Partnership in Action

 

The Center for
Partnership Studies
P.O. Box 51936
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
USA
Phone 831-626-1004
Fax 831-626-3734
 center@partnershipway.org

 

 

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Current Features

With so much happening at CPS we can no longer limit ourselves to one Current Feature. Here are a number of exciting new features to peruse.


OIL AND WATER: CAN THEY MIX?
A CONFERENCE EXPLORING WESTERN AND INDIGENOUS APPROACHES TO ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY

OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 1, 2006: LA FONDA HOTEL, SANTA FE, NM
www.seedgraduateinstitute.org

How can the important issues of our times – our economy, ecology, oil and water, be approached with fresh and original thinking that goes beyond the limited perspective of Western problem solving? This is the essence of an extraordinary conference that is coming to Santa Fe this October 27- November 1st that brings together the best of indigenous wisdom and Western science to address these issues.

Thirty-four indigenous elders and Western scientists will gather at La Fonda on the plaza in Santa Fe, NM. Among the presenters are Hazel Henderson, author of Beyond Globalization, Leroy Little Bear, renowned moderator and former Director of Native Studies at Harvard, David Abram, author of the Spell of the Sensuous, Richard Douthwaite, professional economist from the UK, Lynne Twist, professional fundraiser and author of the Soul of Money, Riane Eisler, author of the Chalice and The Blade, Larry Littlebird, master storyteller, executive coach and author of Hunting Sacred, Dennis Martinez, founder of the Indigenous People’s Restoration Network, Tony Clarke, author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World’s Water, Kathy Sanchez, co-founder of Tewa Women United and Alaskan Native Oscar Kawagley author of A Yupiaq Worldview, who will be speaking on global warming from an indigenous perspective. The conference will begin with group dialogue and involve all presenters and audience in a mode of inquiry that seeks to discover and manifest the best possible future for today and for future generations.

The conference will begin with a pre-dawn pre-conference workshop presented by Larry Littlebird on Saturday, October 28th and include a Halloween party on October 31st featuring flamenco music by Vicente Griego and Los Folkloristas de Nuevo Mexico, headed by Cipriano Vigil.

For more information and to register, call 505-792-2900 or visit www.seedgraduateinstitute.org 

NOTE: Members of Non-Profits are eligible for 2 for 1 admission (requires two sign-ups at one time) All recipients of this SEED email are eligible for $50 discount by mentioning email.  Senior discount is 10%, Native American discount is 25%.
 


The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) and
The Spiritual Alliance to End Intimate Violence Present:

Peace in the Family
Peace on the Planet
a powerful night with special guests, including:

 

Riane Eisler
author of  The Chalice and The Blade and
The Power of Partnership

 

 


Naomi Tutu
peace and women’s rights advocate,
daughter of Archbishop Tutu

 

 


Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7pm
Boulder Unity Church
SW corner of Folsom St. and Edgewood Dr. / Valmont
Boulder, Colorado -- MapQuest

Tickets sliding scale: $10 to $20 (RMPJC benefit)
Advance Purchase Recommended

And join us beforehand for a special reception with Riane and Naomi and other special guests
6 pm to 7 pm ... $50.00
Call for reservations

 
Tickets: RMPJC  (303) 444-6981 ... www.RMPJC.org  ... PDF Flier
www.RMPJC.org/2006/RianeEisler-NaomiTutu  (9-14-2006)
 

 

DVD

Tomorrow's Children: 
Partnership Education in Action
 Now Available, A New DVD featuring Riane Eisler! 

 

Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children's most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same name, Riane Eisler offers a practical blueprint for transforming how we educate our children-and ourselves. 

Through Partnership Education we can break the cycle of global violence that imperils the world. This new video will help us move toward a more equitable, sustainable and hopeful future. For everyone who cares about young people: from politicians and school officials to teachers, parents-and students themselves.

This richly illustrated video features an in-depth interview with Riane Eisler and includes partnership educator Sarah Pirtle and teachers and students from Nova High, a 30 year-old Seattle alternative public high school that has piloted partnership education.

Riane Eisler is an acclaimed author, educator, and lecturer. Her international bestseller, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, was hailed by anthropologist Ashley Montagu as "the most important book since Darwin's Origin of Species" and by novelist Isabel Allende as "one of those magnificent key books that can transform us." Dr. Eisler is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (www.partnershipway.org), taught at UCLA and Immaculate Heart College, and keynotes conferences worldwide.

