
At Corecompass, we recognize a simple but profound truth:
Secure attachment is the soil from which freedom, creativity, and compassion grow.
Building on the groundbreaking work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, and carrying forward the insights of modern attachment theory, we affirm that:
- Human beings need secure attachment to thrive.
- Trust is not a luxury; it is the very foundation of learning, exploration, empathy, and resilience.
- Societies that ensure nourishment, warmth, shelter, health, education, and meaningful challenge for every child grow adults who are not just surviving — but creating, cooperating, and building futures.
🔹 Expanding the Roots: Fair Start for All
At Corecompass, we stand with the growing global call for a Fair Start for every child. Learn more https://fairstartmovement.org
As the Fair Start Movement reminds us:
- Justice begins at birth.
- Every child has the right to be born into a world that nourishes, protects, and empowers them.
- Without equitable and sustainable foundations — including family planning, climate responsibility, and access to care — no society can be truly free, just, or resilient.
We recognize that:
- No child should be born into deprivation or exploitation.
- No future should be built on the suffering of the voiceless.
- Governments, systems, and authorities only hold legitimacy if they ensure a Fair Start for those they represent.
🌿 A Fair Start is the living soil of Corecompass.
Without it, no tree of freedom, empathy, or resilience can grow.
We are committed to contributing practical models that unite social, reproductive, and environmental justice — fostering a future where attachment, nourishment, safety, and growth are the birthrights of every human being.
Together, we plant the seeds of a truly free humanity — from the smallest village to the farthest star.
🔹 Empowering the Future: Students and Builders of All Origins
At Corecompass, your origin does not define your future.
We welcome students, thinkers, and builders from every path of life — whether you come from a great university, a small village school, or from learning born of experience and perseverance.
We especially honor those places where learning, belonging, and free thought are cherished — wherever they are found.
🌱 We are planting a future where knowledge, care, and resilience grow side by side.
As education faces growing threats — whether through political interference, inequality, or loss of academic freedom — Corecompass will stand:
- For free, critical, and compassionate learning.
- For building communities of care and innovation.
- For protecting and strengthening the roots of human growth — not cutting them down.
We believe the future needs builders more than rulers.
And the first builders are those who care for life itself — wherever they come from.
🔹 Key Principles We Stand On:
- Attachment Security First: Before any policy, plan, or project, we must ensure the core needs are met: food, water, shelter, warmth, safety, emotional connection.
- Freedom Through Security: When children and adults feel truly safe, they are free to explore, question, innovate, and love.
- Empathy and Metacognition: Secure attachments grow brains capable of understanding others (empathy) and reflecting on one’s own thoughts and feelings (metacognition).
- Growth Through Challenge: With a foundation of security, people naturally seek appropriate challenges — growing stronger, more resilient, and more capable over time.
- Prevention of Violence and Corruption: Insecure attachment — not inherent evil — is the root of most cruelty, manipulation, and systemic breakdowns. Healing the roots heals the tree.
- New Foundations for Governance: A system rooted in life (Ekklesia) must recognize that attachment is not just a personal matter — it is a societal cornerstone.
🌍 A Vision for Humanity:
We dream of a world where every child grows up:
- Secure in their belonging.
- Confident in their ability to learn and contribute.
- Resilient in the face of challenge.
- Compassionate toward the struggles of others.
- Wise enough to reflect, adapt, and heal.
This is not a utopian fantasy. It is a biological, psychological, and spiritual imperative — rooted in the deepest workings of the human heart and mind.
By ensuring that all are nourished, warm, sheltered, healthy, connected, educated, and appropriately challenged, we do not just “help” people.
We help grow a new humanity — strong enough to thrive on Earth, in space, and beyond.
🌐 Coming Soon:
- Practical models for attachment-based governance.
- Education systems rooted in security, challenge, and creativity.
- Healing communities for those carrying wounds of broken attachment.
- Pathways for building resilient societies ready to reach the stars.
Because life’s true compass is not power — it is connection.