Join us October 3rd for Power With and Power Through: How Women Are Leading Differently
Join us October 3rd for an interactive online dialog on the transformational possibilities of women’s leadership with Riane Eisler, Jamia Wilson, and Carla Goldstein. We can only build a more just and caring world if we enact leadership in ways that cultivate partnership rather than domination. But what does it really look like to “do […]
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Watch the video: Behind Our Gender Masks with Brie Mathers, Ashanti Branch and Riane Eisler
CPS’ September 20, 2018 webinar, Behind Our Gender Masks: Empowering Young Women and Men to Express their Full Humanity, proved to be a powerful and engaging conversation. This in-depth dialog explores practical strategies for shaping the future of femininity and masculinity in the era of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NeverAgain. Gender equality pioneer Riane Eisler brings together two powerful […]
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What I’m Learning About Partnership Education
August 4, 2018 by John Creger When I met Riane Eisler at a conference in 2000 and began reading her books, I was ten years into my career as a high school English teacher. My own high school education had been dissatisfying and disheartening for me, its emphasis on competing for spots in Ivy League […]
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Watch the video: Questions You Asked: Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith
We heard you! The response to our May 22, 2018 webinar “Uncovering the Roots of Violence: New Perspectives on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith,” was overwhelming. Participants from all over the world raised incisive questions that call for further conversation, so we reconvened our panel of anti-violence pioneers to move the dialog forward! Watch […]
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The Center for Partnership Studies is a catalyst for cultural, economic, and personal transformation- from domination to partnership, from control to care, from power-over to empowerment. CPS's programs provide new knowledge, insights, interventions, and practical tools for this urgently needed shift. We invite you to explore the many resources CPS offers to build a better future for yourself, your family, your community, your nation, and our world.
Caring Economy Campaign
By showing the enormous economic value of caring for people and for nature, CPS’s Caring Economy Campaign (CEC) provides a road map to a better future. The CEC's Social Wealth Economic Indicators (SWEIs) are new metrics demonstrating the urgent need for policies that invest in caring for and educating people. CEC webinars show how to reduce poverty, empower women, ensure quality care for children, promote healthy family, social, and natural environments, and improve business profits. The CEC brings together organizations and leaders for more effective economic and social policies at the federal, state, and local levels.
The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence
The Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), co-founded by CPS President Riane Eisler and Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams, offers a platform for strategic collaboration to end intimate violence. SAIV's international council includes leaders from every continent, and is engaging religious and other spiritual communities to stop this global pandemic of violence against women and children. SAIV works with faith communities to support survivors of intimate violence, and to implement a partnership system that ends intimate violence before it starts. We provide interdisciplinary resources for community members and leaders to effect change.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies as a peer-reviewed journal housed at the University of Minnesota, dedicated to sharing new knowledge and successful applications of Riane Eisler’s partnership paradigm. Representing the academic wing of CPS's message, the IJPS aims to develop the best solutions possible by drawing on our collective knowledge across the academic spectrum.
Leadership and Learning Programs
CPS’s online Leadership and Learning Programs empower women and men from around the world to become leaders of the partnership and caring economy movements. CPS’s online classes bring together policy-makers, business leaders, educators, student leaders, community advocates, therapists, parents, and grandparents from around the world to study, dialogue, and take action together. Our Alumni Community stay engaged in the partnership learning community through global gatherings and an interactive online hub where graduates share resources, strategies, and action models and inspire one another to continue their vital work.
Bookstore and Multimedia Library
The Bookstore and Multimedia Library is a comprehensive resource center for personal, social, and economic transformation from domination to partnership. Whether you want an interesting idea for an essay, book, or book club, have a term paper or syllabus to write, a class to teach, a lecture to give, a debate to prepare for, or are simply interested in expanding your horizon, this is the place to go. You will find fascinating ways to spark discussions, challenge conventional thinking, support your research, and better understand yourself and our world.
Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is CPS president and co-founder. Her revolutionary findings on partnership vs. domination models are changing the conversation about social progress. Eisler is the author of landmark books including The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (in 26 languages), and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Her pioneering work in human rights expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children. Eisler keynotes conferences worldwide, teaches online, and has received many honors, including the Peace Leadership Award earlier received by the Dalai Lama.