Tomorrow's Children: Partnership Education in Action
Now also in DVD!
Available at a huge discount
Individual Use for only a $30.00 donation.
Institutions must purchase the video and DVD from the Media Education Foundation (MEF)
Media Education Foundation

The Art of Partnership:
Essays on Literature, Culture, Language and Education towards a Cooperative Paradigm 2003
Edited by Professors Antonella Riem and Roberto Albarea


Available in English from CPS
and Italian from http://www.forumeditrice.it/vedilibro?IDLibro=380

 


This collection of essays by Italian scholars, discusses partnership themes in English language literature. With contributions by Riane Eisler and David Loye, The Art of Partnership investigates the concept of partnership from a range of perspectives offered by the contributions of scholars and researchers in various disciplines.

The book was inspired by a conference held at the University of Udine, Italy on partnership education, and Antonella Riem Natale and Roberto Albarea, its editors, hope that it will foster discussion among students, colleagues, and scholars worldwide, thus enabling us all to achieve a greater balance and cooperation, in the spirit of difference in equality.

As Professor Riem writes, "Fostering a culture of partnership implies an open and dynamic approach towards those events and systems of human relationships characteristic of our Western societies, torn between a surplus of information and uncertainty. This also involves processes of meditation and awareness of present-day forms of social cohesion, and a focues on common good, on modalities of cooperation, and the educational relevance of creating a common ground of shared values."

The Art of Partnership can also be purchased from FORUM EDITRICE Udine, Italy (cost 9,50 euros) at http://www.forumeditrice.it/vedilibro?IDLibro=380

The Art of Partnership
  Edited by Professors Antonella Riem and Roberto Albarea
 Pub. Date: 2003
 Donation: $14.00
 ISBN: 88-8420-143-8
 Distributed by FORUM EDITRICE Udine, Italy

 

 

Center for Partnership Education of the Montessori Foundation

In April of 2005, the Montessori Foundation inaugurated its Center for Partnership Education. The Center combines Riane Eisler’s Partnership education and Montessori education. It is developing new and exciting curriculum themes that expand and deepen Montessori education. It is also using the partnership model to help build strong and harmonious school communities that bring together teachers, staff members, administration, parents, and students.

With the assistance of Montessori Foundation President Tim Seldin and the noted Montessori educator Jonathan Wolff, as well as Riane Eisler, two pilot partnership education Montessori schools are developing materials, and will be test sites starting in 2006.

Eisler writes:

“As did Maria Montessori, I also came to the inevitable conclusion that in order to create a peaceful world, we must lay the foundation in our children, beginning when they are very young.
I should add that I am a former Montessori parent, and am today the proud grandmother of a beautiful Montessori child. For these reasons alone, I would feel an affinity to Montessori education.

But the connections between my ideas and Maria Montessori go much deeper. In my book Tomorrow’s Children, I quote from Montessori’s works, and use the great themes in Montessori education to illustrate many of the reforms that I have urged to transform the schools of today into the schools that we need for tomorrow’s children.

The task of translating my suggestions into practical application in the classroom has only begun. I hope that this is the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial partnership between us.

Many good teachers are engaged in an effort to develop partnership education in a wide range of classrooms and schools, from those in public settings to holistic schools. My colleague, Ron Miller has begun the first graduate program in partnership education at Goddard College. But I am concerned that this concept is so vast that it will overwhelm many teachers who attempt to implement partnership education without both a clearly defined overarching framework for the structure of their classrooms and schools and a curricular framework of practical resources and suggested lessons and activities.

I earnestly hope that Montessori educators will play a central role in the translation of the principles and themes of partnership education into something tangible and replicable that can be understood and adapted by schools around the world.

I am delighted that we are beginning to work together in partnership, with the twin goals of translating my ideas into something that can be used in classrooms around the world, while at the same time adding further on to a model of education that is already outstanding, establishing Montessori in the minds of educators around the world as a germinally important contributor to the effort to improve education around the world.”

For more information on the Montessori Foundation’s Center for Partnership Education
call Tim Seldin at 800-632-4121.

 

 

Educating for a Culture of Peace
 Co-edited by Riane Eisler and Ron Miller


 

Educating for a Culture of Peace is a tool for meaningful and lasting social change toward a genuine culture of peace.

 

Educating for a Culture of Peace, co-edited by Riane Eisler and Ron Miller, with contributions by leading educators as well as Raffi, the famous Children's Troubadour, shows how values of compassion, caring, respect, and welcoming of human diversity can be modeled and taught.

This book fills the need of parents and educators hungry for a message of hope, for a path out of today's dangerous spiral of violence and regression, for a loving and caring way of teaching that can give our children a safe haven and hope for the future. Its chapters offer teachers, home schoolers, and other educators inspirational models of classrooms that nurture students and their learning community.

