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Check out our Partnership Systems Tool Kits
We are dedicated to building partnership-based economic and social systems that support human beings and the planet that sustains us.
To help do this, we have created a gallery of tool kits, infographics, quote cards, and fact sheets that highlight Dr. Riane Eisler’s multidisciplinary research and scholarship on Partnership Systems.
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Riane Eisler’s Meridian Course Open to Public
Starting September 14 through October 31, 2021, Eisler and Aftab Omer will be teaching an online course titled “Reimagining Power and Revaluing Care: Actualizing the Potentials of Partnership Systems” for both the public and Meridian graduate students as part of the Partnership Systems Concentration.
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Coming Soon: Self-Paced Course with Riane Eisler
On an individual basis, it can be difficult to figure out the exact part to play in building a better future, which is why the Center for Partnership Systems is launching a course to help do just that.
This October, we are launching an expansive and foundational course that covers the whole body of Dr. Riane Eisler’s work called “Changing Our Story, Changing Our Lives.”
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Partnership Studies Group Udine, Italy
Inspired by the seminal anthropological and socio-cultural work of Riane Eisler, Antonella Riem and a group of researchers founded the Partnership Studies Group (PSG) in 1998. The PSG in Udine, Italy is the primary scholarly partner of the Center for Partnership Systems and one of our most active, offering programs and courses of learning.
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Value what we measure. Measure what we value.
For 75 years, the world has marched to the drum of “Gross Domestic Product,” a narrow, distorted, and short-term measure focusing on goods and services, without accounting for whether it helps or harms us or our natural environment. It’s time for a new toolset.
Find out more about how our Social Wealth Index program is going to change that.
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Spanish media passionate about Riane Eisler’s El Cáliz y la Espada
Eisler’s groundbreaking book The Chalice and The Blade, or El Cáliz y la Espada, has been reissued in Spain to a flurry of interest among media and press. Read the El Confidencial interview (in English and Spanish) titled “Riane Eisler fled the Holocaust to revolutionize history: “Let’s change the masculine story”.
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Partnerism: power with, not power over
The argument of Capitalism versus Socialism fails to recognize that both are rooted in domination systems. This system has caused 6,000+ years of suffering and injustice. There is another way — an economic system that supports mutual respect, non-violence, equality, empowerment, and caring: Partnerism.
Join the Partnerism Movement to help accelerate the shift from domination to Partnerism.
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Partnership systems and the future of AI
Can artificial intelligence help us to prioritize people’s mental health? How do you value the caregivers in your lives? Caregiving metrics aren’t a part of GDP. Could new, caring economic indicators affect how society and AI systems design prioritize mental health and caregivers – or not?
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From domination to partnership: a planetary ethic
Riane Eisler: “We’ve been told the wrong story, a false story, about our cultural origins for millennia. We related to each other and to the earth more in a partnership way, for a long period in our prehistory…”. Andrew Keen interviews Riane Eisler in the Literary Hub podcast.
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Building a multiracial democracy through Partnerism
“Eight years ago, I met and studied with the author and systems scientist Riane Eisler to build a Caring Economy and Partnership Society. I immediately saw that this structure would lead to overcoming racism”.
Welcome to the Center for Partnership Systems
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“We need a new cultural and economic analysis that no longer ignores the majority of humanity: women and children.”
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“There is another logical alternative: societies in which difference is not equated with inferiority or superiority.”
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“When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.”
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“In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.”
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“We CAN build an economic system that takes us beyond communism, capitalism, and other old isms. We CAN create economic models and policies that support caring for ourselves, others, and our Mother Earth. We need a caring revolution.”
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“We have to recognize that the rape of nature and the rape of women is of the same dominator cloth: part of an authoritarian and exploitive system of top-down rankings.”
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“Recovering our lost relationship with nature does not just entail replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact florescent bulbs; we’ve got to replace the stories and assumptions that broke that relationship in the first place with a partnership story that works.”
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“Ending public sector cuts for teachers and caregivers avoids not only suffering but also economic disaster. Otherwise we deprive our nation of the capable work force essential for success in the post-industrial knowledge/service age.”
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“Gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.”
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“There was one study in our book Nurturing Our Humanity that I particularly love: the pleasure centers in our brains light up more when we share than when we win.”
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“Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people’s basic needs as long as the socially essential work of care taking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?”
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“People living in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs – not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression – will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”
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“Caring for life – for self, others, and nature – must be part of the curriculum from pre-school to graduate school.”
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“Societies that define masculinity & femininity fluidly instead of rigidly, in which a wide range of possibilities are available to men & women, and in which caring for others is highly values & exhibited by both men & women, tend to orient toward a partnership model.”
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“To be aware that we are all part of an exquisitely interwoven web of life is part of a partnership consciousness.”
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“An old strand of trees doesn’t make it into GDP until it is dead, until it has been chopped down. GDP not only puts negatives in as positives, it fails to give any value to work of caring for our natural life support systems.”
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“Companies that have caring policies have a higher return to investors.The same applies to nations. Nations that pioneer caring policies show the enormous return on investment of caring for our most important assets: people and nature.”
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“The real wealth of a nation is not financial. You see this everyday when the stock market seesaws up & down. Our real wealth consists of the contributions of people & nature.”
The Center for Partnership Systems (CPS) — formerly the Center for Partnership Studies—is dedicated to research, education, and building tools to construct economic and social systems that support human beings and the planet that sustains us. This site provides a wide array of resources about the history and foundations of Partnership Systems that will empower you to apply partnership principles in your own family, community, workplace, and government.
The Partnerism Movement is a CPS initiative to accelerate the shift from Domination to Partnership Systems. We start with a caring economics of Partnerism, an economic system that, unlike Capitalism and Socialism, values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future. We invite you to join the Partnerism Movement.
Community Voices
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Jed Diamond: The Future of Partnership in a Conflicted World
CPS partner Jed Diamond highlights his work advocating for a shift to Partnership Systems: “Our Certification Training e-book features Riane Eisler’s work: Survive and Thrive in the Post-Covid World: Your Guide for a Partnership Future.
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The Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
IJPS is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal that shares scholarship and creates connections for cultural transformation to build a world in which all relationships, institutions, policies and organizations are based on principles of partnership.
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Dedicated to Our Country’s Economic Health: Support the Social Wealth Index
“From a young age, I understood the importance of kind and caring work because I was surrounded by courageously kind women—women like my mom and all of you. The care for children, the community, and the household was the glue that kept our community strong and allowed us kids to thrive”…
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Forward Thinking Fridays
Check out the new CPS program on Facebook and Instagram! In our first live dialogue, Licia Rando is interviewed by CPS’s Robyn Baker on how to promote the wellbeing of children and the quality of our connections with them throughout childhood.
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Leaders Profile: Ginger Garner
Ginger wrote that her political leadership “is the means by which, through caregiving and service to the public, I can continue to translate caring economy principles into policy. I would encourage other partnership and caring economics leaders to consider what critical role they could have in…
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