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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 →
Change Your Thinking with CPS’ Integrated Partnership Agenda

Change Your Thinking with CPS’ Integrated Partnership Agenda

June 8, 2018 The Center for Partnership Studies has released an updated version of the Integrated Partnership Progressive Agenda that outlines the core configurations of Domination Systems and Partnership Systems and key elements of the Domination and the Partnership Political Agendas. Download the Integrated Partnership Progressive Agenda Riane Eisler: “We have been taught to think of politics in terms of elections and governments, but politics is basically about how power is defined and exercised, and by whom. This is something we learn, starting in early childhood. The new social categories of the Partnership…continue reading →
Cultural Transformation: It’s Time to Shift Back to Partnership

Cultural Transformation: It’s Time to Shift Back to Partnership

May 31, 2018 Last Fall, the Center for Partnership Studies and readers from around the world celebrated the 30th anniversary and 57th U.S. printing of the international phenomenon that is The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler. This week Kindred Media shares a conversation about cultural transformation and the emerging Partnership social system: Could our time of massive dislocations be an opportunity for transformative change that will support a working Partnership system? Eisler proposes that the earliest cradles of civilization oriented more to the partnership system until, during a period of chaos,…continue reading →
Julie Owens and Ron Clark: leading the movement to end domestic violence

Julie Owens and Ron Clark: leading the movement to end domestic violence

Julie Owens and Ron Clark are two innovative and tireless activists leading the movement to end domestic violence. Along with Riane Eisler and moderator Renita Robinson, they are part of the panel for the May 22, 2018 webinar "Uncovering the Roots of Violence: New Perspectives on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith", hosted by the Center for Partnership Studies. In 2017, Julie Owens co-developed the national toolkit and screening tool for adult victims of human trafficking. Her primary focus is best practices in victim advocacy in both secular and faith-based settings. Julie writes: "I am…continue reading →