The authors tell moving stories of their caring and peaceful engagement with their students and explain the educational and social implications of these interactions. Congruent with co-editor Riane Eisler’s cultural transformation theory, Educating for a Culture of Peace is a tool for meaningful and lasting social change toward a genuine culture of peace.

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Spare the Rod

What is the link between intimate violence and war? Why do societies that treat women with respect fare better? A movement challenges traditions of violence in the family.

A new article by Riane Eisler
published in  YES! A Journal of Positive Futures  Winter 2005

Click here for the article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Another world is not only possible, she is
on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her
breathing.

- Arundhati Roy

World Pulse Magazine features:

  • Pivotal international news and analysis
  • Ambitious global problem solving roundtables
  • Accomplished women leaders, journalists, and artists
  • Working models promoting the well-being of children
  • Visionary child voices

 
World Pulse is unique:
  • The primary contributors to World Pulse are leading women and children. This framework is designed to bring balance to an international media system that has historically excluded these voices from powerful leadership and decision making roles.
  • World Pulse chooses to use a language of possibility and partnership when discussing major world issues. World Pulse is not interested in covering global problems as hopeless and tragic. Instead, World Pulse will focus on the heart of the problem as well as the forces already resolving these complex issues.
  • The health and well-being of children is always at the center of conversations and proposals in World Pulse. World Pulse looks at issues by evaluating what is "working" and what is "possible" for children everywhere.
    World Pulse Magazine's Guide Council

A growing circle of women luminaries who support the mission of World Pulse and have dedicated their voices and lives to a world that works for all.

Zainab Salbi, Iraq/USA
Ms. Salbi is the Founder of Women for Women International, an organization
that provides women survivors of war, civil strife, and other conflicts with
tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty into a civil society
that promotes and protects peace, stability, and self-sufficiency. Ms. Salbi
is a leading figure advocating for the incorporation of women's leadership
in the reconstruction of Iraq. Ms. Salbi's work has been honored by
President Clinton and has been nominated for several prestigious human
rights and humanitarian awards.

Rita Manchanda, India
Ms. Manchanda, senior program executive for the South Asia Forum for Human Rights, is a journalist, writer, scholar, and human rights activist who has dedicated her life to bridging the deep political and ethnic divides between India and Pakistan. A firm believer in the power of participatory democracy, she advocates for the integration of women peace builders into the policy arena. Ms. Manchanda is also a founder and national committee member of the Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy. She organized the 2001 conference "Strengthening Women Building Peace" to discuss the role of gender in conflict transformation.

Hafsat Abiola, Nigeria
A 28 year-old human rights and democracy activist whose work for the rights of women and children in Nigeria and other African countries has elicited praise from throughout the world. Ms. Abiola has Founded the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. She is also a Fetzer Fellow and founding member of the State of the World Forum's Emerging Leaders Program and Global Youth Connect. She travels around the world to speak about justice issues and writes articles featured in the international and Nigerian press including International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, Tell, Time, and Newsweek.

Riane Eisler, Austria, Cuba, USA
Internationally renowned scholar, futurist, and activist who advocates a shift away from domination to partnership in our relationships with loved ones, children, communities, and nations. Riane is the author of "The Chalice and The Blade", which has been translated into 16 languages, "Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in 21st Century," and "The Power of Partnership."

Mahnaz Afkhami, Iran
Mahnaz Afkhami is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies and former Minister of State for Women's Affairs in Iran. Born in Kerman, Iran, she founded the Association of Iranian University Women and served as secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran prior to the Islamic revolution. In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades, having founded and headed several international non-governmental organizations focused on advancing the status of women.

Winona La Duke, USA
Native Ojibwe and mother of three, La Duke has run for Vice President of the US with the Green Party. La Duke writes and lectures extensively on Native American and environmental issues. She is the Founding Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Program Director of Honor the Earth Fund, serves as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network and has won numerous national awards.

 

Goddard College
An Innovative Leader in Progressive Education

Offers a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in
Partnership Education
Educating for Caring, Peace and Social Justice

The M.A. concentration in Partnership Education aims to help students develop a broad, critical understanding of the complex issues involved in educating for social justice and cultural transformation. Partnership Education is a deliberate, coherent approach to cultivating the values of a partnership society in educational practice. By extending your program for a semester, you can include teacher licensure.
 

