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Riane Eisler: Following My Calling

Riane Eisler: Following My Calling

October 4, 2018 In her second article for The Sisters, Riane Eisler reveals her ultimate ambitions for her work: Following My Calling. "...The new understanding provided by the partnership-domination social scale can make a huge difference as it offers a roadmap for building this better future. But there is fierce resistance to fundamental change – not only by those pushing us back to more rigid domination times, but also from people who consider themselves progressives, but who still view anything connected with the majority of humanity as ‘just’ women’s and children’s issues. To move to…continue reading →
Riane Eisler: My Story and My Calling

Riane Eisler: My Story and My Calling

July 19, 2018 Read Riane Eisler’s moving personal story in the inaugural issue of The Sisters online magazine “My Story and My Calling”. In this story, her first of two articles for The Sisters, the internationally renowned cultural scientist, historian, theorist, and campaigner Riane Eisler reflects on the inspiration for her life’s work. "I was born in Vienna, and my parents and I lived there until Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. On Kristallnacht, so called because of all the glass shattered in Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses, a gang of Gestapo men…continue reading →
Cultivating a Partnership World: Self-Paced Learning

Cultivating a Partnership World: Self-Paced Learning

  Spark and sustain your passion for cultivating a Partnership world: CPS is creating a brand new catalog of webinars and e-courses offered through a new multi-media, intuitive learning platform that will enable you to engage with self-directed learning in a whole new way. The catalog will include full video replays of CPS' 2017-2018 webinars, as well as our foundation Partnership, Cultural Transformation and Caring Economy e-courses. Stay tuned for updates this Fall.  continue reading →
Behind Our Gender Masks with Brie Mathers, Ashanti Branch and Riane Eisler

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 leaders in the movement to help young people break through damaging old gender assumptions and claim powerful voices and authentic lives. Brie Mathers of Love the Skin You’re In, and Ashanti Branch of Ever Forward share how they are…continue reading →
Ariana Newcomer announces the new Wise Woman Immersion program

Ariana Newcomer announces the new Wise Woman Immersion program

August 9, 2018 The Center for Partnership Studies is excited to share the announcement of Partnership Practitioner Ariana Newcomer's new program The Wise Woman Immersion.  The Wise Woman Immersion is a deep creative spiritual journey into your inner wisdom, next level of personal healing, healing of the collective, and your latest sacred reinvention of yourself. These times are calling us strongly into the next level of our soul’s evolution. We are being challenged to step up, speak out, and act to heal our collective shadow and help elevate human consciousness. It is time for…continue reading →
Thriving in Your Third Act: free online summit Aug. 20-24, 2018

Thriving in Your Third Act: free online summit Aug. 20-24, 2018

Hear Riane Eisler speak on the subject of Women, Violence, and Injustice: From Domination to Partnership in The Shift Network’s “Thriving in Your Third Act”, a free online summit August 20-24, 2018. Host Sabrina Chaw, CEO of A Feminine Feast, will talk in depth with Riane about gender inequality and intersectionality, showing how the empowerment of women is key to moving to a more caring and equitable world. What can we as older women do to build better lives and societies? In This Session: Why gender inequality is central to oppression, injustice, and…continue reading →
Brie Mathers: talking with young women and men about gender – being your whole self

Brie Mathers: talking with young women and men about gender – being your whole self

June 26, 2018 Brie Mathers, outspoken Partnership leader and founder of Love the Skin You’re In, is interviewed by Daphne Wallbridge in this 8-minute interview. Brie’s resiliency project empowers young women to think critically about their place in society, and about the popular and social media messages they are receiving about body image, sexuality, and self-worth. Brie’s message deeply resonates with the students that receive her vibrant presentations in schools in the US, Canada and Europe. In this interview, Brie has just given a presentation to a large all-male student group in a…continue reading →
Riane Eisler interviewed on Remarkable Educators: hear the podcast

Riane Eisler interviewed on Remarkable Educators: hear the podcast

June 26, 2018 Hear the podcast: Riane Eisler is interviewed by host Ba Luvmour on Meetings With Remarkable Educators. Eisler explores the dynamics of the Domination-Partnership lens—how do we break the habits  and patterns that feed social systems sustained by a domination mindset? Can we begin to let go of patterns that are maladaptive by shifting our ways of thinking in the context of the partnership lens? Riane Eisler: “Linguistic psychologists point out that language, and especially linguistic categories that a culture makes available, channel our thinking. For example, for gender relations we…continue reading →
Partnership Studies Group in Udine, Italy: bodies@living art project

Partnership Studies Group in Udine, Italy: bodies@living art project

July 2, 2018 The Partnership Studies Group Udine, founded by Prof. Antonella Riem, recently presented a performance art event “living bodies@blurring realities”, part of the Festival of Knowledge at the University of Udine, June 27-30, 2018. The Partnership Studies Group/Udine was founded to expand the study of the Partnership social systems model developed by author, educator and activist Riane Eisler. PSG blends research and artistic processes, creating spaces of relationship and action in collaboration and performance. The living bodies@ blurring realities project includes elements of relational art, installations and performance moments centered on…continue reading →
Watch the video: Questions You Asked: Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith

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 the June 27, 2018 webinar Questions You Asked: Further Conversations on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith with Julie Owens and Ron Clark—learn about specific ways we can work together to change cultures of violence in our homes, our places…continue reading →