HALLMARKS OF A GODDARD EDUCATION ARE:

  • Individualized Study Plans: At Goddard, students are regarded as unique individuals. Students define their topic of inquiry and then, in close collaboration with a faculty advisor, self-design their own course of study. This personalized approach assures that the focus of a student’s academic work is on something that is deeply engaging and meaningful to their lives.
  • Low Residency Format: Goddard originated the intensive residency format designed for working adults. At the beginning of each semester students attend an 8-day residency on the Goddard campus in Plainfield, Vermont during which they create that semester’s study plan. They then return home to work independently on their plans while participating in a close mentoring relationship with a faculty advisor.
  • The Goddard Experience: Goddard’s learning model is unique and challenging. It is best suited for serious students who are internally motivated. Goddard is an intentionally small, personal and diverse learning community. Our graduate experience is collaborative, energizing and empowering. It creates an enduring impact while expanding minds, enlarging skills, inspiring transformative action and enriching lives. Given its caliber, and when compared to other colleges and universities, Goddard is remarkably affordable.

For more information, please contact the Admissions Office at 800-906-8312 or admissions@goddard.edu .
Or visit us on the web at www.goddard.edu .

Goddard College is a pioneer in the field of emancipatory progressive education. Our aim is to encourage students to become creative, passionate, lifelong learners working and living with an earnest concern for others and the welfare of the Earth.

 

“Once we understand the cultural, social and political configurations of the partnership and domination models, we can more effectively develop the educational methods, materials and institutions that foster a less violent, more equitable, democratic, and sustainable future.”

Riane Eisler
from Tomorrow’s Children

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THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: 
 Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life
 By Riane Eisler
author of the International Bestseller,
The Chalice and The Blade


 In a dramatic departure from her earlier bestselling works, renowned social scientist and cultural historian Riane Eisler takes self-help to a new level of meaning and effectiveness in her new book The Power of Partnership. Along the way, she also provides insightful, practical responses to the shock of the recent terrorist attacks on the United States.

A rare combination of visionary scholar and practical activist, Eisler is known internationally for her work showing the difference between the partnership and dominator ways of life. In this easy to read, personal, and practical book, Eisler shows how step-by-step outward from the "self" we can shift from dominator to partnership ways to improve our lives, as well as those of others in the world around us.

The Power of Partnership shows what the recent terrorist attacks so tragically brought home to us: that we cannot "help the self" in any realistic and lasting way without becoming fully aware of and responsive to the down-to-earth practicalities of the seven key relationships in our lives. These seven relationships start with our relationship with ourselves, our intimate relations with loved ones, and our work and community relations. Then come our relations with our national community -and Eisler minces no words to get across the importance of the kind of political involvement that self-helpers have tended to shy away from. After that, come our relations with the international community, with nature, and finally - with an emphasis on "putting love into action" - our spiritual relations.

Starting with a turning point in her own life, and weaving in her personal experiences throughout the book, Eisler writes with passion grounded in three decades of research. The Power of Partnership gives us practical action steps needed for a better life and better world.

Which would you rather have? No one would choose the system of domination if they knew they had an alternative, but most of us haven't been given the lens to see the world that way - yet - and so we don't have the tools to break free of the dominator model and move more into partnership in all areas of our lives.

In The Power of Partnership, Eisler gives us - in simple, clear, non-academic language - the tools necessary to break free of the old dominator model and move into partnership. She guides us through every significant relationship in our lives, including our relationship with ourselves, our intimate relationships, our work and community relationships, our relationships with our national and international communities, and even our relations within nature and spirit.

The Power of Partnership is a new genre of self-help book that combines personal and social transformation. It is based on over three decades of research, and it shows that the self cannot be helped in isolation from the web of relationships around us - as the recent terrorist attacks so tragically show.

It is, above all, a very practical book.

 

Advance Praise

"There is nothing more important taking place in our lives and in our world than the shift from relationships based on domination to ones founded on partnership. Riane Eisler's new book The Power of Partnership could not be more timely, nor more magnificent. In this wonderful and heartfelt book, Riane Eisler shows us just what is at stake, and gives us the tools to transform our lives and our culture to promote a more sustainable, just, and thriving way of life for all."

John Robbins, 
author of Diet for a New America

 

"In this brilliant book, Riane Eisler shows us how we can transform both ourselves and our world. It will teach, entertain, and enlighten your view of the extraordinary potential of humans and human society. Eisler is one of our world's wisest counselors, and most insightful visionaries."

Thom Hartmann, 
author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

 


"Stunning. The Power of Partnership gives us the map to a world that works for all of us."

Marianne Williamson, 
author of Healing the Soul of America
and A Woman's Worth

 
   

THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP: 
 Seven Relationships That Will Change Your Life
 By: Riane Eisler
 Pub. Date: March 15, 2002
 Hardcover, 6 x 9"
 Donation: $23.95
 Pages: 280
 ISBN: 1-57731-178-7
 Published by New World Library
 Distributed by Publishers Group West

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